Notices by bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz), page 147

in a society where we do things for ourselves and each other without all these inherent hostilities and stressors of hierarchical and monetary systems, social anxiety would be far less and way easier to deal with thanks to outside factors being way more manageable.

we'd be less depressed because we'd have less bad things constantly pressuring us to feel like garbage, and more good things to distract from the pain and help us heal.

we also have the concern of social anxiety making a socialisation-based society hell. well let me be honest here, a lot of people would simply be nicer and less on edge if they didn't have to deal with our horrible system and the pressures that come with it.

social anxiety/depression/other mental health problems, are largely affected by environmental factors and the people we spend time around.

if angry customers or stressed family are our main interaction sources...yikes!

as previously mentioned, it's actually really easy and already entirely possible to replace the connection of "money = treats" to "fulfilling work is its own treat" because honestly...we already like doing work. just not the work we're forced to do, and certainly not for entitled shitty customers nor with our income being held over our heads as incentive.

money puts a barrier between us and the people doing the work, and makes us feel entitled to things because we "paid for them". it pretty quickly instills in us a power system where money is the way we command and control the world.

we connect spending money and manipulating others with it as some sort of good, positive thing. our brains have been programmed by society to believe that having money will make the metaphorical treat dispenser open up and reward us

money also removes a large chunk of positive social interaction. we don't thank people as much or say nice things about their work when we already feel entitled to it because we pay them money

don't have to be nice to anyone if they're already hooked into doing what you want them to so they can afford to live

so now we're all miserable grumpy assholes that complain about minimum wage workers messing up our orders at mcdonalds, when they're likely tired and stressed af

there's a sense of pride that comes with accomplishing something yourself, for the betterment of yourself or others, or simply because you wanted to.

when you enjoy what you're doing, that's a powerful feeling that can drive you to continue doing that thing without other incentives.

hell, even the things you DON'T enjoy are way easier when you're not having your meals and shelter held hostage to complete the task, and when you're not expected to do it immediately/all at once.

think of all the people that offer free tech support online, or like to tinker with/fix computers and wouldn't mind the occasional challenge of repairing a friend's pc for free

think of all the people that want to take up gardening, to have food to eat or something relaxing and pretty to spend time around, or simply just for something to do

think of how many people actually like doing home renovations themselves (money willing) and offer to help others with theirs

you don't need money as an incentive. plenty of people have hobbies that overlap with work, and they're more than happy to offer free labour to their neighbours and peers in exchange for the thrill of doing the work, and the good vibes they'll get from helping someone out (and heck, they may even do something nice in return!)

think about money as a means to get people to do things they really don't want to do so they can afford the things they need to survive and maybe thrive.

think of money as a system we all use to manipulate and demean each other unnecessarily, for things we don't really need, and things we do need need that could be easily gotten with better methods

if you can't see that money is a game of power and manipulation rather than a system of balance and order then you gotta take a closer look at how our society operates, and how transactions work/who they favour

every time i see someone mention LoL i am also reminded of when kiwifarts was convinced i had bought my way up the ladder in LoL because someone had the same name as one of my old internet handles. i've never played LoL.

@envgen sorry

had two dreams last night, one that was long and (although somewhat terrifying) kinda exciting, and the other was straight up horrible

morning folks

@Troasta baaaaa(rk),

i really need to try and get a second uefi-capable gpu and try to do the gpu passthrough thing with windows in a vm

the only problem would be figuring out which drives i want each OS to use, since i'm assuming i wouldn't be able to share them, just pass whatever ones aren't being used by the host OS onto the guest OS

@karolat it looks like everything worked after a 4th restart, which i'm very grateful for considering it's only been a couple months since i reinstalled windows last. whew

*WOOf

WOO it booted, no need to reinstall windows. at least not for now :p

@karolat i'm gonna try a couple things first but if you're still willing in a few minutes and i still need help i'll poke you. thanks for the offer!