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whatzaname

@whatzaname@kolektiva.social

Today my avatar is a cute white moth with a fuzzy head. The header is a photo taken from the top of a high, tree covered Ozarks hill, looking out over five ranges of tree covered hills, under a sky of high clouds with rain far in the distance--
Warning: I am justifiably angry about capitalism and everything ruined as a result of its stranglehold on our planet. I curse about it.
A lot.

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WagesOf, to Youtube
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Oh noes! YouTube is blocking my player for blocking ads!

taps on revanced manager

Better!

I'll start paying for when they give me enough control over discoverability to stop half my feed from being videos I've already watched and the other half being videos I've already clicked "not interested" twenty times.

whatzaname,
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@WagesOf Hopefully you have your channel blocking add-on activated --blocking ai/corporate channels from reappearing in searches is nice.
I already pay for youtube. We all do. Humanity is destroyed by capitalism to enrich a few psychopaths and their wannabes. Humanity pays for everything any capitalist hoarder ever hoarded and I feel no obligation to any of them to give them anything more than what they take with the assistance of the state.
In fact, owe countless multiples of the value of their ill-gotten wealth, given the generations of abuse and slavery and violent oppression of every sort that has been used to keep the Haves having and the Have Nots obligated to do all the work.
every nonviolent way you can. Tomorrow, find more ways.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Americans have proven to the entire world how racist and stupid they are, and I, for one, am glad the world can now see the truth and see how POORLY minorities are treated here and how much we suffer.

whatzaname,
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@StillIRise1963 this country it's so fake it's incomprehensible to me that people in other countries ever fell for the hype... as for those of us here who fell for 'we ended slavery with the Civil War and ended racism with the Civil Rights Movement'... how could we be so stupid?! Did we just want it to be true so hard we were blind to reality? Was everyone raised as culturally/ geographical and educationally isolated as i was here in the rural Ozarks?
I trusted educators and Walter Cronkite.
I was taught by schools and that was wholly reinforced by then-mostly local media.
Even the radio stations avoided 'controversial' music, so i had no clue growing up that what i was taught was a lie.
Things weren't rapidly getting better then, and we are so far from democracy and equality still now that we shouldn't be allowed to claim them as ideals.

whatzaname,
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@StillIRise1963 If i had been less gullible as a younger person, i would have seen the obvious signs... and now i feel trapped and ineffective much of the time.
We were intentionally manipulated to be complacent. How do we rise above that and work together, now that we have all been so deliberately divided?

StillIRise1963, to random
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So, the MSNBC folks said they’re mad Ronna was hired. Okay. Now what? You want us all to believe what exactly about you?🙄

whatzaname,
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@researchbuzz @StillIRise1963 Yeah I'll believe they're upset when they all leave their jobs, take their valuable personalities and insight, and start their own nonprofit news team.

whatzaname,
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@researchbuzz @StillIRise1963 msnbc is just as corrupt and self serving as the rest of corporate news. Half their opinions are about hair, ties, and weight, and most the rest is self- congratulatory crowing.
There is no corporate news worth unblocking.

LeftistLawyer, to random
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    whatzaname,
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    @LeftistLawyer population growth wasn't ever the problem. That was just an early version of recycling, cryptocurrency, carbon offset exchanges and space colonies. Keep the focus on impossible 'solutions' ..anything except how so the rich can keep accumulating wealth.

    You can't be a millionaire in a world where people starve, unless you are a psychopath.

    Accumulating wealth while others suffer for lack of necessities is proof of lack of humanity.
    Period.

    whatzaname, (edited )
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    @LeftistLawyer i had my tubes tied at 21 because i believed the over population myth, so you can fuck right off, fake person.

    futurebird, to random
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    Here is how I “watch YouTube” first I check that my ad blockers are on, and the extension that hides thumbnails, and the extension that gives videos more neutral titles. I look at my subscriptions and add videos to a playlist. I search for topics I’m currently concerned about. When I have about 90min of video. I shuffle the list and check the order. Then (and only then) do I get to kick back and “watch TV”

    YouTube isn’t easy to use this way.
    Anyone else do something similar?

    whatzaname,
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    @futurebird i just use Firefox to make youtube videos obey. I use sponsor skip as well as adblockers, But once I added those to Firefox I don't have to mess with them anymore. When I want to watch youtube I use my remote control to switch inputs to the connected windows 7 laptop, and a wireless keyboard and mouse to navigate.

    nathanlovestrees, (edited ) to ethelcain
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    This new track from Aurora is great. I love her music, her voice, her writing, and her overall approach to pop music. I'm not sure if there's a name for this style of pop but I love it, reminds me of The Cranberries.

    https://open.spotify.com/track/5CguvtN2MvxSmtSR23UNOd?si=Awu0RqqmSou9KUhb6v_HRw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4kfH7Wzr6p646dTIulVQQS

    https://youtu.be/iMfQoZUrn4M?feature=shared

    whatzaname,
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    @nathanlovestrees wow! Thank you, i never knew i liked Aurora

    whatzaname,
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    @nathanlovestrees i don't spotify but the vid, with lyrics, is easily found. Hope everyone who needs it finds it.

