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SallyStrange

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Chronic illness, probably neurodivergent. White & anti-whiteness. #SolarPunk #Climate #DeGrowth #StrawBale #LivingMachine #Construction #Engineering #Crochet #GreenBuilding #SciFi #Anarchy
Liberals DNI. Just kidding, I love you liberals. Don't block me just because I'm right

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SallyStrange , to bookstodon group
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(Some) ignorant leftbros: "Class first! No idpol!"

Scholars of right wing politics/economics: "All these right-wing thinkers are much more comfortable thinking about the blurred lines between sexual and economic politics than many thinkers on the left. And they understand that Keynesianism rests on a certain kind of sexual contract. Any challenge to this order—whether it be an escalation of wage or benefit claims, or the flight from sexual normativity, or unmarried women claiming welfare benefits—disrupts the fiscal and monetary calculus on which Keynesianism rests."

Above remark from "The Extravagances of Neoliberalism", an interview of Melinda Cooper (author of "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance") by Benjamin Kunkel, in The Baffler.

Archived, no paywall link: https://archive.is/pLYsA#selection-929.1-929.479

Original link: https://thebaffler.com/latest/extravagances-of-neoliberalism-kunkel

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SallyStrange , to random
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Can economic growth be decoupled from emissions? Yes, for sure, easily even.

Can economic growth be decoupled from environmental degradation in general? Absolutely not. The sheer throughput of materials through the economy, from extraction to waste disposal, must decrease. If we address GHG emissions in isolation from topsoil and biodiversity loss, we will fail to preserve the ecosystems on which we depend for life.

https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-think-about-the-prospects-of-truly-green-growth

QasimRashid , to random
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Watching the bear vs man in forest stories & I remember when our 9-year-old son said some boys at recess offered to play with him if 'he hugged & kissed a girl.'

He replied, "No, that's inappropriate," & told us he didn't mind not being able to play with those boys after all. Later his teacher shared she was happy he stood up to peer pressure.

Y'all—it's never too early to teach boys about consent & boundaries. Have the convo. Then again. And again. Boys will be the boys we teach them to be.

SallyStrange ,
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@wagesj45

When Black people say "White people are dangerous," I don't feel "demeaned" by virtue of being a member of "a certain group." Because I understand that generalizations are just that, general statements that aren't meant to apply in every single possible situation. What's stopping you from developing the requisite emotional intelligence to do the same when you hear negative generalizations about men?

I would still appreciate an answer to the question of why you keep likening men to oppressed groups instead of dominant groups.

https://eldritch.cafe/@SallyStrange/112396085588218983

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gerrymcgovern , to random
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""It has happened," wrote developer Arian van Putten in a social media post over the weekend. "The number one Google result was an official Pulumi documentation page that was clearly written by an LLM (it had a disclaimer that it was) and hallucinated an AWS feature that didn't exist. This is the beginning of the end.""

"Search quality has declined because search engines index low-quality AI-generated content and present it in search results."

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/pulumi_ai_pollution_of_search/

SallyStrange ,
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@SearingTruth Is this something you said? Just asking because of the quote marks @gerrymcgovern

SallyStrange , to bookstodon group
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10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:

Ursula Le Guin
Kim Stanley Robinson
Octavia Butler
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Iain M. Banks
Martha Wells
M. R. Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vonda McIntyre


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coffeegeek , to random
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In news, Wrexham is coming to Vancouver to play the Vancouver Whitecaps this summer.

Everyone was pretty excited, until they saw the prices Reynolds and Co are charging. Season ticket holders, who normally pay about $30-$40 (averaged out) for their seats per game are being charged $104 to $150 per ticket for this friendly. Over half of the seats to the general public are nearly $200 each once fees are included.

It's too much.

https://www.reddit.com/r/whitecapsfc/comments/1ccsxks/vancouver_whitecaps_vs_wrexham_afc_confirmed/

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@coffeegeek sheesh

w7voa , to random
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"What's happening in America's college campuses is horrific. Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities. They call for the annihilation of Israel. They attack Jewish students. They attack Jewish faculty. This is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s." - Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in a video message https://www.gov.il/en/pages/event-campuses240424

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@w7voa

SallyStrange ,
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@Henry You sound like you're jealous of Hamas' alleged ability to "behead homosexuals". @Midnitte

w7voa , to random
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"If I have it my way in the next four years, I'm going to make community college free," says President Biden in a speech in Tampa, Florida.

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@w7voa uh huh

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