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Last Notes npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! thank you for this, I've been kind of skeptical of this, and you've moved me significantly closer to your position. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! this is something I deeply feel. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! I mean remember how everyone laughed and thought Trump had no chance in 2015? npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! eh, not sure that's true. These are people desperate for a leader. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! I hope so, but I tend to think this is the track Republicans have been on for so long, they'll do the same thing for another Republican soon enough. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! yep. I've never seen anyone arguing so passionately for their own powerlessness as wealthy people who have to convince themselves (and maybe less importantly us) that there's nothing they could have ever done or will ever be able to do to make the world better for anyone they're not directly in relationship with. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! all laws, including how we define private property, what counts as money, and littering are socially created the same as budgets. There's a spectrum of ways to get people to do what's socially and community minded - on one side is making it easy & providing services to support it, on the other side is making laws, policing & enforcing them. Both choices cost something, and generally America has chosen the second and pays way more with a lot more violence and less social buy -in and unity & social trust than comparable countries. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! yeah a lot of the trails I go on either have trash cans at reasonable intervals or are backpacking trails where it's not just dog poop that's being buried 😅 npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! I agree about the poop bag! If you're going to leave the poop anyways, better to not have bagged it in the first place, dig a hole and bury it is much better practice! One technique a friend I hike with does is use an old plastic take out container and duck tape so it can hang hands free from the backpack, then bag the poop, put it in the take out container, and hike it out that way. Very convenient for not having poop in your hands or smell, and being able to put multiple bags in there for a long hike without the risk of the bag(s) somehow getting damaged and getting the poop on you/your stuff. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! just that if they provide a parking lot, it seems reasonable to provide a trash can, the arguments for both are similar. Cars produce a bunch of waste that the city will have to pay to handle as well (tire pieces, air & water particulates, CO2, the pieces that get left behind after a crash) and this seems like it's putting a higher expectation on dog owners than car owners. Both of these (dog cleanup infrastructure, car cleanup infrastructure) make more sense as infrastructure fixes because they're marginal effort to do it as a community while for each individual they're more annoying. Like if you don't have a car, how far are you carrying the poop? If you have a car, you're supposed to bring the poop in the car? And I don't even know that it's possible for an individual to clean up their cars waste even if you just did a karmic matching(ie planting 20 trees, picking up a tires worth of plastics or whatever) instead of specifically your own cars waste. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! yeah, and I guess that's to the same point right? Trash is a basic infrastructure service same as providing parking. Each car creates more waste than each dog... npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! feels like they maybe should install a trash can... npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! so much of this. It's lifestyle change, not one simple one time change.. continuous improvement. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! I need to refresh my sewing skills before using fancier new fabric I bought. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! Makes sense. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! yeah but that's missing two of the most crucial points of the principle. Those that burn 1) most efficiently through the maximum power for the most 2) useful output. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! well so I do containers generally, and basically I put some small amount of soil and sprouted organic potato part in a container and then cover it with whatever leaf litter and other stuff I'm pulling out of my garden that day, and then I place them under a lemon tree. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! The overlap between my techniques for composting and growing potatoes is somewhat disturbing. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! My matilija poppies get that tall! I think the fence in this photo is 12' and the flowers (the white ones in the back) were another few feet above it. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! it's much faster moving than that. The human use case and the profitability of the company are fundamentally no longer tied together as a general economic principle. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! but then why OpenAI? It also has no pathway to profit. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! I'm imagining split keyboard but over the cups of a bra now npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! I mean I think I can speak for the elder members of my family in that they're defending their family narrative/self-conception. Like the idea that they own multiple houses because their great grandparents displaced or at least used land that had been taken from people displaced in the Trail of Tears I think harms their "I shouldn't have to pay taxes & private property is sacred" narratives which are also mixed in with a "our parents were good people so I'll stick with the same party they supported" politics. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! Yeah, I know a lot of people who stopped reading because grad school (of literally any profession) burned them out. Which I think is an indictment of grad schools. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! So I'm doing a classroom exercise for intro to gardening (a class mostly outdoors, in the garden) - I am thinking I'm going to talk about cycles. Seasonal, nitrogen, growth & decay, maybe some conditioning: cold hibernation or fire germination or heat ripening, that sort of thing.. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! A riotous section of flower bed npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! broken link fyi npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! If there's not fully reciprocal and generous immigration policies, there shouldn't be international financial investment between the countries. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! yep, and he doesn't seem to get the idea that conspicuous carbon consumption is unkind to future generations. Like he's super pissed at me for criticizing(to him, not even to their face) his friends who fly private multiple times a year. Apparently my judging them is worse than their actual actions. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! I think he's planning on dying before it impacts him npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! I wish it was just Republicans :( talking to my lifetime Dem dad, and the amount of "but nothing I or any of my friends do needs to change at all" reached intolerable yesterday. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! my grandfather had bomb souvenirs from WW2, bet plenty of people passing (vets and their surviving partners) have those + Korea + Vietnam. I bet many are just going to be sent to the dump too. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! the plan is to bring back indentured servitude I think, and some like that idea but some realize that actually will be more expensive than their current practice of criminally underpaying undocumented people who are afraid to go the authorities.. at least from my brief glances at reporting. