yeah i don’t even know why in my head i didn’t flag that when i was literally thinking about how anxiety inducing it is how many of the nations with nukes are run by authoritarian freaks

thanks. i wrote that up real fast and i got my countries mixed up. and in the case of Belarus what i was talking about is that their existence as a russian colony has been perhaps more strongly cemented than back when they were a union republic of the ussr

only three countries have ever had nukes and willingly handed them over to de-escalate tensions about everyone having nukes: Ukraine, Belarus, and Pakistan. All three are consistent battlegrounds of the global northern empires now. the nuclear countries have demonstrated, it seems, to the global south that the adults table at the UN is who has nukes and if you get nukes and give them up, you will be punished for your good faith

the fediverse is based on freedom of association. if someone says they don’t want to associate with you via ban, block, or defederation, and you undermine that you undermine the underlying social fabric of the fediverse. i think your motivation is just but that your approach won’t win many over to your point of view

the value of that intel is questionable at best, but all the world’s oligarchs are addicted to assuming it may as well be true

i can speak to this drirectly. i spent 10 years from when i was 12 to wheo i was 22 protesting at a century old coal plant that had been designed to run for 30 years. i stopped demanding its closure because it closed. wind power in West Virginia was able to take up the slack. now, 12 years later, the president signed an executive order requiring the power company re-open it. not just a blanket order that included it. it was specifically named. it is now federal policy that coal plants that have already been replaced and shut down be re-opened.

the war against the land has reached a new temprement with those who wage the war switching from passive combat to active combat. but the land will win. in may not be in my lifetime, but almost worse might be if it is. the land is undefeatable. it has existed for 6.4 billion years. humanity has been at war with it for only about 3000. we are bound to lose if we figat against the land simply because the land’s victory is inevitable. it will still be here even if everyone of us is dead.

i fight to protect the land because i want to be on the winning side

1. yes, absolutely, we should be putting solar in car parks
2. you deploy agricultural solar panels in grazing lands where the panels act as shade for grazing animals

so some things:

1. my wife deserves all the credit
2. i told her what you said
3. she said “what else was i going to do?”

i love disroot.org

that’s a relief. my comment count is so high and i often write up walls of text without even realizing i’ve done it. i often worry i make the threadiverse a worse place to be

i appreciate you

absolutely. this is a community member weaponizing their power over others to make everything worse for everyone. i think our best maneuver is to remove their power by just… not letting them be powerful

sure, i was who was saying it some of the times i was hearing the good things

i’m a philosophical daoist. daoism was used to justify a genocide against turkic nomads in the gobi desert in the late 6th century and early 7th century. religious daoists tend to see this as just… part of bringing about the necessary conditions for the rule of the great sage, the jade emperor. however, philosophical daoists tend to see this period as a demonstration of the corrupting nature of the state against any religious or philosophical notion

certain users there already do

if you’re into ecology, @[email protected] , i’ve heard good things about https://slrpnk.net/

i disagree. the fediverse is a vote with your feet situation from my observations of it the past 10 years. with lemmy.world, we have

• asked nicely, and seen them do nothing
• asked rudely, and seen them perform the theatrics of something all while doing nothing
• created easy paths for people to follow away from the most influential lemmy.world communities, and still the problem persists
• and now we’re here. it seems like lemmy.world’s administrators will never change. i treat their users like they’re capable of change, just not necessarily aware, however, lemmy.world’s size has created in their admin team’s minds an attitude that they know best for the fediverse. i even find the name of their umbrella org, Fediverse Hosting Foundation a little concerning. it seems to de-emphasize their role in hosting a section of the fediverse and implies a higher degree of central importance than i’d ever want

but then. i’m just a rural boy from a dead mining town in what the early anarchist philosophers in Russia called a “resource colony,” “internal colony,” or “sacrifice zone.”

how is it problematic when a community member consistently causes problems in your community to disengage from them? i must be missing something

what comms do you recommend for news? i had LW blocked for a while because i found their consistent tolerance for mods promoting moral apathy unacceptable, however, then i found myself out of the loop news relevant to me.

i guess as long as i’m asking, i encourage others to post more to [email protected] and some US focused news community or another. i know Beehaw has one but i can’t find it right now