I find the tagging system in lemmy more useful every day!

I’m sorry, did you just… oh lol never mind. I’m going to harvest this whoosh for wind power.

It’s all just food prep for the Archons.

Good point. I hope it rotates to vertical orientation!

Not likely, as Goebbels exported a huge amount of capital and expertise in 1944 before they lost, and they have been working globally on Reich things since then towards this day.

Why, why, uh, if we all did this together and you know contributed a little bit each we would hardly notice especially since we could fund nearly everyone somewhat and even supplement those who really need it… you could give it an interesting name, like sound governance eh

The world is full of Steve Wozniaks who just never get a chance to shine because they are not interested in capital accumulation or are really eccentric or can’t take economic risks or just lost a cutthroat business competition because they trust or are kind. I know a few of them and have met many more.

There are mozarts and einsteins toiling in fields right now. We do not have a shortage of genius and invention. We have an unnecessary zero-sum-game for an economy.

“…his whole thing is …”

Just that. There’s more to his body of work than this glitch you’re reducing him to.

I do not agree with Maté on many of his conclusions nor particularly enjoy his writing, you are misrepresenting his arguments and misinforming people.

He has quite a range of topics he has addressed, and while his fairly recent take on ADHD is unscientific, it’s not representative of his other writings.

She’s one of the treasures of English literature.

Her children’s books are as good as her science fiction themes calling out the fundamental problems we have to face as a civilization.

Or ground crew sabotage.

Most people in BC would wind up in Washington or Lincoln, looks like those go up to around Kelowna latitude.

Anyway, who do I start punching for this?

Canadian here, don’t people just call it a washroom?

I can corroborate that it gets crazy even in courses expecting high literacy. I had the painful experience of teaching a 3rd year course in communication studies that was part of the media production stream. It required writing preproduction documentation and a script. There were a lot of questionable attempts but there’s always a range of interest and skill, right? One student, and let me remind you this is third year at a university, I called into office hours. I’m a fan of poetry, so I just had to be sure that she wasn’t cleverly lampooning Gertrude Stein in some ironic way. Sadly, no, she just had no fucking clue how to write ANYTHING coherent. Amazing.

I’m the one who is awake by the fire when the sabretooth shows up at midnight. I’m the one going around telling everyone to get outside, the house is on fire. I’m the one who is suddenly at the bottom of the small cliff, still steaming and naked from the hot tub, doing first aid assessment on the partier who fell off. I’m the one who burns for 14 hours and gets the team to push that working build out minutes before going live.

There’s dopamine in there. We’re starved for it daily so we can go hard in some way when it counts.

It does seem like a power vacuum if you are fully convinced that power needs to be centralized.

I am reminding the thread that the absence of distributed power is chaos, not anarchism.

Anarchism is anything BUT a power vacuum. All the power is carefully doled out via negotiation and in no way lacking.

Strong propaganda is devoted to supporting your presumption that power only exists when concentrated, so it does feel natural and common sense to say that.

Anarchism is a lot of work negotiating, setting standards and consequences, balancing forces. Constant politics without an overarching state. Any concentration of capability for violence or resource to be shared must be extremely carefully handled.

What you are describing is warlords filling a political vacuum caused by chaos.

Someone has been misrepresenting anarchism to you.

“The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.”

Milton, Paradise Lost

Because I can dictate instantly into the Reminders app, without even unlocking my phone, it leaps over executive disfunction issues quite often.

Hold the power button for 2 seconds and say “add oatmeal and blueberries and coffee to the Groceries list” then go back to my task.

When I get to the store the list is grouped by type, mostly.

Or I say “remind me to call the doctor’s office at 9AM tomorrow” and it goes into the default list and the task notifies me at the right time. For the stuff I inevitably brush off, there’s a widget on my home screen that nags me so I can nurture my guilt lol.

So, I am leaning heavily into Apple’s built in ecosystem for keeping track of things (more private, in theory, as well). I have a about a dozen lists that I add to verbally. Some of those lists are geographically activated so I get notifications when I drive into town that I need to pick up a package, etc.