Yes. Its called K Street.
They plagiarise a lot. Some of these fake memes were first deployed in newspapers during the Crimean War.
I reckon they've earned a pension, but no....
“Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. Usually the strength of a mass movement is proportionate to the vividness and tangibility of its devil.”
- Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", p. 86
#politics #religion #divideandconquer #conflict
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Good work, Ghost!
My son only qualifies for his weekly pocket money if (a) his floor is tidy (b) bed is made and (c) google search can't find anything about him.
Starting 'em young!
^ This. Buy an overpriced bottled water. They're good to hide behind (socially). Sip during silences.
(And try to stay off your phone, unless you're in Hong Kong. Easier said than done, I know!)
As I like my coffee - strong, dark, & imported!
(If you're eye-rolling, well I'll own it!)
I also have a weakness for pint-sized Asian girls with terrifying intelligence.
(Not attracted so much as I feel a strong impulse to look after them.)
Found a girlfriend who ticked ALL the above. So I married her. (Ten years next July.)
Sadly true.
And these days "ancient history" extends into the 1990s :-p
Haaretz front page:
"A guy on Tinder asked if I was Jewish. I said yes and he blocked me! I was in Shock"
Israelis are suffering too, see!
#gaza #israel #war #palestine
By demolishing the homes above and the families living there, the IAF appears to have boosted its bodycount for quick domestic political wins - but inadvertently made Hamas' tunnels below much harder to destroy.
I would, too.
The current (connected and mutually-reinforcing) trends of increasing (and increasingly globalised) regulation; corporate globalisation, consolidation and monopolization; and globalised state violence have immense cultural momentum behind them.
Not much runway remaining, but the crash process may be drawn-out... :-/
I'm with you on classic hardwood. My dining table and chairs are older than my late grandmother, and they'll likely outlast me (may reupholster again).
But I think marketing ("express this weeks' authentic you!" says #influencer) and frequent house-moving is why disposable furniture dominates. Can't really judge people in the second category.
I'm ambivalent about this societal pathology personally - it /does/ let me buy classics for less than new IKEA would ;-)
"World Economic Forum–adjacent thinkers call for a 'farm-free future' with food primarily manufactured via precision fermentation and other scientific processes that result in products like lab grown meat ... How did the environmental and conservation movements become so divided?"
The existential question is: in ten years will it even be possible to have conventional farming and will we be forced to make food synthetically.
#solarpunk #climatechange
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/against-a-dystopian-farm-free-future/
Good article.
I was already resolutely on Savory's side of that argument for sovereigntist and systemic-risk reasons.
But Monbiot's "industrial food" thought-bubbles don't make any sense from an industrial point of view either. Where's the energy coming from to replace solar-powered broadacre crops?
Monbiot's plans can only be implemented if everything else is banned. And even then, Ukraine and Israel are proof that Western leaders can't compel the Global Majority to join either their war crimes or their Jonestown mass-suicide proposals. Thank goodness. But I personally live in the West...
Eeek! I had thought GrapheneOS was something similar to LineageOS, but those bois are shilling hard for Google.
LineageOS with F-droid, no Google Play Services and no Play Store here. Tor Browser is built on Firefox but without nonfree art, going to stick with that too.
I have a second, Chinese phone for government apps that require Google. Its mostly turned off. They can fight with Chairman Xi over whatever tiny scraps of data it can gather...
"To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue.
[...]
To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished.
It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonoured.
That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, from Idée Générale de la Révolution au XIXe Siècle [The General Idea of the Revolution] (1851); quoted in The Anarchists (1964) by James Joll, Ch. 3, p. 78
#anarchism #anarchy #government
Absolutely, I'm afraid. Coastal properties on land have this problem too, even hundreds of metres from the seashore. Seasteads will have salt-spray as bad as only the most exposed oceanfront real estate.
That said, there are quite a few edible halophytes, aside from those I listed. Its a complication, not a deal-breaker!
I don't know if the lying this time exceeds previous rounds, or if we're just recognising it more...
ROFL
In a seastead, they're probably moored to my vessel and several more. And while I'd like to cut them loose and let them sink, Murphy's Law says the guy who does this will be the nephew of the Secretary of the Navy and the only reason we've not been blown up yet as a "hazard to navigation" :-D
I'm a monster... I was going to setup my own LN node, but got called away and haven't gone back to it.
Okay, where would you recommend for hosted wallets?