Volunteer amateur systems administrator for Beehaw. Stay-at-home dad. Outdoor enthusiast.
I understand where the author is coming from. However, this isn’t applicable in every situation. In our particular circumstance, we bought our home to live in and raise our two sons. It took a couple of decades of working/saving in order to afford to buy our home. We aren’t going to treat our home as a financial investment either. Rather, we are going to keep our home in our immediate family. To explain, we are going to pass the property onto our sons. They will, more than likely, use it as a vacation home later in life.
For years, I’ve just used NextDNS and uBlock Origin to rid my home (and all of our devices) of this crap and others like it.
Weeks ago a university student developed software that can detect if an essay was written by AI.
pict-rs, more than likely, handles all images on the site. That would include our personal icons, the community icons, community banners, our site logo, etc. Having all of that missing, or not loading properly, would make Beehaw look like shit. After decades of web development experience under my belt, I know for certain that people eat with their eyes.
You will want to open up a new issue here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues
This really doesn’t belong in /c/news. Would you, please, move this to /c/chat?
Have you ever tried a create your own perfume site? A quick search resulted in these two:
I don’t want to come across as a pessimist, since I am an optimist and can witness a lot of positive things happening in the world when it comes to defeating climate change. Furthermore, I heard through NPR (National Public Radio) that the world will not see the most extreme effects of climate change based on what has/is happening in efforts.
However, and to play the ‘devil’s advocate’, this could just be wishful thinking or fudging of the numbers/efforts.
Simply put, there are 2 ways in which to reverse the effects of climate change.
#1: Stop burning fossil fuels.
#2: Extract carbon from Earth’s atmosphere.
That’s it.
If the world isn’t actively doing these, then we should be teaching our children how to adapt to this new environment.
Way back in 2007 I read a book by Derrick Jensen entitled Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization.
I didn’t agree with everything that the author wrote and I still have trouble with some of his material. However, I believe that he is clever and produced some thought provoking insights.
At the beginning of his book he prefaced himself with several premises.
I’d like to highlight the ones that I feel are noteworthy:
Premise One: Civilization is not and can never be sustainable. This is especially true for industrial civilization.
Premise Three: Our way of living—industrial civilization—is based on, requires, and would collapse very quickly without persistent and widespread violence.
Premise Six: Civilization is not redeemable. This culture will not undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living. If we do not put a halt to it, civilization will continue to immiserate the vast majority of humans and to degrade the planet until it (civilization, and probably the planet) collapses. The effects of this degradation will continue to harm humans and non-humans for a very long time.
Premise Thirteen: Those in power rule by force, and the sooner we break ourselves of illusions to the contrary, the sooner we can at least begin to make reasonable decisions about whether, when, and how we are going to resist.
Premise Fourteen: From birth on—and probably from conception, but I’m not sure how I’d make the case—we are individually and collectively enculturated to hate life, hate the natural world, hate the wild, hate wild animals, hate women, hate children, hate our bodies, hate and fear our emotions, hate ourselves. If we did not hate the world, we could not allow it to be destroyed before our eyes. If we did not hate ourselves, we could not allow our homes—and our bodies—to be poisoned.
Premise Twenty: Within this culture, economics—not community well-being, not morals, not ethics, not justice, not life itself—drives social decisions.
There is a beehaw Reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/beehaw-lemmy
Yes. I made that as well as the Beehaw subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/beehaw/
I don’t mind if someone else would like to make a Twitter Beehaw account. I’ve never used Twitter, for various reasons, and I don’t intend to start now.
Of course, that’s one of them.