Silphium

@silphium@regenerate.social
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I'm currently planting and building a #foodforest garden in the 🇨🇦 #pnw. I like to cook and eat locally grown and foraged food.

I work for a local conservation and food security non-profit.

I am interested in the places where food, #history, culture, and #gardening intersect.

Anti-capitalist temporarily stuck within the confines of capitalism.

Eat like a peasant.

#foraging #cidermaking #fermentation #permaculture

SilphiumNov 30, 2024
Show threadDr. Cat HicksNov 29, 2024

People can be stressed, anguished, in fear for their lives and directly witnessing violence, and they will still rapidly and immediately form groups with the people they are with and try to get everyone out. Counter to the idea that our "civilization" falls away, revealing our "secret real nature." We are social, we don't just "put on" social.

Obviously our capacity to form groups is exploitable, but that does not mean it isn't extraordinary and a source of tremendous compassion and action.

SilphiumNov 29, 2024
the first frost the other morning was very pretty in the yard. I like fall a lot, but I really struggle with winter approaching! the only thing I've got is that winter is a necessary valley in the cycle, but that ain't much by itself.
SilphiumNov 24, 2024
John IglarNov 24, 2024

This solitary menhir is one of hundreds in Portugal's Algarve. These are some of the oldest standing stones in Europe, dating back over seven thousand years.

The Menir do Padrão is one of a group, possibly a cromeleque. The others are scattered and broken - this one is the only standing member.

#StandingStoneSunday #StandingStones #StandingStonesSunday

SilphiumNov 24, 2024
Send me blog recommendations! I want to diversify away from legacy news to great independent writing:
-gardening, permaculture, fruit exploring, cultivation, food access
-canadian culture and politics
-leftist, progressive, cultural criticism
-history — ancient, indigenous, classics
-surprise me!
SilphiumNov 23, 2024
new portrait just dropped
SilphiumNov 23, 2024
Ciarán FerrieNov 23, 2024

Why is taxing private jets considered to be "ideological" when we know private jets emit multiples more carbon dioxide per passenger than commercial flights and that their use is growing at an alarming rate.

The policy is based on hard evidence and should be in every party's policy if they are serious about tackling climate change.

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-private-jet-carbon-emissions-soar.html

#GE24 #ClimateEmergency

Private jet carbon emissions soar 46%: Study

The carbon footprint from private jet travel grew 46 percent between 2019 and 2023 and will keep rising unless the ultra-luxury industry is regulated, according to new research published Thursday.

Phys.org
SilphiumNov 23, 2024
best scene of GLADIIATOR is when Denzel says thats politicsssssss-ah
SilphiumNov 21, 2024
Mark IngallsNov 21, 2024

Yesterday was the busiest day on my webzone so far with 2951 views. Thank you all for your continued support and trust in my #weather content.

Webzone: https://ingallswx.com

Ingalls Weather

Weather and science reports with a Pacific Northwest focus.

Ingalls Weather
SilphiumNov 21, 2024
if you're looking for some good listening, the striking CUPW folks have a picket line playlist that'll get you in the mood for some class war:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3WnBSyo4Ze60I9kbDkBWNN?si=n5WflXqQT9uXLsaboEJ44Q&pi=5Ldc0XtwTBqza
CUPW Picket Line Playlist

Playlist · tanyapsaros · 114 items · 91 saves

Spotify
SilphiumNov 16, 2024
SilphiumNov 16, 2024
Send me blog recommendations! I want to diversify away from legacy news to great independent writing.
-gardening, permaculture, fruit exploring, cultivation, food access
-canadian culture and politics
-leftist, progressive, cultural criticism
-history — ancient, indigenous, classics
-surprise me!
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Ciarán FerrieNov 23, 2024

Why is taxing private jets considered to be "ideological" when we know private jets emit multiples more carbon dioxide per passenger than commercial flights and that their use is growing at an alarming rate.

The policy is based on hard evidence and should be in every party's policy if they are serious about tackling climate change.

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-private-jet-carbon-emissions-soar.html

#GE24 #ClimateEmergency

Show threadThomas BeagleNov 23, 2024

@ccferrie "Why do you tax private jets?"

"Because that's where the money is."

#WillieSuttonJunior

Show threadJim Daly – Likely ScamNov 23, 2024

@ccferrie Taxing wealthy people is great for raising revenue but does little to change their behaviour. They can easily absorb extra costs.

