Dude, thanks so much! This gubbins just sort of falls out of my brain. I have no doubt you could write down something awesome - the trick is not try to sound a certain way. Just brain dump :)
You posted this on the same day I posted up my incredibly boring but frequently-needed "Requirements for egg supply in Australia" document. I use Substack to store information that I then provide to very specialised interest groups back on facebook, because FB consistently makes it impossible to re-use information. I've had it in a PDF for a couple of years and decided Today Was The Day to Substack it.
So the core tenet of egg supply in Australia is "supply clean, uncracked eggs that have a supplier identifier on them, in case of a salmonella outbreak". Fairly straightforward stuff, you'd think, right?
Except that the head wonks devolved implementation of the regulations down to the individual Australian states, which promptly led to a pile-on of extra rules ranging from 'deliberately designed to keep small suppliers out of the market entirely, thereby ensuring a shadow market of people who don't even bother with that bare minimum because they feel the rules don't apply to them at all" (Queensland, in case you were wondering) through to "ridiculously easy and sensible compliance requirements, including handing out free egg stamps, so egg supply is safe and clean" (NSW, SA, ACT).
So every time I post this information, someone has to come along and start screaming about nanny states and how they won't comply because gummint overreach something something surveillance state something something common sense.
This did, indeed, promptly occur when I popped up a thread with the new link.
So reading your post got me right in the "ow YES" feels, because today i just wanted to knock heads together. I want "I'm all right jack bugger the rest of yer" ableism to be seen as heinous as "I'll run 300 chooks in a 10m x 10m backyard and sell grotty eggs because $$" greed. People need to be protected and to be safe; protections need to be -just- right without excessive overreach, but they can't be too vague because people, in the end, are people; and people tend to always want more.
It would be a lovely world if it weren't for the idiots in it. Which is everyone except you and me and the people i like and frankly, I'm not entirely sure about half of them.
People really are the bloody worst. And now I have to go read this about eggs! Glad we’re on the same page here as well - writing this sort of stuff always leaves me a bit worried someone will come out raging. The left really are great at condemning people ‘not left enough’ in their eyes
I tell myself if someone comes out raging, it means they read what I wrote. On a good day, I can laugh in glee.
On a bad day, I’ve been known to have that brain-snap that feels oh-so-good when you write it and then rather unwell afterwards. Thank goodness for self-awareness and edit buttons …
Honestly, I didn’t give it much thought! ‘Consequences’ makes more sense, but ‘punishments’ felt more literal and immediate. Glad you enjoyed it! Stay soft and furious :)
Hell yeah. I really appreciate your perspectives; I’ve worked in labs and bio product marketing on both sides of the Atlantic - keep up the good work!
I thought that here, I don’t necessarily won’t them to be violently punished and I also want them to get their comeuppances equivalent their actions - so let’s start making more people do community service for throwing trash out the window. I’d also like to read them the riot act. We need to internalize these externalities, as a society
Oh absolutely. Corporal punishment probably isn’t the answer here (although I will happily form a squad of litter police who taser people throwing things on the floor RIGHT NEXT TO THE BIN!). I think more community involvement and contribution would be incredible. People almost need to be forced to care - because once you do start giving a shit, it’s hard go back from that.
This is honestly the best summation of 75-80% of my political beliefs that I’ve found in the last decade.
I remember when I was about 14 and the God stuff wasn’t up to snuff, I decided that my moral compass was “Don’t be a dick”. It’s really been a solid North Star even as I’ve fleshed out more of the philosophical corollaries
I love your writing bill. Its a breath of fresh air in amongst the AI and Americanisms. I hope one day I can turn out something nearly as good!
Dude, thanks so much! This gubbins just sort of falls out of my brain. I have no doubt you could write down something awesome - the trick is not try to sound a certain way. Just brain dump :)
You posted this on the same day I posted up my incredibly boring but frequently-needed "Requirements for egg supply in Australia" document. I use Substack to store information that I then provide to very specialised interest groups back on facebook, because FB consistently makes it impossible to re-use information. I've had it in a PDF for a couple of years and decided Today Was The Day to Substack it.
So the core tenet of egg supply in Australia is "supply clean, uncracked eggs that have a supplier identifier on them, in case of a salmonella outbreak". Fairly straightforward stuff, you'd think, right?
Except that the head wonks devolved implementation of the regulations down to the individual Australian states, which promptly led to a pile-on of extra rules ranging from 'deliberately designed to keep small suppliers out of the market entirely, thereby ensuring a shadow market of people who don't even bother with that bare minimum because they feel the rules don't apply to them at all" (Queensland, in case you were wondering) through to "ridiculously easy and sensible compliance requirements, including handing out free egg stamps, so egg supply is safe and clean" (NSW, SA, ACT).
So every time I post this information, someone has to come along and start screaming about nanny states and how they won't comply because gummint overreach something something surveillance state something something common sense.
This did, indeed, promptly occur when I popped up a thread with the new link.
So reading your post got me right in the "ow YES" feels, because today i just wanted to knock heads together. I want "I'm all right jack bugger the rest of yer" ableism to be seen as heinous as "I'll run 300 chooks in a 10m x 10m backyard and sell grotty eggs because $$" greed. People need to be protected and to be safe; protections need to be -just- right without excessive overreach, but they can't be too vague because people, in the end, are people; and people tend to always want more.
It would be a lovely world if it weren't for the idiots in it. Which is everyone except you and me and the people i like and frankly, I'm not entirely sure about half of them.
People really are the bloody worst. And now I have to go read this about eggs! Glad we’re on the same page here as well - writing this sort of stuff always leaves me a bit worried someone will come out raging. The left really are great at condemning people ‘not left enough’ in their eyes
I tell myself if someone comes out raging, it means they read what I wrote. On a good day, I can laugh in glee.
On a bad day, I’ve been known to have that brain-snap that feels oh-so-good when you write it and then rather unwell afterwards. Thank goodness for self-awareness and edit buttons …
I've definitely deleted more than I've published.
P.s. based on the essay, should this be titled “I want equity, but also consequences” or was that a deliberate copywriting decision?
Honestly, I didn’t give it much thought! ‘Consequences’ makes more sense, but ‘punishments’ felt more literal and immediate. Glad you enjoyed it! Stay soft and furious :)
Hell yeah. I really appreciate your perspectives; I’ve worked in labs and bio product marketing on both sides of the Atlantic - keep up the good work!
I thought that here, I don’t necessarily won’t them to be violently punished and I also want them to get their comeuppances equivalent their actions - so let’s start making more people do community service for throwing trash out the window. I’d also like to read them the riot act. We need to internalize these externalities, as a society
Oh absolutely. Corporal punishment probably isn’t the answer here (although I will happily form a squad of litter police who taser people throwing things on the floor RIGHT NEXT TO THE BIN!). I think more community involvement and contribution would be incredible. People almost need to be forced to care - because once you do start giving a shit, it’s hard go back from that.
This is honestly the best summation of 75-80% of my political beliefs that I’ve found in the last decade.
I remember when I was about 14 and the God stuff wasn’t up to snuff, I decided that my moral compass was “Don’t be a dick”. It’s really been a solid North Star even as I’ve fleshed out more of the philosophical corollaries