Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

That feeling when you get reminded of why the software team needs you, followed by the reminder of why the software team won't let you fix the problem.

#FML

I don't know which is funnier; someone using a FAX machine, or same person having trouble figuring out how to use FAX machine.

Too bad their gains were labeled as welfare rather than wage, and the next president, Reagan, started a war on women under the "pro-family"[sic] banner, where the GOP defined family as church-going, working man, subservient woman, and many kids.

#FTFY

Now reading. Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet. Selma James. 2021. PM Press.

Instantly struck by how it, like Global Civil War, rejects identity politics as a detraction from the main goal for equality, which in this case is Wages For Housework (WFH) movement.

1971: "Women of all ages from every region chanted together: 'Every mother is a working mother!'. Not even the Ku Klux Klan, which was openly present in the Mississippi delegation, could deny that!"

Biodiversity survey reveals that more species are threatened with extinction than previously thought
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220718142320.htm

Water resources to become less predictable with climate change
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220718154343.htm

Got a plentiful water supply? Maybe not in the future. Water fiefdoms in North America in our post-apocalyptic, changed climate, future.

#DumbAllOver

@JamesGleick Politicians require voters to get elected. Voters use their most important issue on a politician's (actually party's) plank to determine their vote. The most important issue is determined by immediate need and personal morality. Climate has never been an immediate need for most voters, so "When does everyone rise up"? When it's too late (much like with economic conditions).

Reading on how identity detracts from solutions to fighting #capitalism ill effects on society. e.g., "defund the police" ignores the systemic aspects driving the police repression of the poorer classes, which are disproportionately minority.

I can't disagree. We need to attack the root.