meristohm

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by meristohm 2y ago
I carry coins and preferentially use cash. I'm a male in my 40s and took seriously The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. I've narrowed what I use my now-6yo phone for. I know most of my neighbors, and I value mutual aid, pa
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by meristohm 2y ago
Counterpoint: Serviceberry: abundance and reciprocity in the natural world, by Robin Wall Kimmerer (consider using your publicly-funded library, thriftbooks, or bookshop rather than Amazon) Abundance mindset is more along the lines of &quot
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by meristohm 2y ago
...and sheep are good for preventing forests from regrowing in the UK and the Republic of Ireland? (for one regional example) And sure, wool and mutton too, but the level of environmental destruction wrought by humans via sheep is baaaad.
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by meristohm 2y ago
and slow us down?
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by meristohm 2y ago
Those are actual functioning vehicles, and not just props from Bladerunner? A bicycle is by far more attractive that these oddities.
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by meristohm 2y ago
American here, and I think your stance is reasonable. Authoritarian regimes are harmful, and a boycott is one approach. I'm skeptical that there's a significant increase in violence, though; maybe that's news amplification? F
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by meristohm 2y ago
huh? Those things are a novelty. I may be aging into fuddy-duddy land, though. If I keep using a mobile phone, I like the smaller ones that easily fit in one hand and most pockets, I want it to last a decade or more (this iphone is from 201
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by meristohm 2y ago
I guess it's easy if a person cares enough about it? I'm the relative PITA in my family because I prefer to put everything on a paper calendar and mostly use my phone for Signal, iMessage, occasional email, some photos, and intern
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by meristohm 2y ago
What's the embodied energy cost of making your EV and driving it for X years compared to a similar ICE vehicle? EV tire wear (and thus, pollution) is greater due to the extra weight. If there's an edge on environmental harm reduct
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by meristohm 2y ago
Easier to excuse as ignorant the people who bought a Tesla sedan before Elon Musk made it very clear his views. For fighting back, consider limiting extreme action to cybertrucks? These boxes of space junk off an 80s movie set came out afte
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by meristohm 2y ago
Why does The Master Algorithm have (currently) 21,437 downvotes? Why do you only link to Amazon? (last I knew, Goodreads is owned by Amazon). Bookshop (now selling e-books!) and Thriftbooks are good options, and- Will you consider adding a
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One Company Wants to Make Geoengineering Profitable(undark.org)
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by meristohm 2y ago
I've yet to consider any LLM helpful. I'd far rather invest in early-childhood family education to reduce trauma and set us up to enjoy lifelong learning and a sense of purpose rather than school as preparation for making money fo
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by meristohm 2y ago
Good, I suppose, given our colonial history of dominating and exploiting people and land to grow bananas to ship to the USA. I tend not to buy them even if they're cheap. Fortunately I'm in Washington state and there are so many d
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by meristohm 2y ago
Reading books is great! Wonderful technology that I continue to marvel at and benefit from, along with the public library system here in the USA. I use a mix of Calibre and paper notes in a folder to track my reading, in part because I woul
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by meristohm 2y ago
That solution seems to work best through a colonial, capitalist lens. Rather than TINA (Thatcher's "there is no alternative"), consider TIA (Yoda's "there is... another")?
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by meristohm 2y ago
Some of whom are on leave, or furlough, or in the backcountry, or on special assignment, or etc.
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by meristohm 2y ago
In many cultures, exile or retribution was the answer to murder, and to prevent things getting so heated, strong and secure family and community bonds go a long way. American prisons (I'm American, and also don't know much about n
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by meristohm 2y ago
Cautiously optimistic, though I'm skeptical a game based on "explore, expand, extirpate, exploit, extract, exterminate", capitalism, and colonization will change sufficiently in this next iteration. To be fayuh... I mostly pl
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by meristohm 2y ago
The best time to act was back then. Second best is now. Time to make some lifestyle changes in keeping with a new story: public good (or luxury, if you prefer), private sufficiency. This flips on its head the previous story focused on priva
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by meristohm 2y ago
What happens if enough countries implement a progressive tax? Billionaires make money off control of land, labor, and money. If they don't pay enough taxes back into the system that sustains their game, and if they don't colonize
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by meristohm 2y ago
"Incus" and a bunch of jargon? and some AI-generated-lookin' art? Just point people to the Linux Mint download page and have them use the installation guide there. Otherwise, what's your angle?
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by meristohm 2y ago
They are protected if we collectively-enough (laws, or culture, religion, ethics, or...?) agree to provide equitable access to people with disabilities. Human rights are made up (the local deer that spent the night in the woods near where I
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by meristohm 2y ago
I tend to push back against this nonsense pretty firmly, and would go so far as to request paper documents be sent, as "I don't have a device up to the task" (which sometimes is true, as I use old hardware until I luck into a
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by meristohm 2y ago
"You could achieve a lot with the additional economic activity." What are you trying to achieve, and why?
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by meristohm 2y ago
I do my best at work, and if my employer tells me to do something I don't agree with I continue choosing my actions, at the risk of getting fired. Point is, it's on them to fire me. I've only ever resigned when I don't
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by meristohm 2y ago
'AGI, defined by OpenAI as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work."' Where does the value ultimately come from?... If it's Earth's resources, and we increase even f
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by meristohm 2y ago
I agree that they are not equally bad, and- Democrats since Carter have bowed to influence from neoliberal capitalists, and capitalism is is a "boom-bust-quit" cycle, which I see as narrow-minded and selfish. Clinton got away with
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by meristohm 2y ago
Yeah, it's the higher-amplitude wobbles of a complex system before it snaps and finds a new equilibrium.
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by meristohm 2y ago
...plus journalism, the fourth branch.

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