I’m a middle aged guy, who, a few years ago, was off handedly told by a dental hygienist while getting my teeth cleaned, that I was tongue tied. I’ve had a flap of skin under my tongue which holds it down, it isn’t severe, but it does restrict my tongues mobility. For instance, I can’t really stick my tongue out very far...
Oof. Mine wrote me in a letter that she wasn’t my mother anymore. Later pretended she never meant it. 20 years pass. Then she writes me a message saying I ruined my kid’s life. I cut contact then. I still miss the friendly mom she sometimes was.
Writing this kind of mean stuff, having the chance to re-read it, and then sending it anyway to ones own child is what gets me. Ugly things said in the heat of a discussion are not great, but to have the chance to sleep over it, think it through, and still going forward. Another level of mean.
I have come to terms with the fact that some people are too damaged to be dealt with. Their perspective and handling of life and mine just diverge too much, and any effort spent trying to align these perspectives is bound to cause more hurt.
I think about contacting her so often. Once I got a birthday message from her sister, who she lives with. I mentioned the hurt and why I was not talking to my mother, and got back more of the same emotional abuse. Both aunt and mom are lost, out there with their anger and bitterness, and it’s not my job to retrieve them, as much as I would like to.
The fact she turned into a literal nazi in just a few decades (thank you facebook) doesn’t help the situation.
Not really that hard? You also don’t have to grow 100% of your own food. It’s fun, you save the gym fees, and the powerful have less power over you. Plus we eat like kings even in times of crisis. No need to romanticise, it’s actually a really neat thing to do.
‘Tech Billionaires give all wealth away to end world hunger.’ ‘Tech Billionaires lobby for wealth tax with national governments.’ ‘Tech Billionaires realize they are normal people like anyone else, not super smart world-saving geniuses, and finally shut the fuck up.’
That is most beautiful and recommended. In most areas however, newly planted trees need care in the first years. A lot of the new trees planted after the forest fires here in Southern Europe have died, because all the money and work power was there for the very visible replanting, but nobody ever really thought about the less visible ongoing care of the small trees.
A few years ago I looked into water harvesting with slow release to maybe improve the survival rate of plant-and-forget, but it is not easy in places where you have not lots of rainfall.
I guess the problem didn’t exist in the above-mentioned case because he planted along a waterline. I imagine plant-and-abandon can be done like this, and then the planted areas could be extended gradually further away from the water line, to plant more trees in the shade and protection of the initial plantation once these start to thrive.
Some conversation that might have happened or not many years ago: -“Trees call rain, don’t cut them” -“Shut up stupid savage we need these trees to make progress”
Not sure it’s entirely as easy as the article (which reads a lot like PR) makes it sound. See the sections under sustainability and environmental effects in the article about Geothermal Energy on Wikipedia.
Safer for everyone involved and also gentler for the land.
Big machines invite you to work against the landscape. And ultimately fighting a war against the landscape. Instead: you must respect where the water wants to flow, where the soil wants to sit, where trees want to grow, to a point. You can nudge the landscape along with little, small, consistent, manual effort, the help of different animals.
If you don’t have piles of stuff so large you can suffocate it’s also safer. So: turn huge mega-farms back into human sized pieces of land, farmed by people not monster-machines.
You don’t really lose efficiency, because the supposed additional efficiency of mechanized agriculture is due to the input of artificially cheap fossil fuel, and subsidies favouring these kinds of systems over traditional methods. This kind of shitty agriculture ruins the soil, kills all life, needs to be turned back into something more diverse again.
Around animals, you need to be slow and take things easy - not what you get in a highly-industrialized, high-profit, high-pressure environment, so injuries will happen in these environments. You have to think, predict what the animal will do, and most importantly give the animal a decent treatment, ample space, as much freedom as possible, company of its own kind…
Permaculture and modern regenerative methods build on the setup of the traditional small scale farm, which is similar in many places of the world. Their defining feature is biodiversity. The problem is, it’s very hard to compare productivity alone, because you would be comparing something like tons of wheat per hectare with an amount of a range of different products. And for this comparison to be honest, you would have to take into account the sustainability of each approach and the actual energy input.
