Ildsaye [they/them]

I wish I was one

With regard to flimsiness, M-disc Blurays and DVDs are capable of serious long-term storage, but they are very expensive. They require an M-disc-capable burner.

Speech Note - Speech to text, text to speech, translation, and the voices and translation modules appear to all be FOSS. After downloading modules, everything it does is local.

None of our individual strategies are “the answer”. The situation won’t be turned around by individuals making personal choices, but by organized efforts. A world in which Terms and Conditions don’t supersede your rights is possible.

Another factor is the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. Late capitalism has to keep finding more and more shameless ways to squeeze regular people as the easy money recedes. Lobbyists are pushing harder to lock people into a few big services and subscriptions so they are forced to yield more personal data and spending money.

In case anyone is curious, an M-Disk burner can make optical backups intended to last long-term. Can be costly though.

I rung in the new year by making the switch

Wile E. Coyote should be US president

He would just spend all his time pursuing the Roadrunner instead of doing imperialism. He would have all the resources of the military-industrial complex at his disposal to that end, but he would just keep crashing F-35s into cliffs and shit chasing the Roadrunner. And his vice president and cabinet would be no better - all hand-picked cronies from the Acme corporation’s revolving door with the government, only there to help President Coyote devise new contraptions to catch the Roadrunner with.

Attention, fame, encouragement, and engagement are also currency, and aiding fascists is fascism. We all deserve to live in a world where fascists don’t feel safe openly declaring themselves.

Desensitizing people to having no privacy from their own state and ‘local’ corporations will do that

There are also low grade threads/fabrics that consist of shorter individual fibers. They wear out faster.

Japanese-made sewing machines from the 1950s. Most are all-metal and overbuilt, and will work like new with a few drops of oil, maybe a fresh belt. In the US they were imported and had local brand’s names put on them; what you’re really looking for is the “Made in Japan” on the back or bottom. Granny sewing machines also qualify, but most of the Japanese ones have zigzag

why does she look bored? his enthusiasm is infectious

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Plastics are a byproduct of fossil fuel production, and it was and is inevitable (under capitalism) that the overproduction of plastic would lead to the manufactured demand for massive amounts of plastic goods. There was a major marketing push in the 1950s to sell consumers on the disposability of plastic, to create further demand by erasing their Great Depression/wartime-era habits of saving and reusing. There are many examples of successful campaigns to put the masses on cheap garbage, like corn syrup, that people would not have been drawn to spontaneously. These things work.

Fossil fuel companies are major centers of political power, with deep military-industrial ties, easily acquiring politicians and regulators, and encircling any stubborn holdouts. Something major would have to displace them to free up the kind of political oxygen needed for any serious effort to end plastic’s invasive presence in our lives.

A decolonial not-for-profit military answerable to a socialist state could dislodge them, and I don’t think anything less could.

Had a childhood crush on Dr. Crusher, but maturity has brought me a middle aged crush on Pulaski. Wish they’d had some guest appearances by her after season 2.

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High Schoolers Tout Anti-Snitching Program Encouraging Stuffing Kamala Harris Into A Locker