I love mini printers. Unfortunately, they are less useful and upfront more expensive than larger printers. Luckily, they are also relatively easy to repair.

My fresh out of the bag ink ribbon shredded upon install in my selphy-1200. It’s my last ink ribbon, so I had might as well open it up.

The ripped pieces rolled out from inside the printer easy enough, and the ink casing popped open with just a couple of pen pushes. Low and behold, the ribbon itself is held in place by a single piece of scotch tape. I didn’t even bother with new tape as it pulled off the plastic cleanly. A clean cut across the ribbon, line it up as straight as I can, and with a couple of twists we’re back in business.

It now makes strange grinding noises only when it does the clear coat pass of the images, but it’s printing fine.

Charity at its core reflects a symptomatic problem with capitalism. There are individuals throughout the world that are desperate for the most basic necessities in life and have to rely on the generosity of others. The very idea of needing charity is a reflection of a capitalist society that promotes an ‘everybody for themselves’ ethos, leaving many people to fight for scraps.

Social media made it clear that today was “Giving Tuesday” and I felt stupid for not knowing about it in advance; especially since I work in social media for a non-profit. I was also surprised when Inclusive Canada directly posted that charities are a capitalist trap. Now, I have complained about the capitalist tendacies of the organizations that I have been involved with, but this is the first I’ve heard it said by someone else, let alone said on behalf of a non-profit organization. Or, I guess I should say “grassroots” organization. I don’t like that term. That is to say, “I don’t like hearing” it. I like saying it, because I know that my organization is grassroots, but I’ve already seen big for-profit fronts steal it. It’s like the term “natural”. You know what it’s suppose to mean in health contexts, but its technical definition extends beyond that and can be used by most anyone. However it seems that ideas are growing so we have need for some more distinguishing terminology. I’ll just have to wait and see what sticks.

I’m brand new to how others are viewing this topic. When I’ve complained about capitalism in my personal non-profits I’ve often described it as “Boomerism”. Old ideas of societal survival from archiac board members who may have lost touch with communial issues. However, I’m getting the sense that the public discourse is more aimed at the organizations partnered with your national chain grocery stores, asking for a buck or two as you try to rush through the self-checkout. That’s definitely a different vibe from my local foodbank and houseless-community focused thrift store, but I think a lot of the critiques will still apply to organizations at the seed level.

Particularily the point that people shouldn’t be made to depend on a service. That’s not a “no handouts” line from a right-wingers book of conservatism, that’s a progressive community POV that people should depend on each other. Neighbors taking care of neighbors, with out tupperware or sweetlegs providing the motivation. Maybe that particular point is actually the whole point. There’s a lot to build off.

My current mindset is that real chariety should probably always be done through free education. Any material benifit can be viewed as a by product to the more valuable experience that can be passed through the community.

What, another one by Some More News?

Yah, the first one was more impactful to me, but I want to try to document and break down some of these longer leftist videos to hopefully make them easier converse in discussions that aim to better society. This channel is a good place to start since they already provide some chapter markers to work from.

Chapters:

• Introduction

• Just How Screwed Are Millennials

  They’re statistically only a quarter as wealthy as boomers at the same age, while wages stagnate, and bills for now mandatory education and housing explodes.

• A Quick Look At Our Broken Health Insurance System

  Rising healthcare costs AND Employers using health benefits as a form of wage theft.

• Buying a House? In this Economy?

  The usual trends are a global phenomanom enabled by the lie of trickle down economics.

• How Did Things Get So Bad, and Why Is It All Reagan’s Fault?

  Tying stocks to the wealth of CEOs is harmful to company’s long term health and its workers, and this echoes into society with how social safetynets are being weakened in order to boost “the economy” aka rich hoarders. Perpetraiting the 6 factors that promote inequality in an economic system.

• Don’t Blame Boomers! Blame the Politicians, Corporations, and Mega-Rich!

  Our leaders avoided addressing the negative repercussions of globalism despite predictions; climate change too.

• Let’s Try Not Screwing Over The Next Generation

  by making work worthwhile; raising labour’s share, reducing student loans and not letting the rich be scared off by inflation.

• The Gig Economy, NFT’s And Putting Our Hope in Gen Z

  Millenials are failing future generations the exact same ways that boomers did. Without setting up any new advantages, there’s no reason for zoomers not to end up in the same spot.

• Ending The Episode With Bill Maher, Sorry

  via Thunberg vs Jenner petty comparisons… and it all comes back to avocado toast again.

Thought Slime has a new podcast format this week. A “Cringe Corner” with CurioVids Matt tells us about how The Wim Hof Method makes us Super-Human and we get to react along with Sophie in this demonstration of the genetically gifted selling their privledge in a training package where you supposedly just need to work hard and be committed enough to obtain.

• The Method and claims

• Demonstration

• Reflections and Examples

• Scientifically demonstrated: inflimation reduced by optimism

• the Bamboozle Flim Flam: identical twin control group

• the mocking begins… some more

• it’s never a complete sham without bringing Jordan Peterson into the mix

This topic is way over done, and this video is way too long. But despite that, I’ve never felt so educated by such low brow comedy. This video made me feel more enlightened about comedy, and the conservative mindset, and after only a couple repititions I couldn’t help but laugh at the embarrarssingly juvinile example jokes.

I don’t have faith many people will give this feature length rant the time of day, so luckily they have some nicely laid out chapters were you might be able to picke out something that interests you. I was personally piqued by the examination of the Babylon Bee, which actually starts at the conservatives would rather chapter, then concludes in its dedicated one.

• 1:39 - Why Isn’t Gutfeld Funny?
• 11:33 - Dave Chapelle, Gender and Sex
• 16:33 - Why Isn’t Dennis Miller Funny, Babe?
• 21:54 - Conservatives Would Rather ’Trigger The Libs’ Than Be Funny
• 31:03 - How Steven Crowder and Conservatives Use “Trolling” To Avoid Criticism
• 43:90 - Cruelty Is The Punchline And Also Pretty Boring
• 47:35 - It’s Not Hard To Make Fun Of Liberals, You Guys
• 49:34 - Conservative Are Funny
• 56:13 - How Trump Changed Comedy
• 01:01:48 - The Babylon Bee Identifies As Not Funny
• 01:05:56 - Conservatives Have Been Trying To Weaponize Comedy For Years