What is an asshole? So far, I’ve mostly discussed low-scale manipulative and controlling behavior, stuff with low social stakes that’s pretty easy to overlook. I’ve touched on domestic abuse, systemic abuses—like pushy marketing emails and the health insurance industry in general—and catastrophic abuses, specifically the current Shitler dictatorship and his bootlicking shock troops, ICE. Basically, […]

I don’t wanna write about this: as soon as I knew what I was gonna choose to write about next, I started trying to avoid it. When I did start writing, I ranted for a while because I didn’t want to think about how bad I felt thinking about it. I deleted the rant, started

ICE is out murdering people in the streets of Minnesota today (and other locations, including detention facilities) around the nation. So fuck it, let’s talk about “doing enough” and despair. “What can I do?” “Am I doing enough?” “Why aren’t other people doing more?” “I can’t fix everything, so I might as well give up.”

In the last post I did something I knew was gonna push people out: I questioned whether the screens around you were clean or not, and whether or not you knew how to clean them. That is, I questioned whether or not the solution to a very minor problem was within your control or not.

POSIWID. I’d like to bring this term to your attention. It means, “[The] Purpose Of a System Is What It Does.” POSIWID is a way of looking at a system and determining its purpose by ignoring all the claims about what a system does or should do, and focusing instead on what it actually does.

The Asshole Mitigation Plan: Unmitigated assholes are everywhere, and everywhere they are, the damage they do disrupts fucking everything. Start seeing unmitigated assholes for who they are and start mitigating the damage they do. Even if it’s you. Part 1: Intro – ACCOMMODATING ASSHOLES IS NOT A VIABLE LONG-TERM STRATEGY. Part 2: Junk Emails –