Edit (hit the send key too soon): An example could be corn. Growing it alone might yield you x ton/ha. Growing it in combination of corn/squash/beans (technique adapted from Native American horticulture) might yield less ton/ha total in produce, but you will spend less pesticide, herbicide, fertilizer and/or mechanical work and your soil might remain healthier in the long term.
Spain’s much-maligned system for evaluating scientists, in which the sole criterion for career advancement is the publication of papers, is set to be overhauled under new proposals from the country’s National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (ANECA)....
OK so I came up with a slightly crazy idea. Do you know how cars are emblazoned with logos and emblems? Like the brand name (Toyota), the car name (Kluger), engine and other doodads (V6 etc etc). What if we made like jokey versions of these to replace on our cars? Like make a Toyota logo but it looks a bit more like a penis....
Shit I wasn’t even going to spoof a car logo, just make a tiny wheat paste sticker with a penis drawing and the words “small utility vehicle” - but your idea is beautiful as well.
I got slightly taken off track when I was too lazy to draw the tiny penis myself and typed “tiny penis” into my search bar.
If anyone would like an A4 sheet of tiny penises to print and glue on SUVs, let me know I’ll finish it. Shaming these motherfucking SUV-owners out of existence maybe works.
I really felt like that at first, but also I think that using the language of the oppressor to join native forces and maintain and spread traditional knowledge is pretty cool. There is something positive growing out of the horrors of the past, I hope, some new understanding.
Oh see you have been down the language rabbit hole, very neat!
people just getting tired of English’s dominance and a willingness to start giving indigenous voices a chance
I would really hope that, but I’m afraid the dominance of English is here to stay for a while. Just like Latin after the Roman empire collapsed - a quarter of Europe practically still speaks some dialect of Latin. I guess that’s also why interlang languages don’t really seem to take off ever. Language is a tool one has to use every day - no time to handle the learning curve of a whole new tool, no matter how fancy and world-changing it is.
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wtf :D Guess I’m back into the rabbit hole. Language is a never ending source of fascination!
I am currently trying to translate documentation where UI entries are supposed to be “Target language” (Source language). AI just can’t handle the apostrophes and brackets, plus it keeps confusing the order of the languages. And that’s what I end up fixing, feeling a lot like a robot at the end of the day.
I’m aware of that. I’m not trying to say that having been oppressed had advantages for indigenous people, maybe rather that using the language of the oppressor to preserve knowledge means making the best out of a bad situation, and opens the knowledge for the world, which is an important and valuable contribution to common human knowledge.
At same time I immensely appreciate the diversity of thoughts that can arise out of a diversity of languages. By no means do I think we should impose a world language and make all other languages disappear. More of everybody being bilingual or multilingual by default, and an artificial language being one language used to communicate among larger groups of people, like English is now, but involving a larger group of people (and yeah, not being colonialiser-based would be great, maybe a completely new language would truly be better).
Being able to share a common language gives people power - we can share and relate to experiences from people all over the world, we can organize as human species.
Now imagine a room with an infinite number of computer chimps, at least one of them is going to make the machine work again. Another one is going to write the works of Shakespeare in soldering tin all over the motherboard, etc.
Money wins, every time. They’re not concerned with accidentally destroying humanity with an out-of-control and dangerous AI who has decided “humans are the problem.” (I mean, that’s a little sci-fi anyway, an AGI couldn’t “infect” the entire internet as it currently exists.)...
I absolutely love all things mushrooms, particularly exploring all the edible varieties I can find and trying them! Thing is, I live in the city and am the only one in my house who eats mushrooms (no one else likes having them in the house, let alone on a plate!) so I was wondering if anyone had any advice for 1) where to find a...
