this will make them talk your ears off…
[People more often ask you to explain what happened rather than what it means.]
this will make them talk your ears off…
[People more often ask you to explain what happened rather than what it means.]
There's so much water, how can there be a shortage?
[The simple model of a water cycle we learned in school outlines rain falling jnto rivers and ebing carried back to the ocean. Most of our existence is between falling and the rivers.]
[Soil, swamps, plants, and beavers slow down watr before heading to the rivers. Concrete repels water directly into drains so that it leaves faster.]
[Water supply will strain when it is disconnected from natural deposits into aquifers. This can happen through sities, coal mining, golf courses, data centres, and industrial practices that pass water through the cycle faster.]
Reading is an encounter with possible worlds.
[Authoritarians don't like people reading because it increases the number of imaginable worlds contradicts the idea that there is only one version of history.]
[People eager to frame their problems through other people's identity don't want to question the underlying system, only taking a stance on banking through the lense of bankers being Jewish, or on protection of women through the lense of offenders being Muslim.]
[Choosing between "the lesser of two evils" in democratic elections reflects a continuous oscillation between radical pro-oligarch and moderate pro-oligarch where both further the same agenda. The former capitalizes on our frustration with the system by promising meaningful change and enacting laws by force to server the wealthy. The latter attempts to sooth our disappointment of authoritarian overstep by promising a return to sanity but following the laws created by the former.]
[Plastic surgery, anti-balding hair products, shoulder pads, top surgery for overweight boys, push-up bras, and wigs are examples of gender-affirming care.]
[It's common for people born intersex to have doctors "pick one" without telling anyone in order to save the family from the burden of that choice.]
[Frogs change their sex based on the population's gender distribution, and penguins change their gender.]
[What exists is natural. We consider biological expressions "unnatural" until they happen.]
The sadness truly begins when adaptation becomes an entrance fee for dignity.
[Much of migration is the labour of making yourself acceptable to people in the target culture.]
[New York is the new model for a prison that's built by the inmates themselves. The inmates are also the guards and very proud of what they've built. Having been lobotomized, they have little capacity to leave the prison they've made or even see it as a prison.]
[Profit from environmental exploitation wastes tangible resources to generate hypothetical value in the form of money, which derives its vaue from the resources being wasted; like a system that consumes itself by merely existing.]
[Aspiring tech overlords seek to remove people's ability to consent.]
[Destabilizing the developing world through stealing resources and destructive wars is a cause for mass displacement and migration. The spoils are used to build western tech infrastructure and mass surveillance is proposed as a solution to people's fears of scary migrants walking around.]
[The ruling class wants you to believe you shouldn't have a say in how your society's resources are used to shape the future of your society; it's necessary to convince you because it's actually not inevitable.]
Charlie Chaplin lectured by his son about freedom.
Let's talk about Trump and the GOP's red scare rhetoric failing on the youth....
[The right-wing managed to mainstream socialism, which socialists were never able to do, simply by using it as a "derogatory" label for every means of government assistance that helped people most in need.]
[Young people without Cold War experience of socialism embrace the political ideology without associating it with the Soviets.]
He changed the job description of what a comedian could be.
[Selling to a satisfied person is hard.]
[Curiosity is an antidote to the fatigue and paralysis caused by information overload.]
[Listen to the ones who want you to think, not the ones selling you a team to join.]
[Listen to those who don't need anything from you.]
Carney's financialization brought us Trump's fascism
[Carney represents and helped manifest the rules-based order that he admits was a lie (it never applied equally) and that he now mourns.]
[When we have been morphed by financialization into players within a cruel game of artificial scarcity, the feeling of being cheated out of the world we deserve becomes fuel for fascists to exploit in order to take control.]
[Capitalism produced (among others) a crisis of social reproduction that prevents a large portion of population from having enough material stability to start families. Fascists reframe this decline in population growth as caused by LGBTQ people attacking traditional family values.]
[Fascism today breaks with the anti-capitalism of Hitler and Mussolini to use markets as the arena to demonstrate strength and capacity to rule. Cronyism and bribes are common because they signal acceptance by the market.]
[Webcams flatten people and their interactions.]
[Wise guests can turn dumb questions into insightful and informative answers.]
[Not showing their feet in the shot focuses on their face, hands, and fashion, and speaking as Greek busts.]
Two worms find themselves.
[Stock offerings have historically been a way for the public to generate wealth by participating in a company's growth, but they can limit people's returns via IPO after decades of operation. Microsoft's price today is 750x from 1986. SpaceX's $1.8 trillion valuation after 24 years of operation is ninety-two times its yearly revenue, which means they would need to be eventually be worth over a quadrillion dollars to achieve similar returns.]
TodePond: ADVANCED AIRHORN TUTORIAL
so many rhythmic permutations from a single sound sample
Marx, Ecology and the Lie of Separation
[We can go beyond "consume better, recycle better, choose sustainable products" to ask "who owns the land? who controls energy? who profits from extraction? who bears the waste and breathes pollution? who labours? who has water? who gets sacrificed for development?"]
The Diary Of A CEO: Jefferson Fisher
[Walk into a room as if you've been there before and everyone else is visiting.]
[I want to know the names of helping staff, how many times they've done this today, how they're doing, because it's too easy to just talk to the "important" people.]
[Let your breath be the first word.]
[In times of emotional crisis, they walk instead of running. Being calm is contagious.]
[Announce whether either of you is under capacity; if both are then make a plan for kindness towards each other.]
["Indian belly" as a meme distracts from systemic famines during British colonial rule that resulted in millions unalived and future generation bodies storing energy maladaptively.]