geodesic

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[–] geodesic 1 points 1 year ago

So, less than an identical twin is the same person. The criterion above still holds.

[–] geodesic 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Great piece! I've been curious about RA since I heard the term a few years ago, as I consider myself at least a small-a anarchist.

The piece helped me realize that one of the biggest heartbreaks of my life was due to something that is well-described as an anarchistic relationship and the violation of that by the sexual hierarchy;

I basically had a non-sexual, romantic relationship with someone, and intended to live with him for the foreseeable future. He had a sexual, romantic relationship with a third party. This was well and good until he decided to, with that third party, abruptly stop living with me so as to travel the world with this third party, with no firm intention to ever return. He eventually married and now lives (far away) with that third party.

It's been very hard for me to articulate this to people, as the level of intimacy we achieved was far beyond a normal "friendship" (e.g., consisted of hours of time per day talking about our fears/ dreams), but it was also the case that we had no explicit label.

I think this could have been helped, of course, by having an explicit, serious conversation about what kind of rules we wanted for our relationship, and if either of us had known about RA, that probably would have liberated us to realize that some ways that RA folks do things could have been ideal for what we wanted.

[–] geodesic 5 points 1 year ago

We’d get to zero point zero remaining in a few minutes. So, I’m obviously in favor.

[–] geodesic 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You joke, but the towns of Portola Valley and Woodside (south of SF) are so wealthy and powerful they literally rerouted some plane routes by pulling strings of the FAA because they didn’t like the noise.

[–] geodesic 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

EOSDIS Satellite view of the west coast: Satellite view of smoke on the west coast, and fires marked with an orange dot. There are a cluster in northern CA and souther Oregon, and another in British Columbia. All spew smoke, making the first, second, and third quadrants of the satellite image hazy

[–] geodesic 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could not agree more! I'm also fairly new. I think the most constructive possible way to do so might be to try to brainstorm how to apply the technology in a non-capitalist (non-statist), mutual aid context? Admittedly, lots of times, that seems far-fetched.

[–] geodesic 37 points 1 year ago

she/her? Blocked and unfollowed