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I want the artist to make tshirts and I can buy them. Is that a thing?

Thank you for sharing, it's an important question, but it's not ok to expect this from women's sport. It's taken so long to reach the top, we live in a capitalist society and it's not ok to expect women's sport and participants to be political first and women's sport secondary, even at the risk of destroying the thing that they are, women's sport, by nit picking who sponsors them. Why is it OK to so hugely police women's behaviour and actions, especially when they are not in any way in a stable position to choose. But men skate by completely unmentioned. Because men will be men? This entire line of thinking ties into the socialisation of women to hugely police their own behaviour and be policed from birth, and plays into the oppression of women as a class. You can not start with the underdog, and expect them to take down capitalism. That's our job as consumers. And our job to put pressure on the bigger fish, the men, to start questioning their sponsorship choices. Push hard on the men and that will by default make choices for women's sport and sponsorship easier. Because currently they can't be picky, they're still fighting against decades / centuries of oppression. Women used to be predominant in sports, until they started beating the men, then they segregated the sports and banned women from participating. Your fight is with capitalism, and what people who aren't in a position to choose have to do under capitalism isn't right to police, because the stakes are too high for them and they have no power to weild. Similarly people who are wage oppressed may want to participate in the boycott, but have been forced into a corner of "buy the things on the boycott list, or starve". You are furthering capitalism to further its oppression, by raging at or taking down its already oppressed components, you aren't fighting against capitalism in this method. Capitalism relies on oppression and racism, sexism, othering and punching down, poor, homeless, segregation and war, all feed capitalism / are the core root of capitalism. It doesn't survive without these things. These things are artificially created by capitalism, if you force oppression or oppress, you may feel like you're fighting against it, but you are not, you're feeding it.

This could be taken out of context and twisted to an extreme version, it doesn't mean oppressed people are without judgment of their actions, it means if you have an argument like this, you take it to the top dog, first. And by default, the choice you create then rolls down the hill to the oppressed. If you want to make space for this choice for oppressed people, stop the biggest most privileged, first, set a precedent they can easily apply. Put pressure on the boycott list, pick one and as a large group attack that one brand at a time, finding its largest source and take it down from there.

Like coke, they opened a factory in occupied Palestine and tried to say it wasn't. Nestle who starved babies to death in head spinning numbers. All businesses operate under these motives and possibilities, under capitalism. There are no morals to capitalism, without regulation it goes unchecked, it's main operandi is to keep making more money, even if that pathway leads to the deaths of the consumers, if that happens, unchecked, they just rebrand.

If your fight is the boycott list or capitalism, trying to take it down from the lowest, least powerful rung, isn't effectual at all. To have the best effect, you aim for the top, you take down the biggest source and you do it en masse. If it becomes not ok, for the biggest sports icon to have that particular sponsor, then by default that choice is afforded women and minorities. If top sports (that currently still being men with the most power and privilege) are shamed into dumping a sponsor, that has hugely more effect to your cause. That has more power to be noticed. If women ignore a sponsor, it's not noticed nearly as much. It has much less effect overall. So I suppose you have to ask yourself, are you mainly aiming to strategically take down the boycott list and capitalism or just only police women's behaviour and choices.

I know they both (Coles + ww) did some sketchy stuff to kill off all stores around them, they set up contracts with premises not to let competitors in the buildings, those contracts have been made illegal, but they still existhow are you going to know they exist to eradicate them. Plus high rents that are killing for profit businesses, that combined with Coles + ww buying power, (bulk buying in truckloads) mean they can acquire a product at a ridiculously lowered price and can therefore lower the price to much lower than a side seller can, until those go out of business and then they start the aggressive price rises, once they've killed off competition. They also sign contracts with producers that don't allow them to sell to anyone else. They do heaps of other, really aggressive anti competition stuff, that should be illegal, but they probably lobby to skate by unregulated. I would suggest there's reasons politicians aren't doing anything about the monopoly or the practices they've utilised to become a monopoly, in tandem. So those practices would keep anything like what you're talking about out.

