TheoryofChange [they/them]

I don’t support it, but that’s the arguments people are making

Thanks for the clarification from your initial comment it seemed like this was your position

Basically what they’re worried about is kids being forced to wear hijabs

This argument is illogical. Children of all ethnicities and religions are routinely forced to wear certain clothes or not wear others by their parents. Banning specific articles of clothing does nothing to change that.

Also, if children being forced to dress a specific way is a problem, than how is the Austrian state forcing children to dress a specific way acceptable as a “solution”

Arguments in favor of a hijab ban only make sense if you think hijabs are somehow uniquely harmful, a nonsensical and racist premise in my view.

How long ago were you in elementary school if you don’t mind me asking? When I was in either 1st or 2nd grade (2007-2008 ish?) we went over cursive writing only fairly briefly. I would say I can’t write in cursive though I can read it (admittedly slower than printed handwriting). Most of my friends my age can’t read cursive at all.

I cut line for the forest service for a couple years out of highschool and I have many friends still in it. Appalling situation. The pay is insultingly low, something on the order of 18 an hour (for California oregon and Washington) hiring irregular so almost no benefits, more and more people working for these cancerous private contractors with even worse pay and sketchier gear.

And the tasks we get thrown into are frequently borderline impossible. The west is going to burn, and that’s ok. Attempting a policy of general suppression is virtually impossible. Even Attempting to minimize damage to property is an absurd task in a world with almost no actual hardening of the wildland urban interface and commercial logging. Many people in operations understand fire behavior and ecology, and they are handcuffed by what officials and the public want. There are groups in the industry pushing for saner policy and in many cases yhey struggle to gain traction. That combined with the terrible pay causes mass burnout. They burn through people absurdly fast as a result, and those of us with any good way out tend to take it.

It’s pretty cool. The west is a temperate rainforest, which is a beautiful and interesting environment. I currently live in a rural part of western Washington which has a fair share of chuds, but they are simewhat less rabid/easier to reason with than those in other areas in my experience. Also some cool folks, several reservations, some queer communities etc.

Olympia is a neat place, pretty, good music and art scene, active queer scene. Pretty solid.

Outside Seattle-Tacoma, there are a bunch of towns and islands around puget sound with ferries between them which is kinda fun. Some of the places are neat.

Seattle-Tacoma area definitely has a lot of cool people and projects, and outside of Seattle proper you might be even be able to afford to exist there. Unfortunately a lot of the industry there is weapons manufacturing. Don’t have that much detail to go into Seattle because I don’t really like big cities so I don’t really spend time there

Eastern Washington is very different. The weather is hotter and dryer and the chuds are more rabid. Way more idaho style Christian nationalist militia guys with a smattering of white homeland insurrectionary Nazis. Still some decent people and places here and there, and very pretty. Also home to major reservations, a small wine making region and of course the mighty Columbia river

Everywhere will have more natural disasters going forward but the upper Midwest will be affected somewhat less. I think Minnesota and Michigan are both worth looking into I have spent a fair amount of time there as some of my family lives there and had fairly positive experiences. Personally I find the cold winters relatively pleasant (as someone who has spent most of my life on the west coast) but ymmv. Personally I live in Washington, and I’d definitely recommend most of Western Washington. There are also some very friendly areas throughout Oregon and California, though we have wildfires in the rural areas (will make an effort post about wildfire myths, misconceptions and how to not get as fucked by them at some point in the near future when I have time). Don’t bother with trying to move to Seattle, Portland, San Francisco or Los Angeles, they are all very unaffordable. Id recommend many second and third tier cities of Washington, Oregon and even California though, especially if the weather of the Midwest is gnarly for you.

Disgusting

Neither. The couple are both getting dommed by Remy in that situation.

I can see where you are coming from but I don’t think this is the hill to die on and I think you should go to the funeral if you are able to. I also have relatives I strongly dislike, but if we are simultaneously at a funeral or a wedding or something, I just don’t talk to them. If they have hurtful things to say about me (I know they do) I don’t care because their opinions don’t matter to me.

Holy shit this stuff is bleak. People replacing human intimacy with this crap. The Chinese are right to crack down

But a HUGE red flag to larger creator studios, podcast networks, kids media companies, localization operations and anyone that runs multiple channels from a single production stack

Sounds like little of value will be lost tbh. I hope YouTube does purge all these clusters but I kinda doubt they will go far enough

Almost all the food mutual aid/mass cooking groups I’ve been part of hace had overabundance of lettuce as a recurring issue, stores will just donate huge quantities of it. And that was pre cyclospora fears

Go to Iraq and collect in person lol

I love they live

For a while I had a bike trailer with a broken hitch, so I just lashed it to the seat post with two rather tight clove hitches and called it a day. Worked well enough, including on 10+ mile rides, that I failed to fix that for months. My point being, don’t overthink it too much, just build something and be prepared to modify it or go back to the drawing board.

no twinks

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I have grappled with similar thoughts before, and I still do in some ways. Shit is extremely bad here, and it can feel extremely demoralizing and hopeless. That being said, I have made the decision to stay, at least for now, to fight for the bioregion I view as my home. Che Guevara apparently said “I envy you north Americans, you have the privilege to fight in the belly of the beast.” Which I respect as a sentiment. I don’t judge you for choosing to leave though. Pure stubbornness only hoes so far and at a certain point you have to prioritize your mental and physical well-being

Interesting read but I ultimately don’t agree with it. I would argue that focusing on and opposing the physical infrastructure related to an industry people opposed is far more productive than focusing on federal policy for a nascent popular movement. I still think a lot of work is needed before an anti-AI movement is genuinely threatening, but a movement that threatens the vital infrastructure of its enemy and thus has the potential to understand things in terms of supply chains represent strategies with some potential.

Secondly I don’t agree with the premise of the argument that ecological impacts are overstated. All ecological impacts of AI slop generators and the data centers and power plants necessary to run them are objectively luxury emissions. Even if they are less significant than, say, those ecological impacts produced in the steel making industry (unsure if this specific example is correct, fairly immaterial) steel is actually significantly useful to humanity so the discussion of how to reduce emissions is qualitatively different.

That looks like possibly the most awesome job imaginable