Weird title, I know. But I’ve recently found out that I’m pregnant with my first child. It’s an equal mix of anxiety, excitement, and anger at just how consumeristic having a goddamn baby is. So I’m curious how my fellow Solarpunks would handle the introduction of a new small mammal into their world....
Congrats on becoming a parent! I remember the Amazon thing. I’m German living abroad and sending stuff over Amazon was the standard for my family when my little one was little. I only stopped using them after it became clear how awful they are.
As for people sending stuff, I’d say the way to handle it depends. Not sure if there’s some people barely internet literate who wouldn’t really know how to navigate another site? And they just want to express their awe of a new earthling in the family? I would just let them proceed, say thank you, and if whatever arrives is all too horrible someone else might appreciate it as a gift. I’ve recently realized how internet literacy really is a thing with older folks and they find it very hard to learn to do new stuff online.
Those in your family who are more likely to understand, capable of using different sites, and those who you will have contact with often, probably more worth educating your preferences.
Yes for having a parent group. I’m now a confused parent of a grown up (?? no not really, just legally) child (so fast, he was a baby yesterday I swear).
Are people who build bombs even aware that they build bombs? They probably just write code for more precise aiming, or develop a coating to reduce air drag. Maybe they feed a person who builds bombs. Worse, since bombs are always sent to help others fight their enemies elsewhere, we never even witness in our very presence what the bombs do. It’s always just some foreigners fighting each other - not us white, civilized, developed middle class people. A lot of us are still coming to terms with what absolute abyss the smiles of these law-abiding lawn-mowing mild folks hide - and it’s very hard because these are the smiles we still call friendly, this used to be our families, our culture, our tribe and bit by bit it becomes clear that its actually a death cult.
We built pig shelters from pallets, and I’m almost finished knitting a plant-dyed pullover from local wool, just in time for winter. Other than that the rain has been putting me off doing much. I wanted to mount the ram pump back in the stream to try out a new approach for feeding it but there’s water everywhere 😅 Maybe I should buy proper waders if I want to play in the stream in winter.
because the alternatives are just so dang labor-intensive
Not really, but our math is skewed. Fossil-fuel based activities are less labor-intensive but much more energy-intensive. Our belief that we cannot survive without monoculture is because we compare labor apples with energy oranges.
Drones are one of the more useless gadgets to have been inflicted upon agriculture. I remember being, very briefly, part of a university project that had gotten a grant for a drone agricultural project. They ended up building a robot because the drone ended up being useless for the needed solution, but they still had to add a drone because the money was for an ‘agricultural drone project’.
Drones can help in large monocultures to detect pest attacks and nutrient deficiencies. But a farmer can also detect these by walking the field and looking at the plants, and he can get so much more info like that! Problem is if he manages more hectars than he can comfortably walk.
Now, how many of the people currently working in bullshit jobs dream of having time and space to grow a garden? There’s probably quite a few.
I used to be super afraid of the hard labor of food production before I finally took up gardening on a more consistent scale. My feeble attempts now produce food all year long. There’s always something green or tasty or sweet or healthy inmidst the 7x15m green mess. Thing is, with a diverse garden (not a monoculture) any 80yo village granny around here who has learned the skill produces ludicrous amounts of food on land the size of a towel. It takes skill, and doing it right, and then it’s decidedly not hard and becomes something you do in your spare time.
Just don’t grow things on an industrial scale, because that is very destructive. Small and local. How was it grown traditionally, before fossil fuels flattened the land? On smaller patches. I’d probably compare it to how corn is grown here in the mountains in Southern Europe: small fields, 50x50m max. That lends itself to these fields being separated by hedges where important partner plants and medicinal plants for your fields and meadows grow, and where wildlife finds a spot to hide. This kind of small scale gardening and agriculture still works in many parts of the world and still produces more than 50% of the food (I might be wrong on that but I remember reading it somewhere).
