There's a bunch of local organization going on in my state. Look for local mutual aid organizations. Everyone is networking like crazy right now.
If you happen to be in colorado, I can point you in some directions.
thebardingreen
joined 2 years ago
Keep doing what you're doing. Do even more of it!
Get out there, meet people, get involved. There's so many projects to get involved in, so many awesome people who could be your new friends and allies, so much energy to tap into and be a part of.
This is how we build a stronger future America.
Are they though? Like, is the party watching?
In the "real" world, Alcubierre drives have really interesting (read "devastating") affects on random matter interacting with the warp bubble. The bubble compresses matter in the front and creates micro singularities (which don't necessarily go away when you drop the bubble).
In ST, I'm sure the debris does whatever the writers decide it does. I have no trouble imagining a DS9 episode in which the station gets pelted by warp velocity debris.
This shit sounds like when you’re mom tells you that the Facebook printed out her bank statement on the tax machine.
My dear sweet mother asked me somewhere around 2005-06 "If we can fax paper, why not groceries, or pizza delivery?"
Apparently she had believed, for decades, that fax machines literally transported physical paper over phone lines. She has a college degree, and my family is wealthy.
Do not underestimate the mind boggling technical and scientific ignorance of old people who should know better.
Jokes on them, I don't keep shit in ~/Documents, all my goodies are on a network share mounted at ~/Netstore
See kids? Monsters not bad! Monsters just... different! And different not bad!
Gen Z is in a VERY weird space around gender politics actually. There's a minor, unintentional sex strike going on, where Gen Z women lean strongly liberal and don't want to date conservatives, but Gen Z men lean conservative. The difficulty in finding like minded partners has led (many) young men to be even MORE reactionary and isolated, while Gen Z women are more sexually liberated, more likely to identify as queer and more likely to be open to dating women demographically than other generations of women. IDK if that sort of thing has a real precedent, but we do know that lots of sexually frustrated young men creates a dangerous situation.
There are tankies that proudly did this.
If you didn't have the screen sharing requirement, I would suggest Mumble. It does everything else you want and the ease of install is like "apt get and edit a config file." The server configuration to get the rooms and privacy settings you want is a whole different story, it's the OPPOSITE of intuitive, but once you figure it out it's quite robust.
The right tool for the job as described is definitely Matrix, but it does take some advanced troubleshooting (in my experience) to get it working. Some folks I know say the Ansible playbook just works, but I've been part of three deployments and that's NEVER ONCE been my experience. Maybe the Ansible playbook "just works" if you've been using Ansible regularly for years and sometimes dream in yml. That's not me.
IMHO, when compared with the ease of install of Mumble (or even Lemmy), the difficulty on installing Matrix is somewhere in between a joke and something that should be a mild point of embarrassment to the dev team (who built a great tool, so I'm not out to shame them here).
But right now, we have a situation in America where activists and organizers BADLY need alternatives to third party hosted apps... and the team has built this great tool that only fairly hardcore sysadmin / devops folks can get working. The difficulty of installing / maintaining is the biggest obstacle to the immediate, swift and widespread adoption of Matrix by US activist groups. I should know.
Was gonna say something about science journalism, but it's on brown.edu and there's no author attributed in the article. PR AI?
This article starts with an ideological objective (in principle, we object to killing owls, here's an impassioned appeal to your heartstrings about how horrible that is) and then cites some research to build a case for the existing ideological conclusion (here's some links to some studies).
And I get, that from a radical animal rights perspective, culls of any kind can be problematic. But as someone who's done a bunch of volunteer work helping manage invasive species, I have a feeling the authors might not object to me spending my time cutting down Russian olives on the Colorado front range, or weeding out invasive Chinese grasses in San Francisco Bay estuaries (both things I have spent many hours of my life doing). IDK how they would feel about me killing and eating Louisiana bullfrogs in California streams and ponds (but those assholes are only there because humans brought them there, and they're eating a dozen native frog species to extinction).
In this particular case, the only reason the barred owls were able to spread from the Northeast the way they did is because humans transformed the Great Plains into an environment they could live in (they need high perches for nesting and sleeping, they didn't have that until European descended humans started planting trees and building buildings).
Spotted owls aren't the only species of owl that barred owls compete with and kill (they also target ground nesting owls, and will happily eat great horned chicks as well).
You can make a radical animal rights argument that "killing owls is horrible full stop." I don't want to stop you from making that argument, but I don't agree with it on that sole basis and I do want to provide a counterpoint to it. I love hearing the great horned owls hooting outside my house at night and if some screechy asshole barred owl is killing their chicks, I will personally shoot that motherfucker and sleep like a baby.
You can correctly argue that human industrial society (and the kind of decision making based in capitalism and the profit motive) is causing all kinds of really bad problems. I 100% agree with that assessment, but I don't think "and therefore we shouldn't kill owls" necessarily follows. I agree that we should encourage ecology to self-heal, but informed management of the damage we're causing is also a worthy goal.