happybadger [he/him]

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There is another long book referencing long books

Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us.

“Capitalism more like crapitalism” - Frantz Fanon

The Noble Paedophile, our only answer to the Wicked Paedophile.

Your daily reminder that rattlesnakes are secondary pollinators. They eat rodents full of seeds and their digestive acids don’t ruin the germination potential. It’s acid scarification and a wider range for edible plants. Every spaghetti is valuable.

I shouldn’t look for patient files, search for patients

Be really careful with this. All searches are logged. If the care team is hit with a HIPAA violation or malpractice case, they’ll pull up those access records and you risk being caught up in it.

ER culture is trauma bonding. They have to set themselves apart from the rest of the hospital because it’s playing Russian roulette for 12 hours straight and any lapse in concentration risks killing someone. A decade later I don’t take breaks in a completely different field because there’s that nagging voice that says downtime leads to chaos. But it isn’t your turn to give a fuck, so you’re not tied to their culture and there shouldn’t be the same expectation. They’re the asshole in a way that can’t change without them disconnecting from the job. When they go to a new job, they’ll be seen as the asshole who’s too motivated.

So he’s finally turning against Peter Mandelson?

With any unfamiliar water source, I just brew tea on a long boil. One cup with the same green tea bag refilled 5+ times is safe and the caffeine content dissipates by the third pour. I’ve never had issues with water when travelling, backpacking, or camping by sticking to this.

No thoughts I can share, but I’m going to saw down some invasive trees and pretend it’s a guillotine so I can build those muscles.

Thanks to the strides made by the developed socialist economy, it recently became possible to launch the construction of houses by industrial methods. Let us see now how available housing has increased in the Soviet Union. The young Soviet state inherited from the tsarist regime altogether 180 million sq m of useful floor space in towns. This figure has by now been exceeded ten times, mounting to 1,860 million sq m. In the last decade alone, 34 million flats were constructed, which means that more than half the population and nearly three-quarters of the urban population live in new flats or houses. Since some people move into new flats and houses, those who remain in the old dwellings are less crowded, so the majority of working people have had their living conditions improved.

Houses are built in the Soviet Union at an increasing rate. Whereas in forty-odd years, 1917-1959, only about 500 million sq m of floor space in state-owned houses could be built, 545-550 million sq m of floor space will be put into operation during the current five-year period alone (1976-1980). Such is one side of the problem, which is that at the current stage the Soviet state really can provide its citizens with comfortable dwellings.

The other side of the problem is no less important. Rent in the Soviet Union is the lowest in the world, although it is paid for the use of modern dwellings with all conveniences. Soviet citizens are astonished to hear foreign visitors complain that rent consumes more than a third of their earnings. In the Soviet Union, rent comes on average to 5-6 per cent of earnings. Since there is no unemployment in the Soviet Union, and labour is in great demand, usually several members of a family have jobs and on this basis rent accounts at most for 2-3 per cent of the aggregate income of an average Soviet family. In many countries, as is known, apartment houses or tenements constitute a profitable industry.

The Soviet state, however, has never regarded rent as an item of revenue. Both in the past and at the present time rent in the Soviet Union is expended on the maintenance and preservation of houses. The great material possibilities for the construction of new houses and the social measures taken to ensure fair distribution of floor space at low rent thus make a real guarantee of the right of Soviet citizens to housing.

• ABC of Dialectical and Historical Materialism- https://ia801800.us.archive.org/8/items/ABCDialecticalHistoricalMaterialism_cleaned/ABC of Dialectical and Historical Materialism.pdf

Rent being 5-6% of your income and going to building maintenance is what I use to shut down this line of anticommunism. The commie blocs in Bucharest were so nice that they made me an urbanist.

I recently saw an adorable dog rescue video from The Dodo. It was about a bonded pitbull/husky pair that refused to be separated, with the husky being too timid to capture. They were choosing a life of abject fear and slow starvation over losing the only thing they had left. When they finally got to a rescue, the veterinarian said that the owner had been kidnapped by ICE a few months prior. It’s a wholesomeporn video. The mundane daily reality that Europeans will face if they can’t control their Dr. Strangelove arm.

I would vote for Hamas over AOC because they’re honest and don’t reflexively support genocide.

Someday I will fly it. My kids will email me back to say “We understand now. We respect you”. They won’t call me The Sad Man anymore. Nobody will.

I vote for ballot initiatives and then use the DSA’s voter guide for local elections. For president it’s always PSL. Voting for a DSA member isn’t getting an ML revolution, but it is sewer socialism at a local level. Sewer socialism is powerful in a country where the little infrastructure that does work still drives a 20th century society. Americans are radicalised into fascism twice a day on their commute.

Would you ever vote for someone like Trump just to make things intentionally worse in the hopes of sparking off a revolution?

Accelerationism falls into the same wishful thinking category as adventurism. Not wanting blood on my hands is why I don’t vote for democrats. If I throw a chaotic evil boomerang by voting for a fascist, that’s just voting for a democrat and hoping it blows back on enough people to do something before hitting me. The closest thing I’ve found to a good ML path is what the Black Panthers were doing in the 1960-70s. Electoralism and existing power structures might have been cynically engaged, like funding the mutual aid initiatives or electing a politician who might give them breathing room, but power came from organising in their communities and building up dual structures that linked intersectionally with other orgs. Revolution was putting up a stop sign where the city wouldn’t so that the residents watching learned that they had power. It was feeding hungry kids while their parents were engaged in discussions about their issues. Those things can’t be trusted to electoralism because politicians are temporary and usually replaced by their opposite.

I love watching interviews with him about this acquisition and then visiting the subreddits for his stock cultists. He’s an even more transparent charlatan than Elon Musk and struggles to form a sentence. The podcast hosts and news anchors were visibly cringing. His supporters treat it like the return of Christ because it might finally trick someone else into investing in gamestop so they can sell their shares, but it only bumped the price for a single day.

It’s a shame the fediverse doesn’t have native support for them. They made web 1.0 forums fun in a way that 2.0 forums lacked.

I appreciate when an animal looks like god was having a bad day. I too rush things and forget to complete projects.

Thanks! You just unlocked something terrible. It was so inconvenient to find the file each time.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

I’m not them. I’m just a Marxist calling it out as self-defeating Orthodox Marxism.