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Yeah J, that general thought has a voice in the back of my head enthusiastically going "Democratize the means of production!"

It's one of those cases where, like, I'm sympathetic to the potentially undercut artists, yes, but. Consider for a moment what it entails for everyone else if these programs are seeing enough distribution and use to actually manage that. The world's creative output would explode. The world's creative access would explode, the means to make excellent art being made available even to people without the time or talent to develop those means, bottlenecked only by a program's processing speed, not money to commission artists or said artists' available time. It potentially opens the gates that were locked behind talent and years of dedication and practice to just, everyone. The disabled, the dysgraphic, the folks that are struggling to find the time and means just to eat, nevermind making and practicing art.

It'd probably kinda' suck for a lot of current artists, in all honesty, and there's definitely other potential issues that could crop up (like the use for propaganda, absolutely), but. It's hard to put into words what being able to have a pocket artist on your side would mean to people that have ideas but for whatever reason can't art worth a damn otherwise.

I mean, if aro/ace stuff fits (and it's certainly lumped in with the rest of the non-cis pile) then something adjacent to it should to, yeah? It's only a small step from one or the other of those. Near as I can tell from a quick reminder it's pretty distinct from the common cis-het sexuality patterns, so... into the pile it goes.

Nah, that was probably intentional. You normally don't bring up d when talking 'bout kids.

I mean, it may be anathema but it's also inflicted, sometimes violently, on our poorest demographics. The wait lists and related hoop jumping horseshit for assisted housing can take sometimes take over a fucking decade to navigate (and you're probably going to be waiting years at a minimum regardless, which helps exactly as much as you'd think for someone facing immediate eviction or somethin'), and far as I'm aware this goddamned country still has a moratorium on just straight up government constructed housing.

Part of the reason you don't see as much "just bloody build the damn things" is because some pile of gigantic assholes put a legislative block on it some decades ago, so the supply of genuinely public housing has somewhere between held steady and outright shrunk since, even as demand has steadily increased.

It's just one facet of the colossal block of shit that is the US housing situation, especially for the poor.

General inflation (also wages, basically fucking everything, etc.) has been wildly outpaced by housing cost increases, last I noticed. Whatever effect it's having on the housing situation is minor, and far, far less impactful than... all the other horseshit going on.

Also it's not really a "location, location, location" thing. Housing costs are up basically everywhere in excess of other cost increases, wages, again more or less everything, location just effects how badly. Shitholes that literally don't have utility services are somehow managing to price people out that used to live there, from what I understand. It's pretty messed up.

... yeah, mentioning it made me curious as to salt content. 380 mg per 2 ounces, ahaha.

It's actually a little less than some comparable pork sausage brands, but... still.

Semi-related, I've been getting pretty close to making very low salt hamburger patties (75 mg or so per patty, it's not major, and it's pretty much the only salt involve at all) taste dead on like regular sausage. Pepper, chili powder, rosemary, and cane syrup added early to crumbled hamburger during pan cooking, so far -- it's close, but not quite there. Still really damn tasty, but not quite 100% genuinely low sodium sausage-equivalent... yet. Getting there, though.

really I should just, like. Look at the ingredients used to season common sausage, but that feels too easy, y'know? Half the point is the fiddling about.

Sure, but that's half a decade to a decade and a half of a huge pile of people not having to deal with the problem in question, which, like. The benefits to stress levels alone will probably save thousands, tens of thousands of lives, just from that, heh.