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Duusi

@Duusi@jorts.horse

Studies social sciences & working as social worker. Socialist (not liberal).

#FreePalestine

Activist, self-dx #ADHD/, #leftist, #socialist, fat activism, climate justice, #intersectionality, nature & social justice. Trying to be the change I wish to see in the world.

I have many hobbies and interests: #gaming, #cooking, #sourdough #baking, #hiking, #lifting, #painting, #music (to name a few).

Toots about any- and everything in Finnish and English, always tries to think with portals.

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Duusi, to Bloomscrolling
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The surroundings of our apartment building are full of bloomimg lilacs right now.🌸

Duusi, to gardening
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Superhappy with the way our tiniest low budget backyard is turning out. Work in progress.

Duusi, to random
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Found a brilliant article pointing out most of what has irked me in my mandated reading of Giddens.

I think it's telling that it is Giddens that is provided as reading in our uni courses, without any critique of his work. Thankfully the critique does exist. The neoliberalism is right there.

O’Boyle, B. (2013). Reproducing the social structure: a Marxist critique of Anthony Giddens’s Structuration Methodology. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 37(5), 1019–1033. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23601779

Duusi,
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A choice point that explains so well why Giddens is such a favourite among neoliberal socdems:

"Once Giddens has reduced our political options, he wastes little time in assuring us that markets have a ‘hidden curriculum’ that brings forth liberty and prosperity (Giddens, 2000, p. 35).

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Duusi,
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Celebrating the ‘lay individual’ has suddenly become isomorphic with capitalist markets, and because social structures are more or less omnipotent, Giddens is forced to shift from the radical fusion of agency and structure to a schizophrenic separation of their respective domains.
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Duusi,
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Beginning as a theorist who insisted we could ‘always do otherwise’, Giddens now writes that ‘no one any longer has any alternatives to capitalism’ (Giddens, 1998, p. 43). The one thing we cannot do is live without exploitation, as Giddens shifts from a celebration of individual actors to a denigration of the entire working class."

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Duusi,
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@Loukas Right? I read his book and all I can think about is "what no class/material analysis does to a thinker..."

It all has a very "end of history"-vibe, your average "easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism"-thinker.

Found this from the references of the article above and this is a great take on structuration, especially the parts about degrees of freedom(power): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01245.x

Duusi, to random
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I have found our spot in the timeline:

"But capitalism is also a self-devouring beast. One function of the capitalist state seldom mentioned, even by Marxists, is to protect capitalism from the capitalists.

If the 1% become too successful in their frenzied pursuit of profits and their furious determination to roll back all regulations and restraints, they may well destroy their own system.
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Duusi, to sourdough
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Today, a new baby is born into my growing fermentation family.

Considering on re-starting kombucha as well, although it's a bit too fiddly for my liking. But I do like it a lot. Kraut I tried to make once. That I don't like, but did get some from the store to teach myself to eat that too.

But sourdough and this are straightforward enough. Been fermenting from store-bought kefir for a few weeks and now moving on to the "real" stuff.

Duusi,
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@earthtoneone Haven't tried it, but am considering. It seems more straightforward. I have made a fizzy fermented sweet drink called sima with my sourdough starter and it's fairly easy too, it's very good.

Is the water kefir process as easy as the milk kefir?

Duusi, to random
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Direct action gets things done.

https://socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023/israeli-arms-company-elbit-forced-to-shut-down-tamworth-site/

LeftistLawyer, to random
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There are too many people on the planet.

This is axiomatic.

But because a few fucking piece of shit nazis agree with this self-obvious statement we can no longer have a productive discussion about it because all people want to talk about are the few fucking nazis who talked about it.

Can we please appreciate how wrong that is?

Can we appreciate how horribly rhetorical "point scoring" has damaged productive discourse?

Duusi,
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@LeftistLawyer There isn't though? It has been shown how the Earth is perfectly cabable of providing for every human on it and more.

Is this toot an attempt to frame the valid critique of Malthusian brainworms as some kind of an overreach? What is this "point scoring" you refer to? Seems to me that the far more accepted position in this discourse for the average Westerner tends to sadly be the one that leads to ecofascist thinking.

https://jacobin.com/2021/08/ipcc-sixth-assessment-report-climate-change-denial

Duusi, to random
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The big deal with actually finishing my study work about neurodiversity is me being neurodiverse myself.

