Sorry, is optimism an obligation?

More extreme weather, some of our most important farmlands becoming unproductive to an extent not seen before.

Looks like meat famine's back on the menu boys!

The VRT gives us another great case of how framing works in our media. In the Dutch version of the website, the news is categorized as 'regional news' which means it's reach is a lot less on the website, even though they state themselves that there are actions going on in other regions too. The Dutch title is also mentions the 'damaging of buildings' while the English version and the RTBF one just mention them being blockaded.

It's sad that even these type of symbolic actions aren't already being done.

It's not though. It could be the point in some cases. But often enough, constitutions have been granted as concessions from the sovereign to whatever group was putting up pressure, often the nobility, who had no further intent to introduce a republic or democracy or whatever else. Just looking out for their own interests.

The typical character arc for these types, unfortunately.

I always do, but can't seem to find a fix. Worked perfectly at the start of the year.

Experimental

I like this new format where we scan photocopies of posts.

The EU will never ban them.

found the SUV driver!

I mean, fits within the whole extreme private property fetish going on within N-VA, and western society at large.

Normalize seizing more things, I'd say. Seize Russian assets. Seize assets of corporations that pollute and kill. Seize assets of the overly rich. Seize the means of production.

Sardonis, where are the days! De Mens is a fixture in my playlists, love 'em!

I'll start with this one: Ghentian jazzy prog-rock from the seventies, Kandahar - Eyes of Glass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iV4IhD-kRU

We're on a crossroads in history where we're deciding that doing something against climate change is too hard, we'll just fight for it. Probably Mad Max style, but think of the shareholder value!

Google's most difficult for me too, with the whole Android ecosystem and the fact that I can't just ditch it since I need it for work. Most of the rest I got rid off a few years ago, but it's a bit of a hassle.

Good to note that the game Half-Earth Socialism was developed as an extra to the book of the same title, by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass, that also combines fiction chapters with non-fiction.

Oh wow, interesting to see renewed Belgian interest here! Been using Lemmy since the Reddit exodus of 2023, but as expected most didn't stick. It's pretty calm here, but feel free to post more stuff here, it's a bit more do-it-yourself since we're only little.

It's a great target to show how capitalism causes multiple, interlocking crises and, inversely, the ideal stage for different struggles to combine forces.

It's war mongering and ever since the invasion of Ukraine, emotion has taken over. 10 years ago we were all remembering the First World War and how it should never happen again, and yet here we are: attacking anyone who tries to argue for peace as being a traitor...

Some thoughts:

• All wars end in negotiations, so the sooner the better;
• We need to get the fuck out of NATO - the US is a rogue state and we, as Europeans, have no say whatsoever in its functioning;
• We need a European defense alliance that's credible - meaning: if we say it's about defense and our so-called western values, we shouldn't be part of imperialist adventures;
• Russia isn't going to attack the EU, it makes no sense - the amount of mental gymnastics that pundits are making to make Russia both menacing as incompetent is staggering;
• Europe already spends three times as much on defense as Russia - if there's one sector that could really use some of that magic Free Market Efficiency™, this would be the prime candidate for austerity;
• Rearmament doesn't make the world safer, on the contrary, it makes war more likely - if all you have is an army, everything looks like a military conflict;
• Rearmament will only line the pockets of the industrialists and other capitalists and cost the working people in their well being or even their lives if we start throwing them into the meat grinder.