You are on to something here I think. Any larger activity envolving humans need to be organized in some way, and I have always liked the idea of a temporary and/or skill-based leadership - where a project is organized by someone who understands the single steps to desired outcome best. Adding to that using organization structures where they are of good use is a similar approach.
Some of y’all might have heard or read years ago that the municipality of Cherán which was of interest to anarchists and libertarian socialists for starting a localized insurrection, kicking out the government and cartels, and instituting their own form of indigenous government. Well, they’re still at it. Now they’re...
Excellent and interesting article. It reminds me of where I live. They’ve just torn up another hillside for almonds (superfood, yay) around here, those will need watering, and where nothing else grows they are encouraged by the paper industry to plant non-native eucalyptus. Same idea as in so many places: some quick money crop ruins local landscapes and water supply.
Unfortunately we have not enough people here (yet) who understand that (the right) trees do indeed bring rain, and that turning landscapes into monocultures comes at a high cost. Whereas it’s not a problem to have a lemon tree, an avocado tree, a pine tree, some oaks, some eucapytus, some shrubs… all mixed up in a landscape planted where it makes sense, and they’ll add value to the place. Monoculture is greed, but it’s also normalized for so many people who do not know better anymore - there’s years of ag industry brainwashing to fight.
So I have noticed from reading through posts and my own research that there isn’t much information on how mental health and psychology would be taken care of and implemented. I could very well be wrong and would appreciate anyone’s pointing me to an initial resource in order to understand more. And if it hasn’t been...
Right now we have a top-to-down mental health system. You visit a professional, receive a diagnosis from them, and then have access to medication. This situation often arises when a person cannot function in their work environment, or when stress in the work environment or stress due to financial pressure causes the person to have mental health episodes at home. I do believe that a lot of disorders aren’t really disorders to start with, but that people become disordered as an expression of trauma caused to them because they present differently from the majority or don’t fit into the behavioural confinements of their community.
In a solarpunk future we would hopefully not expect people to work eight hours a day, and commute two hours, and have two partners do this just so they can afford food and shelter. We would not bully people or discriminate them, or deprive them of basic resources and force them to somehow cope. Kids would grow up in an environment where their natural needs are respected, they would not be locked up in a classroom all day, their parents wouldn’t be stressed out of their minds all day. Access to health care would take care of non-capitalism-derived problems early, before they fester into full disorders.
There will still be cases of people who cannot fully take care of themselves or even are a danger to others, and as of now I don’t know? I guess each community will have to come up with a solution that works for them - it’s very much a case-to-case thing and not something that can or should be decided from above.
Also, teaching kids is not a dull or hard job that has to be automatized away. A lot of people actually love doing it so much that they even put up with the horrible limitations and shortcomings of the current education system. Just make sure they are adequately equipped and rewarded and I’m sure we need no AI. Just a really good library system.
Middle-aged and some what tongue tied (medical condition) anyone else in this situation, and go through with the procedure?
I’m a middle aged guy, who, a few years ago, was off handedly told by a dental hygienist while getting my teeth cleaned, that I was tongue tied. I’ve had a flap of skin under my tongue which holds it down, it isn’t severe, but it does restrict my tongues mobility. For instance, I can’t really stick my tongue out very far...
Not many people admit to being offended by something that someone said. When was a time you actually felt hurt and/or insulted by someone?
EU Budget - Which Countries are EU Contributors and Beneficiaries? (jemmy.jeena.net)
source: statista.com/…/net-contributors-to-eu-budget/
Figured you guys would like this (lemmy.wtf)
Most readers want publishers to label AI-generated articles — but trust outlets less when they do (www.niemanlab.org)
Tech Billionaires Launch Fund to Create New Libertarian Societies (www.vice.com)
More efforts from tech bros to build Rapture....
