@ki_sekiya you mean like covid all over again?

@liamvhogan then theres covidiocy, alcoholism, consumerism, coke, meds .. above what $ per annum is it 'let them'?

@ki_sekiya its business as usual. cultural inertia, monkey see monkey do, system justification, theres lots of ways of talking about it, and its a very pertinent area. Our species is not adapting nearly fast enough.

Twice a year I produce datasets from community #repair #data for publishing as #OpenData They get downloaded by some pretty impressive institutions and a lot of students. Today a very, very large manufacturer of domestic appliances downloaded the data saying "We would like to identify fault codes". This makes me so happy! :blobsmilehappyeyes: #CitizenScience #Data
https://openrepair.org/open-data/

On Clip-On Power Meters for the UK: Review (2011) - Ban energy monsters and vampires from the comfort of your living room. What is eating your cash? #frugal #cutCarbon - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-clip-on-power-meters-for-the-UK-REVIEW.html

Thousands of years ago, people were experimenting with all sorts of complex, dense social forms. Over 11,000 years ago, at Göbekli Tepe in what is now Turkey, people were erecting some of the world’s first monumental stone architecture. 11,000 years ago at Jericho, in Palestine, people were settling in one of the world’s first cities. At Çatalhöyük, also in Turkey, people 9,000 years ago built a complicated, honeycomb-like city. 5 to 6,000 years ago, people in what is now Ukraine built sprawling settlements. People were experimenting with urban life, with agriculture, with writing and all sorts of new phenomena.

Then, a little more than 5,000 years ago, in what is now southern Iraq, something entirely new began to emerge in some of the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia: the state.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruk_period

In 1916, 23 yr old chemist Alice Ball discovered a breakthrough in treatment for Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease). She was the 1st woman & 1st Black chemistry professor at UHawaii.

Tragically, Ball passed away months after her discovery due to complications from a lab accident.

What happened next? Arthur Dean, head of her dept, continued the work publishing Ball’s process as “Dean’s method.”

Fortunately, a colleague spoke up & the name was changed to “Ball’s method.” #HistoryRemix #science #history

Australia is working very hard at failing the world's easiest multiple choice test since Brexit. Vote yes, the worst thing is that it isn't perfect. Vote no, and side with every racist in the country.

Tuberville's true motives for blocking over 300 senior military promotions are to 'hold' those places in hopes that Trump is re-elected. In such a scenario, Trump would then promote military leaders who he perceives as loyal to him, thus ensuring a complete Trump coup.

I think so....

Republicans understand that rationality doesn’t work. They understand that people actually think in terms of frames and metaphors and images and emotions. So they’re great at marketing their ideas, even when they're not based on facts.

Through constant repetition, they have falsely framed the Republican party as superior on economic matters -- despite decades of facts proving otherwise.

They have framed this false idea millions of brains.

And when the facts don't fit the frame, they bounce right off.

Until Democrats and progressives learn and embrace cognitive science, they will continue to lose ground to the false framing imposed by Republicans.

@paninid @breadandcircuses @Liegey @peterdeppisch I believe so, but that term means different things to different people, few of whom read Malthus (i haven't myself in two decades).

The point of planned Degrowth is to avoid mass death and minimise suffering, both of which are increasing under BAU. We already have unplanned degrowth/slow collapse.. https://elk.zone/kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110989789650647995

Americans collectively owe about $17 trillion in consumer debt. Right-libertarians complain about taxes, which average around a third of income for many Americans.

If we imagine our income being directed to pay off each obligation sequentially rather than simultaneously, then we could calculate how long we labor each year to extinguish our tax burden—about halfway through April. But then we labor another third of the year to pay off our landlords and mortgage owners for permission to shelter ourselves. So let’s imagine that, by the end of July, we’ve covered those two.

Many people pay another 10% of their income to finance their car payments, while student loans consume another 10% of income for many people.

So, perhaps by the middle of October you’ve paid those rents as well.

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When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, I watched Star Trek: The Next Generation. I soaked up the vibes of a high-tech, utopian future. I internalized the trajectory we were on was good, that we had reached the End of History. There might be a few bumps on the road, but the direction was inevitable and the destination was inexorable.

It turns out that the fastest a human being has ever traveled was 39,897 kilometers per hour. That was the crew of the Apollo 10 mission returning to earth. That happened on 26 May, 1969.

Fifty-four years ago. We peaked more than half a century ago.

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Activists in Tasmania have stuck up more honest promo stickers inside Coles & Woolworths stores, the two dominant supermarket chains in Australia.

Our house is on fire, and here we are frantically running around trying to figure out how to make throwing buckets of water profitable.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #capitalism #neoliberalism

A man in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to death for his tweets, and surprise: Elon Musk is NOT funding his legal bill as promised because there's a good chance that the necessary data to identify this man came from the second largest shareholder of Twitter: the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

Musk has been awfully silent about this as you can't really make your “freedom of speech!!” argument when you assist with killing a retired teacher for the regime critic posts they made on your platform, only possible because that regime owns a huge chunk of “your” platform.

People said we were being alarmist when we said extremist Christian nationalists would use the abortion laws to target women trying to escape Texas to receive an abortion.

@keira_reckons not alot of love on ABC Melbs this arvo, but they ain't seen nothing yet, IMO.