The Evening Blues - 9-6-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 3:41pm
Open Thread - 09-06-24 - Muh Democracy
Submitted by JtC on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 7:58am
From: Miriam Webster Dictionary
Democracy
noun1 a: government by the people
especially : rule of the majorityb: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
2: a political unit that has a democratic government
3 capitalized : the principles and policies of the Democratic party in the U.S.
from emancipation Republicanism to New Deal Democracy—C. M. Roberts4: the common people especially when constituting the source of political authority
5: the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges
Anybody seen muh democracy anywhere?
Attribution: Pexels Commons
The Evening Blues - 9-5-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 09/05/2024 - 4:23pm
Open Thread - Thurs 5 Sep 2024 - Materials, Energy, Batteries
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 09/05/2024 - 5:00amI was reading this article (Circular Battery Self-Sufficiency) by Cory Doctorow, a person I know more about in relationship to his work with open source software and the EFF, about battery recycling and climate change and suddenly I found some reasons to be optimistic about the future. Maybe there aren't very many reasons, but they are there! Yay!
Doctorow starts off by acknowledging the difficulty it is going to take to transition to renewable energy, but says it's not insurmountable. It's going to require a lot of politics AND a lot of engineering, and reconceiving our relationship to energy and materials. Instead of energy being scare and materials being abundant, energy is everywhere (sunshine!, tides!...) and materials are scare. What a change it's going to take to get humans to accept that though!
Here comes the sun... (from here).
The Evening Blues - 9-4-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 4:15pm
OT WE 4 SEP 24 ~ Writing for fun
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 5:00am~
It's not a job, it's what I do for a loving, darlings.
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The Evening Blues - 9-3-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 09/03/2024 - 5:03pm
Butterfly effect
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:10am
Had a great Labor Day weekend. Spent it up at the farm harvesting crops and working on my combination pumphouse/outhouse, just in time for the family to arrive for a kayak trip down river.
Six of us floated down and stopped about halfway to have a sack lunch. Didn't see any river otters this time but plenty of eagles fishin' for lunch.
Kanto Massacre, historical denial; will martial law return to South Korea?
Submitted by soryang on Mon, 09/02/2024 - 7:48pmBelow an excerpt from an October 2021 Georgetown Journal of International Affairs article on the Kanto massacre and Japanese denialism, the author is Tessa Morris-Suzuki:
The Fait Accomplis of History
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 09/02/2024 - 3:26pm"I think history is going to show that in so many ways [Biden's presidency] was transformative" -- Kamala Harris
Harris' statement is correct, yet nobody, least of all her, wants to deal with the actual transformation. What is that transformation?
