As I wrote in yesterday's post (check it out if you haven't read it! 👀) I watched the #documentary #film "System update - Rebooting Our #Future". It was followed by a panel discussion, which was very interesting as well!
What can we do to combat climate change? Demonstrate 📣, do #civil_disobedience ✊, use local #repair shops 🪡 , get active in grass-roots organisations, do strikes ❌ , localise #power and decision making, scale up #Agroforestry , #redistribute money & power.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@aggyanubis/116074076779643179
I eat mostly #vegan myself - but this short #video gave me some new arguments! It's crazy how food is distributed in such an unfair way - we need to #redistribute it!
from Chanelle Gallant & Shannon Perez-Darby:
"The exclusive fixation on revealing the Epstein list is a red herring. It reinforces a fantasy that we can stop child sexual abuse by punishing individual abusers, while leaving the structures that facilitated and enabled the abuse completely intact. This diverts attention away from the structural sources of children and young people’s vulnerability such as poverty and family policing. What the rich won’t say is that one of the most impactful interventions in a survivor’s life is not calling the police — it’s redistributed wealth, and more broadly, economic and housing security for everyone."
Read the rest: https://truthout.org/articles/sex-trafficking-prosecutions-wont-stop-the-next-epstein-heres-what-will/
How #Rome Destroyed Its Own Republic
#Augustus told Romans he was the only one who could save Rome. And they believed him.
by Becky Little, Nov 5, 2018, Last Updated: June 30, 2025
"Imagine a world in which political norms have broken down. Senators use bad faith arguments to block the government from getting anything done. An autocrat rigs elections and gives himself complete control over the government. Even stranger, many voters subscribe to the autocrat’s personality cult and agree that he should have absolute control.
"Welcome to Rome in the first century B.C.E. The republic that had existed for over 400 years had finally hit a crisis it couldn’t overcome. Rome itself wouldn’t fall, but during this period it lost its republic forever.
"The man who played the biggest role in disrupting Rome’s republic was #AugustusCaesar, who made himself the first emperor of Rome in 27 B.C.E. By that point, the republic’s political norms had been breaking down for about a century, and Augustus was in a position to take advantage of that.
"Before that century, 'there had been a really long period where the republic functioned,' says Edward J. Watts, author of the new book Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into #Tyranny. Political norms were heeded; and when the government ran into a new problem, it would amend itself to keep working. For over 300 years, the republic operated this way. There was no political violence, land theft or capital punishment because those went against the political norms Rome had established.
"Then, in 133 B.C.E., Rome experienced its first political murder in the history of the republic. Senators were angry that Tiberius Gracchus, an elected official who had tried to #redistribute land to the #poor, was seeking a second term as tribune of the plebs. During a fight that broke out between Tiberius’s followers and opponents, senators beat him to death with wooden chairs and helped murder nearly 300 of his followers.
"Political violence increased in the 80s B.C.E. when political factions started stealing people’s land and killing their enemies. In 44, senators murdered Augustus’ great-uncle Julius Caesar after he #unconstitutionally named himself #dictator for life.
"Non-violent political dysfunction increased during this time, too. During the 60s B.C.E., a senator named Cato the Younger had constantly and unnecessarily used #ProceduralDelays to block the senate from voting on legislation he did not like for years. Other senators went along with this because they considered Cato a moral leader.
"In 59 B.C.E., one of the consuls working with Cato even tried to shut down all public business for the entire year by declaring each day of the year a religious holiday. (In the Roman Republic, saying the gods were angry was an acceptable reason to declare a holiday and postpone voting.)"
Read more:
https://www.history.com/articles/rome-republic-augustus-dictator
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/YufxA
#NoDictators #TrumpSucks #TrumpLies #USPol #MAGA #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #MakeRomeGreatAgain #NoKings
#NoEmperors #EndOfTheRepublic
#HistoryRepeatsItself #GovernmentShutdown
an interim collective of diverse civilians should debate our demands, publicly #LIVEstreamed interactively.
we could do without the state, we can form #CommunityFederations and use mutual aid. study #AnarchoCommunism, #organise #resist #EatTheRich & #redistribute.
i am afraid we need to go #ColdTurkey on #consumerism if we want as many of us to survive. practice #empathy 🖤 but organised violence is legitimate & necessary in defense of our rights & freedoms.
an interim collective of diverse civilians should debate our demands, publicly #LIVEstreamed interactively.
we could do without the state, we can form #CommunityFederations and use mutual aid. study #AnarchoCommunism, #organise #resist #EatTheRich & #redistribute.
i am afraid we need to go #ColdTurkey on #consumerism if we want as many of us to survive. practice #empathy 🖤 but organised violence is legitimate & necessary in defense of our rights & freedoms.
Кейс оптимизации запросов для Greenplum
Всем привет! Меня зовут Андрей , я работаю дата аналитиком в Data Team продукта Dialog.X5/Insights в X5 Tech. Мы предоставляем аналитику по продажам и покупательскому поведению на данных X5 Group. Для обработки больших объёмов данных в продукте используется СУБД (система управления базами данных) Greenplum. В статье рассмотрим ресурсоёмкую операцию для распределённых систем COUNT(DISTINCT) и два способа оптимизации. Для предварительного погружения в планы запросов можно прочитать вот эту хорошую статью.
https://habr.com/ru/companies/X5Tech/articles/851386/
#greenplum #sql #bigdata #count(distinct) #redistribute #оптимизация_запросов #mpp
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