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! So much this. And with the accumulation of larger investment funds the scale really means they're also npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! I really liked some of the Mexican anarchist movements I've heard of which were a bit more successful & explicit than Euro movements IMHO - they'd take over towns and free everyone in jail and burn the property records. Goals included returning land & production to indigenous/worker stewardship & empowering women. There's stuff I don't like too - they banned booze for example - but seemed a bit better. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! living life on challenge mode :/ the problem for me is that most people are living unsustainable lives so they generally think they're doing the best when they're digging themselves into the worst hole. Or when they think they're at the bottom, they're actually in the safest place they have ever been and are fighting to get back to being in a terrible no good dangerous to themselves and everyone else prison. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! Glad I'm not dating right now. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! Hiking in Marin photos from yesterday. I'm so glad to have nature access. Pictures taken on the Cataract Falls & Rocky Ridge Trails. We also saw salamanders, spring wildflowers and heard the croaking of so many frogs. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! on the fix it list for the next generation right? npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! oof yeah. Trains? @npub1g8l…vwtm @npub1ldj…5q07 npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! e-bikes are great :) npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! not black. But have I considered emerald or sapphire velvet wallpaper? Absolutely. But that's also because I want sound dampening & insulation. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! IMHO working in a bunch of coffeeshops as long as there are free tables one being occupied by someone (who doesn't need additional service) improves the atmosphere, makes the cafe look popular & others more likely to come in - so staff doesn't mind at all (esp if you tip well for your purchase). Owners/bosses sometimes get weird though. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! as long as you have coffee or pastry or something in front of you... npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! Jennifer Jewell has a podcast called Cultivating Place where she interviews a lot of native gardeners and nursery owners and talks about how they got started. In defense of plants also has some interviews like that though many of them are more science oriented. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! It's not a human thing. It's a distinctly Colonial/Capitalism thing. We will have to make big changes to our social & physical systems to make sustainable lives, but we've made bigger changes in the last century - that's how we got here in the first place! npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! EVs still leave harmful particulates in air & water, increase environmental noise, harms plants & animals, generally shortens lives & decrease quality of life for unconsenting people outside the vehicle. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! you're right, but that doesn't mean you're not harming people when you drive. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! every drive is an act of violence. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! I looked at Scammon Bay askance until I zoomed in. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! Not only do the ends not justify the means, there is no such thing as an end. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! I haven't watched all the Treks but... Are there librarians? They're out there doing science and collecting massive amounts of information - who is organizing it?!? npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! I've had friends who had contacts with banned autocorrect words to get arrive the ban. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! I'm so ace that literally all the results were just bust magazine being profiled in other media. (Though my reading is spicy, that doesn't show up in Google results) npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! Just did a Google search for bust magazine - the bust magazine website was not on the first page of results. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! I don't know about that. I think there's a significant majority who didn't vote for him (many of whom didn't vote at all) and trying to convince his fans to move away from him is less important than providing a _positive_ alternative to business as usual & to the Republican brand of change. The Dems doubled down on centrism, bipartisanship & business as usual to try to court the GOP votes. That hasn't worked. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! Thanks to scammers, spammers and rampant fraud including by "legitimate" businesses & "regular" people the Internet is now next to useless for looking for dates, apartments or jobs. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! yep, more totally separated bike & foot & horse paths should be on the agenda for rural communities. Take advantage of the rural-ness! npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! i thought we'd already achieved that? Aren't we breaking records on fossil fuel extraction both nationally and globally? npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! that's the part of longtermist thinking that makes the least sense, even according to their own internal logics, for me. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! which would be nice because a decade or so ago I remember that concierge was the most audited profession... While the average concierge made far less than $100k. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! I can't attribute intentions to American political parties. Theory of mind for organizations is already hard, let alone for ones that routinely act in ways I can not comprehend or justify. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! and I looked it up and the top priority is improving the economy and 20 out of 20 is dealing with global trade. That sounds to me like the tariffs/economic protectionism are not a priority but cost of food, housing, healthcare are. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! sure, and what percentage of people polled are retirees? And does the poll have a category for 'affordable housing' or 'affordable food' or 'affordable home insurance' or are voters where those are the top priority issues left to try to figure out how to describe it? Cuz it might make sense to say the economy but have no interest in protecting factory jobs. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! climate change will harm current workers more than economic changes. Seniors are more vulnerable to heat harms & extreme weather. The younger you are now the worse the heat incidents & extreme weather will be when you are an elder. Also the more harm you experience in the intervening years. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! although, doesn't the idea that it would be a better world in that case depend on a continuously good or improving information ecosystem? npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! At Brenda's Meat & Three patio & may I say how much I love community restaurants like this? Ages vary from infants in arms to elders, there's welcoming places for groups, singles and couples. Despite the name it's also vegetarian & vegan friendly. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! Neither claim is true. The dust bowl happened because people treated the earth as excludable. A buffalo herd didn't exclude anyone, a fence for cows excluded almost everyone. What we do impacts others, private property is just a way of pretending that's not true. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! But that's the point - the whole idea of that land being private property started right then. npub158dqpdm34pz42h2d05jkdmauc8nj8ku9pmj2m2g96vnmln855jrssrl27d bloomtime! all things in moderation is real - I wear sunblock pretty much everyday but I try to also get outside in the morning for 15 minutes or so without sunglasses or sunblock.
