Please stop trusting corporate media (whether social media or otherwise) when they give the impression that nothing is happening and nobody is fighting for their country. Please stop trusting corporate media saying you’re all useless and incompetent and it isn’t worth trying.
The revolution will not be televised. If you’re American, join some of those “useless protests” and talk to people. You’ll be surprised what is getting done.
I edited my comment above. As you can see, a pencil appears next to the upvote/downvote ration and the “x hours ago” timer resets.
You are lying. Their comments were not edited after you replied.
https://actuaries.org.uk/media/isvotyer/parasol-lost.pdf
The first link in the description appears to be what the “parasol” in the title comes from.
It seems to be a partially AI-generated report by the University of Exeter, with the cover image being the most obvious marker. The “parasol” in the title doesn’t seem to represent anything specific, so maybe that was AI-generated too, or maybe it was artisan hand-crafted clickbait.
Do you really think that is what they said? Maybe go back and check again.
Edit: For reference, this is what it looks like when a comment is edited after the fact.
People are exhausted because they are already worrying but they’re avoiding the issue. Politics affects their lives every day, their inaction makes their lives worse every day, but they’ve been taught to only think about it in ways that cost a lot of effort without helping, while demonizing all the ways that do help.
Because you can benefit from engaging with politics immediately. Organize with your neighbors to share the tools you only use incidentally, like heavy-duty work trucks and power saws, through a library system. Estimate how often y’all are going to need them and keep that many in stock, then sell the rest and distribute the money.
Congratulations, you just did an anarchocommunism and made your community a million dollars with a couple dozen hours of labor. All that’s stopping this from happening is people’s willingness to engage with politics, meaning they are stuck thinking of themselves as incidentally indebted independent individuals. That and their willingness to turn down thousands of dollars in cold hard cash rather than consider the possibility communism is better than capitalism.
We already have countries where there are so many solar panels that the price of electricity goes negative on summer afternoons. Even if we build enough storage to carry that energy from afternoon to night, it’s simply unfeasible to have enough storage to carry that energy from summer to winter.
So in the process of getting carbon-neutral in winter, we’re going to have a massive amount of excess electricity in summer. We need some industry to spend all that free electicity, so why not carbon capture tech?
That’s not a rhetorical question - any industry that is better than carbon capture tech will do - but right now the most likely claimants are terrible options like AI data centers or designing buildings to have less natural cooling and more air conditioning. And if we’re going to use carbon capture tech at some point, better we have some small-scale experiments before that to work the kinks out.
ChatGPT? That’s rich for someone ignoring what I wrote to instead hallucinate something about a global revolution and global unity.
Maybe one day you’ll be as capable of understanding my comment as an AI is. But I won’t help you get there.
Trump is trying to steal the elections. As laid out in Project 2025. As he tried in the 2020 putsch. If seeing that makes you a leftie, then every centrist is blind.
every centrist is blind.
If advertisers loved a good news channel, all corporate news would be good news channels. But scared and tired people make far less informed decisions, making advertising far more effective.
The countless horror movies you can watch online are far more upsetting than a streamer saying “fuck”. Censorship isn’t about avoiding people getting upset but about having infrastructure for silencing speech that they and their corporate partners don’t like.
Imagine if cops couldn’t give out fines, then they would miss out on being able to choose to let white people off with a warning while fining black people for the smallest infractions. This means cops would be less effective at maintaining white supremacy. And so cops have to be tough on crime despite all evidence showing that it makes crime worse. Because cops exist to maintain and expand white supremacy, and more specifically the supremacy of rich white Christian men.
Likewise, an advertiser who has a well-established policy of punishing “advertiser-unfriendly” phrases like swear words can then use that policy to suppress certain voices while letting other voices gain fame by boldly defying the rules with only a slap on the wrist. This infrastructure has allowed them to very quickly start censoring Palestine, Minnesota, and discussion of productive forms of activism and resistance in general. Whether this is a service they sell to rich white men or if it’s them choosing to do this because of their rich white owners, the buck stops with them.
Look, you can keep pointing out obvious loopholes and people can keep answer with increasingly obscure examples of laws or of people getting convicted trying just that until the cows come home, but that’s missing the bigger picture.
