Excellent rabbit hole of posts! Thank you, friend!

When you get around to HZD, the DLC Frozen Wilds and Horizon: Forbidden West are highly recommended. I’m halfway through the second and it’s so amazing.

I love the point made about grassroots movements already doing good work for the community, and the entities controlling public land won’t allow tax payers to allocate a portion of public lands for planting. There should be a checklist of approved stuff you can plant, managed by the municipality, and that checklist should be available in multiple languages. I understand you shouldn’t just be able to plant whatever (if not food, then no non-native/invasive species), and there shouldn’t be harmful pesticide use to some extent, but given the amount of people living in food apartheids with no access to fresh produce, it seems like the least effort, humane thing to allow.

This is the way.

Hear hear!

Hey, that’s “Civil” Forfeiture in 2024.

“We have guns and riot gear. Wtf you gonna do about it?” – Signed, Bullies with Badges

So glad someone other than me is pointing this out!

I really appreciate your points and this comparison, but the pictures are giving me Attack on Titan vibes lol

Exactly. I don’t wear it all the time, but I’m one of the few people at my job that wears a mask (although it’s mainly because I work around people that open mouth cough and sneeze into the air without covering it 🙃). I just try not to be in the office or around people when I’m sick, but I for sure still wear my mask regardless cause I just prefer not to be sick.

I love everything you said, but badmouthing pigeons by comparing them to the far right loonies makes me sad lol. Pigeons are lovely, smart(ish), and sweet creatures!

Everything you’ve said here resonates with me. I’m also all for reclaiming words used to harm and repurposing for empowerment. One community that is really good at doing this is the drag/LGBTQ+ folx. Love this!

This, 100%. Did I have a hard time being called a weird kid growing up? Absolutely. I feel how this might make someone very uncomfortable. I embrace being called weird now after much struggle, and use it as a badge of honor. And currently, that exact flippant energy being used at people who can only parrot hateful things? That’s my bread and butter now, baby.

This comment isn’t helpful, but I really love Demon’s Tilt. I appreciate this post and the suggestions here!

It surely is a big deal. You’re ignoring the “having to find another place to live” part. When you have no place to go and no plan or agreement in place to be somewhere else, it can feel very isolating and hopeless because you lack stability. If you’re low income, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, or disabled, good luck finding a place easily. The article itself even mentions that there was higher competition for rentals nearby after a severe weather catastrophe.

Sure, as a homeowner you have to eat the cost of repairs, and often times you’re required to carry insurance on a property, so there’s some coverage and help there, but you can literally pitch a tent on the land and not be bothered or kicked out because you literally own it. Not so easy for a renter.

Soooo many microplastics leach from tea bags. I dunno, don’t do it OP… I strongly suggest loose leaf in a tin.

It’s peculiar that when we have mega farms and industrial agriculture, the practices we use to maximize output and profit always lead to the demise of all the surrounding affected land and species. It’s almost as if capitalistic principles are non sustainable and harming the planet…

Several ecological studies and recent meta-analysis have suggested an inverse association between lithium in water and suicide in the general population, with a lack of knowledge of clinically significant side effects.

That last part though.

100% agree. I’m cautiously optimistic about other states following suit. My guess is Massachusetts next, then we hopefully see a cascade effect.

Pressure from businesses and the auto industry lobbyists, I presume.

Imagine if NYC didn’t give in! Imagine if we didn’t give in to corporate interests on the regular. Imagine if we came together to fight for good community-building things…

I love this. It’s a simple way to train an open-minded carbrain that there are easy ways to convert existing infrastructure on the cheap!