And honestly I would probably not reached the finish line this time either, the same way I never did before, if I had not gained this new understanding of my neurotype and the ways I work in the last four years or so.

Didn't take a diagnosis, didn't take any official labels. But it took the right to openly identify and figure stuff out. Which is exactly what my work is about too.

Duusi,
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In the past I have "almost finished" so much stuff. Biology studies, studies in coaching, education etc. I have seven million jobs under my belt, none of which I can do for more than a year or two.

I am 45 years old and finally know how I can get stuff done, like all the way done. What it takes and how much it also costs me every time. How much time I need to recover even though I love hard work. And how the dropping of balls can happen if I am not able to do things different, in my own way.

Duusi, to random
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Feeling a bit disillusioned with taxes in these Nordic welfare states. I was fine with our extremely high tax rates as long as I was able to think the money was used for things like:
-social security
-public transport
-healthcare
-elderly care
-education.

More and more its money given to freaking fur farmers, different capitalist operators, endless car infrastructure and military funding.

This is not my social contract.

Duusi,
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How many times do I have to hear that there's no money to care for the elderly (many are starving and dehydrated)? That there isn't money to get more teachers or fund the needs of kids with special needs? That there is no money for child protective services and it just must be in private hands?

That this and that progressive thing just can't be done, like the walkable street that was just cancelled where I live?

And then there is money for fur farmers. And war. And subsidies. There always is.

Duusi,
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It's OUR money. And our State.

In this system a lot of the pay you get never actually gets to you.

We are supposed to have free public healthcare, but we pay for healthcare in our pay. We also pay our own pensions We pay to be insured againts unemployment and yet they are making cuts to unemployment. You can't opt out of any of these, but they can just cut unemployment.

It's just taking workers money and moving it into the pockets of the owners or using it to benefit THEM.

Such democracy...

Duusi,
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@ArneBab Nah, the ones who own the means of production always had the power.

People have been caring for a long long time and yet we seem to just be sliding backwards. The majority of the people want good social security for example. People have also tried to stay vigilant, used their one singular vote once in how ever many years and yet the issues today are largely the same they were in the 1970s.

No amount of caring can fix this predatory system.

Duusi, to sourdough
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I would love to live in a world where I could sometimes sell my bread at the local market.

Sell some of the pretty earrings I make and maybe some of the plants I grow.

Run a few inclusive outdoor exercise classes here and there. Teach a few people to deadlift and squat.

All of these I love to do. But our State and the systems in it make it so that I can't do any of them without specializing in just one and still being very poor.

Duusi,
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There are incredible barriers and hoops to jump today to do any of this stuff unless you are already financially privileged. Poors can't afford to focus on something other than just their paid labor.

If you do, the system literally punishes you in various ways or you have to give your entire life to that one thing you want to do where you still won't make a livable wage. At the same time you aren't allowed to sell your labor just to other people on skills you enjoy and are good at.

Duusi,
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I don't know... this doesn't make me feel particularly free.

Imagine a world where people could work decent hours with a livable wage and also do what they want with the rest of their skills and exchange those with other people without the exploitative systems intervening in it?

I would love to buy knitted socks from a neighbour rather than from the corporations but none of this is actually allowed now. The unemployed can't better their life by knitting socks without being punished for it.

Duusi,
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I will add that this kind of freedom would imo require things like:
A state run by the people for the people that ensures things like:
-Housing as a human right that gets actually implemented.
-Good public healthcare for all.
-A livable wage regardless of the work you do: housework is work, studying is work, thinking is work etc.
-Same wage to those who can't work, the disabled and elderly.

-No race to the bottom whatsoever.
-Not making for profit.
-Solidarity.

You know, a socialist system.

Duusi, to ai
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"Roughly two weeks of training for GPT-3 consumed about 700,000 liters of freshwater."

We have to say no to this. Refuse to use it, talk about it, educate, agitate!

"The global AI demand is projected by 2027 to account for 4.2-6.6 billion cubic meters of water withdrawal, which is more than the total annual water withdrawal of Denmark or half of the United Kingdom."

#AI #TechWillKillUs

https://archive.ph/Egps3

Duusi,
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@ErikJonker Why? Why comparing it would make a difference? I would much rather have our limited resources going into something like people having water to drink than this.

What needs do these tech answer or provide for that justifies this use of resources?

Duusi, to random
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We could also start doing planned economy and there would no longer need to be a purposefully maintained surplus of labor.

Just a thought.

Duusi,
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@gdinwiddie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy

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