It appears to be age restricted due to the subject matter. Tom Tanuki is an Australian Anarchist who covers a bunch of stuff in the (usually) anti fascist space. In this video he goes in depth about Aaron and trying to preserve his own words when the media is going to try to spin it as mental illness or something. Also adds some thoughts about Palestine and shows the support he's getting from there.
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From What is a Walkable city:
These spaces incorporate elements like seating areas, public art installations, water features, and greenery, enhancing the overall aesthetic appeal and providing a respite from the built environment.
and
Ample green spaces, street trees, and seating areas provide comfortable resting spots and encourage people to enjoy their surroundings.
So... yes? Like I know it might be cathartic to someone driving-by (heh) the concept, but seating is very much in the design of walkable cities.
I initially read this as a pretty benign comment but I've sat on it overnight and the more I think about it the more it makes me angry. Sorry satanmat.
which direction forward?
I don't think this is true. There are huge swathes of progressivism which most if not all progressives agree upon. The problem is that the right has a deadlock. They can make incremental "improvements" to their goals because they've already "won" more or less. We're at the "end of history" and picking up the pieces as losers, and a fractured movement. This necessarily means more work to bridge that gap, but this doesn't mean no one agrees on the outcomes.
Workers get upset that we’re providing for immigrants
The right has effectively used globalisation + racism to kneecap unions. The "left" really has no answer. There are global unions but inequality is at such a scale that you couldn't get some sort of global agreement to labor, or labor rights which operate across nations (this also goes back to the previous point: For the left to fix one problem, it needs to fix a lot of problems at the same time).
Couple that with broadly progressive people having conservative ideas, and we can see that it's conservative thinking (racism, sexism, etc) limits how we can co-operate. All of us are free or none of us are free.
Israel should have the right to defend itself. BUT Palestinians should too.
I'm just going to link the Shaun video here. It's not Israel vs Palestine, it's (right wing, in some ways fascist) Zionism vs not. This is an issue of Media which largely frames the debate in terms the right prefers, thinking of it as a wedge issue.
The left tries but we’re by nature self destructive
As I hope I've made clear, the right has a lot of connective tissue, mostly because they have most of the bargaining power, and the left have been slowly losing ground over centuries. It's not destructive, it just has a much harder job.
Someone shared this article a while back, and while I don't agree with it, I do think it's instructive. You cannot exactly have an "authoritarian left" get along with a "anarchist left". This video about Hegemony also covers how we can possibly work together.
One, because an authoritarian left looks a lot like an authoritarian right (to an anarchist left). When both the Fascist and the Marxist want to take away your rights, you really need to know which one you're looking at.
Two, even within Anarchist circles, there's some disunity about how to bring about "the revolution". Some advocate for destabilising forces, which would "naturally" cause people to seek freedom. Others think we need to strengthen bonds of society. This, for reasons explained in the article, does not work.
However, even the authoritarian left won't "work" because the end goal for a Marxist is to remove the actual infrastructure of oppression, and like Lenin said, it's not gonna happen; you can't get there from here.
So the real issue is that most of us can agree on where we want to end up, but we can't really agree on how to get there. The Authoritarian left has wet dreams that we'll all somehow learn "the theory" (and frankly given the comments even the commenters in this very subreddit do not know "the theory" and I barely know it), and then something something revolution.
The Anarchist problem is that we explain "the theory" in "common" terms, so it doesn't really sound rational to someone who knows "the theory". Even then, most people are dumb, like ChatGPT dumb. They'll use the right words in the right places but they mostly know that because they're text prediction engines, so they're nominally "anarchist" until the capitalist gives them more bread and circuses for a bit.
In the end, I think a lot of ostensibly "left" causes aren't really "left" at all, so we really need to look at these organisations one at a time. Like the Hegemony video states, this is less about "left" and "right" and more about shared interests.
The one thing that I know for a fact (as an Anarchist), is that the way anarchist and left Organisation works is through social interactions. Sports clubs, Mastodon / Lemmy, families, school friends, uni friends, etc etc. All of these links, if they are strengthened, if we can use them more often than we use the capitalist machinery, are the social consciousness we need. If you eat your neighbours' bread and give them your tomatoes, you're closer to a left utopia, closer to "left unity", and closer to working together against tyranny.
So, we need to fight for third places, we need to fight for places to live, we need to fight for social connections which are peer to peer, not mediated by tech companies. If we can work with that, we can work on a unified left.
The right is not a big tent. The top 1% of people own half the wealth, so like... each person is a "big tent" all on their own. Importantly, the right doesn't actually believe in anything other than whatever they can get away with "right now". You can see this in the fact that the primaries in the US still have Trump as the head, and a party which is increasingly losing its grip.
Which is also not exactly a good thing btw, the democrats without a balancing force are just as dangerous.
You've got it backwards: Capitalists want to take the skill, craft, and intelligence out of a job so people are more replaceable, even if it makes the end product worse.
6dof works via basalt (and there's hand tracking as well I believe) but right now the experience is very Janky. eg if I put the headset down it gets confused and starts drifting heavily, forcing a restart. It used to crash sometimes on some types of motion as well. My WMR controllers aren't being detected and 6dofing properly even though they should be. But the bones are there.
Here's a video of Monado being used and doing the tracking.
I'm using Monado with my WMR device. It's still very early days but progress is good. The big issue is that you'll need to have up-to-date firmware, and the only way to do that is on Windows.
Yeah given how heavy the source material is, the jokes definitely did not help. I can't remember which one but there was one towards the end which was both funny and I also needed to stop and rewatch the entire section because I lost whatever the heck was going on.
You definitely can't absorb this while having it on in the background.
Offsets can work if you treat them like rent rather than purchases. ie: You hold carbon tokens for the carbon you emit, and the value of those tokens drops as the carbon from the fast carbon cycle goes back up, so you have to buy more as the tokens depreciate.
I missed the slrpnk discussion. I'll have a read there too. Thanks. Somehow having other people know about this is heartening.