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  • Just to clarify, I did not post this as an allegory for the election loss, we don’t need any myths to soothe our conscience. It just popped up in my subscriptions and thought it was interesting enough to post.

    If anything, I think its conclusion about feelings and beliefs ultimately trumping objective truth is quite applicable to MAGA.


  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPtoVideos@lemmy.worldFirefly and the Lost Cause
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    Maybe I misinterpreted what Feral was getting at, but at least from my reading of it, he’s saying the myth was ‘half-true’ in the sense that that propaganda was effectively sold to the lowly enlisted/conscripted men to give them self-justification to fight. Whereas the truth was indeed that the whole thing was just for slavery. The myth then became even more useful after defeat to help them accept it ‘honorably’. His conclusion about what people believe and feel ultimately having a larger impact than the actual truth seems to confirm that reading, but I could be wrong.


  • I’m in favor of your idea, both for the reasons you stated, and for an additional one.

    Due to some instances defederating from each other, the choice of instance for a community becomes more important if its to become a one stop shop for everyone. As an example, Beehaw, which is quite an active community, cannot access any .world communities, making .world a poor choice just on grounds of overall reach alone.

    !electricvehicles@slrpnk.net as the core community is a good choice, as it is only defederated from a small handful of extreme instances, so its reach should be pretty decent.

    I have been considering moving mealtimevideos and documentaries away from .world for similar reasons, as it sucks that all of the content I post there isn’t available to beehaw users.








  • First and foremost: at this juncture, I would implore everyone to keep OPSEC firmly in mind, and to take preemptive precautions.

    Use a phone with Graphene OS, and use encrypted communication (preferably XMPP, but Signal at the very least. No technology is best)

    with that said,

    Mutual aid will be more important than ever, join and build up your local groups if you’re able, it will pay off in dividends in the coming years.

    • Search your local area + ‘mutual aid’.
    • Help your local food not bombs.
    • Create a worker owned cooperative with your friends if possible, or join an existing one.
    • Help spread the meshtastic network to build up communication resilience in your community.
    • Plant trees in your community to help reduce the heat island effect for the coming heatwaves.
    • Create or join a community garden near you to bolster food availability and foster connections with those around you.
    • engage in guerrilla urbanism, make your community safer to walk or bike
    • encourage your coworkers to unionize under the IWW, contact them for help on how to unionize your workplace.
    • vote in your local elections to try and have a state or city government that is less hostile to the above actions, but continue to build decentralized power independently of them regardless. Do not make the mistake of handing off the responsibility to make things better to them, it’s up to YOU, and your community, and hopefully other nearby communities doing the same, but that is all.
    • consider having the means to defend yourself and the skills needed to do so effectively. But do not neglect medical equipment or its use either.

    We have tremendous collective power if we just use it, and hopefully this outcome will result in us coming together and building that world in the shell of the old. Collective solidarity is our only solution left.



  • Mutual aid will be more important than ever, join and build up your local groups if you’re able, it will pay off in dividends in the coming years.

    This election has only proven how electoralism cannot be relied upon, it’s just us now. We need to build the world we want to live in, without corporate influence.

    • Search your local area + ‘mutual aid’.
    • Help your local food not bombs.
    • Create a worker owned cooperative with your friends if possible, or join an existing one.
    • Help spread the meshtastic network to build up communication resilience in your community.
    • Plant trees in your community to help reduce the heat island effect for the coming heatwaves.
    • Create or join a community garden near you to bolster food availability and foster connections with those around you.
    • engage in guerrilla urbanism, make your community safer to walk or bike
    • encourage your coworkers to unionize under the IWW, contact them for help on how to unionize your workplace.
    • vote in your local elections to try and have a state or city government that is less hostile to the above actions, but continue to build decentralized power independently of them regardless. Do not make the mistake of handing off the responsibility to make things better to them, it’s up to YOU, and your community, and hopefully other nearby communities doing the same, but that is all.

