onetimepadder

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by onetimepadder 10y ago
Let me share a more nature-based perspective(although, as with almost everything in nature, not generalizable to the whole of the ecosystem) As you may know, chimpanzees wage wars, some being territorial, some more resource-targeted. They e
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by onetimepadder 10y ago
Hmm, how can an arm of the military-industrial complex help in any way, shape or form anyone really interested in changing the world? How naive one have to be .. well, ok nevermind, get your fb/g/"startup"(as in, cheap o
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by onetimepadder 10y ago
@Simulation: "Garbage in, garbage out" @CaspianReport: Another gate-keeping operation(see Noam Chomsky for ref). One dimensionality, designed, produced and moderated(either knowingly or unknowingly .. for the "narrator")
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by onetimepadder 10y ago
That is exactly the one I found; yes I know, but its written "in the spirit of the book" which makes it very off-putting right from the beginning. Going through the first pages only confirmed my viewpoint (as in, not mentioning th
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by onetimepadder 10y ago
Edit(2): One thing I wanted to mention[..], Calhouns universes , you have to read his prominent papers to the end otherwise you might get depressed(it gets more optimistic towards the end) - sustainability of societies even without resourc
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by onetimepadder 10y ago
Edit: @ Ecology and the politics of scarcity revisited , just read the foreword of that book, almost each and every sentence of that foreword is a (known) misdirection; I don't think I'll have the nerves to read it, will scroll th
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by onetimepadder 10y ago
@"overuse of resources is a typical pattern" - I don't agree, the drive for overuse of resources may be considered as such but this is hugely species-dependent, and besides a lot of cost-to-gather-resources vs energy-you-get
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by onetimepadder 10y ago
"[..]We are the 1% who understand tech .. use a VPN, ublock etc .. Snowden .. idea of a complex password .. or willing to use a manager .. I gave up even trying to educate on this stuff [..]" How can someone educate others about s
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by onetimepadder 10y ago
(s/wish/try) and I agree with the first part of your sentence 100%
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by onetimepadder 10y ago
I was unable to reply to smallnamespace(and it just did not pass my internal value system to create a 2nd account just for that) @smallnamespace: I actually did answer, or, if you can't get an exact(ish) pointer out of my answer there
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by onetimepadder 10y ago
Over-use of resources is actually a direct consequence of the consolidated global corporate power (from planned obsolescence through destroyed local markets/industry(with all its micro and regional economic and social consequences) ..
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by onetimepadder 10y ago
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change." Isn't this (from a very, very high perspective) the reason why thousands of years of power concentratio