    Uair, to movies
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    @actuallyautistic

    If anyone needs something to watch, the best movie nobody saw is free on youtube. This is not slapstick.

    https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL64A893F9D551304E

    whatzaname,
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    @Uair @actuallyautistic i remember seeing that one--doesn't feel like it, but i guess more than 20 years ago!

    msquebanh, to britishcolumbia
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    In 1889, 60 arrived in , from & , hoping for work & a better life. At that time, the was booming & workers came from around the world in search of opportunity. But faced harsh working conditions, & .

    Though most of the that came here left to go back to the U.S. after the civil war, some stayed to leave their legacy.

    https://www.cheknews.ca/black-mining-history-in-cumberland-what-we-know-and-whats-been-lost-1193422

    whatzaname,
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    @msquebanh maybe a typo in your first sentence- their arrival date would be closer to 1858. Thank you for this article, a chunk of history i wasn't aware of.

    ajsadauskas, (edited ) to climate
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    If you care about the planet, please make sure you sit down before you start reading this post about ExxonMobil.

    So.

    The CEO of ExxonMobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."

    https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

    Who's the most influential voice on climate change? Who's to blame for inaction on climate change?

    According to the CEO of ExxonMobil, it's environmental activists.

    No, really:

    "Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."

    Oh, and the CEO of ExxonMobil also apparently thinks consumers are to blame for climate inaction:

    "Today we have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon, but people aren’t willing to spend the money to do that."

    Gets better.

    He thinks unnamed 'people who generate emissions' should pay for it. (Rather than, say, major transnational oil companies.)

    "People who are generating the emissions need to be aware of [it] and pay the price. That’s ultimately how you solve the problem."

    https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

    Worth including a quick reminder here that Exxon-Mobil made a US$36 billion profit in 2023: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-beats-estimates-ends-2023-with-36-billion-profit-2024-02-02/#:~:text=HOUSTON%2C%20Feb%202%20(Reuters),higher%20oil%20and%20gas%20production.

    Not gross revenue.

    Profit.

    So, remind me again. Who knew about climate change before most of the public?

    "Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue... This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation."

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

    And just who, exactly, stood in the way reducing emissions all these years?

    "ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents...

    "The new revelations are based on previously unreported documents subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general as part of an investigation into the company announced in 2015. They add to a slew of documents that record a decades-long misinformation campaign waged by Exxon, which are cited in a growing number of state and municipal lawsuits against big oil."

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/exxonmobil-documents-wall-street-journal-climate-science

    @fuck_cars

    whatzaname,
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    @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars It's all just capitalism doing exactly as it's supposed to do. Until we actually refuse to cooperate with capitalism-- refuse to work for capitalism, consume capitalism, defend capitalism-- we are all dooming humanity to be crushed to death by profit-seekers.
    Base our interactions on humanity and its interconnected place in Life, not on Economy, which serves only the powerful, manipulative, murderous few.
    Before you say it can't happen, try doing it.

    alissaazar, to random
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    He was fully engulfed in flames and this cops first instinct was to shoot him. Incredible and horrifying summation of how the police operate.

    whatzaname,
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    @alissaazar i hope that cop regrets that move so hard he leaves copdom and reevaluates his entire approach to being a human.

    AAKL, to meta
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    whatzaname,
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    @AAKL @guardian anyone still using those sites long ago volunteered to be harvested. Nothing left to see there 😂

    whatzaname,
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    @AAKL @guardian the purpose of those sites is to manipulate and spread disinfo. The words they use to mollify the people desperate to believe they aren't supporting their own oppression are just that: Meaningless words.
    People volunteering to be harvested believe anything, it would seem.

    kimlockhartga, to bookstodon
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    @bookstodon What's your favorite book title, whether you've read it or not?

    Mine is EVERYONE ON THE MOON IS ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL, by Julian K. Jarboe, which I have not yet read, followed closely by THEY DON'T MAKE PLUS SIZE SPACESUITS, by Ali Thompson, which I have read.

    whatzaname,
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    @kimlockhartga @bookstodon when asked questions like this, my mind goes blank on the subject of books/songs/movies from my past. But right now one of the books i am reading I selected solely based on the title:

    What You Are Looking For Is In The Library

    whatzaname,
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    @kimlockhartga @bookstodon
    I was reading The Way Spring Arises but after the first story i was so sad i started this instead, and that was exactly my thought after one story- cozy. I will accept some cozy at this point in time!

    violetmadder, (edited ) to random
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    The lady at the farm across the street said she'd bring her stock tank in to the greenhouse tomorrow.

    4 years I've been here, and this was across the street and I was so depressed I was too scared to go in.