    We have tremendous collective power if we just use it, and hopefully this outcome will result in us coming together and building that world in the shell of the old. Collective solidarity is our only solution left.



  • Mutual aid will be more important than ever, join and build up your local groups if you’re able, it will pay off in dividends in the coming years.

    This election has only proven how electoralism cannot be relied upon, it’s just us now. We need to build the world we want to live in, without corporate influence.

    • Search your local area + ‘mutual aid’.
    • Help your local food not bombs.
    • Create a worker owned cooperative with your friends if possible, or join an existing one.
    • Help spread the meshtastic network to build up communication resilience in your community.
    • Plant trees in your community to help reduce the heat island effect for the coming heatwaves.
    • Create or join a community garden near you to bolster food availability and foster connections with those around you.
    • engage in guerrilla urbanism, make your community safer to walk or bike
    • encourage your coworkers to unionize under the IWW, contact them for help on how to unionize your workplace.
    • vote in your local elections to try and have a state or city government that is less hostile to the above actions, but continue to build decentralized power independently of them regardless. Do not make the mistake of handing off the responsibility to make things better to them, it’s up to YOU, and your community, and hopefully other nearby communities doing the same, but that is all.

    We have tremendous collective power if we just use it, and hopefully this outcome will result in us coming together and building that world in the shell of the old. Collective solidarity is our only solution left.



  • Alan Carr’s stop smoking book is highly regarded, and encourages you to smoke as you read along, until by the end you won’t want to.

    Combine that with a NAC supplement (which doesn’t do anything for withdrawals, but studies show it makes trying smoking again far more unpleasant for your brain which helps you stay off them.


  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.nettoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    When I was a kid, I played a lot of Runescape. I loved that the quests were all unique and had their own, sometimes genuinely well written and engaging stories, with point’n’click style puzzles, reminiscent of Sierra games. It was the most fun I’ve ever had in an mmo.

    But my god is there a lot of repetitive grinding. I tried to get back into it a few years ago, but my patience for killing the same mob for 3 hours straight, or cutting and burning trees like a giant line of cocaine, simply isn’t there anymore.

    I wish I could play a version of it without the grind, and just the quests.



  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPtoScience Memes@mander.xyzTemporary Carbon Storage 🙃
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    You might want to take a look at the About page, and their Disclaimer at the bottom:

    Notice and disclaimer from the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art:

    This digital commission is an artwork which has been supported by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) to link from this website, but remains the property and ultimate responsibility of the commissioned artists.

    ACCA acknowledges the value of direct action and political activism. We note that this project is a speculative artwork and provocative intervention into the carbon offset economy. As an organisation, we do not promote illegal activities. ACCA does not make any guarantees, representations or warranties in respect to this artwork, including in relation to quality, operability or data security and has no responsibility or liability for any loss, damage, cost or expense you might incur if you interact with this project, including arising from any data breach, virus or other contamination.

    That it looks like a real paper is part of the joke, it’s pointing out the absurdity of companies trying to continue to emit carbon as long as they can use carbon credits, which doesn’t address the root problem. The joke of the paper is essentially; what if a researcher who was paid by a mega corp to find a ‘solution’ (which the corp would want to be greenwashing), actually naively proposed a genuine solution using corporate friendly concepts and language.


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    I think you might be reading a bit too much into the joke, which is the idea of a scientific paper on giving carbon credits to people conducting actual industrial sabotage, a hilarious concept in itself.

    But taking it more seriously, I suppose the argument could be made that delaying large amounts of carbon from being released means reducing X amount of time that carbon in the atmosphere has to contribute to warming and potential feedback cycles. Producing something in a different factory may take time, and while the same amount would potentially be emitted at the new factory, delaying it may not be entirely useless (at least, in my uneducated intuition!).

    There are too many variables to know with absolute certainty if a particular sabotage action is overall carbon positive or negative based on how much extra carbon would be emitted to fix the sabotage (depends on the type of sabotage). But if the sabotage results in that production not occurring at all due to making the whole ordeal more costly, it would likely be overall a positive carbon action.