Restricting their behaviour is the only way. Permitting executive jet movements only between 10am and noon at a particular airport for example. You make it such that using commercial services is simply more convenient.

See also, banning wank panzers from 50km/h zones.

Show threadCiarán FerrieNov 23, 2024
@psneeze OK but at the moment we are effectively subsidising air travel by not taxing aviation fuel. A complete ban on private jets would be my preference, hitting them large taxes is the next best option.
Show threadJohnNov 23, 2024

@ccferrie @psneeze

But it's actually a totally different option that won't reduce CO2 emissions.

"Banning private planes" and "charging extra to destroy the world" are *totally different categories of thing*. Like "going to prison for murder" and "charging extra to murder people".

We've all been trained to compare fish to bicycles when it comes to policy. We say we're hungry, they serve us a bicycle, and then say "don't make the perfect the enemy of the good!"

Show threadBrendan JonesNov 23, 2024
@psneeze @ccferrie if they can absorb the costs then great, that takes away argument against such taxes. Politically, it’s going to be *way* easier to pass fuel taxes than it is to ban these planes completely. Got to start somewhere!
Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Nov 23, 2024
@ccferrie Aything that takes away rich people's privileges is "ideological". It's the modern way of saying "You can't be serious!"
Show threadFediThing 🏳️‍🌈Nov 23, 2024

@anne_twain @ccferrie

Yes, exactly. Any kind of attack on rich people for hoarding too much money is "class warfare" or "ideological" or "irrational" or "envy" or...

Whereas attacking poor people for being poor is "telling it like it is", "tough love", "motivation for self-improvement" etc... 🤮

Show threadOliNov 23, 2024

@FediThing @anne_twain @ccferrie
"There’s class warfare, all right. But it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning."

Attributed to Warren Buffet

Show threadDźwiedziuNov 23, 2024

@FediThing
This is very deliberate. It makes a false dichotomy that the ruling class is described as “rational” while the opposition is “emotional”.

And this is an insidious thought-terminating cliché on many levels.

@anne_twain @ccferrie

Show threadFediThing 🏳️‍🌈Nov 23, 2024

@dzwiedziu @anne_twain @ccferrie

This of course also happens in discussions about other kinds of inequality such as gender or racial discrimination.

Women have historically been painted as hysterical, black people as dangerous radicals, gay people as child molesters etc.

It's always the powerful depicted as wise, while those who stand up for the powerless are implied to be misguided dangerous fools.

Show threadB ONov 23, 2024

@anne_twain @ccferrie you can generalize and say “anything that transfer power from oppressor to oppressed”

…I guess it _is_ ideological? If the ideology is humanism/equality, that is

Show threadRob McKennaNov 23, 2024

@ccferrie not taxing the fuel on jets is ideological.

The air travel industry is subsidised from appetite to arsehole. Bunch of freeloaders profiting on subsidised planes burning subsidised fuel, paid to fly with regional subsidies to publicly funded airports attached to publicly paid for infrastructure.

I get that finally making them pay for their fuel like everyone else is difficult but progressive taxes on air travel are essential.

Show threadRussell GarnerNov 23, 2024

@ccferrie @aral we so need to get to "freedom does not extend to your negative externalities"

or (imperfectly, but illustrative) as I've seen elsewhere recently:

Rest of world: "freedom from"
US: "freedom to"

Show threadDźwiedziuNov 23, 2024

@ccferrie Of course it's ideological! By the ideology of ecological preservation in a capitalist-run society.

As same as opposition is run by the ideology of “MINE MINE MINE” of the capitalist.

Show threadnilsmielke ⁂Nov 23, 2024
@ccferrie Call it “ideological” and tax it anyway. I don’t care—as long as you tax it.
Show threadgoiḃniuNov 23, 2024
@ccferrie hrm, maybe there should be some kind of a committee to review RTÉ's "objectivity"?
Show threadWim Turnhout 🇺🇦 🍉 🇵🇸Nov 23, 2024
@ccferrie Common practise. When you don't want something to happen one will use any euphemism or whatever phrase or word, true or not isn't an issue, to redirect you from your goal. Don't fall for this. Forget these words and keep hammering on asocial egoistic behavior because that is what it is.
Show threadEhproque has movedNov 23, 2024
@ccferrie the ideology that people's lives are more important than millionaires' convenience
Show threadBunny's Precarious Little LifeNov 23, 2024
@ccferrie my ideology is that we should live on a planet which is able to support human life