Tracey DelaneyBut tell me again how women are too emotional….
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@mynameisnate thanks for sharing. I like your thread and how you realised that trickle down economy doesn’t work.
I watched this morning a conversation with Yanis Varoufakis during the Global Investment Forum recorded here in Geneva this summer. https://youtu.be/4ncspV1z4KM. I highly recommend it. In it he defines himself (jokingly I think) as a libertarian Marxist. He’s a math and economy professor and prior Greece finance minister. Anyway… thought you might find it interesting
I watched this morning a conversation with Yanis Varoufakis during the Global Investment Forum recorded here in Geneva this summer. https://youtu.be/4ncspV1z4KM. I highly recommend it. In it he defines himself (jokingly I think) as a libertarian Marxist. He’s a math and economy professor and prior Greece finance minister. Anyway… thought you might find it interesting
Yanis Varoufakis at the 2022 Global Investment Forum
On my last trip to Berlin, a city I love, I picked up the book “The Shortest History of Germany”, by James Hawes. Great read. I don’t agree with his analysis of Karl Marx, but it doesn’t spoil the read at all. It’s amazing how individuals or small groups are able to impact, often very negatively, the population through avoidable conflict, and this repeatedly, and across history. This a strong reminder that who we elect actually does matter tons and why as citizens, we have a duty of concerned.
@Alan @ZeusDestroys without proportional representation I don’t see how dual-party systems will be able to escape either paralysis or extreme polarisation.
Mallory 🏳️⚧️I've been struggling with this myself, so I thought I'd repeat it for other people that might be dealing with the same thing:
Not every hobby needs to be a project. Not everything needs to be a whole *thing* with a goal and an endpoint. It's okay to not finish something. It's okay to pick up something for a bit, explore it, start making something, and then drop it without making any "progress".
Productivity is capitalist bullshit that doesn't need to infect your free time too. Have some fun
@marqle you’re observations make sense. What do you suggest? Is there something broken that can be fixed or is the broken thing something we have to live with?
Qasim Rashid, Esq.A quick reminder that law enforcement *responds* to crime, but a living wage, food and water security, accessible healthcare, and public education *prevent* crime.
If you want safer communities, invest in people, not punishments.
Computeforloot 
@meb @DrSprockets here’s an interesting article that shows how the Swiss do it right::
https://www.businessinsider.com/switzerland-gun-laws-rates-of-gun-deaths-2018-2
https://www.businessinsider.com/switzerland-gun-laws-rates-of-gun-deaths-2018-2
Alan GrantOne of the most satisfying aspects of contributing to OpenStreetMap for me is walking a previously unmapped hiking trail, adding it to OSM, and seeing it appear on waymarkedtrails.org (and later in various hiking-oriented Android apps).
Recently I had the chance to survey a short waymarked trail that was completely unmapped (both the physical path and the waymarking). Here are the "before and after" screenshots from hiking.waymarkedtrails.org.
Corey S PowellResearchers have discovered the first known "virovore," an organism that feeds on viruses. Probably there are many others like it -- an entire, previously unknown food chain.
One day into 2023, and already things are going topsy turvy.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/975344 #ecology #life
One day into 2023, and already things are going topsy turvy.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/975344 #ecology #life
Eating viruses can power growth, reproduction of microorganism
In a turnabout worthy of Pac-Man, University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers have found that microscopic ciliates can eat huge numbers of infectious chloroviruses that share their aquatic habitat. For the first time, the team’s lab experiments have also shown that a virus-only diet, which the team calls “virovory,” is enough to fuel the physiological growth and even population growth of an organism.