pearable

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[–] pearable@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

The ones that are successful at enshitification have captive markets. They're a monopoly, monopsony, or in another kind of inelastic market. https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/

[–] pearable@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I live in the Pacific Northwest of North America. It rains here a lot. The vast majority of my trips are by bike year round. I tend to find rain jackets and pants cause me to sweat uncomfortably. I usually wear a rain cape. I drape it over my handlebars and it keeps my pants mostly dry and my top completely dry. Once I get where I'm going it's easy to remove and tuck it into my bag.

If I'm just riding to ride I'll wear a merino wool base layer and just get wet. The wool stays warm even when I'm soaked

[–] pearable@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorta, this kind of thinking can only take you so far before the dissonance destroys your mental health.

Additionally, not everyone believes that just your mental state is yours to control. Many folks justify their own wealth by believing that they deserve everything they have and that people who have less by extension deserve their poverty.

[–] pearable@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

More specifically the question is, does the statute in question apply to people preventing a government procedure from occurring? Previously the statute has been used to prosecute folks who tamper with evidence. They're quibbling over the wording and whether storming a proceeding is also covered.

It's seems fairly obvious to me that January 6th rioters wanted to stop the proceedings in a way that protestors of the supreme court do not. It also seems obvious that the government wouldn't want citizens to be able to legally prevent it's basic proceedings from occurring.

Also worth saying the defendant ran at a police line yelling "charge"

[–] pearable@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oklahoma expanded Medicaid in 2020. Most of these states expended it over a decade ago. A lot of debt buildup occurred in that time. Not sure about the other indebted states but I wouldn't be surprised if they were similar

[–] pearable@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think that's how people work. An individual can decide to think critically, act selflessly, but when you're talking about millions of people environment means so much more. A mass of people don't just do anything. They are the result of their education, media, and religion. When all these things are shaped by people with all the money it's no wonder that people are bigoted, short sighted, and disillusioned with politics. We live in an extremely sophisticated propaganda machine.

As long as people are sufficiently comfortable, things will continue as they are. Enough people need to find their material reality shitty enough that they're no longer willing to eat the shit we've been fed all this time. Things haven't been this concentrated since before the great depression. If we see a similar economic collapse. This time a collapse in the ad/tech market or obscene capital financialization, and we'll finally see a similar backlash against capital. We just need to make sure we finish the job and the owners can't slowly claw back political power again.

[–] pearable@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When both parties agree on something it's almost always bad

[–] pearable@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only book of his I'd recommend is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. It's quite Anarcho Capitalist, and sexist in places but it's an interesting revolution story regardless and has some interesting ideas in it

[–] pearable@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not as confident with chopsticks so I use a long set of stainless tongs and find them quite useful

[–] pearable@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got a Fellow Opus so I can make espresso, as well as less fine ground coffee. It's quieter than other grinders I've used. I've also used a 1zpresso hand grinder and found it effective. Both are overkill for pour over or drip coffee

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