Newpipe at the moment

get the money while there’s a christofascist government in charge

Adding more distractions to the distraction rectangle does not help people with distraction problems, new study finds

some people are more comfortable doing all of their computer actions from the keyboard without reaching for the mouse. tiling WMs tend to make that easier to do at the cost of requiring some learning

okay. so. ecofascism ignores, or is ignorant of, the role that indigenous people played maintaining ecosystems and the overall climate of this world. they frame the tragedy of the commons as that a commonly shared resource will be overutilized by the community leading to the degredation and loss of that resource. given this, they believe that a top level force is required to protect that resource.

the flaw with this framing is that anthropologically, there is no evidence that the tragedy of the commons works this way. we have much more evidence of an ownership class overexploiting a resource than we do collaborative communities. the people, left to their own devices, will largely find solutions that will best fit all their needs, where as an ecofascist route will generally only allow the person commanding the economy to assess needs and they will do so with their set of biases and blindspots, leading to things like the famines of the 5 year plans and the great leap forward

ecofascism is an authoritarian approach to addressing global climate change. they believe that poor people are a strain upon the land and that left to their own devices humanity would destroy the planet out of spite.

often, they ignore the top heavy causes of climate change. i can elaborate now but i need to go to the store

we need to bomb children to siphon up oil to power the cars that we need because we don’t invest in infrastructure because we need to bomb childreo te siphon up oil to…

(the root problem is an economic system that relies entirely on there being things under the dirt that mean some people are rich and other people do work so that some people are rich)

yup. anything you ship to anyone should be PDF regardless.

yup! waaay too may r/atheist types replaced their religious upbringing with hero worship of dawkins and iefused to see what a problematic figure he really was

Amerigo Vespucci was a genocide collaborator, in case anyone’s wondering why it would be awful to call the indigenous people of the continents of the western hemisphere “Americans”

it’s referring to a people using the language of their oppressor. each indigenous group has their own signifier like “First Nation People,” “Indigenous American,” “Native American,” or “American Indian.” you’re going to have to make a choice about how to refer to people, but as @Jax@sh.itjust.works said, about the only wrong answer is “American”

for anyone who doesn’t know what this is. the dark red is the Appalachian Bio-Region. the light red is the Appalachian Regional Commission’s mandated jurisdictional scope. the ARC is a federal-state joint partnership established in 1960 with the mandate to develop the appalachian region economically as part of America’s War on Poverty. HOWEVER, from the outset there were flaws with the commission’s outlook and approach to the region. namely, they sought to address poverty by setting up even more extractive economies in the region rather than de-esclating the institutional violence enacted against an internal colony. in the time since the foundation of the ARC, the disparity of economic incomes within and without the region has only increased.

there’s a littany of reasons for this, but core to all of them is that politicians look at a map and see economic wealth instead of people. no respect is given our needs or experiences by the oligarchs who control these so called united states of america. they think they can decide for us our futuoe, and because they have an economic and militaristic monopoly on violence, they roughly can. lumber has grven way to bituminous coal has given way to anthracite coal has given way to natural gas has given way to uranium and is now currently giving way to AI data centers and soon apparently lithium mines.

these are sad and frustrating times

the war against the land must continue until all our stories of resistance are forgotten

this style of mining also requires fewer operators than a deep mine. it has had deeply devestating consequences to me and my neighbors

i think cycles of abuse play a factor. just like who makes life the hardest for trans people are people saying shit like “DON’T YOU THINK IF I COULD JUST LIVE MY LIFE AS A MAN I WOULD” or who often is the hardest on lesbians are married women saying shit like “well when i was younger i thought maybe i was attracted to your aunt susan but then my parents sat down with me and had the talk i’m having with you. you’re just cofused. you’ll come around in time. but until you come around you’re not leaving this house”

i think some of these awful ablist people got bullied in middle school for liking pill bugs, collecting baseball cards, or reading tolkein and now “they got through it” so they think other “weird” kids should, too. meanwhile us neurodivergent people think maybe we should try seeing if the world must truly run on blood

and bonobos, chimpanzee’s closest relatives have found evolutionary strategies that work without wars. we have changed our ways of eating and living before, we can again. all we need, as a society, is the imagination to remake ourselves as we have before

i dislike how those of us who aren’t okay with this are just supposed to get on board because “big tent.” nazis operate by getting their foot in the door and acting respectable. then after a little bit, suddenly they’ve taken the whole place over. it’s what they do with bars, it’s what they do with music scenes, it’s what they’ve done with past open source projects, it’s what they did with the Reform Party in the united states. i need people to stop making room for nazis as long as they behave themselves

everything in nature has analagous structures. if you don’t see them you’re either looking too close or too far and you need to shift your perspective. a coral reef is a forest and the corals are the trees.

this is one of the examples of how electoralism can only ever give us some breathing room, but never our full liberation. even a “good” politician is still a politician. they may have entered government to reshape government, but eventually working in government will reshape them.

i encourage others to work to get the best possible politicians into positions of power, but to also work on coagulating people power in order to topple those same positions of power. here are some things you can do:

• organize a union
• learn first aid
• participate in mutual aid projects
• become acquainted with self defense and community defense mechanisms
• learn about reducing your digital footprint at protests

if you live in a common law tradition country like the United States, go read about Jury Nullification right now. and then shut the fuck up about it. if you are summoned for Jury Duty don’t bring it up unless directly asked about it.

reminds me of how in australia you’re not allowed to have a big knife unless you have a good reason. i feel like “it’s the national identity” should be a good enough reason