iridaniotter [she/her]

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https://www.thedrive.com/news/overweight-ford-f-750-plunges-through-historic-wooden-bridge-in-maine

Based on the images, the bridge gave way almost immediately under the weight of the truck. The driver suffered minor injuries but was able to exit the vehicle on his own. Luckily, no one else was hurt, considering the area is popular with swimmers and kayakers.

Wow

Miso is way too salty to consume any appreciable amount of protein from it, no?

car kills scooter users

we should ban the scooters

Queer Marxism would be radical & dialectical materialist feminisms updated to the 21st century. So maybe look at transfeminist writers but I don’t have any recs yet unfortunately. I’d say a queer Marxism would be an update on the old scientific socialist analysis on the origin, evolution, and abolition of the family as well as an updated class analysis of the patriarchy that keeps trans people and lesbians in mind. I’ve seen some informal writing on this but don’t know anything long form yet. The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto does some of this. It’s a dialectical materialist analysis but written by anarchists interestingly enough.

He probably wants to see Funko Pop production expand by 2% per year so our ancestors can all own a McMansion with 30,000 of them inside.

I HATE LEIGH PHILLIPS!! He is a right winger! He is a neoclassical economist pretending to be a social democrat pretending to be a socialist! HE ACTUALLY THINKS THERE ARE NO LIMITS TO GROWTH! Absurd! Completely absurd! If we continue to grow our energy use by 2% per year, the oceans will boil from just the waste heat produced in a few hundred years! Just because Malthus was wrong and a piece of shit doesn’t mean there are absolutely zero natural limits on humanity! And if this dude is a right winger - which he is - why the fuck should I presume his interpretation of Marx is correct? I will read Saito’s book eventually and see for myself. But I cannot trust Phillips to be engaging with Saito OR Marx in good faith. This is the guy who got so mad about communists telling him why bananas were cheap that he wrote an article defending private jets (???), not once considering that we should get rid of capitalists (???Marxist???), that EVERYONE should have a private jet (???), and then realized his argument was so bad that actually everyone should have a private jet because hospitals need access to them??? Wow what an incredible mind you have, Leigh Phillips. You are so right! Just like how everyone needs a car so that hospitals have access to them to bring emergency patients in! Except not you IDIOT! THAT’S CALLED A FUCKING AMBULANCE AND EVERYONE HAVING A CAR MEANS MORE TRAFFIC, SLOWER AMBULANCES, AND MORE DEATHS. I HATE LEIGH PHILLIPS!!!

Why would socialist reindustrialization necessitate the exploitation of the global south? You can just cut back on the egregious stuff (ooh spooky degrowth…), substitute with the next best thing (transit electrification instead of car electrification for example), develop more sustainable technology that completely replaces the previous unsustainable one (sodium batteries instead of lithium), or at worst work out a mutually beneficial deal with a foreign country (like the GDR and Vietnam with coffee).

Degrowth is essentially a strategy of cutting back on energy inputs in order to prevent catastrophic climate change. It simply described a possible pathway to stay below 1.5°C of warming. I use the past tense because we already passed that threshold unfortunately. What you’re calling degrowth is instead that catastrophic climate change will destroy the material basis for our current modern civilization, thus reducing energy inputs (and presumably ending further anthropogenic warming).

So, I think these are quite different. Strategy to avoid apocalypse vs result of apocalypse

We are fucked. Green goo happened two billion years ago and now we must have sex to reproduce. Fuck!

We did, it was just one month long

Why Turns Are EVERYTHING - The Salamence Theorem

Why Teammates Are EVERYTHING - The Tyranitar Theorem

Why The Format is Everything - The Incineroar Theorem

Why Speed…Might Be Everything - The Deoxys Theorem

Why Priority is Close to Everything - The Scizor Theorem

Why Typing is Close to Everything - The Volcarona Theorem

Why Movepools are Close to Everything - The Flareon Theorem

Why Abilities Are Close to Everything - The Regigigas Theorem

Why Items Are Close to Everything - The Giratina Theorem

Why Accuracy is Close to Everything - The Heatran Theorem

Why Field Conditions Are Close to Everything - The Kabutops Theorem

The Pokétuber scientists are NOT sending their best

Old poster but I’m not sure the exact year

I wish the courts feel the same way

Sorry can’t hear you too busy downloading communism

Facilitating Piracy no matter how you put it is wrong and illegal, it is wrong and illegal to support people who do it.

Remember Netizen, when you’re pirating Disney, you’re downloading communism!