alcohol culture is so wild…people all over fb will be sharing a meme like “i can’t have just one glass of wine, it’s always 2 bottles and 3 people i can never look in the eye again” as if that’s normal? but if a meme like that was going around about cocaine or any other drug, everyone would be like “sounds like a drug problem bruh”
alcoholism is SO normalized and it’s such a toxic environment honestly
This article is a fascinating and horrifying observation of alcohol culture in present-day America – especially in the context of women and the “wine mom” attitude seen on Facebook in particular. It’s one of the most eye-opening things I’ve ever read, tbh.
A few particular poignant excerpts:
“Is there nothing so inherently absorbing or high-stakes or pleasurable that we won’t try to alter our natural response to it? Maybe women are so busy faking it — to be more like a man at work, more like a porn star in bed, more like 30 at 50 — that we don’t trust our natural responses anymore. Maybe all that wine is an Instagram filter for our own lives, so we don’t see how sallow and cracked they’ve become.”
“But who said anything about fairness? This isn’t about what’s fair. It’s about what we can afford. And we can’t afford this. We can’t afford to pretend it’s fine that everything we do or think or wear or say yes or no to is somehow wrong. We can’t afford to act like it’s okay that ‘Girls can do anything!’ got translated somewhere along the line into ‘Women must do everything.’ We can’t afford to live lives we have to fool our own central nervous systems into tolerating. We can’t afford to be 24-hour women.”
Clearly, it’s space stuff that’s taking up all money that could otherwise go to help people.
We can’t cut the space budget. We need it to launch the billionaires into the sun
At its peak, funding NASA returned 8 dollars to the economy for every dollar it was given and singlehandedly advanced technology by decades. The money doesn’t get launched into space: all the benefits stay here.
THANK
Fuck this “Cut science and art because poor people exist!” bullshit. Make fucking rich people pay their damned taxes. That *ALONE* solves the vast majority of the problems. Make employers hire more people, not keep condensing job duties into more and more single positions (some of us are getting sick of doing the work of three people on barely the salary for one of them). Demand pay rates increase so that EVERYONE with a job makes enough to support themselves. Demand better health care, so that people don’t lose their homes and jobs because someone in their family got fucking cancer, or chronic illness, or severe injury.
Science isn’t the problem. The problem is capitalism and greed.
Y'all have read the OP’s statement that they meant like private rich-people-building-mansions-in-spacespace shit, not NASA, right?
Spring is the time when life grows again. This process is sometimesĀ treacherous and rocky, but it happens each year without fail. The equinox is particularly important to me, as it marks the slow return of the sun to full strength. Winter, the season that limits my power the most, has finally started to lose its strength.Ā
Materials!
Fresh Greenery:Ā A nice bunch of fresh spring greens, like blades of grass, new leaves, etc.Ā
Sweet: A few pieces of fruit or candy. (please remove any plastic wrappers from the candy if you are going to do this outside! All offerings left outside should be biodegradable).Ā
Candle:Ā Green or white is perfect!
Location:Ā Outside, preferably in a place you see signs of spring. If you canāt go outside, inside near an open window is also okay.Ā Ā
Spellwork!Ā
-Ā Take a seat on the ground for this.Ā Ā
- Light your candle in front of you.Ā
- Place your offering of greenery and fruit/candy before you as well.Ā Ā
-Ā Chant, mentally or out loud:Ā
āYou have come once more,
the time of life,Ā
to let my strength grow,Ā
through storms and strife,Ā Ā
a gift I give for you,Ā
to return to me the light.āĀ
Ā - Leave the fruit/candy and plants as an offering, and enjoy the return of the greenery, I know Iāve missed it!Ā
