I am tired of feeling bad. I am setting myself a six month challenge to keep up the #huel diet.
Socialism is a challenging ethical conviction to practice in a world where a handful of large, greedy corporations monopolize every life area. Digital assets are the easiest but already steep challenge. Purism, the ecosystem it ties into of GNU/Linux apps, and Brave Search free me from Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. The public domain and cc0 creators provide the music. Amazon is way harder to replace because I rely on them for physical goods that can't be infinitely copied.
The Ellen Brooke Project (ellenbrooke.org) curates public domain and cc0 alternatives to loosen the grip of Big Music and give people back their freedoms to share and remix. As a bonus point, it declutters superfluous ornamentation, provides independence from human musicians, and harnesses the power of free and open-source software to turn the page on the 300-year-old tuning scam called equal temperament.
I was saddened to hear about the woman and child mauled to death by a polar bear in Wales. Also that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is resigning. Even if the Labour Party can hold onto some kind of power through the next election, they will hardly be able to come up with another equally inspiring leader.
Why as a society are we still tolerating speeding, tailgating, and driving through red lights? Part of the reason must be the cultural prioritizing of movement on a rigid schedule over safety. The driver's impatience is only one part of the issue. Another part is the impatience of the wealthy people and corporations that control the driver.
My dear neighbors in vehicles:
I was going to rant about people who can't keep their headlights on, and changed, in Alaska in the winter...
Then I saw another moron pickup truck ENTER an intersection against a red light. I've seen this several times in the last month or so. Do you people not understand what the yellow light means, namely that the red light is coming and you need to slow down, not speed up to beat the light? Next time a vehicle plows through the red light, it's killing someone.
Congratulations to Brazil for inaugurating President Lula da Silva. Like President Biden, President Lula da Silva is replacing a trumpist brat and has a massive fight ahead of him, given a legislature full of radical conservatives, to manage a gigantic landmass of world-critical habitat responsibly after years of reckless pollution and deforestation.
The significance people attach to certain days of the year puts so much pressure on people. So when periodic winter weather cancels hundreds of flights, suddenly people are panicking. And for weeks Amazon has been emphasizing whether deliveries would make it here by next Sunday or not, even though they have delivery time estimates all year round. What if we didn't all clog the airports at the same time? What if we didn't buy a bunch of things for other people that they don't need? #happyQuiet
Minimalist. Christian. Alaskan. Music curator at ellenbrooke.org. Puri.sm supporter. SI user among the last imperial holdouts. Socialist and copyright abolitionist. Sometimes language modeler.