We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are. ⚔️ pic.twitter.com/dpVCls3zMS
— Caitlin Dechelle (@caitlindechelle) July 24, 2019
Well, as awesome as it is if I tried that shit I’d become dead.
Day: January 10, 2020, 4:08 PM
Vulture
Wow. The milk industry “collapse” is a Toys R Us case. Private equity buys a profitable business, kills everyone’s jobs, liquidates it and pays themselves millions. Blames “changing times”. The only way changing times caused this is by giving free rein to pure vampire capitalism https://t.co/yF6BmUygZz
— Butt Praxis (@buttpraxis) January 9, 2020
Vulture capitalism gradually eroding all American businesses. The looting has barely started. It’ll get worse.
The Price
When I graduated high school way back in the mists of time in 1994, the price of entry to a middle class life was $30,000 or so. That’d pay for cheap room and board, four years of college at a state school, and provide a little spending money. Now, that cost of entry is closer to $100,000, and far more in many areas. That’s in constant dollars, by the way.
It’s no mystery why millennials and Gen Z are struggling. The vig for having an ok life has gone way, way up.
Don’t Be Crewed
Are there any examples in western history of Luddites scoring a major, durable victory?
— John Sanilac (@JohnSanilac) January 9, 2020
Effective end of crewed space exploration, and any attempt to expand out into space, even as a viable research program? The Luddites fully and completely won that one.
If It’s wrong
Fat phobia a.k.a. counting calories and working out to stay skinny.
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) January 10, 2020
That is becoming the new definition of “fat phobia,” isn’t it? But I am not fat phobic. I just don’t want to be obese and weak. If that’s wrong, I have absolutely no interesting in being right. Sign me right up for that “fat phobia,” then.
GR
Australian firehawks carry sticks already burning from a wildfire & drop them in another area, which sets a new fire; as small mammals & insects race to escape the flames & smoke, they become easy pickings for the raptors. pic.twitter.com/BQnzmVebsH
— Nature Is Weird (@NaturelsWeird) October 23, 2019
Gangsta raptors.
Wrest Of Us
It feels odd to be living in a time when you still, barely, have access to the last computers and browsers that work correctly, the last time one has control of the information experience to some degree.
People don’t even realize that this control is being wrested away, walled garden by walled garden and all the “for your own good” security prevarication and fear-mongering. In my lifetime, we’ve gone from machines that could do whatever we wanted them to do to machines that only do what Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadellq and Tim Cook allow them to do.
Such a terrible change, and fuck anyone that had anything to do with it, including all the people who tell me it’s no big deal.
Tope Trope
The three greatest dystopian novels ever written are:
1984
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Oryx and Crake
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) January 10, 2020
My three choices:
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Always Gone
Acres burned in wildfires over the past two years:
🔥 California (2018): 2M
🔥 Amazon (2019): 2.2M
🔥 Siberia (2019): 6.7M
🔥 Australia (2019): 12MHow many acres have to burn before we finally put the health of our planet and future generations over special interests?
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) January 9, 2020
I think we will never do this. I don’t really have any hope. Too many people, even on the “progressive” side, see humans as utterly disconnected from the biosphere and its health. They have no comprehension of the tight coupling of ecosystems to human existence, how the oceanic carbon cycle and other processes work, or why they matter.
And their children and grandchildern will pay a very high price indeed for this utterly embarrassing fucking ignorance.