Chana [none/use name]

Full of trots and other opportunists

Whatever

So is the assumption I was responding to, which assumed that there were trees there to cut down in the first place.

Both the comment you responded to and the comment you made had that kind of assumption. And I’m not replying to what they said…

I wasn’t making any normative claims about what the land should be, just pointing out that this process appears to have been afforestation of an area that, prior to this intervention, was grassland, and so the implicit assumption in the original comment that the local water cycle had already been perturbed may be wrong.

I don’t think that’s what you communicated, actually.

The point is that this land was not immutably grassland historically, and so the prior point re: its prior state is not inherently valid. The only question is how long it was the case, if that’s what we are meant to care about.

I haven’t said anything about whether it’s strategically better in this case, that’s just a category error re: your reply. I am highlighting that one should avoid the (often settler naturalistic fallacy mindset) that the right thing is what it “used to be”, where “used to be” tends to be a somewhat mythological description of the place 50 years ago.

Ah, but how long was it grassland? Humans have been changing the landscape for tens of thousands of years, on top of major climate changes before and during that. Much of what we call “natural” or “wild” was/is actually curated and lived in.

Oof

Lots of reasons you might try out other distros:

• Boredom / curiosity
• Your current distro has a problem or doesn’t fit your needs (this is usually why I have distro hopped)
• You want to learn something that a distro focuses on. Atomic updates, reproducible builds, compiling software, etc.

But you can also just sit and be happy with what you’ve got!

Where is that water even going?

Isn’t it understood that even though we can extend lifespans past 80, the brain itself tends to degrade around then, so quality of life tends to deteriorate anyways? So it’s just length of a life, but whether the mental impacts of aging can be prevented.

That’s aside from the whole labor commoditization angle.

I refuse to use it until it also mines crypto from my browser and sends it to the most sexually harassy guy ever.

Working with others in an org doesn’t require being a leader, friend. Organizations need help doing things like scheduling, creating artwork, writing, putting up posters, handing out flyers, etc etc. And when you first join you’ll probably be doing a lot of reading. Just focus on being friendly and liked and you’ll do well. Sticking to principals / handling political issues is something you can develop later and strategically, if you’d like to, and this ends up being what leadership does.

One low-stakes thing anyone can do is join a group like Food Not Bombs. They feed people and their members come from a broad left background. I wouldn’t expect to get a good political education there, but you will get comfortable with basic organized left group work! And meet people who will let you know about other local orgs.

It is the evil empire, the primary seat of global capital - and capitalism itself is the primary driving force behind all of this. The CIA had no reason to exist outside of the Cold War, and the Cold War was created to contain socialism.

We’ve got to rely on each other, friend, and organize. It is tempting to prepare as individuals, and it is not bad to do so per se, but it is much less effective than working together in an organization.

Wonder which SocDem y’all will fall for next time

lemmy.ml is a free website with public posts and free accounts. This person could just go there and see what’s up

A lot of them just wanted apps and Reddit’s API changes threatened their precious apps

The main Calibre dev is notoriously opinionated about not adding basic features or a proper web server, but they add AI integrations? lmao

It’s less about the market and more about increasing prices as stock goes down during the day. With other products people would be pissed, but they have their excuse created for them by the bubble and being a slightly niche product.

The usual word for this is just price gouging. It’s a shortage.

Nope. It’s because there are thousands of C suites that are trying to get in on the hype train (money train), with varying levels of actually believing the BS. Getting on the hype train means a ton of compute so that grandma can be given wrong answers like being able to substitute ammonia for butter in cookies.

Is this really 3 different people?

Yeah it’s disruptive and annoying. You’ve actually gotta rid organizing spaces of it in its entirety because otherwise libs will take them over using these bad faith tactics.