alex-esc's old account @alexesc@librem.one

Just like "apocalypse" doesn't mean "end of the world" in Greek, people misunderstand "Ragnarok", for it is as much the start of a new world as it's the end of an old. Reading the conflict between gods and jötnar as between society and nature, it is even completely analogous with societal collapse brought on by climate change. Perhaps we would not despair so if we had more trust in what a changed world could look like.

... I'm hardly a good debater in the first place, but it is an area of discussion I find uniquely frustrating, and I still don't know how to introduce the more useful ways of thinking about the issue in a way people take seriously. I really appreciate the idea of focusing on what parts of modern society we want to keep and which we don't, however....

... or in making the personal choice not to travel by plane.

There was no acknowledgement of the fundamental link to capitalism, hell, not even of the fact that so much change is held back by eg oil companies. And it can be a difficult thing to explain to people who don't already believe capitalism is something that needs to be done away with; a lot of people take it as a neglect of "personal responsibility" if you argue that consumer behavior is not how we counter-act climate change. ...

I'm a design student and at my particular school, a lot of the problems they ask us to "solve" or at least address through design have been based on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Being a communist in that equation, especially with the course focused firmly on climate change, has been an incredibly frustrating and alienating experience, because many people really do seem to believe that "saving the planet" lies in designers using different materials or in raising people's motivation ...

Here's a comment on that vids comment section that spoke to me, by KnightOfPaint:

Oliver did a video on white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, I meant climate change...well sorta the same thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqCx9xU_-Fw

@Hamishcampbell honesty I don't even know what that is lol

@ahanon This! Exactly this!

Crypto is cool & all but in my eye replacing human trust with a CPU lottery is not what we need on our increasingly divided times.

@wiley@todon.nl nah

the community reaction reflects this, look at this reddit post about the video: https://redd.it/ct5by5

"He's not knowledgeable enough, he's not enough privacy minded & he's not using the right software" are common responses on the thread.

I feel like this video perfectly encapsulates the privacy community's idea of "lowercase p privacy". That users are individually responsable for their privacy & the only way to do something about privacy is to choose the right product or software.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNp4OqdxHWI

Awsome video: Liberal Mom Forces Son to be Transgender? - A Response to Eazy Ali
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvjHn6QEgh4

@Hamishcampbell Just finished watching it. Yeah, I think you're right, it's an important topic, but this is not the right lens.

@kiwix hey, I just found out about kiwix and it sounds super cool.

I'm giving it a try on the f-droid store, but it looks like it's not showing any content.

Help :p

Although #trunk has been a godsend to find cool people:

https://communitywiki.org/trunk/