Yes for sure. Different animals, a continent and an ice sheet. I responded because people are inclined to pick up a single sentence and conclude for themselves that an article suggests that there isnāt a global issue to consider. An article worth reading is worth reading in its entirety
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-020-00143-w
"The Antarctic continent has not warmed in the last seven decades, despite a monotonic increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases."
Hopefully people wonāt just read the title and let it confirm their bias about global warming. The whole article is worth reading.
āOver the past several decades, the Arctic has warmed rapidly, a phenomenon linked to sea ice decline and associated radiative feedbacks. Indeed, the central Arctic has warmed by nearly 6āK over the last three decades.ā
Having this baby squirrel transported to Indiana later this week, where he will join a group of other blind and disabled animals at a rehab facility and preserve.
Zapped. Perhaps just because you used the word proletariat. So few realize the definition fits them.
Anyone who must labor every day and exchange their time for wages is a wage slave to the rent seeking capital commanders.
Caring for a paraplegic baby squirrel this week.
I am embarrassed by my own selfish concerns, considering the helplessness of other lives.
The belief that a life is more valuable if it contributes actively to the economy is a lie peddled by our masters. There is nothing natural about lifeās cooperation with a market. If a life can be content by living on its own, caring for its own needs, interacting with other creatures in an equitable way, then it should do that. No other species allows a select few members to drive their day to day lives.
āIts task once terminated, the proletariat has been bled, supposedly as a measure of hygiene. The bourgeoisie, reassured, strutted about in good humor, thanks to its wealth and the contagion of its stupidity. The result of its accession to power had been the destruction of all intelligence, the negation of all honesty, the death of all art, and, in fact, the debased artists had fallen on their knees, and they eagerly kissed the dirty feet of the eminent jobbers and low satraps whose alms permitted them to live.ā
Joris-Karl Huysmans. āA Reboursā
On the social implications of loose monetary policy, on the consolidation of wealth, and on the financialization of everything that makes us human.
When people first read a quotation, their first response is to evaluate whether or not it fits within their world view.
What their first response should be, is to evaluate the veracity of the quotation, and then ask whether their own understanding is in error
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Good looking women in real life who want to talk with me elicit a similar suspicionā¦
I hope I mean normies. I try not to assume to know the motivations of my peers, nor do I assume the infallibility of my own judgement
American symbols of power are the most undemocratic of symbols.
Presidents on aircraft carriers
Troops marching in order
Billion dollar airplanes
A White House with a big fence
TSA āsafetyā inspections
We worship symbols of American greatness that highlight the stratification of power and its leverage over othersā¦not the equality of man
Yes. Instead of fulfilling this burden of proof, the powerful elite have shifted their energies to establishing a collective myth that legitimizes their position of authority.
Nationalism, God-given authority over others, American Exceptionalism, the belief that US foreign policy and the spread of democracy exists for the benefit of mankindā¦the collective myth to which we all bow down has neutered us and prostrated us at the feet of Capital.
āThe core of anarchist tradition is that power is always illegitimate, until it proves itself to be legitimateā¦
ā¦It is the responsibility of those who exercise power to show that somehow itās legitimate. Itās not the responsibility of anyone else to show that itās illegitimate. Itās illegitimate by assumptionā¦
Harry Kreisler interview with Noam Chomsky
"...itās up to the artist to use language that can be understood. Most of these jokers donāt want to use language you and I can learn; they would rather sneer because we āfailā to see what they are driving at. If anything. Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence."
Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land.
If you are sending $850 to your family in Mexico, maybe high fees suck.
Or maybe Western Unionās 10% sucks. Maybe you donāt want your family extorted when they leave the Western Union in their home town. Maybe itās worse to wait three days and pay 35% for your bank to push the transaction through. Maybe youāre āillegalā and cannot have a bank account.
Bitcoin is better, faster, and cheaper, even with shitcoinery on board.
The only way I could see increased fees as a DoS attack would be if it causes us to engage the conversation about increasing block size againā¦and the associated weakening of the node network.
I donāt zap notes that make me feel good. I zap notes that advocate for basic human rights, access to opportunity and social services, and agendas that do not prioritize profit and growth over a tolerant, content, and provided-for society.
š Exchanges are antiquated remnants of the traditional financial system.