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The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars, comrades. Focusing exclusively on the future means we forget our agency in the here-and-now. However, focusing exclusively on the here-and-now means we are purely reactionary, and we do not then shape the future into something...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08404-x I'm not a huge proponent of "the" Singularity as I don't tend to regard history as materialistic, so take this with a grain of salt here: this is really freaking cool! One concern that seems to be overcome again and again is that humans will...

"Instead of answering your question, let me make up absurd hypotheticals that don't apply to show things about imaginary principals rather than debating the material conditions in front of me. Oh, and every consumer should be investigating every product they purchase to see if it costs $13 less...

Reminder that an annual membership to the Socialist Rifle Association is $36, there are tons of chapters all over the country, and they do all kinds of emergency preparedness training for things like de-escalation and stemming bleeding and first aid, plus my chapter does monthly food...

What IS your favorite ball vape?

He's trying to create a techno-Christofascist state and will likely succeed for a period of time. It is time for all of us to start learning how to resist like the French in the 40s. Then, we can do our own revolution.

My expectation for the past few years has been that climate change will continue to ravage more and more countries as a bunch of governments collapse, and in that collapse, massive instability will cause industry to basically shut down. As people rebuild, industry will begin but democratically...

@florduh--the market bloodbath was frankly surprising to me, as speculation based on magic beans has been the driving force for market prices for about a hundred years. I'm very happy right now to have sold NVDA at 140 and cashed out of my individual stock and ETF positions in my IRAs, and I am...

In some ways, I am finding prostration to authorities we don't understand to be inherent in Christianity. I'm starting seminary and taking a course first on pastoral care, and the books were fascinatingly *almost* revolutionary, and belied a deep sense of actualization but very little...

*psssssst to everyone "debating" the Nazi apologists on the forum, I remind you of this absolute banger: “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves...

Mike Tyson saying that Donald Trump is a man of his word is not something I am likely to take very seriously :lol:

We don't live in a just world right now. And until we decide to start taking action, we will continue to live in this ridiculous, topsy-turvy world where the people least suited to rule--the Mayfair kings and queens who thought themselves powerful beyond the end of the festival--are dehumanizing...

This one infuriated me when I first saw it. Seeing kids who were reasonably concerned about the climate in California of all places and telling them their concerns were utterly invalid was wild. These kids were already seeing wildfires and water shortages and heat waves back in the mid-2010's...

Agreed. If this was a situation of reregulating capitalism in the imperial core and moving manufacturing back to the US and Europe while pulling out of the global south and no longer exploiting weaker countries for their resources and cheap labor, then I would be all for it. Tariffs without...

People who are opposing the tariffs generally recognize that tariffs don't lower prices for consumers. I am confused on your point here, considering those ranting about capitalistic greed generally are doing so because they feel the resources of the world are not equitably distributed, and...

That first article there is a potent example of how the first step to defeating global capitalism is oppressed nations creating their own productive means so they can avoid things like war crime pager attacks. From the article: He said Hezbollah had unwittingly bought over 16,000 walkie-talkies...

What a year! 2024 saw several (mostly second-hand) acquisitions, some giveaways to friends, and marked my entry into brick vapes which I now intend on making with some family to give away to friends and community members! Most reached for is split between three: Camouflet Injector Tempest OWW...

The only thing I disagree with is that it isn't going to get us ALL killed. We are staring down several hundreds of millions or billions of excess deaths in the next few decades, but it won't kill us all. Seeing friends and family dying of climate-accelerated things (hurricanes and wildfires and...

I've been having conversations in the past three months that I couldn't have even dreamed of just three years ago. The world is shifting. It is always shifting, but it was really stuck for a long time, and now, the Powers That Be aren't strong enough to keep it from moving forward. Human life...

This is what I do. I have some Dynavap-sized dosing capsules that I got from VGoodiez and I'll load them with flower and hash. The extra metal provides some conduction for the hash which makes for delicious, steamy hits. I'm now a few weeks into my love affair with the Tempest and it is still...