boloparts

boloparts wrote

Reply to comment by zip in Tuesday Free Talk by tuesday

It's mostly aesthetic. The feed looks a lot more like a facebook feed. Subreddits look like facebook Pages. Some other things that are less aesthetic I forgot about since I said this.

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boloparts wrote

Cape Town made it through with some last-minute rain back when this was a thing (the article is from 2018), but it was close and everybody was rationing water for some time. There have been other metros that have run out of water. The Eastern Cape has been abandoned in some ways by government.
But I've been in other countries where water only works for certain hours of the day, too, or certain days of the week. Things can always get worse and more dysfunctional and become the new normal.

It will be interesting to see what happens when a major city ends up actually totally running out.

One thing I've found here is that since we have scheduled power outages each day, people have adapted to it. It makes some suffering happen, but a lot of that is economic. Much of this stuff doesn't really suit generalised profit making unless you have the resources to produce your own power etc. So it creates more inequality, but it also makes more people less dependent on and more flexible to some elements of infrastructure.

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boloparts OP wrote

Their purpose in Africa, as quoted in Vedomosti, sounds remarkably like this week’s shindig: “Countering Western influence, strengthening Moscow’s position and supporting countries wanting to free themselves of neocolonialism and the Western presence.”

Useful to think about in relation to a post recently about how tankie ideology as a intelligence doctrine seems to have come from Russian counterinsurgency practices

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