I live in rural Canada, our local (left coast) grocery has the palm-oil-free NZ licorice RJ’s, which is pretty good, and a specialty confectionery in the village nearby has some great icelandic licorice but it’s expensive.

But at 6K km I guess you are on the prairies, so good luck on the licorice hunt eh!

User LemmyKnowsBest publicly claims that all laws are just, fair, and teasonable.

Yes, we have a lot of wonderful adjectives in English. Swear, and be profane, for fun and profit. If you don’t want to use The Vulgar Tongue, then lean on the lexicon.

The black bar really adds no decency, it’s performative and viewed by many as a form of hypocrisy.

Since this is a textual medium run with adult behavioural standards, the rule that infantilizes profanity with absurd fucking censorship is cringeworthy and likely to be mocked or pilloried.

Dude, now you’re making it personal with totally the wrong person. What a dork.

Yes, this is all self-evident to anyone who recognizes overconsumption and premature or planned obsolescence.

My point is that advertising and other misinformation makes it extremely difficult for the average person to make rational decisions about technical issues when making purchases, so blame lies much more with companies, governments, and culture than the teeming hordes you look smugly down on.

Oh yes, advertising doesn’t work, which is why it’s fucking everywhere

Yeah it’s great how the law is complex enough to criminalize any aspect of your life that is needed for persecution!!

This is a good time to mention how we have been propagandized about the Luddites.

This is precisely the issue they had with the newindustrial tooling up they were facing, it wasn’t the tools, per se, that they objected to, but the de skilling and Disenfranchisement of the way those tools were being deployed by industrialists.

Being a luddite was and is about ownership of the tools and abuse by capitalists on skilled workers, and the disruption of our important knowledge base and skill sets.

OK trankies are tiresome but the comment was on point.

I was once on a train in Italy and the train had a wildcat strike. It was just that train and only in that one location. Everyone on the train was resigned, because it’s part of the culture.

Italy has had a long history of radical communist and anarchists, actually having political status and pushing back continuously. Here we are, trying to make it part of our own local cultures. There’s a lot of work to do.

skill issue

It’s not a list of sources. It’s a list of dopamine management methods.

True! Also true that some people need to scale things up over a long time, like titration of medicines. Or binge an activity to maintain it over the long haul. Etc.

Back in the ‘90s, my grad student roommate was studying how tanzanian chimps use certain plants only for antiparasitic effect. Quite effective and too small in quantity to be food. Medicine.

Logistics. But the resistant insurgency will carry on for living memory, even after this shit is put down.

Pumpkin ginger carrot

Sit the fuck down.

lol at 7:10, a presentation slide in the background reads:

JOE ROGAN

CODE NAME: Uncle Fester

BRAIN SMOOTHNESS: warm pudding

LaTex tribe expands to video eh?

I first learned computers by sneaking onto campus and borrowing an account to layout a book using Tex. It’s convolute. I can see a certain masochistic thrill in command line video editing.

Yes, this is The Great Filter. We fix it or fade away.