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Sensationalism will be the death of us. They sprayed the rocks with corn starch and food dye. But “protestors spray Stonehenge with cornstarch” doesn’t generate the clicks.

Here’s the story in a way you never heard it:

“It’s time for us to think about what our civilisation will leave behind – what is our legacy? Standing inert for generations works well for stones – not climate policy.”

For the sake of our future, the media must do better.

GuerillaOntologist ,
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@eb Yeah, the news coverage got it somewhat wrong. However, I also think the protesters need to do a serious strategy re-think. Defacing cultural artifacts is not changing anyone's mind about climate change. Like, maybe go after oil companies instead of heritage sites? That would be harder though, and more dangerous. I'm pretty sure the oil companies LOVE these people. Nothing like having your opposition willingly shoot themselves in the foot repeatedly. 🤦‍♂️

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400 years ago something surprising happened right here

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Well, in just the first three months of that fateful year there were reports of a lunar civilization, a royal marriage between one year olds, and a royal death death caused by a Tantic curse. 1620 was indeed a WTF kinda year.

From the Wikipedia article for the year 1620: January–March January 7 – Ben Jonson's play News from the New World Discovered in the Moon is given its first performance, a presentation to King James I of England. In addition to dialogue about actual observations made by telescope of the Moon, the play includes a fanciful discussion of a lunar civilization a dance by the "Volatees", the lunar race. [1] January 22 – In France, Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, and his wife, the Duchess Marie de Rohan, sign a marriage contract on behalf of their one-year-old daughter to be engaged to the year-old son of Charles, Duke of Guise. [2] January 26 – Karan Singh II becomes the new ruler of the Kingdom of Mewar (in the modern-day state of Rajasthan in India) upon the death of his father, the Maharana Amar Singh I. February 4 – Prince Bethlen Gabor secures a peace treaty with Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor. March 22 – King Karma Phuntsok Namgyal of Tibet dies of smallpox after a reign of less than two years, after Ngawang Namgyal of Bhutan casts a tantric spell over him. [3] March 24 – English sailor Owen Fitzpen is captured by Turkish pirates while on a trading voyage in the Mediterranean Sea and sold into slavery. He remains a slave in North Africa for seven years until he and 10 other slaves are able to take over a Turkish ship and sail back to Europe.
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    Via the wonderful Just Seeds website!
    https://justseeds.org/graphic/you-dont-have-to-hate-your-job-to-want-a-union/

    A complex comics poster in black, white, red, and blue. The top banner states: Sometimes people’s care for their workplace gets weaponized and used against them.” The comic-style figures show one boss saying: “Thought you might be more grateful to work here.” And another cries: “Thort we were a family!” A list of possible jobs that could unionize include: An NGO, A Community Radio Station, a Sustainable Cafe, Community Legal centre, etc. The center circle element of the image states in bold: “Just remember, you don’t have to hate your job to want a union!” Bottom text states: “It’s about Democracy. Trying to make your workplace a bit more fair is an act of love and care, not reckless opposition.” Figures on the bottom of the image are voting and say: “We just wanna leave on time!”, “We want better enviro policies!”, “No more bullying!”, and “We want better health and safety!”
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    Much of what you need to know to understand the current dysfunction in the US (and other parts of the world too, I'm sure).

    https://www.okdoomer.io/all-about-the-dissonance/

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    "So this bill will protect the Ku Klux Klan to wear masks in public, but someone who's immunocompromised like myself cannot wear a mask?"
    — North Carolina Senator Sydney Batch, who is a cancer survivor

    Unbelievable.

    GuerillaOntologist ,
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    You are permitted to wear an N95 so long as you cover it up with a Klan hood.

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    Today's must read 👇

    The Unlearning Of Empathy
    https://indi.ca/the-unlearning-of-empathy/

    My kids listen to stories at night and the heroes are always the poor, the down-trodden, who remain kind and try to help their people through it all. The bad guys are the landlords, the rulers, who hoard and steal and hurt despite having more than enough. But then what are my stories, as an adult? Everything in the grown-up press lionizes landlords, rulers, and glorifies hoarding, stealing, and hurting as the basis of our very economy and social system. The poor are failures, the down-trodden deserve it, and kindness is folly. These are very serious opinions from very serious people. We complicate what is simple and call ourselves sophisticated. It's just sophistry. We are the villains in our own children's stories. What have we become?
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    Limitarianism The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns

    "A powerful case for limitarianism—the idea that we should set a maximum on how much resources one individual can appropriate. A must-read!"
    —Thomas Piketty, bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
    An original, bold, and convincing argument for a cap on wealth by the philosopher who coined the term "limitarianism."

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    How much money is too much? Is it ethical, and democratic, for an individual to amass a limitless amount of wealth, and then spend it however they choose? Many of us feel that the answer to that is no—but what can we do about it? Ingrid Robeyns has long written and argued for the principle she calls "limitarianism"—or the need to limit extreme wealth. This idea is gaining momentum in the mainstream – with calls to "tax the rich" and slogans like "every billionaire is a policy failure"—but what does it mean in practice?
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    @appassionato @bookstodon
    As my old econ prof John Photiades used to say, "Everyone talks about a minimum wage, but no one wants to talk about a maximum wage."

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