That’s the part that keeps getting missed. This all reminds of the yoyoing back and forth about whether coffee is healthy for you or not. Another damned science article on the issue. Great. Just what I needed. But the AMOC situation they always say is contingent upon action or inaction on global warming and what exactly am I supposed to think is happening to the systems? Hmm? Seems like everything is collapsing. So maybe I just might as well be fully prepared for the AMOC to straight up collapse. This groundhog day crap is getting really old. Same reason I always take a tote bag to the grocery store even if it’s not always legally required in this county - sometimes they’re out of bags, sometimes it’s legally required; might as well be equipped with a bag.

I live in a sober living apartment building. They sometimes get donation boxes from different places and you can ask the security guard to let you back to where they keep them and pick out whatever you need. I think I influenced them and got them into some good habits with that by bringing back to the wellness center on the bottom floor what I didn’t use one month and explaining my reasoning that someone else might need it, because then later they told me to do that when I took a box a different month as if they had come up with the idea. Felt like I made a difference, even though they pretended like it was totally their ingenious social worker idea. Anyway, now it basically constitutes a food pantry anyone here can access with the security guard’s permission. They give you resources in the wellness center that point you to local food banks and sometimes offer to drive people there. Others have their own cars and can drive each other.

Wow. Shocker. Capitalism isn’t so easily reformable toward sustainability. I don’t understand why more democrats, like the ones who have been up until now relying on the sentiment of large financial institutions and corporations to finish the job of addressing climate change, don’t get their head in the game and realize how eco-unfriendly so much of capitalism is, and, depending on one’s definition of capitalism, how eco-unfriendly all of capitalism may be. I think some of them have developed a greater love for their white picket fence-esque life as marketed to them in real time than for understanding the impact of scientific information about climate change on the life of the planet including their own per an authentic scientific understanding - because the latter starts to look more socialist by almost every definition of socialism.

A fungus infecting the ecosystem and crops in the san joaquin valley that makes people get this fever thing, makes everyone sniffly kind of and some other stuff.

Yeah it sure is cheap living in the bread basket of the world, the san joaquin valley. My rent is 334. I even have housing assistance. Ag ag ag is all I hear here, and everyone has no idea how unsustainable industrialized agriculture is. Plus the droughts, the toxicity, the general poverty, and also valley fever.

Something I’ve found is actually working on oneself physically, practicing good physiological health so that one can biomechanically maintain good hand eye coordination, can avoid dropping or bumping equipment or devices for long periods of time (like many many everyday people are well known to constantly do), maintaining good awareness of your environment, and being able to connect with your equipment, devices, and hardware pragmatically the way a blue collar worker might personally connect with their machinery. This way, you can really stretch the lifespan of your hardware. Also, remember that brokenness is relative and along a gradient, not a binary question - if you can get functionality out of a device or hardware, especially according to your prioritization of need, then fundamentally it works; you just have to ‘jimmy it a little bit’ maybe, to use a blue-collar-ism.

I have a laptop from the early 2000s I maintain, an Xbox one I use for most functions still from 2018 or earlier, two android smartphones both for different purposes over 3 years old each without ever having used phone covers. And I went for a physical at the clinic and they said my stats on my health were above the 90th percentile of health for my age. I’m a bioregionalist so I’m always trying to be systemically “of” my surroundings, region, and community as a vital living breathing human being, and I use ASMR videos on YouTube to liven up my sensory capacities to connect therein to my surroundings and maintain a solid environmental awareness; helps in not dropping or bumping things hardly ever, or spilling liquids on anything.

Those are my first principles.

And like I told another person here, I was referring to groceries, not prepared vegan food. There is no prepared vegan food around here, just scant ingredients at certain department stores.

Grow food where? What kind of person can afford enough land to grow their own food? Plus doordashers usually get multiple orders in one trip kind of like carpooling, saves gas. I would just be going just for my own groceries thus wasting gas.

No doordash delivers groceries. I’m referring to groceries. I prepare all my own food these days.

It is brainwash to think that the democratic party is actually in favor of the underprivileged. To me it seems like a transitional organization towards a very real fascism, a way to take horseshoe politics and twist them around until what you have is a straightforward ultraconservative party. Marxism-Leninism is basically conservative in every instance and what they have now is Marxism-Leninism Lite, so there’s not much more to go. The Soviet Union was conservative. True leftism is always libertarian or libertarian-leaning.

100%. Yes. This. High five.

How does that make the democrats not fascists? You think I’m saying the MAGA people aren’t fascist? They are definitely fascist. I already said I’m green. This thing you’re saying about Jill Stein somehow taking republican money is new information to me and I don’t know what to make of it. But it doesn’t change what’s simultaneously going on with the democrats.

EDIT : I see it was the other person who was referring to Jill Stein taking republican money.

It’s the democrats who are behaving increasingly like fascists. They make things horrible for the underprivileged making all sorts of promises and then giving everything to redwashing corporations. They are cultivating a hyper-selfish mainstream culture based on digital clout. They are pseudocollectivist. They are not all the way in that direction but I see the trend line. It’s getting aggressive and increasingly top-down.

I think with the third parties there is less corruption. I think there is a lot of good to be done with the green party.

Wonderful. For what it’s worth I’m here and I support this area of thought and work very very much. It seems to be another battlefield in the science wars or adjacent - techies getting mad because people are trying to comment socially (or in this case ecosocially) on what they, the diehard techies, regard as objective reality in their domain of study. Well it doesn’t mean we can’t endeavor to think in an interdisciplinary way here. It’s weird how militant even many of these open source ‘anarchist’ zealots get about some people trying to see what they can do about addressing the issue of a massive machine of planetary destruction. I mean it seems right up their alley otherwise.