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You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)

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Re: You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)

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Post by markx2 »

josefresco wrote: post #40
markx2 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blame WordPress / Jetpack. I am a follower of her site for years, have all her books. What crashed her site I have no idea but it has never been the same since. It's a shame that Automattic - who created Jetpack - never reached out to help her restore the site. They have no obligation of course, but given her profile, given the massive good that she does, it would have been decent of them to do that.

WordPress person here: How is Jetpack at fault here? I deal with "redirect loops" on WordPress websites on a regular basis, and I've never found Jetpack to cause the issue - do you have insight here? FWIW I see no redirect loop on mobile (iOS/Safari)

Ex-Automattic person here.

How is it at fault? I have no idea.

But hey, it's a WP site, with Jetpack and I'm sure with Automattic's 'shadow site' ability they can diagnose it.

They - Automattic - as I have said could do the decent thing and help Jack Monroe to restore her site to being functional.

Re: You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)

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Post by [deleted] »

lawn wrote: post #25
markx2 wrote: post #2

"And my main point is that poverty and privilege are largely accidental. You don’t choose to be born into an income bracket, a country pile, a housing estate, a double barrelled name or a damp tenement bedsit. But ignorance is a choice. And choosing to use your privileges to patronise people whose lives are entirely beyond your experience and comprehension, is a choice."

> But ignorance is a choice. No, it's not always a choice. You might be born in a family and community that actively brainwashes their members and prevents you from coming into contact with conflicting information. This can even be true in less severe circumstances, such as being bombarded with propaganda on social media, which essentially hacks your brain.

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Re: You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)

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Post by gosub100 »

bobthepanda wrote: post #44
gosub100 wrote: post #22

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Probably run a functioning economy so that people can earn money at a rate faster than inflation? There’s more than one way to get fed. The UK economy has been one of the worst performers in developed economies since COVID.

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Re: You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)

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Post by [deleted] »

Mainan_Tagonist wrote: post #35

Humm, I have a feeling part of the story is missing here, even though i can relate as i was myself a minimum wage worker in the hospitality industry in Britain for a while (back in 1999, my annual wage was something like 8500 pounds). Long odd hours, not so pleasant interfacing with customers, 7 people sharing a flat in London, so broke at the end of the month that walking from Mayfair to Canada Water was reality bec…

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Re: You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)

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Post by roflyear »

sneed_chucker wrote: post #50
lawn wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But ignorance is a choice. No, it's not always a choice. You might be born in a family and community that actively brainwashes their members and prevents you from coming into contact with conflicting information. This can even be true in less severe circumstances, such as being bombarded with propaganda on social media, which essentially hacks your brain.

Yeah, a very interesting piece of cognitive dissonance is when people are all "a person's behavior is a product of their environment, which they can't be held fully responsible for" until the person in question holds views or engages in behavior that we want to hold them personally accountable for. I know neither the "product of environment" or "personal responsibility" view is absolute with anyone, but I've noticed…

How is that what this author is doing? Did you read the article?

Re: You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)

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markx2 wrote: post #2

"And my main point is that poverty and privilege are largely accidental. You don’t choose to be born into an income bracket, a country pile, a housing estate, a double barrelled name or a damp tenement bedsit. But ignorance is a choice. And choosing to use your privileges to patronise people whose lives are entirely beyond your experience and comprehension, is a choice."

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Re: You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)

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Post by UncleMeat »

gosub100 wrote: post #22
avereveard wrote: post #7

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She was feeding herself and a child on seven pounds a week. My food budget for two people is like 20x that.

What she wants is at least for the wealthy to not say heartless shit like "just buy raw potatoes instead of frozen french fries."

Re: You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)

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Post by thuuuomas »

Mainan_Tagonist wrote: post #35

Humm, I have a feeling part of the story is missing here, even though i can relate as i was myself a minimum wage worker in the hospitality industry in Britain for a while (back in 1999, my annual wage was something like 8500 pounds). Long odd hours, not so pleasant interfacing with customers, 7 people sharing a flat in London, so broke at the end of the month that walking from Mayfair to Canada Water was reality bec…

“This account of misery likely conceals the reasons that the author, in my estimation, would deserve their suffering.”
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