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Petra van Cronenburg 10h ago

Artemis 12h ago

Jeff Bezos and the other billionaires are playing like it's Versailles in the late 18th century... Y'all... a day is coming.

morfil (any)4h ago

Fedi.Tips 8h ago

If you're on mastodon.social, you might want to move your account to a different server:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server

The Fediverse is protected from takeover as long as we are spread out on many servers. If one server dominates, takeovers become easier.

Mastodon.social is currently 25.5% of the active Fediverse. This proportion is way too large and seems to be increasing.

Larger servers also tend to have worse moderation and are harder to defederate, threatening safety.

#FediTips #Fediverse

Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon server. | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

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@georgepenney If your country ever advertises for immigration, they should hire you. Every time I read your texts, I want to be beamed there immediately!

morfil (any)12h ago

Andrew J Spaulding 13h ago

Say it, Elizabeth!

morfil (any)15h ago

If the ultra rich are planning to hide in bunkers or fly to Mars when the excrements hit the air blowing thingy, can they pls not wait and just do it now?

It will greatly enhance our chances of survival.

@mllsc this is a tv programme about a 16th century madrigal comedy ( Festino nella sera del giovedì grasso)
my father in law made (with lots of other people) in the 1980ies. They worked three years to prepare and build the costumes. https://youtu.be/tISZsfo04jo
Nerdy enough? ;-)

Festino_1

YouTube

PaulaToThePeople 😷1d ago

@GeofCox How many were cis men? Oh yeah, sorry you already said it: nearly 11.000.

@GeofCox trans (if extrapolated from % of population):10 times underrepresented
Police (if extrapolated from % of population) 10 times overrepresented. So lets have trans people police police officers from now on. Makes more sense. #transrightsarehumanrights

Andrew J Spaulding 13h ago

GeofCox 1d ago

In America, out of nearly 11,000 child sex offenders, 5 were trans.
89 were politicians.
301 were police officers.
578 were ordained priests.
807 were family members.
https://www.whoismakingnews.com/#who-are-the-real-predators

Tracking News Reporting of Sex Crimes Against Minors

Who's Making News

Say it, Elizabeth!

🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼11h ago

The whole idea is to just cull the humans so there is more left for them. I am sick of it.

Huntn00 11h ago

@pascaline @AJ_andrew69 I never ever imagined in a period of 70 years our species appears to be heading over a cliff. At this point we are at a legitimate point where we need to reduce our numbers, it’s going to be ugly, because we don’t have coherence in unity and common vision to approach it intelligently, as in just have less kids. It’s gonna be dog eat dog. If there ever is coherence and common vision, the last person I want to enable such decisions is a glutton.

🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼11h ago

I saw an exposition in a museum as a teen. It tracked the number of babies being born, and beeped for each. This really had an impact on me, I remember it so well.

Someone said there had been talks about 'The People Bomb' and since this was before my time, I hadn't heard of it.

At some point things will collapse.
Humans just aren't sustainable.

Huntn00 10h ago

@pascaline @AJ_andrew69 Agreed, not as we are. If a world plague reduced numbers by 70%, or even Thanos got his snap of the fingers (Marvel Ref), we might stand a chance.
We function as bacteria, expanding, poisoning ourselves until we collapse from our own weight having devoured our surroundings. Our intelligence is not at a high enough level, or not the right kind of intelligence for billions, we are too selfish to allow for, or reduce these numbers in a humain way.

🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼10h ago

Not as we are, exactly.

I think 'The Rich' are a clever, albeit privileged section of society: they will probably ride this out and watch the collapse, and rise as a glorious new kind. It's too bad richness often corrupts and creates assholes.

Selfishness, power hunger, the love of money, and the ever 'looking up to' the 'Haves', who so many consider shiny beacons of how they want to become, create a hole that cannot be filled.

@AJ_andrew69 @pascaline @Huntn00

Franceska Mann 8h ago

The rich are not more clever than you or I. They are privileged. I've lived amongst their world. They're not special. They're not smart.

@FranceskaMann @AJ_andrew69 @pascaline Agreed overall, yet some are smart, some were in the right place at the right time with a good idea, and a system that allowed them to become wealthy. And some were born into it.

@pascaline @AJ_andrew69 Or it might be the French Revolution if the haves have not provided themselves an escape rope. Then the questions become many. 🤔

🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼28m ago

Ah, yes!
Many indeed.
But I think they must have escape ropes. We could use them to hang them, of course.

There really are wonderful rich people though who ask to please be taxed more, and I remember when they got together and wrote a letter to achieve this. One of them was Abigail Disney.

🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼10h ago

Maybe humanity should behave more like a bog. Collapsing, yes, but gaining from that to create an even better space that allows more life to thrive.

