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Camden28 [any, comrade/them]

  • 21 Posts
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Joined 6 months ago
Cake day: October 2nd, 2025
  • Camden28 [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.nettoanarchism@hexbear.net•What do we do with the "broken steps"?English
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    1 month ago

    Here’s why I’m against that: even in recent history, people have beaten and killed people for being homeless, or gay, or cross dressing, or being the wrong ethnicity for that part of town. The community’s idea of a ‘broken step’ could be my right to simply exist. There has to be a discussion on whether the behavior is actually harmful or just unlike the typical. Walking through a neighborhood by itself is not bad – not even if you look atypical. Walking through a neighborhood with, say, a political sign might be an issue in some cases but fine in others – unless the sign has easily recognized hate speech, a swastika, or such, you’d have to spend some time figuring out if your objection is legitimate.

    That said, creating a community, book club, gaming group, or other voluntary subgroup can put hard limits on allowable behavior by members, and if the rules aren’t followed, you can educate violators or kick them out, but you still can’t beat them up just because they didn’t act as expected… Who’d join AA if people who relapsed were beaten for it?

  • Camden28 [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.nettochat@hexbear.net•How many times a year do you call out sick to work?English
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    1 month ago

    Do they also do vacation on the honor system? That is: is any/all time off coming from the same pool? I hope not, but it is something various companies try to do to entice people to work more, relax less, and remove the need to pay out unused vacation time when you’re suddenly downsized. In such cases (when there’s no payout for accrued days) always take plenty of vacation time. As for sick time, you should obviously take sick time whenever you are sick. Your coworkers will especially appreciate it if you don’t come in while symptomatic even if you can tough it through. Also take off if you need a personal day. If that sick time (not vacation) ends up being more than 6 days a year, perhaps you should look for stressors that may be harming your quality of life.

  • Camden28 [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.nettochat@hexbear.net•So my dad has stage 3 lung cancer, they're starting chemo with him soon.English
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    1 month ago

    My dad is also a… problematic person. I don’t know what to say at times like this, but I can at least relate what worked for me: When my dad was hospitalized with a terminal condition, I went into a daze and wrote out a three page speech to give at his funeral that included some of the most awful things he’d done. I didn’t know if I would read it, but I wrote it. A few days later while he was still hanging on (but supposedly 30 pounds lighter in just two weeks of hospital care), I rewrote the speech shorter, but kept several issues intact. Then he didn’t die. His personality remains the same as before the scare, but he’s frail now. I still have the ‘remembrance’ I wrote, and it no longer matters if I read it because I took the time to write it out and I’ll always have to share and grieve over even if I don’t make it a public spectacle.

    tl;dr: consider writing something for his funeral now – ‘just in case’ – so you won’t be stuck trying to figure out what to say if/when things get chaotic.

  • Camden28 [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.nettoMovies & TV@hexbear.net•This car is evil - Christine (1983) ReviewEnglish
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    2 months ago

    imo. you can skip both of those even though Carpenter did Halloween. My Carpenter picks are: Dark Star, Assault on Precinct 13, Escape from New York, The Thing, and Big Trouble in Little China. I might add They Live to the list, but there’s a couple things about it that keep me from recommending to the unsure. Prince of Darkness has some redeeming qualities, and In the Mouth of Madness is great for people who care about Lovecraft, but I think it that’s a requirement to enjoy it.