chantelles

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by chantelles 6y ago
Icke's Conspiracy theories are displacement of class discontent 2005: The Reptoid Hypothesis. In this context, Google has just silenced a form of dissent or at least evidence of dissent building. https://www.jstor.org&#x2F
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by chantelles 6y ago
I grew up with boomer parents (one went to DJ school) who blasted only Beatles and yacht rock, explaining anything made after their youth was not even music. It spawned in me a lifelong curiosity and dedication to new music. I do on rare oc
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by chantelles 6y ago
What if Jeff Bezos buys X game!
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by chantelles 6y ago
Or, to shift perspective, we are also in a class-war position of a general strike.
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by chantelles 6y ago
Do you have any money to apply for? I'm in Canada and my friends who've applied have all gotten it. This is the last time anyone should have to live cheap, it's the time when all the taxes you've paid do the job of takin
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by chantelles 6y ago
Yes well many wanted me to write a tips to retirement book and not an apocalypse memoir. I can't write some of it, or am not ready to. But, no one should do it. It's just total privation and lack of self care, or would be to someo
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by chantelles 6y ago
I've spent multiple years in therapy trying to integrate just that - that this is wild. My normal prevents me having healthy relationships. Events like a plague are more dangerous to my ptsd work than my health (though I have asthma) b
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by chantelles 6y ago
Totally. It's certainly why I never had kids, I can't stand all the responsibility of that.
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by chantelles 6y ago
That's wild! I learned about it from a friend from Jamaica and I was able to source it so cheaply. How weird that a rural Canadian girl from a town with a Jamaican mayor (who was the only West Indian family in town ) ended up living of
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by chantelles 6y ago
That's true. I mean, I mean the best dumpster diving is in rich neighbourhoods. Food banks also dry up in hard times. I lived in Nelson BC for a time when most people there were on welfare (it was at about 80%) and the food bank only h
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by chantelles 6y ago
Yes vans are a luxury! My first 'home' was a tent with no zipper and then a VW rabbit for a year and so when I got a '64 Ford Econoline it was my mcmansion! I find that having a home is stressful, like stuff owning is a huge
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by chantelles 6y ago
What's funny is I've been living in St Petersburg Russia for 4 months a year for the past 3 years. It's wild to live there now, where the stylish and beautiful youth are extremely enthusiastically embracing capitalism. I am n
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by chantelles 6y ago
Thanks for the search - it's on amazon too. It's translated into Chinese and sells very well there, especially right now.
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by chantelles 6y ago
I'm a daily runner now for 26 years ( five miles a day currently) and an asthmatic who always has gunky lungs, but, as per my lung test last year, I have the lung health of someone 20 years younger instead of 20 years older, which is w
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by chantelles 6y ago
I left home at 15 and some adults who worked together let me move in with them and be their maid. I paid $150 a month in rent and got $10 a month to live on. I worked out how to live off Milo (a Jamaican malt supplement), Chips Ahoy cookies
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by chantelles 7y ago
Why I miss that aspect of VHS: In '95 I took a VHS tape that was in a pile in a shared apartment with no label and recorded my friend joking about her bakery job and then she popped the tape in and we watched it and every time I paused
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by chantelles 7y ago
Yes. And yes. I am Canadian and complacent is what we are. I spent last year in Russia and France and no one there is complacent. I feel that complacent is the best way to describe our comportment.
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by chantelles 7y ago
My partner is Finnish and so I stay a few weeks every year for years. I am Canadian and the cultures are very similar (northern, low population density, WASP-y, racialized immigrant hating - eg calling the dialect of Finnish refugee immigra
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by chantelles 7y ago
When I was at Hacienda Napoles a few years ago the Zebras had escaped and three men were chasing them around calling them whores. It was _super_ fun. The zebras like many of the animals there have been in captivity for a long time. The zebr
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by chantelles 7y ago
Horror story from my stepfather at Bruce Nuclear Power Plant in Ontario Canada: At least twice a year there was a "secret leak" where he had to come home early but no media was alerted and they had to hire racialized folks from th
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by chantelles 7y ago
No. That counts as an anti-sex worker perspective. Sex work takes skill, talent, customer service skills and most sex workers derive the bulk of their profit from regular customers who they build relationships with. Also, sex workers are a
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by chantelles 7y ago
Did you know that, according to Canadian sex work laws, living off the avails of prostitution is criminal. So, any sex workers with children face the reality that their children can/will be arrested for the same laws created to protect
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by chantelles 7y ago
I was a sex worker - a stripper and I highly recommend it to everyone.
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by chantelles 7y ago
I'm centering the conversation around sex work from the sex worker perspective. Does everyone who works prefer to be independent? Or do many prefer a boss to deal with the day to day? These are basic sex worker educations I received wh
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by chantelles 7y ago
I worked for years as a sex worker advocate and in the vast proportion of cases, sex workers all chose various reasons, depending on context, to work in the sex industry. Not one of them was ever prostituted.
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by chantelles 7y ago
This is an excellent idea. I have family in rural Finland and prefer it to Norway. Also: Helsinki is overtouristed too by cruise ships and could benefit from some spreading out of interest. The tourist infrastructure is already there ( I ju
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by chantelles 7y ago
It has nothing to do with pleasure/sex. Those are metonyms for power.
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by chantelles 7y ago
I read this in the 90's and it changed entirely how I traveled and spoke about tourism. Maybe it is useful here: “We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed throug
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by chantelles 7y ago
"So woefully unorganized is sociological knowledge that the meaning of progress, the meaning of swift and slow in human doing, and the limits of human perfectibility, are veiled, unanswered sphinxes on the shores of science." -W.
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by chantelles 7y ago
I wrote my memoir in the third person for just this reason.

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