I've tried to argue against him but tbh I'm not really good at arguing my case so I'd appreciate if someone were to provide something for me to read for this specifically, or maybe provide some good counter-arguments.
]]>Some groups, I feel would be particularly useful to focus on include:
Some issues I might want to meme include:
I feel like some other groups to focus on might include:
I feel like meming propaganda or deradicalization resources could easily backfire, and honestly I feel like many of those resources wouldn't be so helpful to people. There's ways to do things like that but it just has to be approached in a very different way. I do like certain books and podcasts but I would still think twice.
]]>But like have there been disscussions about how to plant plants so that they can get a head start and llike outgrow and be hard to deforrest. Like planting native grasses on the side of the road will just get the grass mowed / pulled out easy. Though like a fast growing bush that can get started. That can't be mowed and plants that can grow and distribute faster than they can mow and spray herbicide could rewild places where its illegal for the plants to grow.
I don't know much. But I'm curious on ppls thoughts and if they have any links that would help me learn more
]]>One idea that is common is SMART goals. If you feel helpless you set
I realised that governments and corporations in the news pretty much do the exact opposite of these ideas to manufacture helplessness, eg with laws or when asked for action.
This can be further extended with the idea of the 10 Ds: Deflect Delay Deny...
I think the biggest thing is isolating everyone from the room of decisions and discussion in a way so that there is no feedback.
Which of course raises the question - How the F*ck are you supposed to make SMART goals when the major power s are doing everything it can to make sure you can't.
]]>My girlfriend will touch me and ask me what's up and tell me to relax and I will literally not know what to tell her. There is no cognizant or tangible reason for me to be tense. There will be no strangers in the room and we're just relaxing watching a movie or Tik Tok or something and I'll feel like a brick and I must feel rigid asf on my girlfriend. She'll like try to massage my shoulders and back sometimes and idly like rub my arms and muscles, but that doesn't really help. It's like I'm on constant flight or fight. My girlfriend smokes weed sometimes and she's tried to get me to do it with her more, but it makes me anxious and paranoid so I don't like it.
I've thought about me having like vitamin/potassium deficiencies and being too sedentary so my muscles aren't loose, but blood tests say my vitamin levels are all mostly normal and I go to the gym occasionally to run or exercise at home. It doesn't feel like it helps though. I feel like it's something mental, maybe related to OCD, that keeps me on edge. Like those studies that say that OCD and ADHD were evolutionary adaptations that became detrimental in civ living and were meant for constant movement and awareness of the environment. It feels like that were I can't relax and it's painful.
I've been trying peppermint tea to alleviate headaches and to try to relax and I don't know if I should get an incense burner or aromatherapy machine. My brain is doing weird things with an incense burner like the smoke messing with my lungs and me burning things down accidentally so I'm feeling paranoid about that. What do you guys do to help relax when you feel tense?
]]>She's disappointed and telling me what everyone says about being homeless, but she also brings up her mom that used to be homeless. I'm sorry, really, but your mom's life isn't mine. And I'm choosing to want to be homeless, I don't see what other options there are besides that.
Why's she have to stress so much about my life, it makes me feel shitty. I want her to be happy, cause that makes me happy, but I don't really want to regress back to the domesticated life.
She might not even bring it up next time, but I should probably still figure these feelings out for if I wanna talk to my own family about it.
thanks
]]>They're usually very brief, averaging 2-3 pages of text, so perfect for quick reading, and since they belong to various disciplines, they're a great way to expand one's field of vision - to get brief glimpses into how representatives of different academic fields think, what attitudes they express towards the books they're reviewing, etc.
So now I'm thinking of making my review-reading more systematic. There's a great open source application named Recoll that indexes pdf files and lets you search keywords, and just drag the files to new folder. I've also asked ChatGPT to write me little scripts that rename the file with information from the title page, counts how many times a keyword appears in the pdf and adds the number as a prefix to the filename, and the number of pages before that, giving you a great overview - a file-order-ranking - of how much 'bang for the buck' (mentions per page) a given document has.
u/zip asking about gift economy literature made me think back to when I started organizing anarchist primary literature. A light bulb lit up in my thought bubble. Why not combine this method of organizing literature and anarchism? I've now downloaded academic book reviews that mention Proudhon (only 176; pic related) and Charles Fourier (over 800, because of the physicist by the same name, dunno how much will remain after I figure out how to throw those out), and I'm thinking of doing so for every name amongst the primary sources.
I could make the collection of files available through a link in a wiki page, in case someone interested in doing something similar comes along. ATM it seems like a great way to find substantive literature related to anarchism. The thought I had back when organizing the primary sources was that it'd be great to slide some anarchist academic literature into my thesis, if it's relevant, but preferably without the a-word itself appearing in the text or bibliography.
Here's the thing, though. Downloading thousands of pdf files by individually clicking on the "Download" button is not a great bother in itself - I enjoy this automatic activity when watching something on the other half of the screen (I'm a data hoarder and earn my dopamine by downloading and organizing stuff) - but the damn CAPTCHA-s! Sometimes I spend more time clicking on busses and bicycles and stuff than on the "Download" buttons.
I had a bright idea to ask ChatGPT to help me write a script or figure out a browser extension setup that would let me download all 24 search results on the store's search results page at once. The idea was to have the article's store ID number in the URL redirected to sci-hub. I remember being able to copy-paste the store url (starting from www.) to sci-hub and it figuring it out and downloading the article. For some reason this doesn't seem to work anymore?
But the gcheeps was of no help. I'm fairly certain that this is doable and I'm just too much of a ubuntubrain to figure it out. That why I thought I'd ask for your help. Any idea how to automate downloading masses of book reviews from the historical academic literature store without having to click on the same Indian motorcyclists thousands of times?
]]>The sort of "external initial state" can also be incongruous. It is usually highly unequal, or perhaps has some physical constraints that don't make sense for a market mechanism- like a national railway system or public transport system probably needs to have the same type of tracks, and probably a centralised schedule.
Perhaps there is a way to make an unhackable market-like mechanism by addressing the ways it is exploited by power.
]]>Basically you make the person act in a totally random and sometimes painful and humiliating way, sacrificing your social status, dignity, maybe even harming relationships by breaking ties with friends or in the extreme killing someone (this is a trope for drug-cartels on TV). This has the psychological effect of causing a subconscious message that your self-interests and thoughts are not important, kind of propaganda by the deed to yourself.
Maybe if you add up how much craziness there is you can get a measure of how authoritarian the world is.
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