The US could solve its housing crisis tomorrow by banning investment properties, but that would also crater the market, alienating the only constituencies politicians/the economy care about: homeowners and investors. When approached from this vantage, they reveal themselves to be two sides of the same coin, a propertied class wielding their assets to the detriment of society writ large.
Remember when Peter Gelderloos wrote that dogshit essay on how veganism was incompatible with anarchism because it was an “alienation from nature” lmao
Structures of hierarchical power endanger children.
- Removing encryption will endanger more kids. - Attacking queer and trans people will endanger more kids. - Decimating medical care will endanger more kids. - Impoverishing children will endanger more kids.
Turns out the way to stop people taking advantage of kids is giving children *more* not less autonomy.
Dunno if it’s useful for folks, but here’s a list of things I’ve tried that haven’t helped long covid: - healthy food - an endless array of vitamins (magnesium, vitamin d3, c, zinc, k2, b12, etc etc etc) - positive thinking - hydration - fasting - extended rest - antihistamines - anti-inflammatories - low dose naltrexone - nattokinase and serrapeptase - nicotine - mRNA vaccine (5th shot sent me back to my worst symptoms)
Basically only a marginal and temporary improvement from taking aspirin has affected my symptoms (extreme fatigue, muscle pain primarily in my legs, mild brain fog)
AI is the perfect technology for a time of the eternal present, endlessly vomiting out different combinations of already existing data and calling it the future.
@hakan_geijer A consequence of people experiencing war only as a pure abstraction. All the material ties that would have tethered them to substantive action collapsed under the weight of collectively mediated discourse.
Colonization = bad, so your enemy is the colonizer, a definition unbound by anything substantive or provable beyond its rhetorical weight
The turn to homeopathy and other pseudo-science palliatives should be viewed less as some ideological descent into stupidity (though certainly there’s some element of that) but rather a systemic failure of providing even a modicum of access to any kind of real health care.
Doing a decolonization by reinforcing blood quantum. Doing a decolonization by embracing hindutva caste politics. Doing a decolonization by going to work for Wagner Group. Doing a decolonization by accelerating the Chinese war on terror.