Notices by CedarTea (cedartea@social.coop)

Drinking my morning coffee at the edge of the forest and listening to the birds is such a luxury

Why would somebody buy a fancy car when they can just do this? Rich in money, poor in spirit.

Imagine how soulless you'd have to be to spend your life on a mega yacht instead of looking at frogs

When people think of direct action, the mind often goes to anarchists in bloc doing cool acts of sabotage. And that's an example, yes.

But direct action just means that you're acting directly to accomplish something. You're not begging, you're not bargaining, you're not voting in favour, you're just doing it. It's much simpler, and it's a lot more effective than the gaggle of intermediaries want you to realize.

Go do the thing.

I was out removing himalayan balsam from the woods, and who did I find but these handsome little friends! Jacks and their associated pulpits!

I think they'll be a lot happier now without all that shade from the invasives. If I can keep the balsam and garlic mustard away, I bet these will absolutely pop off next spring. Gotta fuck up the daylillies that are crowding them out too.

#bloomscrolling

So fucking annoyed every time I walk into a nursery and see them selling english ivy. There's absolutely no reason for doing this. Just stop.

"To make one clutch of chickadees, it takes 6000 to 9000 caterpillars, just to get it to the point that they leave the nest" - Doug Tallamy

One of the dangers of too much contact with academia/theory/nonprofits/"activism" is that you might find yourself saying something like:

"The intertwined power structures of state and capital act to erase rural lifeways in a multiplicity of vectors which are intersectional and alienating, while simultaneously disempowering and marginalizing local communities"

When what you really much more urgently need to be saying is:

"Holy fuck bud, I just don't trust those government assholes and corporate suits. Why don't we just fuckin figure it out ourselves and look after each other instead? Sure can't be that hard if these useless fuckin benders can manage it and we sure as sweet fuck can't do it any worse."

*adapt to local conditions

Like, I'm not sure why anyone thinks they're gonna gain anyone's trust by sounding like their workplace HR rep. Is your communication meant to keep *you* out of trouble or are you actually talking to someone as an equal on terms that are friendly and familiar?

Like, I absolutely do not speak to tradies I'm radicalizing the way I do when I'm trying to grease something past management, (though sometimes I'll do it for them as a kind of party trick).

Some people don't know what a shibboleth is and it shows. Or worse yet, they're drunk on respectability, class position, and usually a healthy dose of whiteness.

Again, ask yourself "Do I sound like I work in HR?" And if so, don't fucken do that bud.

What I've heard lately in global industrial supply chains is:

1) Avoid purchasing from US wherever possible

2) Where not possible, take all measures available to remove the product from the US early in its manufacturing chain to avoid as many value-add activities as possible

This isn't the result of high-minded antifascist BDS activities against the US, but rather cost and risk mitigation resulting from american trade policy.

America is making itself the exporter of last resort.

The uncertainty is especially bad. Evaluating bids and having to go "Oh, and add 25%. Maybe 100%. Who fucking knows. Maybe they won't even allow it to ship." makes procurement really skittish. Especially when you're talking about large expensive industrial equipment which tends to have long lead times.

USians should prepare for unemployment to spike. Even if Trump reverses his trade war stance, it'll likely still be read into global procurement contracts as risk, which will depress export demand heavily. Not that I'm some fancy economy-knower, but I am at least to some extent a manufacturing supply chain knower.

@sun
I don't think you can grow corn from cuttings, but I do believe there's legal sanction for saving and replanting kernels from patented genetics as seed corn. Capitalism is a great system, we all agree.

Propagating cuttings is theft. You're stealing. This is bad for the economy. How can we have a strong economy when you're out here propagating cuttings? All plants are going to be kept in a locked cabinet from now on. If you want to touch a plant, you'll need to be accompanied by an employee. Your plant money keeps them employed. This is how the economy works. You think you can just have plants for free? So unrealistic. Read a fucking book you extremist.

You wouldn't propagate a cutting

@richpuchalsky
Eh, I get what you're saying, but I think it comes off different inside the Canadian cultural context, and the extent that hockey is tied up in it. Elbows up is a call to fight and specifically to cause harm to your opponent in a way that's not respectable or reasonable, and it's understood that way here. Like, you put your elbow out to break someone's nose or knock their chiclets out, not to win a game.

Can't relocate a factory to the US if the workers seize it, just sayin

If we do end up in open war with the US, I'm gonna burn down the Alamo and salt the ground where it stood, so no Alamo will ever grow again. It will be purged from all records. Nobody will remember the Alamo.