theacharnian

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 33 minutes ago
[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago)

Phew. So, like, this is OK, right? Nothing to to see here, move along? Nothing to worry about 15000 (fifteen fucking thousand, like fifteen times a thousand, something like a thousand times my kid's classroom size) dead kids, because it's not out of the ordinary for urban warfare conducted in a manner intended to reduce civilian casualties? Thanks man, that really will help me sleep at peace with my conscience tonight.

(If we were talking about 15000 dead Israeli kids, we'd be -rightfully- freaking the fuck out. But 15k of those other kids, that's fair game. Super ethical too.)

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Easy. Is come from the grrrreek word χειμώνα, is mean winter. What do you put on in the winter when it's cold? A kimono. There you go.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (3 children)

Give me any word, any word 😆

Also, yes, good idea pointing out xenophobia. We Greeks keep complaining about both the demographic problem and the influx of immigrants. Our problem is not that there are fewer babies, it's that there are fewer babies of the right kind. There is some hope as second generation immigrants are normalizing different ways of being Greek (like the Antetokounmpos). Who knows what 10 years down the road looks like.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yea I assumed that your main point was some kind of sacrifice, not the smartphones themselves. If it weren't for the smartphones you'd be phrasing your gotcha around TVs, or washing machines, or fridges, or indoor plumbing. I've seen this very conservative argument before.

Progressivism and leftism aren't some kind of ascetic christianity and nobody needs a morality preacher. Social progress is not about individual morality. And it's not a zero sum game either.

There is enough food production and wealth in the world to eliminate hunger and extreme poverty already. I could be a selfish asshole not willing to part with my sneaker collection and that would still be the case.

Maybe there is a future where carrying around a smartphone isn't necessary because we've rebuilt human connection in communities. The damn things are addictive misery machines under capitalism anyway. But that's very different from going around wagging the finger at people that say "we could feed the hungry".

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 17 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

Weird gotcha. What is this the early 2000s when smartphones were rich people toys?

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

There is Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) but default Mint is Ubuntu based (Ubuntu is also based on Debian).

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 71 points 21 hours ago (23 children)

What's wrong with overnight oats? I really like them.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 6 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

Of all the things to kick-start industry on another planet, isn't a nuclear fucking plant the most complex?

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We can ask to join Schengen though, like Iceland.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Fantastic comment. This is good social movement theory.

 

Turns out Abbé Pierre was a creep... This is like learning Mohter Theresa was a sexual predator.

 

According to Barbara Bedont, Alkhdour's lawyer, the charges come from a protest that took place last Thursday in front of the Liberal campaign office, with Miller nearby. Bedont said Alkhdour was packing her belongings after the protest, when Miller showed up in a vehicle. She said Alkhdour approached the vehicle and "expressed her feelings about his policies." "They said 'shame on you' and 'you're a child killer.' Things like that — political speech," the lawyer said, adding that Miller was in the vehicle the whole time before it drove off. She said the interaction lasted about five seconds, with Alkhdour standing about a metre away from the vehicle, and the other two people charged standing further back. "At no time was he ever threatened," Bedont said. "There was no violence. It was a purely peaceful expression of her political views."

Alkhdour's protests began shortly after the death of her 13-year-old daughter, Jana Elkahlout, who was born with cerebral palsy. Alkhdour, her husband and two of her children moved to Quebec in 2019, and started the process of bringing Jana to Canada, after she was forced to stay in Gaza due to the unavailability of safe ambulance travel between there and Egypt. After years of trying to get her daughter to come to Canada, the family finally received the green light from the federal government in January, but Jana was already dead.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28449417

Canadian mega landlord using AI ‘pricing scheme’ as it massively hikes rents

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by theacharnian@lemmy.ca to c/anarchism
 

Discussions about scarcity and anarchism that I've seen online seem to always talk about "scarcity in the large", i.e. how does an anarchist society allocate production, food, labour, materials etc.

I've a question about anarchism and scarcity in the small. Say, a really nice location, eg. a breezy location in a very hot climate, or the room with the nice windows in the community centre, or Bag End at the top of the hill. Say, an anarchist community has decided to use the location for purpose X, but a minority wants to use it for purpose Y. Maybe an even smaller minority wants to do Z, and a bunch of other people have their own little ideas about how to use it. Some are transient and could be accommodated (you get it on Tuesdays 5-7) but others might not be ("our sculpture project needs to dry out in that specific spot for the next 4 months, we know it blocks the view but it's the only place the breeze hits just right!") or could be contradictory (the siesta people vs the loud backgammon players can't both use the spot at high noon) or antagonistic (the teenagers who want to party late vs the new parents who need quiet for the babies). And dis-association doesn't really help here because that's the nice spot for many kilometers around or there is literally no way to create another beach for our small island community because that's literally the only place on the island where sand exists, so we can't just off and leave. (* Many of these examples are imagining a hot summer in an anarchist Greece, sorry it's almost August.)

It looks to me like a simple non-life-and-death scenario like this could potentially completely poison and destroy a community and in the face of that it would be the little death of anti-authoritarian organizing. Like yea, when life and death matters are at hand, anarchists will band together and conquer the bread. But petty small-scale little shit where it's managing annoyances and small grievances, I don't think non-authoritarian decision making can solve. And I suspect it's crap like this that has killed off many intentional communities and experiments or made them veer away from non-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian organizing.

Have anarchist thinkers seriously thought of this?

 

Submitting for this truly astonishing quote:

" Landlords in Quebec, however, feel they need to catch up to other provinces as Quebec is still one of the most affordable places to live in the country, said Jean-Olivier Reed, a spokesperson for the Quebec Landlord Association (APQ)."

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/23000968

Incapables de trouver du travail en français au Nouveau-Brunswick, ils pensent partir au Québec

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