[-] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

iirc Brave has a terrible policy Not good More like … a honeypot

At least Ecosia supposedly plants lots of trees (which we desperately need)

We need like a quadrillion NET more trees than we have right now

it’s not just carbon sinks it’s also water vapor (evapotranspiration) it either forms clouds that rain (if lots of trees) or it just makes the atmosphere hotter

the internet has a big physical footprint

i don’t think tokens help.

[-] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It makes us an ECOSYSTEM!

We’re not really “human” we”re more like… … a planet.

or a forest, at least (soil, mycelium, roots, microbes, ferns, shrubs, squirrels, trees, clouds, rain, rivers…)

(imho)

[-] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

lol i know

thank you for the kind reply

aaannnd art is in the eye of the beholder so idk not necessarily for the OP needing to read it

moreso for those who (as w many of us) hv poor/low sense of self-value/self-resilience

i just hear that a lot from tech nerds “my body is stupid/irrational” etc

and it’s like “or maybe we need better models to listen to & make sense of it”

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Best. Of. Cory Doctorow’s essays (with sh*t i had no idea about)

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[-] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

But that wouldn’t generate as much profit, see! You gotta have Scarcity, otherwise ya cannot jack up the prices so high!

also: permaculture regenerative agriculture ecological stability dynamic equilibrium etc

also, news: India’s regenerative water permaculture development

[-] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy Goes back to the 1960s (see also the Lewis Powell memo)

(also see “The Democracy Project” by David Graeber get it cash from a used bookstore leave no trace LNT )

[-] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

This. Is. One of the Best. Hidden Political History. Ever.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

blew my mind. see also anything else by thom hartmann and the Lewis Powell memo. and The Democracy Project by David Graeber (buy it at a used bookstore with cash)

[-] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“Does anyone know why this is happening?”

Yes. Thom Hartmann and others have written about this. It started after the civil rights, antiwar, feminist, peacenik, environmental, etc movements of the 1960s and early 70s.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated specifically because he was uniting poor Whites with Blacks, calling for Socialism, and launching the Poor People’s Campaign.

It was a conscious, deliberate response by the elite — against the economic and political warfare conducted by the middle class in order to eliminate the classist systemz of oppression.

The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy

Written in 1971 to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

see also Thom Hartmann’s book: “Screwed: The Undeclared War on America’s Middle Class”

also: “

**Why Oligarchs Don't Just Want to Be Rich, But Kill Democracy Too ** The deeper reason why the powerful and wealthiest think your ability to vote is dangerous.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

see above article — one of the best. chock-full of the best history lessons — including England’s maximum wage law back a few centuries ago.

[-] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

::shrug:: Just my experience, I guess.

[-] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

for us boys, it’s our backpack or satchel or messenger bag or briefcase

[-] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

“Power attracts the corruptible.

Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible.”

— DUNE, by Frank Herbert

[-] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!

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