Planting a small forest in 24 hours (1440 trees) | Beau Miles (vid.puffyan.us)
A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations (www.wired.com)
What's the biggest "Green Flag" that could be misinterpreted as a "Red Flag"?
How to Make Biofuel at Home (www.motherearthnews.com)
5 Myths About Degrowth Debunked (youtu.be)
The huge potential of geothermal energy to meet the climate and energy crises has always been outweighed by its problems. With Eavor, John Redfern believes he’s found the solution. (www.insidehook.com)
Making Farming Safer with Less Technology?
Farming is apparently one of the most dangerous professions....
Which one will you choose? (lemmy.basedcount.com)
Spain wants to change how it evaluates scientists—and end the ‘dictatorship of papers’ (www.science.org)
Spain’s much-maligned system for evaluating scientists, in which the sole criterion for career advancement is the publication of papers, is set to be overhauled under new proposals from the country’s National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (ANECA)....
Idea for disrespecting cars
OK so I came up with a slightly crazy idea. Do you know how cars are emblazoned with logos and emblems? Like the brand name (Toyota), the car name (Kluger), engine and other doodads (V6 etc etc). What if we made like jokey versions of these to replace on our cars? Like make a Toyota logo but it looks a bit more like a penis....
Speakers of non-English languages, what common mistakes do native speakers make that drive you crazy?
For example, English speakers commonly mix up your/you’re or there/their/they’re. I’m curious about similar mistakes in other languages.
the languages of solarpunk
A few times I’ve come upon the power of a common language in the last few days....
cmoputer chimp (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Is it just me, or has the BS with OpenAI shown that nobody in the AI space actually cares about "safeguarding AGI?"
Money wins, every time. They’re not concerned with accidentally destroying humanity with an out-of-control and dangerous AI who has decided “humans are the problem.” (I mean, that’s a little sci-fi anyway, an AGI couldn’t “infect” the entire internet as it currently exists.)...
Mushroom Recipes for 1?
I absolutely love all things mushrooms, particularly exploring all the edible varieties I can find and trying them! Thing is, I live in the city and am the only one in my house who eats mushrooms (no one else likes having them in the house, let alone on a plate!) so I was wondering if anyone had any advice for 1) where to find a...
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How do you have a baby The Solarpunk Way? AKA, without using Amazon?
Weird title, I know. But I’ve recently found out that I’m pregnant with my first child. It’s an equal mix of anxiety, excitement, and anger at just how consumeristic having a goddamn baby is. So I’m curious how my fellow Solarpunks would handle the introduction of a new small mammal into their world....
These people are annoying as hell (lemmy.basedcount.com)
A Statement on Technology in War or: Why No One Should Stop Worrying or Love the Bomb (theluddite.org)
weekly - er, monthly? - What's Up?
'sup, comrades? i meant to do this thread weekly, but oops! forgot for a month. oh well - what do you have going on, what are you working on?
Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Hemp farming meme (slrpnk.net)
What solarpunkers think about money?
Capitalism is obviously destroyed but I read very little on “money”.
Forbidden Fruit — some updates on the indigenous revolutionary project in Cherán, Michoacán, Mexico (harpers.org)
Some of y’all might have heard or read years ago that the municipality of Cherán which was of interest to anarchists and libertarian socialists for starting a localized insurrection, kicking out the government and cartels, and instituting their own form of indigenous government. Well, they’re still at it. Now they’re...
Mental Health In the Solarpunk community?
So I have noticed from reading through posts and my own research that there isn’t much information on how mental health and psychology would be taken care of and implemented. I could very well be wrong and would appreciate anyone’s pointing me to an initial resource in order to understand more. And if it hasn’t been...
Mushroom Color Atlas (www.mushroomcoloratlas.com)
This is a beautiful page with the results of an enormous experimentation effort in mushroom dyeing
Elon Musk is considering taking Twitter out of Europe amid EU compliance investigation (www.businessinsider.com)
Amethyst deceiver (UK) (lemmy.world)