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Mostly just the impact of intellectual property abuse on your food sovereignty, not so much any direct effect on your biochemistry.

But why. Why are they checked out?

You can blame it on a lot of things, but it always just comes down to ideology, the kind of passive shit like pay scales being taboo or putting up with parochialism or letting advertising everywhere slide.

Good point. I hope it rotates to vertical orientation!

Here’s how it works:

You live in a country that has declared war on a much smaller neighbour. (Sure, for now it’s just economic, but cf. Warren Buffet.)

The victims of the aggression from your region are under no obligation to investigate your personal innocence in the matter.

If you are an ally, the responsibility to demonstrate that is entirely yours. Also, the bar is naturally high, as your fascist government has repeatedly threatened our sovereignty and territory.

So suck it up and read up on Denmark or France in 1940.

Uh, that’s a whoosh, cap’n!

Well, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary, such as the way Costco mostly operates. Being the good guys has a lot of brand value. With a little nurturing of the vast propaganda machine known as advertising, that could be improved.

Unfortunately, ideology is like halitosis: it’s always someone else’s problem. Showing how a position is “allowing you to participate in your own oppression” (my definition of ideology) can seem impossible or require great skill.

Emotionally, a lot of people seem to need a leader not a representative. I wonder how much is culture and ideology, and how much is evolutionary.

We like sweets, too, and learn to do without. I believe we can do the same by suppressing leaders and thus managing the Sociopath in Power problem.

Oh, how disappointing, I thought leftists crossed a broad spectrum of thinking and many were annoyingly, mutually, critical.

Which semi-fictional political segment generalization is self-reflexive then?

Sometimes I go look at r/conservative just to take temperature, and on returning to political communities on lemmy I find the same ad hominem insults and dehumanizing efforts as over there, certainly less of it and less virulent, but just as spiteful and aggressive.

I'm all for being upset when it's appropriate, but I am afraid that political affiliations are no guarantee of sanity or reasoning.

Yeah, thanks! In terms of usage I always advocate that we are contextual and varied depending on both accuracy and audience, including terms like crisis, catastrophe, etc.

From the linked history article:

"When referring to surface temperature change, Charney used "global warming." When discussing the many other changes that would be induced by increasing carbon dioxide, Charney used "climate change.""

Yea, all these labels are true. I think the point many are missing about naming is that these terms can ideally be used rhetorically, i.e. to help people pay attention to a risk, by tailoring the terms to the context.

Risk Communication is an interesting field, and we'll all be needing to understand it better shortly.

Many feel the reverse, that global warming is accurate and unequivocal, while "change" is merely a weasel word that allows demagogues to obscure causes and minimize effects.

Yes regional changes may differ. The planet getting hotter is what kills us all, though.

One of my clients is a small company that has been running with seven staff working from home, scattered around the globe, mostly rural. Since 1999. Everything has been held together by skype: chat, video, audio.

Should be interesting finding the right new workflow!

In British Columbia, there is no legal requirement to change your last name after marriage, and either spouse can legally use either last name at their leisure without any bureaucratic change. It is a genderless law.

Fuckin A, now I am really appreciating that.

Pride parades are morally disturbing to the fascists, but it’s fine when they parade their own authoritarian fetishes.

Rise of the Cult of Stupid, again.

cf. Salo by Pasolini

How ironic, that dehumanizing rhetoric is exactly how we got here.

It’s like they are apologetic for what is about to come, rather than trying to stop it.

Give the money to grassroots resistance, folks. Look around, we are legion but poor.

Yea, just a reminder, folks, 'asshole' is available as a reliable and accurate enough term for shitheads like these two.

Oh I see, Nanking was just some 'bad stuff'.

Not me, I am a damn dirty ape.