@AJ_andrew69 @Huntn00 @pascaline

Franceska Mann 8h ago

You get your logic from Marvel movies and pop culture. We are not bacteria. We are human beings. The people murdering us want us to believe there are too many people. There are too many police. The United States is a police state where police have more funding than they've ever had in the history of humanity. Too many people… Too little education, huntr

Huntn00 4h ago

@FranceskaMann @AJ_andrew69 @pascaline I often like pop culture, but in this case, I only mentioned it (Thanos) as a brute force means to reduce population to give us breathing space, a better chance at overall survival, not that I would actually propose that. I just don’t see a means where we will voluntarily, peacefully, intelligently reduce our numbers. 1/2

Huntn00 4h ago

@FranceskaMann @AJ_andrew69 @pascaline 2/2 But I will disagree with you. Our growth rate is just like bacteria. Our numbers explode and we continue to consume the environment around us until it eventually collapses along with us. We are not in control or this crisis or it could’ve been solved 50 years ago. But we were unable to prioritize the crisis, those with the wealth and those who wanted to be like the wealthy.

Màrtainn D

6h ago

@Huntn00 @pascaline @AJ_andrew69 If Thanos snapped his fingers in 2018 and reduced the world population by 50% it would have taken the population down to the levels not seen since…1970! Fuck all effect really, 50 years and it’s back up again. Humanity having less children is the sanest way to reach a sustainable future but
1/2

Màrtainn D

6h ago

that can only happen when govts around the world provide good quality universal support for the elderly otherwise poor people will continue to have children in the expectation that they will look after them in their old age.
2/2

@ginger_tosser At this point I have no expectations of humanity’s ability to solve this problem. Nothing will change, significant enough to make a difference, until we are forced to change through calamity. Otherwise, the individual piles of gold maintain priority. 😐

Andrew J Spaulding 6h ago

@ginger_tosser @Huntn00 @pascaline I'm not familiar with Thanos.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4154756/

@AJ_andrew69 @ginger_tosser @pascaline
No worries! 🙂 Thanos is a Marvel Universe character who thinks balance in the universe would be regained by non-prejudicially removing half of the intelligent life, which he would accomplish in a manner I won’t describe nor comment on the logic behind this idea…😊
https://www.marvel.com/characters/thanos/on-screen

Thanos (The Mad Titan) Powers, History, & Abilities | Marvel

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Andrew J Spaulding 5h ago

@Huntn00 @ginger_tosser @pascaline 👍

@ginger_tosser @pascaline @AJ_andrew69 I always thought the idea was a crude one, especially the indiscriminate part. But in the scenario of over population , it would provide breathing space with the caveat that the survivors would actually be motivated to change their ways, which for humans would not be certain by any means. 🤔

@Huntn00 @pascaline @AJ_andrew69

Franceska Mann 8h ago

Huntn, you believe that there are too many people and we need to reduce our numbers? You have been propagandized by the far right. That is a neo fascist argument. There are not too many people. There are too many billionaires. There is too much hoarding. The US is outlawing abortion. It's not about too many people. It's about control and enslavement of people. Every problem in this world ends when we tax billionaires.

Huntn00 11h ago

@AJ_andrew69 I see, read this and think, we can’t tolerate Bs and survive intact…😐

Andrew J Spaulding 11h ago

@Huntn00 Exactly 👍.

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OnePlanet 💖🇺🇸 🌎10h ago

When Mark Zuckerberg made a HUGE donation (est between $75-100M) to upgrade SF hospital back in 2005, I was like … proud of his philanthropy. The hospital was renamed Zuckerberg-SF Hospital & Trauma Center.

Now, 20-years later, the hospital needs upgrades and maintenance - and he’s like, “fuck you get away from me” and a lot of people want his name off the hospital (but mostly TBH because he pedals in lies these days).

Franceska Mann 9h ago

EW could've been Bernie's running mate. She could have been vice president. But she capitulated to the Democratic Party. She claimed she was "capitalist to her bones" & I find it a bit hollow and difficult to believe that someone who is capitalist to their bones is really on the side of the workers. She created this terrible situation we're in just as much as any of them.

Snippety Snap (she/her)8h ago

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US Senator Elizabeth Warren, with her characteristic "Are you effing kidding me" resting face. An image of mouth-breathing Mark Zuckerberg, wearing hideous, thick black framed Meta spyware glasses, looking upwards. Text: They're fighting over how many children should go hungry so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island - Elizabeth Warren.

François @Prague 8h ago

I agree, but at some point the "We the People" can do something against it. Ditch Whatsapp, ditch Facebook...
I left 'Fecebook' 14 years ago and WA recently. And as a non US-citizen, this guy is not nearly as a nuisance as for US-citizen.