Open Thread WE 1 DEC 21 ~ façade


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The cheeky, uncanny works that comprise Yoon Ji Seon’s ongoing Rag Face series bring the knotted, twisting, and generally convoluted entanglements of a subject’s psyche to the forefront.
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“We don't heal in isolation, but in community.”

― S. Kelley Harrell, Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion

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December the first. Welcome to the last calendar month of this strange year.

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“Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.”

― Zeena Schreck

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What you hiding? Who are you trying to fool?

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Nothing but the reflection that seeks to enlighten.
Open thread so do your things.

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https://www.yoonjiseon.com

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It is good weather this week before the rain moves in...highs in the 70's. I guess it is the last gasp of indian summer. I'm not complaining. Trying to get in a few more projects. Going tomorrow for one more load of manure for the fruit trees and bushes. It is always something, but it's nice to feel productive.

Well hope you all have a productive day. Thanks for the OT.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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it's great.

In my hometown, Portland, Oregon. It's an idea I could easily live with.

In 2007, Ole and Maitri Ersson bought the rundown Cabana apartment complex in the city and immediately began to de-pave parking spaces to make space for what today is a huge permaculture coliving space and urban food forest.

Today, the Kailash Ecovillage has 55 residents who all help farm where there was once pavement, grass, a swimming pool, and an overgrown weed patch.

[video:https://youtu.be/iCGXVk-cBVk]
Kailish Ecovillage

Thanks for the OT.

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A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.

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@Dawn's Meta

lots of interesting structures and life styles.
https://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

@Lookout

Hope to delve more deeply later on.
Good luck with the fertilization!

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@QMS

...and she finds the most interesting people and structures to explore. Enjoy!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

@Dawn's Meta

Seen as an alternate path to pursue beyond 'new established' eco-unfriendly developments.
There is hope for us yet.

A beautiful day in southern New England. Sunny, calm and relatively warm -- mid 40's.
Most of the leaves have fallen. I love the sound of leaves tickling their way down the
branches in the calm of the morning ..

Heading out to enjoy the sky, trying to tackle a new boat project.

Enjoy!

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@QMS NYC is sunny and going to be mid-forties today. Very pleasant for December.

I expect to be out much of the day starting with a trek uptown (not too far, 35 minute walk roundtrip with shopping is about 90 minutes) to Trader Joe's. The walking and carrying of bundles of groceries over both shoulders is a pleasant way to multitask--- walking carrying getting some sunshine filling the pantry.

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One of the tasks for today is to feed the birdies.
All of a sudden, they have all returned looking for food.
We take down the feeders in the summer, so now I need to reload.

Enjoy your urban hike!

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My mom used to do this frequently, she called it suet. Birds go nuts with it. They love it.

Just the fat which you might otherwise throw away. And any small seeds.

Watching Martin Doolaard's video.
Wow, its beautiful.

The Swiss building code sounds a lot like how Geneva's trade treaties lock in (only) deregulation. If you touch an area of a building any more than the way it was before..you have to upgrade it to comply with the code..

Butgo beyond that then they say you must make it compliant with the current rules. (which is expensive) This is why they cant fix things like healthcare. Because we joined the WTO. If they touch it they can only privatize more, (thats the rules) not less. Unless we pay off potentially many other countries if anybody bids to do the job cheap. some way and leave the WTO. And losing IP protection for patents, like drugs. Sure they would be overjoyed to do that.. ha ha.. Why wasnt Bernie Sanders truthful about that? He cant just say the system is rigged and not say how insanely restrictive and difficult to change its been done.

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UC Berkeley used to run housing co-ops for students, which students could buy into and they became part owners of a house.

What a great setup.

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@qms You have a boat?

That must be nice!

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Cat rigged with a lug sail. Covered in the backyard for the winter
"my boats" are a fleet of million dollar yachts
which I take care of for a living. Decommissioning now to be hauled
and put to bed in a shed for the winter.

Turns out some Chinese investment group is going to buy the marina,
plus the two north of us. They got their start buying up trailer parks
all over the US.

The country and businesses are being sold to foreign interests.
For the money. Like our grocery chains - bought by speculators in
foreign lands.

