LibertyLizard @ LibertyLizard @slrpnk.net

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Because the economic conditions of the modern world allow for tyranny and the people haven’t figured out that we need to unite and overthrow the tyrants to build a better society.

Maybe pixelfed? Never used it but I think it’s more or less designed for this purpose, and it’s on the fediverse.

It is but it’s commonly read in the US. But maybe this applies to the English too. I have less direct experience there.

But I guess it is a bit more reasonable to remind foreign readers of Trump’s party affiliation since presumably the English spend at least a little less time thinking about US politics than we do.

It’s still risky. A woman got detained recently because she was denied entry into Canada and forced to return to the US where they arrested her.

You vastly underestimate the ignorance of the American people.

Would people stop actions against Tesla in that case though? I am hoping we can destroy his wealth, so while him being CEO is a relevant factor, it’s far from the only one.

Needs less head before crab.

Lol

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They usually use a coring device. In theory it should survive just fine although I don’t know that long term effects are well-studied.

But I mean this is one reason some big old trees have such bogus ages reported. Either they’re too big to reasonably core or they don’t want to risk any damage. Or sometimes the middle of the tree is too rotten to count the rings. It’s OK to say we don’t know the age rather than making something up.

It’s the main accurate way, at least for living trees. By the way, I’m including cross-dating here since even though it’s slightly different from ring counting, it uses the same basic idea just extended to a wider group of trees.

There are other methods but none really have a proven track record of accuracy the way tree-ring based methods do.

For well documented trees that coexisted with literate cultures, historical records can be used, though these records can sometimes be wrong. Some trees have ages from oral tradition too but these are difficult to verify.

Overall, I view non-ring-based methods with skepticism and some are outright preposterous, especially the common claims you see online which have no methodology listed. But even some published estimates using alternative techniques seem dubious. Perhaps they will be replicated and proven in the future but the evidence is tenuous today.

Also, if you didn’t count the rings then you don’t know how old the tree is. I don’t care how old your uncle thinks it is. You have no idea how often this comes up and how many completely implausible tree ages are just posted as fact on the internet.

But that never happened. We never decided that. No one even asked me. Again, I never opted in and there’s no realistic way to opt out. I’m far more afraid of the state than I am from my neighbors, and if I had a real choice, I would opt out immediately.

I think there can sometimes be tension between these two ideals, as with any two disparate goals but I think they are often more aligned than people think. Freedom from terror and violence is an important freedom as well.

Social contract theory is statist propaganda. Even before I knew anything about politics or political theory I was so confused by this idea.

It’s just there to create an illusion of consent for state oppression. Even though there’s no realistic way to opt out, and we never even decided to opt in in the first place.

What kind of crazy contract is that?

People seem upset about this. I’m over here wondering wtf is an echo?

Maybe there is a way they could have been done better, I don’t know, but I always feel the need to push back on this idea because in reality they’ve been an absolute calamity that I’ve been suffering from my whole life as one of the many people forced to live near one.

https://youtu.be/YWdD206eSv0

Except highways make everyone worse off not better. That one doesn’t fit.

They aren't a monolith. I attended the protests and voted for genocide Joe. I'm sure many others did too.

Not that people who didn't deserve any of this. This is an extremely wrongheaded way to look at this.