Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@BrentToderian

Someone explained to me a key difference between countries like Canada/USA/UK versus Germany/Finland/Denmark is that the former are corporate cultures and the latter are community cultures.

Community cultures see someone living on the street and ask how to help that person get back on his feet. Corporate cultures say it’s the person’s own fault and they deserve to suffer - every person from him/herself.

Community cultures have #proportionalrepresentation

@BrentToderian In the US, we're not interested in housing the homeless. We need homeless people to perpetuate the national lie that the obscenely wealthy have earned their money, and the poor are morally inferior and so deserve their misery.

“In #Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Make sure everyone understands this — It’s costing us far too much to NOT provide housing and supports to those who are homeless.

https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/

#homelessness #cities #housing #HousingFirst

Guardian cover story rn: looks like this year's El Niño is set to kick us past 1.5C, and into a cruel wave of floods, fires and drought.

"When [El Niño arrives], the extreme weather that has rampaged across our planet in 2021 and 2022 will pale into insignificance." - Prof Bill McGuire, at University College London

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/16/return-of-el-nino-will-cause-off-the-chart-temperature-rise-climate-crisis

Boom. Yes. We need to drop patents and paywalls (and 'IP' in general). They don't 'drive' innovation like we've been told. Quite the opposite. https://theconversation.com/why-we-need-open-source-science-innovation-not-patents-and-paywalls-192484

What computer operating system are you driving? If it is not GNU/Linux, you are probably paying extra for some cool defects. Is the machine broken or are you really at fault by using it incorrectly? The power of marketing is amazing.
https://youtu.be/AUaJ8pDlxi8

@joelleichty @FreeScholar You may find this handbook useful: https://geo.coop/articles/how-create-solidarity-enterprise

The Trolley Problem is that we have roads and cars and we don't have any fucking trolleys.

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Peruvians are living through a horrific conflict that has already resulted in more than 40 deaths under the government of Dina Boluarte. Learn more & join us in calling for an end to the violence, and respect for international human rights: https://amazonwatch.org/news/2023/0112-peru-the-massacre-must-be-stopped… #EyeOnTheAmazon #Amazon #Peru #HumanRights

How Walgreens manufactured a media frenzy about shoplifting
Via @JuddLegum
https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/how-walgreens-manufactured-a-media?r=bpx3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private School
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family money
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistant, nanny, ghostwriter
7. Journalists who ask “what’s your secret?” and uncritically publish the lame answer

@kevlin @cwebber described ChatGPT as Mansplaining As A Service, and honestly I can’t think of a better description. A service that instantly generates vaguely plausible sounding yet totally fabricated and baseless lectures at an instant with unflagging confidence in it’s own correctness on any topic, without concern, regard or awareness even of the level of expertise of it’s audience.

@nathanpboston I think it's helpful to put this in perspective on a map (42.3836, -71.21455 if you want to look for yourself).

Here's a satellite view of the plot, with outline and annotations added. You can see that the area is mostly covered in fields. There's a community garden and BACE in the NW, and WFCF's infrastructure is all in the N, NE, and E sides (hard to see).

The contaminated area is the little yellow circle far in the south.

Anyone know if it's possible to buy paper bags (not tiny ones) made of butcher paper?

The staggering greed -- and indifference to global public health -- of the covid vaccine companies is only a surprise if you haven'[t paid attention to Big Pharma's record over the years: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/moderna-may-match-pfizers-400-price-hike-on-covid-vaccines-report-says/

This is also on governments, notably ours, that socialize R&D (and in the case of vaccines, production) and privatize the profits for executives and shareholders.

Shopping online and the site says, "Get FREE Shipping when you pick up your order in store."

Um...