Notices by squifish (thesquirrelfish@sfba.social)

@nilsskirnir
I believe it's real, but also a symptom of increased exposures & constrained choices. Someone recently described it as genetics says whether you have ADHD, but life experience determines the strength of the symptoms. So we can be exposed to more things that exacerbate ADHD and make the symptoms worse. Similarly as lifestyles become more constrained - more jobs are sitting at a computer, more paperwork requirements, less rewarding outdoor work, more requirement to drive, more exposure to advertising, influence campaigns, addictive substances & technologies - existing symptoms set people further apart from the norm and further at risk.
IMHO Cell phones, desk jobs & cars are bigger problems for ADHD people than everyone else, and they're big problems for everybody.
@GutterPoetry @Remittancegirl @murdoc @Profpatsch @DarkAthena @johnnyprofane1 @bmacDonald94 @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd

Resistance can look like climate adaptation, resilient systems, local empowerment, supporting small and local business, reducing consumption and commodification.
Use your library. Attend local town halls. Bike and walk around town. Spend time at home with friends and family. Find and regularly visit a local tree or patch of grass or wetland or stream.
Yes public policy matters, but right now they're attacking on home economics. You can prepare by making yourself less dependent on imported goods, find the traditional & cheap & local & interpersonal pleasures. Play music, read books, do arts & crafts, invite your family & community in to do the same.

@MarkSquiresWine
Correct, you are in a minority who are privileged enough to have not experienced these problems so far.
@feld

@MarkSquiresWine
Dude that's the combination of auto deduct and having a high enough balance. Not just auto deduct. Most people don't have significant extra money in the account - if the rent & an unexpected medium expense hit at the same time it can really screw most Americans.
@dalias @tess

So I just added the #TellMePlease to my account because I welcome feedback, critique & whatever.
I have a lot of takes based on my individual privileged experience, and I've changed over time because one of my privileges is amazing people who have taught me better and taken time & energy to discuss & teach.
I intend to discuss & teach the same things I discuss here in the future, passing along that privilege. if it offends or is incorrect in either direct or nuanced ways, I want to hear it.
I can't guarantee I will agree, but I promise others have changed my mind and I promise to continue to change going forward.
If I'm disrespectful, I want to know not just do it by accident.
So #PleaseTellMe - I'm thinking of it as the proactive consent seeking

@jonathanpeterson @kingrat @scott make them fire you for refusing to break the law.

@dalias @sidereal our economy was actually designed on the assumption we would be cutting hours as we improved production. But instead we are intervening in the market to make the rich richer. Both Hayek & Keynes failed to understand regulatory capture in democracies with privately owned media.

We really need a new code of behavior for drivers. On my dog walk this morning I've heard more than 3 honks. In a dense residential area.
I think everyone who heard a honk should be encouraged to throw a rotten fruit at each driver or vehicle.
#rude

@feld I feel like these are not the same... Batman & Cyclops were full adult men interested in women. Nightwing & Spider-Man were young adults interested in their age contemporaries as they grew up.
The conflation is part of a whole problematic thing where mascs are not expected to have as many life stages as femmes are.
Like mascs have: child, boy, man(optional), villain
Where femmes have: child, young girl, girl, jailbait, young woman, woman, aunt, mother, crone with an option to turn villain at any point

@MartyFouts
Yeah it turns out it's really more about spectacle than violence. When the Black Panthers started marching with guns we got gun control for awhile.. but kids actually dying doesn't have the same response. The billionaires would have to die spectacularly to get gun control. @calmeilles

@AnarchoNinaWrites
I agree - this is why I had "protect the people .." right in there. I mean both protecting as in stuff like housing & providing welfare & dignified lives for those who do not work, and protecting as in not allowing death squads/police killings/denial of health care/people freezing to death on the street.
Just like the deaths caused by the system aren't always as direct as a gunshot, the ways of protecting people aren't always as direct as a violent uprising.
@craignicol

@craignicol
Massive cultural change that includes whole visible lifestyle changes & protecting those who resist the demand for labor that harms the planet would be a good start.
A lot of jobs make the planet less livable. We need to make sure that the people who are in those jobs can quit and maintain dignified lives if we want a more livable future.
Can we get there from here? It's not looking good in America right now but I'm not sure a violent revolution would have a better chance of creating that change. A drafted Vietnam Vet I knew once drunkenly yelled "I had to kill for this country, you only have the rights I give you". I think a lot of forms of coercion & violence can be like that - once people have had to endure or enact it, they often only respect others who've gone through it.
So powers gained through violence beget systems that empower violence. People who have had to work hard demand others labor as hard, even if it's not producing anything useful.
@AnarchoNinaWrites

Here's a book list for escaping into cozy bookshops, warm tea houses and loving relationships...
https://bookwyrm.social/list/3315/s/cozy-fantasy

@lilithsaintcrow @cstross energy companies are definitely getting a big chunk + Nvidia shareholders got a big chunk + the chip factory owners are getting a big chunk. So a lot of that money is definitely going abroad: I think Taiwan & China build the majority of the hardware; it's increasing the demand for oil & gas, so oil & gas producers worldwide as well as wherever the data centers are. Some of it goes into the SF Bay Area economy for sure in employee & manager salaries - but a lot of that is also going into index funds etc.
Overall it's going into destroying the climate, increasing inequality and escalating political corruption.

there's misinformation - incorrect information
and disinformation - intentionally incorrect and intended to distort the conversation & application of knowledge
and I think we should apply the same phrasing for organization.
Misorganization - messy, not usefully organized
and
Disorganization - an organizational system intended to decrease access to whatever is being organized.

ADHD homes - misorganized
the tax code - disorganized

@feld @FluentInFinance @sun I disagree - as we're seeing previous climactically stable areas increasingly impacted by new threats a place safe from flooding might be in more danger from tornadoes and wildfires etc. Svalbard Seed Bank was thought to be the safest place for a thousand years and just a few decades later we see it in jeopardy. The data centers value depends on much of the same infrastructure as the long distance wired electrical grid. Etc.

@feld @FluentInFinance @sun right and my point is that the more rapidly climate change advances the less we'll be able to determine what will be safe enough to give reliable returns for large long-term projects.

@feld @FluentInFinance @sun oh I fully agree. I just am not sure that getting passive returns from financial markets is going to be possible in the harder world of climate change we seem to be headed toward. If most people have to struggle even more for the basics, where's the return going to come from? It seems like it would require increased authoritarian enforcement that's (hopefully/probably) not scalable.

Like the world doesn't have to be zero sum, but investing in oil & gas & industrial ag lowers the total output of basic human need filling goods from the system. If we have to put more money/energy into needs filling, the available human resources for providing rents/passive returns is lowered. So they're kind of self-defeating

@feld @FluentInFinance @sun right but the CapEx projects have the same problems as housing - climate disasters. If we can get to zero emissions relatively quickly that might be doable, but that seems to be dependent on such significant economic changes that it would make this conversation irrelevant.

@feld @FluentInFinance @sun I don't think there will be a return to normal