Parasite
(midwest.social)
The Picard Maneuver
Curated TumblrYou guys are getting paid??
i have a friend who was doing a twitch fundraiser, right? it was a fundraiser for a good cause. i DO fundraisers for a living. So i pop on, say hi, she doesn't recognize me, i drop in 50 bucks because fundraiser and i could afford to tighten the belt that month. like, this is a normal donation in the charity world. She Did Not Tell Me that she was eating a slice of lemon for every dollar that was donated. Oh My Gods i have never felt so guilty for doing a fundraiser i tried to stop her. I had no idea this was a huge donation for twitch.
honestly, i still feel kinda guilty and it's been years.
So what was the plan if there was a $1,000 donation?
Paying your friend to eat 50 lemon slices in a row is a fantastic story at least. That's hilarious.
accidentally paying your friend to eat 50 lemon slices in a row.
five whole lemons.
i really wish she'd told me. the lemons on my lemon tree are sweet, not sour. why did she use her own lemons
If she used sweet lemons, the whores would steal them
i have had exactly zero whores try to steal my lemons...
i am dressed pretty slutty.
am... am i the whore?
am… am i the whore?
Yes however we all enjoy your lemons 😉
Twitch streamers, YouTubers, only fans, unrelated but scalpers probably belong here as well.
Scalpers aren’t really living off the hospitality of others, they’re taking advantage of illiquidity to create arbitrage and fuck over regular people.
Doesn't matter how they are taking advantage, they are still parasites.
Scalpers aren’t really living off the hospitality of others, they’re taking advantage of illiquidity to create arbitrage and fuck over ~~regular people~~ consumers.
We shouldn't act like the consumer isn't a part of the problem. The scalper can scalp because the consumer will consume.
So Ticketmaster did nothing wrong? Yea... no. Don't victim blame. That's also scum behavior.
I'm not victim blaming, the scalpers need someone to sell to in order for there to be a profit. Yes Ticketmaster are scumbags, that doesn't change the fact that there were plenty of consumers ready and ravenous for a chance to see their favorite artist live (artists making money from the scalpers buying from Ticketmaster, whether for themselves or their label).
Should consumer protections be put in place? Probably, but I think that's more or less kicking the can down the road. People need to vote with their wallets, giving money to scalpers is effectively allowing Ticketmaster's scheme to work. Yes, it is predatory. Yes, it is scummy. No, the consumer is not faultless — they are essential for the scheme to work.
Roman society is immensely grim sounding
Roman society is pretty much the basis for the western world. The Romans are largely the reason for the rampant patriarchy we have today among other things, for instance.
I totally agree - didn't they invent the word?
But yeah, reading about the patriarchal structure in Roman society was like...
Because there's a clear cut path from what they set up back then to where we are today. Thanks, Romans.
At least their patriarchy came with gay sex ☹️
Hey, the Greeks deserve some mentioning as well.
Until the Christians ruined it :(
https://www.tastesofhistory.co.uk/post/dispelling-some-myths-romans-railways-and-nasa-rockets
But not this one thing, which I see a lot.
Patriarchy has unfortunately been the majority across the world, it’s nothing to do with the Roman’s and everything to do with physical strength to dominate others.
The Romans very specifically invaded what we today call Britain because the people who lived there were matriarchal. I am Cherokee, my tribe was also matriarchal before white people showed up. In my tribe, traditionally, when you get married your possessions belong to your wife and you join the clan of your wife.
Patriarchy has never been as widespread as patriarchs would like you to believe.
Both are true - Roman society is patriarchal in a particular way, e.g women were known by their fathers name (e.g Agrippina Claudius is daughter of Claudius) and considered almost like property of their father, until they were married off to a husband, and were henceforth known by their husbands name.
Sound familiar? That's basically what Atomicbocks is referencing
There's still examples of people being paid to live in peoples' homes as sex servants and whatnot, let's not act like this kind of thing just evolves out of existance. I think I even remember a reddit post of someone talking about how a married couple paid for their tuition in exchange for being a plaything for them while at college.
There are stories in British tabloids every few months about how young women in university are paying for their education by being available at the whim of wealthy sugar daddies.
If I had been able to do that as a man, I would have 100% been on board with it. I don't see any issue with the situation as long as both parties agree to it.
Although I guess I technically did it since the job that was fucking me had tuition reimbursement.
Personally I think the sexual exploitation of the youth to pay for the job training to become wage slaves isn't something a society should be proud of.
my body looks weird. lots of scar tissue. i was a regular model at the art school and they loved me because i'm so fucking lumpy. my mother would be so ashamed to learn i had to take my clothes off for money to get through school, because i also had a full time and part time job and loans and that still wasn't enough to survive. she's a prude though, this was art. that one is a secret between my wife and i (who funny enough did it at one of those mormon schools, so she got to wear a swimsuit)
It's literally influencers and celebrities.
