Pencilnoob

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I think you need to look into how rare earth minerals are mined. Or how slavery works. Humans treat humans as bad as any animal if they can make a profit.

Consider that humans sometimes bully other humans to death simply for the power trip. That is some pretty horrific physiological torture.

We're not that far from accepted child labor. Chimney sweeps. Heck there's a chance clothes we've worn this week were sewn by children in a sweatshop. Or the phone or computer metals were mined with child slave labor.

This is why veganism is hard for me, it's absolutely not possible to live a cruelty free life unless you're living on your own land with your own spun clothes and never consuming medication (all tested on lab mice).

Drawing the "perfect line" at eating only plant based food is fine, but it's a far cry from a cruelty free life. Folks get very serious optimizing on one dimension of cruelty (foods not being animal products) but then completely ignore everything else. And then bully others who do not do the same.

I'd rather see a universe like the OP, better to celebrate every step folks do take in the right direction, not tell them it's not enough. Everyone should be celebrated for:

making clothes last longer
buying used clothes
keeping the same vehicle longer
choosing vegan dishes when they can
delaying PC and phone upgrades, buying used when they do
taking the bus over driving, walking instead of taking the bus
standing up to bullies
growing food at home

Pencilnoob @lemmy.world 1mo ago

At my volunteer station, we all just go to work like normal and respond if there's a call.

We do have some part time staff who remain at the station for EMS calls. When there's down time they are:

cleaning the station
filling out charts from earlier calls
checking all the apparatus equipment
training skills
homework from advanced classes (paramedic, rescue technician, officer, etc)
napping to catch up on sleep from calls in the middle of the night
doing station laundry

It's enough to keep them lightly busy but not enough to be strenuous, as they typically do 12-24 hour shifts. Being "at work" for 24 hours is pretty rough, so I don't begrudge them a mid-day nap.

Pencilnoob @lemmy.world 1mo ago

smh Bazzite doesn't even get on the list

Pencilnoob @lemmy.world 1mo ago

And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific boomerang effect: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers standing around the racks invent, refine, discuss. People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: "How strange! But never mind—it's Nazism, it will pass!"

And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.

— Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950)

yikes

Pencilnoob @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Bravo, this one surprised me

Pencilnoob @lemmy.world 1mo ago

I switched to Bazzite and I'm really liking it.

I have had a few issues with old SDR software that didn't work.

All in all, I'm very happy with the change and have absolutely no plan to return.

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Pencilnoob @lemmy.world 1mo ago

I'm not loving how childish the students act. Most are sulking and barely seem to want to be there. They act like sullen middle schoolers and not the 21yo best of the best competing. The tonal shifts are jarring, from the main character being bratty and whining and then there's explosions and violence.

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Pencilnoob @lemmy.world 1mo ago

I believe you mean dump into drinking watersheds

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Pencilnoob @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I'm so grumpy, I bought three 8bitdo Ultimate controllers and only one keeps a stable connection even using it's USB dongle on the steamdock. smh. I then tried a different PC with Bazzite, same deal. Like wtf why won't they work

I hope to buy a new steam controller but I'll return it the same day if that shit doesn't connect

I highly recommend if you're going to get the 8bitdo ultimate try getting one and just return the ones that don't work.

Pencilnoob @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I want to leave a place of powerful healing both physical and emotional. Plants grow with vigor from the immense vitality. Babies are always conceived on the first try. Standing on the ground you can faintly hear soothing affirmations and a subtle warmth like a loving hug. A place where the stars shine a little brighter, the air smells wild and clean, and the soil is rich and dark.

Pencilnoob @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Just look for a job and make sure you've got a visa. Third world countries have a lot more "informal economy" that isn't taxed or handled with paperwork so it's possible sometimes to just find a job without paperwork or anything, but that won't help you get a permanent visa.

Ideally, you get a visa that allows work, show you're working, and then the visa gets upgraded to a permanent resident visa. This varies a lot from country to country. If you've got a job, some countries are pretty happy to have you adding to their local economy and will extend you a visa. If you've got a remote job that might go even faster.

Alternatively if you're not skilled in any way, you apply to a super cheap college and apply for a student visa, that'll buy you a few years while you're getting skilled in something that country needs. Studying to become a doctor, lawyer, or STEM goes a long way. One of these probably is in demand there, figure out which one and take a crack at it. Hard, for sure, but a pretty solid way to build something long term. Of course if you don't know the language that will be harder, but colleges generally have language classes too, so that could be the first classes you take.

There's also teaching English, it's generally not too hard to find work as a tutor or English teacher, I saw the other day like there's only one English teacher for every 500 open positions. So that's a possibility too.

Just generally try to participate in their economy. Try to make local friends and assimilate. Think about what first generation immigrants do: find a steady job or bust ass studying tech or medicine.

Pencilnoob @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Here here, I've eaten better after going veg than ever before, and I was a damn good cook as carnivore. I can still pull off some of the best braised short rib or 24 hour smoked brisket, but my veg ramen is so much better and I feel better after eating it.

Pencilnoob @lemmy.world 2mo ago

But sometimes the tides come in and leave fun treasures and mollusks

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Pencilnoob @lemmy.world 2mo ago

The generation that is most aware of climate change and social justice, that wants a more free and equitable society for all? The generation that's had to watch the decline of Western powers through unrelated capitalism? That generation lacks foresight?

Truly one of the takes of all time

Also generational strife is horseshit propaganda to keep us distracted from the class war so maybe keep the pro-billionaire propaganda to yourself

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Pencilnoob @lemmy.world 3mo ago

I honestly cannot tell if this is satire or real, my friends are weird enough to do this

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Pencilnoob @lemmy.world 3mo ago

wow a Unison comment on the wild! What kind of stuff have you done with it?