They would frame or fallguy someone if they couldn't find the culprit. Too dangerous to let us think we can rise up and overthrow our oppressors. Then flood gates would open.

Oooh. I love medical dramas, I seem to love to ruin them for myself by finding out what's real and what's not. That said I desperately want to know the details behind a real organ transplant, now that you've mentioned it in that way. Are you able to elaborate?

I'm experimenting with a similar thing, but with Lentils. Kind of a Dahl. I've recently learned about a mirepoix and I'm trying to meld it into as many things as I can. I threw blitzed carrot, onion, garlic, celery, and broccoli stems, in pot until softened, added tomato paste, a red chilli meal base I had laying around, seared the spices a little then, tin tomatoes, Lentils, split peas, (yellow and green), cooked till it tasted cooked, I have no idea. Added a tin of coconut cream at end, cooked a few more minutes. Turned out great, needed lemon, but I didn't add that because a kid hates it. I also added Greek yogurt. Bloody lovely, needed more spice, but I have the spice tolerance to kill a buffalo, so if I'm cooking for other people, I try not to do that.

I'm determined to keep a container with roughly chopped carrot, onion, celery, to blitz and add to stuff. It's been super useful. Seared it and Added it to a pumpkin soup the week before.

I think they're getting pressure re the pirating aspect. I could imagine the bigger they get the bigger the magnifying glass will be held up to them. They're probably doing some fancy footwork to be able to remain in production / avoid lawsuits and similar pressure.

Check out some DBT / cbt techniques on YouTube or the like, whatever is easiest to access, find some that resonate with you and make them your own / tweak them so they fit your life / vibe.

I did a DBT course, and while I hated every minute of it, a lot of it is super great and hugely helpful for coping in hard moments and a great recipe for a way of living that's more calm and balanced. I feel like I hated the DBT course I did because the people presenting it had never even stumbled on a rock in their lives, let alone lived through a hard moment and needed any of this stuff for real, and their privilege read as saccharine condescension.

BUT! I'm never one to throw the baby out with the bath water, I believe you can turn anything to your advantage or upskill or just build knowledge, if you're industrious enough! You take those muthafking lemons and you make champagne, fk them. Plus they just mostly showed us clips on YouTube, so lol. The DBT course I did felt more like the break room from severance, having to admit how faulty you are and how this new enlightening thing they just told you seconds ago is going to benefit your life, as they announce each section. They didn't even give you time to process, let alone leave room for if that was something you already knew or already utilized, but, I powered through and just paid lip-service, got my upskill, moved on.

Easier path, just look up DBT on YouTube, find people explaining what you like, give it a go on a regular basis.

My Dad gave me a spare bike he happened upon, and seeing as I've recently been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, I can't walk or run, and a lot of exercise hurts, feels like trying to exercise after rolling down a massive set of stairs, in the worst way. But I've been energetic and active my whole life, so I miss it! I want to go into older age as fit as I can, to avoid as many health complaints, live longer to be around for my kids and just feel better, as it's a mood lifter, being as toned as you can manage.

Plus, on just a pure joy, level, I absolutely loved riding my bike as a kid. I didn't have the best childhood, but riding with the wind in my hair and how powerful pumping the pedals made me feel, gave me entire reprieve from whatever was happening, at that time. I felt like I could fly. I would build jumps out of whatever scrap I had, (and coincidentally, constantly had skun knees) and wander the neighbourhood, just visually soaking in all the gardens and beautiful flowers. I couldn't see the future, as a kid, there was just right now, and I just sought whatever joy I could find, in any moment. And riding was pure joy. I'm really looking forward to fixing the seat I bought, tidying off some small bits of rust and building it into my week, as a regular thing. I even live right near a bike track. It's a few houses down the street. I just have to get past this damn flu, I've caught, way before flu's usually circulate. Then I'll fly again.

For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction?

This is just rage bait.

Captain should go down with the ship, I say!