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Good ol’ “Foundations of Geopolitics.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

It’s succeeding beyond Dugin’s wildest dreams.

Earlier this month, the Coral Restoration Foundation visited the Sombrero reef in the Florida Keys, a restoration site that the foundation has been working at for over a decade. “What we found was unimaginable – 100% coral mortality,” Phanor Montoya-Maya, CRF’s restoration program manager, said in a statement.

The reef they’ve been nurturing for 10 years died. 90% of the state’s corals have died. They are rescuing hunks of coral to keep in cooled aquaria on land in an attempt to preserve genetic diversity for the future.

Why? The corals can’t be transplanted back into the ocean until the average temperatures drop down, which isn’t going to happen before Florida’s coastline is severely eroded because there are no corals now to protect it. The “new” coastline won’t be proper coral habitat, even if the water does cool back down to 1970s temperatures.

Maybe they can use their tanks of coral to seed the coastlines of states further north, which will be warm enough in a few years, if not already, and will need the reefs for protection from increased storms. But I don’t see it being feasible in Florida.

Well, I’m certainly out of the loop. I’ve never even heard of burrata, let alone had a chance to get bored with it.

glorified babysitter centers

Or preemptive incarceration, like the Texas schools that fired their librarians and turned their school libraries into “behavior” centers.

Allow me to sing the praises of touring trikes. I have a terra-trike, which is not top of the line by any measure, but dang is it fun! The trike solves a lot of problems for me, really feels like magic. Maybe some day I’ll add an electric assist, but for now it’s acoustic and deeply satisfying.

Find another way. There are always options.

CGOB has plenty of journals from people riding 15-25 mile days, people on recumbents, people on trikes. People are even starting to tour on ebikes nowadays.

I got fucked up by cancer. I experimented with options to find what works. Am I gonna win the Great Divide? Nope, sure won’t. Can I ride the route if I wanted? Yup, with some modifications I can totally do it.

Find your modifications and your options. Kick some ass.

Lemmy in general, yes. I’m speaking specifically of Beehaw, too.

Nope, no official announcements. People are very happy about the bots in the discussion threads and feel they are an important part of a lively community.

I’m finding Beehaw is sliding into a reddit-esque feel. I tend not to hang out as much or participate as much now because it leaves me frustrated and rage-baited and anxious. I suppose that is part of the consequences of the influx of redditors creating the environment they like. (And now bots are being welcomed with open arms, too.)

It’s sad to see posts telling folks to go to another instance if they want “community”, when the most endearing thing about Beehaw was the sense of community.

Wasn’t all this just part of the overall plan outlined in Aleksandr Dugin’s “Foundation of Geopolitics”?

“Abbott’s buoys are like a trap set for migrants,” she said. “This is a terrorizing situation. You don’t stop migration by setting death traps….You treat humans like human beings, not like animals.”

Swim up to the buoys, decide not to risk it and instead swim back to shore, but now your legs are entangled in the razor wire (oh, excuse me “sharp metal strips” according to the article) you didn’t see under the water.

Imagine the nightmare of trying to dive under the buoys and getting your head and arms entangled in the razor wire.

What a horrible and cruel way to die. It’s like something a Guantanamo Bay torturer would come up with as a “deterrent.”

Do. Not. Want.

Sure you have! You are posting on it right now; Beehaw Chat. Welcome to Beehaw!

I was deeply disappointed by it, and found it clumsy, slow, heavy-handed, and contradicts some parts of the original.

Guess I’m just jaded and grumpy…

2/3 of kids who aren’t reading proficiently by 4th grade end up in prison or on welfare.

Why give them books and librarians and reading specialists to bring them up to speed? Just gettin’ the lil’ buggers accustomed to their future conditions, dontchaknow!

https://governorsfoundation.org/gelf-articles/early-literacy-connection-to-incarceration/

Children don’t need librarians and books! They need in-school detention centers!

https://governorsfoundation.org/gelf-articles/early-literacy-connection-to-incarceration/

2/3 of kids who aren’t reading at grade level by 4th grade end up in prison or on welfare. Why would Texas want to reduce literacy in their schools?

Then you have underhanded stuff with for-profit health insurance companies buying up clinics. United Healthcare using its Optum arm to own clinics, for example. They own your insurance and they own your doctor - how screwed are you?!?

Voting is supposed to do all this for us, it is the check/balance.

Problem is that more than half of Americans who should vote, don’t vote.

With voyeuristic intentions?

Well secluded… they see all!

(great, now that song will be stuck in my head all day)

Ah, Dred Scott vs Sanford raises its ugly head again.

When you get old enough to be worth 0.6, shall we call it “3/5” just for old times’ sake? As a compromise?