111seedhillroad

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i think a lot of people would be happier if they viewed labels like homosexual and transgender as social technologies rather than identities

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entering my unapologetic hater arc

im so oppositional, they were right in middle school calling me a hater

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sometimes you just watch a 200 views vid of a girl talking about how the world sucks, she's never gonna have kids and her cat is unironically her reason for living. and you know what? its comforting.

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im so oppositional, they were right in middle school calling me a hater

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dostoevsky was right ideology is a kind of demonic possession

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Full Article Text:

The United Kingdom is facing dire food shortages, forcing prices to skyrocket, and experts predict this is only the beginning.

What's happening?

According to a report by The Guardian, extreme weather is wreaking havoc on crops across the region. England experienced more rainfall during the past 18 months than it has over any 18-month period since record-keeping began in 1836.

Because the rain hasn't stopped, many farmers have been unable to get crops such as potatoes, carrots, and wheat into the ground. "Usually, you get rain but there will be pockets of dry weather for two or three weeks at a time to do the planting. That simply hasn't happened," farmer Tom Allen-Stevens told The Guardian.

Farmers have also planted fewer potatoes, opting for less weather-dependent and financially secure crops. At the same time, many of the potatoes that have been planted are rotting in the ground.

"There is a concern that we won't ever have the volumes [of potatoes] we had in the past in the future," British Growers Association CEO Jack Ward told The Guardian. "We are not in a good position and it is 100% not sustainable," Ward added.

Why is it important?

English farmers aren't alone — people are struggling to grow crops worldwide because of extreme weather.

Dry weather in Brazil and heavy rain in Vietnam have farmers concerned about pepper production. Severe drought in Spain and record-breaking rain and snowfall in California have made it difficult for farmers to cultivate olives for olive oil. El Niño and rising temperatures cut Peru's blueberry yield in half last year. Everyone's favorite drinks — coffee, beer, and wine — have all been impacted by extreme weather.

According to an ABC News report, the strain on the agriculture industry will likely continue to cause food prices to soar.

If these were just isolated events, farmers could more easily adapt — bad growing seasons are nothing new. The problem is that rising temperatures are directly linked to the increasing amount of gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere.

Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, humans have burned dirty energy sources such as coal, oil, and gas, which release a significant amount of those gases. Our climate is changing so drastically that the 10 warmest years since 1850 have all occurred in the last decade.

"As climate change worsens, the threat to our food supply chains — both at home and overseas — will grow," Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit analyst Amber Sawyer told The Guardian.

What can we do about it?

"Fortunately, we know many ways we can make the food system more resilient while reducing food emissions. The biggest opportunity in high-income nations is a reduction in meat consumption and exploration of more plants in our diets," said Dr. Paul Behrens, an associate professor of environmental change at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

If we replace a quarter of our meat consumption with vegetables, we could cut around 100 million tons of air pollution yearly. It may seem strange to suggest eating more vegetables with the decline in crop production. However, reducing the land and water used for animal agriculture and diverting those resources to growing more produce would drastically help the declining food supply.

Growing our own food is also a great way to reduce our reliance on store-bought produce, and it can save you hundreds of dollars a year at the grocery store.

#trippy huh #collapse

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i believe in fate as similar to the dao, everything occurring as a singularity, there is no past, present, future and that while we can predict things about the singular unfolding of subsequent certain-to-happen moments, we are also infinitely limited in how well we can know what will actually happen. lack of knowledge and limited perception, cognition, language creates a situation where we cannot know where the source of our own will comes from, so it is often said to be "free", something independent of causality, which can be useful sometimes when there is internal tension needing to be resolved by an arbitrary source (Higher Self, moralizing Self, The Dao, the Holy Spirit), but even this exists firmly in the matrix of the singular moment.

I think anarchists, in rejecting fate and championing free will, end up fighting an uphill battle against themselves, claiming to reject morality just to feel guilty the next time they accidentally moralize. they want to be blank slates (deconstruct, unlearn, deconstruct, reject), capable of infinite potentiality, but no one can escape the fact that the past is now and chaos makes fools of us all. internalizing fate is also internalizing uniqueness and being primed to play the fool, to allow the chaotic life to be effected and have its own effects.

#theory thoughts #anarchy

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#berserk #anarchy

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It's because you're always on that damn Hopeium

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...every time we take a step we're surrounded by the ideological birds of prey who feed on our possibilities, feed themselves with concepts of our desires and reenslave us with beautiful combinations of words which seem to depict the world we failed to realize.

Letters of Insurgents (1976) Fredy Perlman

#anarchy #fredy perlman

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it’s normal to think about worms this much

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"fuck it we ball" as i pour myself a bowl of fucking cornflakes

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more and more my hostility towards civilization hones in on universities. how can you possibly leverage anything as students paying to be there without the threat of literally burning the whole thing down. student protesters are always going to play the demands game and their always going to lose because they pay into the war chest of their enemy. i think the only reason student movements happen so consistently is the turnover of the student population over years. otherwise there would be way more jaded people ready to take the institution itself hostage and really trying to make people shit themselves for not listening earlier. just saying there is a lot of expensive and irreplaceable shit in universities and it would be a shame if someone did something to it.

Never been super keen on the campus protest as a thing because of the nature of learning institutions. as a contained bubble, the repression opportunities are optimal whereas the solidarity and direct action opportunities are minimal. Its even worse than prison and work protesting (which also have their "bubble" elements) because you are paying to be the open air captive and worker for the spectre of social improvement. I think this might be why student protests are so consistent over time and can be very explosive but for the most part do little to effect their lot as students or the institution at large.

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imagine being a humble chicago anarchist opening up the morning paper to see that the guy all your comrades told you to keep away from b/c they thought he was a cop fucking shot william mckinley lmao

#true and real #this happened #time is a flat circle

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Nobody knows

Who was the first to go

There's always been the traveler long before there was a road

Though you'll die a thousand times,

Leave everything behind

We'll be waiting for you just outside

#this album is such an experience

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Try this new rhetorical trick to beat genocide. Convince people that maybe even nonliving things that are threatening to them that they don't understand don't need to be destroyed, dissected, controlled, or exploited. Maybe it's fine. Maybe there is a difference between feeling threatened and being in danger.

#trippy huh #anti civ

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i wanna live communally again but this time not entirely with tme nonbinaries