    I looked through my seed box today. Natives that I don't even know how to propagate, precious rare things from the world that most people don't know is dying.

    Calochortus amabilis. Lilium rubescens. Iris fernaldii. The local variant of yarrow (the yarrow in most wildflower mixes are very weedy, people don't even KNOW about the incredible diversity that means one mountain's plants of one species behave very differently from the next mountain over, only the botanists are paying attention everybody else woosh right over their heads).

    I only got to work at the nursery for 3 months and then I was fired. Felt like a rug pulled out from under me. I didn't know I'd been doing badly. I want so much to help, to learn propagation and get those pipevines going-- how many employees are that dedicated to their work but it wasn't enough they fired me without trying to warn me I was falling short which makes me think they didn't want to talk to me to work it out because I'm too weird or annoying and just not worth it.

    I took it hard, leaving Santa Rosa. So much was right at my fingertips there, amazing opportunities and I screwed it up and I had to retreat and I've been on this couch doing nothing real or useful and no income for 4 years.

    It hurts so much I can't breathe. I'm so scared, every day. I spend most of my time disassociating, to be completely frank. I am not good at life. It's humiliating. So many important ideas in my head and I can't figure out how to follow through and get to work on them even if I had resources. I've tried so many times and the people I thought were friends gave up on me or got sick of me so many times.

    One actually said, "I'm not going to follow you into codependency". I felt like I'd been kicked in the gut. Codependency? Really? I mean I know our society is bad at community but I don't want to overdo it either. No seriously all I'm trying to do is build a healthy community here, let me know what I'm not getting right, I want to figure this out but it's like asking that is... Too weird? I'm doing it wrong. I mean I'm not asking for the emotional equivalent of kidney donations here, I swear, just, a mutual support network?

    The last thing I want, is to be a liability to the communities I want to contribute to. But the thing is a whole lot of us are very damaged you know, and we haven't been taught how to deal with ourselves OR each other. This is hard. And honestly I'm just a garden variety ADHD depressive, not even any substance issues-- if I seem like too much work, you have not SEEN how deep this can get. I'm not going to cringe from people just because they're going through a lot. We all have limited bandwidth but on average, as a whole, people in general are abandoning each other too much and this is where the rubber meets the road, where we skid out completely or survive.

    I want to help grow things and get along and make it work. That's all I want in life. I'm going to keep trying.

    whatzaname,
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    @violetmadder being with people when it is uncomfortable is something we are taught to avoid. I think getting comfortable with being uncomfortable sometimes, is an important practice. It is really awkward sometimes. But we need people to keep trying. But also, the tryers seem happiest when at least some in their communities are also willing to try. I hope you and your nearest fellow tryers find each other soon! Meanwhile, i think a few tryers hang out here on the socials, at least.

    dswidow, to USpolitics
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    I know that here on Mastodon there are plenty of lefties, socialists, anarchists, etc., and their viewpoints are certainly worthy of consideration and discussion.

    But I hope everyone keeps in mind that a number of these people are not who they seem to be.

    My rule of thumb is that, if they just spew anti-Biden mumbo-jumbo, without any logic or intelligent thought, they are probably working to get trump elected, and are NOT on the left.

    whatzaname,
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    @omegaman @RD4Anarchy @violetmadder @dswidow It is if you knew the attack was coming and didn't do anything because you knew politically it would provide better cover for what you were already planning to do. Especially if you've been doing similar things like this for decades and getting away with it.
    Because profits.

    There was never any other reason.

    It was always about access to resources.

    I'm done having this conversation because you are just nitpicking terms to undermine the reality that you seem to think you have a grasp on while everyone else is missing.
    Lecture about the importance of polling numbers in American politics, the need to police language use, and the validity of rule by oligarchs as long as technically they aren't really oligarchs yet
    Somewhere else.

    whatzaname,
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    @omegaman @RD4Anarchy @violetmadder @dswidow i reject your claim of not nitpicking and raise you a what was your original intent.

    whatzaname,
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    @HeavenlyPossum @violetmadder @AdrianRiskin @dswidow @omegaman @RD4Anarchy but, he still polls well so 💯

    whatzaname,
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    @HeavenlyPossum @violetmadder @RD4Anarchy @dswidow @omegaman But was that the intent? 🤔

    whatzaname,
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    @HeavenlyPossum @AdrianRiskin @violetmadder @dswidow @RD4Anarchy @omegaman Doesn't count. It has to be the same person til they DIE and they HAVE to be called 'an oligarchy' by... someone. Someone either rich or works for someone rich.

    whatzaname,
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    @HeavenlyPossum @AdrianRiskin @omegaman @dswidow @RD4Anarchy @violetmadder But the voters were happy and that's what matters. Until the voters are predominantly poor and not wealthy. Then we need to do things to restrain the voters. For their own good.
    Said the oligarchs. Read the original US constitution if you doubt it.

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