It doesn't seem right to sell-off assets. But the small boards of directors
see big money pay-offs by cashing out. Not surprising In a capitalist culture.

America infrastructure is cheap now. dimes on the dollar.
Btw, has anyone noticed the real inflation going on?

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relationship with democracy. It's entitled "DEMOS VETO AND DEMOS EXIT:
THE NEOLIBERALS WHO EMBRACED REFERENDA AND SECESSION
" by Quinn Slobodian

https://www.ppesydney.net/content/uploads/2021/01/5_Slobodian.pdf

Is there an exit from neoliberalism? This speaks to the request that I document my assertion that neoliberalism is a coercive cult-like rigid ideology. Whose goal is to rule over a world by itself.

It claims it wants a "world without walls" but that is a world where everybody and every thing is walled in.

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Here in my state there is a loophole in labor laws. young poeople can be given a "sub-minimum training wage" The story goes that by vastly expanding this $4.50 hour wage they would be creating a win win, while helping allegedly unprofitable or inefficient small businesses, and imparting America s with additional "work experience" Might this be a Trojan Horse? As I often say everything chnged in 1995. Now, I suspect there is a huge trap.

US jobs are supposed to rejuvenate the economy of the most unequal nations. We just dont know it yet. They already agreed to do this.

So, as long as everything stays essentially the same as it has been since 1995, this is scheduled to happen. Jobs will go to whomever can do them the cheapest. Minimum wages may be illegal now if they stand in the way of free trade. Why would a wage under $10/hour be framed as a trade barrier to foreign firms setting up their businesses to do services, 80% of all jobs here in the US?

Now I am not expecting people to know it immediately but it has to do with their goal of lowering trade barriers (free trade is total freedom to contract to do anything and for any wage thats agreed upon. It might even include slavery (but in the US not based on race) and it could make changes that even if they worked out badly would become irreversible, deregulation is now a one way street. rreversible. Also, why would it be likely to help (juridicial) 'people' other than US teenagers the most, (firms, not people) and why could it hurt US teenagers and young people and adults in the long run. Based on what you should know, MFN and national treatment. (I think)

Would any actual training be required (with most jobs now requiring more and more real training and credentials, how could that be true?) Might people end up paying to get their children experience "working" in the US at important sounding high skill jobs, even if the wage was very low?

Also, would this lowered wage be considered to be a subsidy? If so, to whom? Would it be available to foreign firms, for example, temping firms, why or why not?

Would it only be available to US nationals?

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Our system sees that since people live in boats there is a chance to extract rents. We taught other countries this, any student of Chinese history can see this. They realized, FROM US, that to survive they had to get better at our game than us. Otherwise we would steal everything they had and steal the land right out from underneath the Chinese, and indians. So now they are leveraging their incredibly low labor costs and our gobbledegook we spout about equality to give themselves and their firms a right to do our jobs for us. They are the "factory of the word" and "Back Office of the world" respectively. For a fraction of the price after all, read the news, we don't want or need them (the jobs) anyway, right? We are too good, we have grandiose plans.. Rocket ships, laser beams, YouTube, etc. Nice work if you can get it. But dont quit your day job.. Its a setup.

When I was a kid I was trying to learn sailing, I have sailed two kinds of very small sailboats, a "sabot" and another similar very small boat made of fiberglass. I forget its name. It was small enough to be carried on a car. I really enjoyed sailing these little tiny boats.It was a flow experience. so to speak.

My aunt and uncle (gone now) had a 27 foot sailboat and I also have fond memories of sailing with them and other family members and their little dogs (All wearing, even their dog, life protectors, even doggie life protectors of course)in and around Southern California. I wish it was cheaper to do it. My wife does not swim, I have been trying so hard to get her to go swimming so she would lose her fear of the water..I used to spend a lot of time paddle boarding, etc. Its great.

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Yes, I have noticed lots of price increases in things that I have bought in the past. I am trying to stop buying useless junk.

Now everything that come from overseas has been getting much more expensive. Maybe as much as 35% or 45% more expensive in the past few months. Also local stores and work people are increasing prices. . Lots of people are raising prices of all kinds.

No wonder people dont want to risk their lives for wages that have not risen in years.

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