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by _qwfv 5y ago
Not every time, or at least the solution doesn't always result in everyone surviving. The Mayan civilization, for instance, is thought to have exhausted their local resources and fallen apart as a result.
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by _qwfv 5y ago
It's a story as old as humanity. There's many examples of humans exhausting their nearby resources because they thought they were effectively infinite. Whether that's a forest, a food stock, a water source, or something else.
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by _qwfv 5y ago
Most progressive folks I know are pretty disillusioned with the Canadian PM for being a Liberal and not at all a Leftist. His treatment of indigenous people in particular is something they've repeatedly pointed out as glaringly terribl
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by _qwfv 5y ago
Great. Regulation and reduction of plastic production is long overdue. There are some places where it makes sense to use plastic, but we're far, far overproducing the stuff because it's convenient. It's fantastically difficul
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by _qwfv 5y ago
I think I'm mostly just expressing frustration that this actually works. That anyone looks at that phrasing and says, "Yes, this makes sense."
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by _qwfv 5y ago
Ok, so say that. Or connect them to "American Values" concretely somehow. Because right now they are just saying their opponents are "un-American" which means whatever it needs to mean without actually saying anything of
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by _qwfv 5y ago
I know. I just... I keep hoping that by pointing out the obvious silliness of the phrase "American Values" that maybe, someone somewhere will read it and be like, "Huh, you know, maybe what I meant to say was, 'My values
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by _qwfv 5y ago
Celebrating nationalisation is a political view, and I think the parent poster wanted to use this as an opportunity to extend an olive branch/empathize with others who hold differing views.
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by _qwfv 5y ago
Some social assistance programs are probably worth keeping, rather than converting to dollars. Here in the states, for instance, I received regular updates on what to expect as my child developed, what vaccines they should have, what exerci
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by _qwfv 5y ago
Administration costs go way down. We're spending a ton on making sure that only the "right" people get benefits and policing the poor.
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by _qwfv 5y ago
It's not unnatural at all, or at least it's not any more unnatural than someone getting to keep a portion of your labor's profit just because they put the most money down when they started the company. A workers co-op, for in
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by _qwfv 5y ago
It is productive. My local bike shop sells me bike parts I need, just not as conveniently or efficiently as Amazon. The ruthless pursuit of efficiency as it's own goal is a trap. Squeezing out every societal optimization is a very engi
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by _qwfv 5y ago
It's not just aesthetic value. Yes, there is aesthetic value but also there is the value of "People can afford to live and work here." A community that contains some shop owners, some office workers, some landscapers, etc. is
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by _qwfv 5y ago
> by being better at every aspect of the sale. > I’d like to keep money in my community, but ... It sounds to me like Amazon is not better at every aspect, you've identified one aspect right there. They are competing on, "Wo
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by _qwfv 5y ago
Sometimes there's value in getting your hands dirty, in connecting with your local community, in having a sense of satisfaction from personally doing a good thing, in seeing how those less fortunate are struggling. Not every problem is
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by _qwfv 5y ago
Sometimes you do just need bodies to move dirt or spread mulch or stuff envelopes or whatever. Obviously the phenomena you describe is real, but please don't write off volunteering as a whole.
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by _qwfv 5y ago
There's no such thing as 'nudging' it into the sun. If you don't push hard enough, it will enter an orbit that coincides with earth's. And to push it hard enough you basically have to get it going away from earth at
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by _qwfv 5y ago
Musk's public persona is a nightmare, even if you only look at his public professional persona -- encouraging overwork, getting himself knowledgeable enough about a subject to fool laymen and investors but not deeply understanding it e
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by _qwfv 5y ago
In the US, lynching has extremely strong implications of racist violence. It's not strictly the definition of the word, but most folks in the states will understand a lynching to imply race related murders.
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by _qwfv 5y ago
The link you posted mentions anti maskers once, and only calls some of them antigovernment. But yeah, your broader point is worth exploring. People coopting movements is definitely a thing. Should the original groups do more to exclude th
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by _qwfv 5y ago
You are asking for one example. A recent one that comes to mind are peaceful anti mask protesters. I don't think they are labeled neonazis. I happen to disagree with them strongly and hold their views in low regard and believe they are
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by _qwfv 6y ago
Because the ratio of land to cost was better. And because right now Weyerhaueser owns a ton of timberland up here but won't part with it until after they've harvested it. In my mind, returning some land to natural forest and placi
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by _qwfv 6y ago
I'm considering a few hundred acres of mountainous clearcut land in the pacific northwest. Are there any resources you'd recommend to learn about replanting non-urban areas?
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by _qwfv 6y ago
Nine firearms plus one long gun, one container of molotovs, several pipe bombs, and two IEDs were seized by police. Additionally several released chemical agents at police. One beat a police officer to death with a fire extinguisher. One wa
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by _qwfv 6y ago
I'm not aware of a truckload of molotov cocktails, or IEDs in CHOP. In either case, that's whataboutism. If the same thing happened in CHOP, yes, it would also be bad. Are you seriously suggesting this is acceptable behavior?
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by _qwfv 6y ago
One guy rolled up with a truck off molotov cocktails and firearms. Several IEDs were discovered and detonated by bomb squads.
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by _qwfv 6y ago
I'm not super surprised? I think often centrist dems like to think of themselves as different from moderate republicans. (And vice versa.) More extremist right wing types tend to think Pelosi is some sort of progressive bogeyman and th
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by _qwfv 6y ago
Yes, Nancy Pelosi. She's part and parcel a corporate democrat, interested in incremental changes that fundamentally support the capital class. She's against universal healthcare, she's committed to austerity, she supports the
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by _qwfv 6y ago
I suspect that this person doesn't understand what neo-liberalism is, who is a neoliberal, or what their talking points are. Neoliberals are the centrist or right leaning part of the democratic party and the moderate republicans. It is
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by _qwfv 6y ago
I'll try to explain with an example: I am able bodied, I can walk and run easily. When I visit a store or bus depot or whatever, I can navigate it with ease. This is privilege, and I am not a bad person for being able bodied. I shouldn

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