Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

When large billion dollar ISPs are rolling out fiber to their wealthy customers and not upgrading their low income customers (who also pay them), that is called digital redlining, and it should be abolished in law.

https://eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/fcc-and-states-must-ban-digital-redlining

@meejah @cjd @Capheind @dazinism

Meejah's example of the logging operations is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. There are also numerous contemporary examples of "back to the land" farmers who set out to create small diversified farms using traditional methods, where what catches them up is not that the methods aren't effective but that the system forces them to scale up. An example can be seen in Kristen Kimballs books. _The Dirty Life_ describes their initial and highly traditional efforts. But in the follow-up-book _Good Husbandry_ they're using milking machines instead of milking by hand and installing solar panels. Kimball describes conflicts with her husband where she wants to stay small because it is more livable but her husband pushes them to go bigger because he wants to be economically "sustainable" (within our society).

@cjd @Capheind @dazinism @meejah

Regarding Land Value Tax, it should probably be noted that in North America, European colonizers intentionally set up incentives to make it impossible for people practicing indigenous lower-impact land management practices to continue to hold land.

In _The Mindful Carnivore_, Tovar Cerulli cites historian Daniel Justin Herman as having noted that these policies were based not only in the desire to prevent the native peoples from holding land but also the goal of keeping white colonizers from choosing subsistence lifestyles.

It is not an accident that it is nearly economically impossible to maintain a farms at an appropriate scale for local subsistence. There are continual pressures to scale up.

Taxing land means that people need to participate in capitalism in order to hold land at all.

@alrs
What's surprising in your analogy is that you have an immediate neighbor country with a measure of social programs without being "socialist" that you could inspire yourself from. Much of what Bernie was pushing for, we've had for two generations. Our system is far (FAR!) from perfect, but the inequalities aren't as great here.

We did, and still mistreat our indigenous people. And Canadian mining companies shamelessly exploit Africa... ☹️
@lightweight

Something that's been bouncing around in my head a lot during the past few months is a quote (attributed to Franklin Leonard - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17718606.Franklin_Leonard) “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” Which, I think, goes a long way towards explaining why the US is imploding right now.

All v3 onion addresses offline:

"It appears that somebody has made their own #Tor client implementation and it fetches its dir info in a very rude way. If anybody knows details of it, please do let us know."

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2021-January/019201.html

In fact, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently decided to take up en banc @LBSBaltimore’s challenge to Baltimore’s aerial surveillance program operated by Persistent Surveillance Systems. https://apnews.com/article/technology-richmond-virginia-courts-a7962e1893efa9b34b26c972282afb4c