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  • As human beings, our interests, philosophies, politics, etc, yes.

    As workers in a job, not so much. The analogy works in that scenario. We all conform, to varying degrees, to the groups that we join. Especially when that group is your full time employ, where you spend most of your time and gain most of your money.

    There’s a HBO show called The Wire that is amazing, and I would recommend to anyone to watch, but particularly to yourself because “Simon has said that despite its framing as a crime drama, the show is “really about the American city, and about how we live together. It’s about how institutions have an effect on individuals. Whether one is a cop, a longshoreman, a drug dealer, a politician, a judge or a lawyer, all are ultimately compromised and must contend with whatever institution to which they are committed.”[5]”

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire

    Trailer: https://youtu.be/1S5khOZ1wBs

    Warning: it is slow paced, it’s more like reading a book on your screen than watching a traditional TV show, but it’s worth it


  • Zombie@feddit.uktoScience Memes@mander.xyzI'm doing my part
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    11 days ago

    The best bit of your nonsense is where you say composting isn’t composting

    I’m not maintaining most of my shit, half-assed maintaining some, and meticulously maintaining some (veg patch).

    The meticulous part doesn’t do well unless the unmaintained part is left to do its thing. When people interfere it suffers. That’s how nature and biodiversity work. Leave it to do its thing and generally it works out itself. Every now and then you may need to intervene if something is becoming problematic and choking out everything else, but generally nature knows what it’s doing.

    The thing that makes not maintaining your shit some great intentional effort, is the constant battle against other humans who wish to cut everything down and maintain order. If you’re a sole owner you can tell them to fuck off, but if members of your family disagree or it’s a communal space, that may be far more difficult.

    Funny you chose those plants in particular though, because dandelions and various types of thistle are both recommended by the Royal Horticultural Society as being of particular aid to pollinator insects.

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/science/research/plants-for-pollinators

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/science/pdf/conservation-and-biodiversity/wildlife/plants-for-pollinators-wildflowers.pdf










  • They’re representative politicians in a supposed representative democracy.

    The word representative means they are there in place of “the people” because you can’t expect everyone to read and fully understand everything.

    That is therefore the politician’s job. They are not supposed to have people to summarise the bill for them. They are meant to understand it and determine whether to vote yes or no based on the needs and requirements of their constituents.

    If the bill is too long or complex then they should vote no until they can understand the whole thing.

    In the opposite of The Simpsons Governator, they are meant to read, not to lead!









  • Does it matter? Ultimately, these are estimates. Educated, data backed estimates, but still estimates.

    One larger than expected volcanic eruption, coral reefs dying faster than expected, whatever, all it takes is one or two things to not go the way they’re expected and everything speeds up.

    20 years or 25 years, the point is we’re all kinda fucked unless we do something about it.

    What we need to do has been and will continue to be debated ad nauseam, but we know we must do something.