The rich don’t want people to get rich easily. For legal loopholes to go unpatched, they have to be complicated enough that politicians can plausibly deny blame and they have to require enough wealth to begin with that rich people see it as a tool rather than as a threat. Or they have to be something that has genuinely escaped notice so far despite millions of people searching for it. A lay person free-associating from nothing is very unlikely to come across something that hasn’t been tried yet.
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Cops, taxes, and people’s unwillingness to fight cops or taxes.
All rules are made up. HOA neighborhoods require people to sign a legal contract to follow HOA rules for them to be recognised as “home owners”.
The legal definition of “ownership” is, as always, made up, and in this case it means the state will let the HOA violently force you out of the house if you don’t obey them.
AFAIK that’s an unsubstantiated claim by one person unrelated to the victim or anyone, and it doesn’t make sense logistically. You’re not going to let a 12-13 year old walk around pregnant for 9 months just so you can throw their child in a lake. You just have it aborted.
The child rapes and abuses he is confirmed to have done are bad enough. No point in muddying the waters by instead focusing on more spectacular unsubstantiated claims. Unless you care more about spectacle than bringing child rapists to justice.
1000L/day is not enough for a community, you’re going to need multiple shipping containers worth of expensive material. Then you’ve got to put them far enough apart that they don’t interfere with each other’s operation, and lay a kilometer of pipes from each of them into a central water supply. Maintain the pipes, clean the devices when dust gets on them. Maybe the organic part of the material decays after a while so you need new ones.
It seems implausible that all of this would cost less than a pump, pipeline, well, or even rain water catchment system.
And I’m not thinking of survivalists, I’m thinking of rich people trying to be respectable while preparing for climate change in a selfish way, or coopting ‘preparation’ for selfishness. Glass Onion types.
I’m a bit confused, they talk about extracting from desert air and then talk about emergencies on Carribean islands, which are moist and tropical.
I’m not sure if the engineering makes sense on bringing an entire shipping container full of expensively produced metamaterials to provide 1 m^3 of water per day in emergencies. That same shipping container could instead contain 33 m^3 of cheap tap water from a humid region (which means more water per day in most emergencies), or it could contain the materials to build a water tower that contains 1000 m^3 (for if there are times when there is plenty of clean water, like in the Caribbean where it falls from the sky).
Depending on how polluting it was to make the device and what the ecological consequences are of removing usable amounts of moisture from desert air every day, I could see it making sense for people that have to live in a desert for one reason or another, but it’s still an entire shipping container of advanced materials for a dozen people that import their food, when pumping an aquifer can provide water for far more people with far less tech.
So this looks like yet another “fuck you got mine” technology, allowing people than can afford a shipping container of advanced materials to have their own private water supply even if the public aquifer runs dry due to capitalist exploitation or wasteful posturing. And unlike a private water tower, it doesn’t make much sense for the public to seize it because it only puts out such a small amount of water each day that only a handful of people can benefit.
If this was done intentionally - and it seems hard not to, given it’s a for-profit company - then it’s some very impressive hyperindividualist prefiguration. It’s the part of lifeboat environmentalism where they expertly design the lifeboat to only fit the rich.
Stock markets are legal in most states, so betting is legal in most states if you do it in a way rich people like.
If you’re going to jail anyway, why go to jail for something lame?
Glad we live in the 21st century then, where the rest of my comment applies.
1776. Saying that it is self-evident that all men are created equal but enslaving blacks and genociding natives and denying voting rights to 90% of the population.
Great, so how is that going to help Mrs. Jones who can’t afford sufficient notary proof of her marriage to explain why she isn’t called Miss Smith, resulting in the polling place refusing to give her a ballot?
Voting is an administrative procedure, so rigging an election can be done purely procedurally. Once the election is rigged, no amount of weapons used defensively will unrig it. Maybe they will send ICE to pick people out of the line in Latino neighborhoods, but they don’t need to in order to win. And even if they send ICE, it wouldn’t help if the people with guns stand around gormlessly as they drag people into vans, or as they themselves get arrested.
I suppose them doing more than that wouldn’t be the worst inciting incident for a civil war, but again: it’s perfectly possible for the election to get rigged without violence.