iirc Brave has a terrible policy Not good More like … a honeypot

At least Ecosia supposedly plants lots of trees (which we desperately need)

We need like a quadrillion NET more trees than we have right now

it’s not just carbon sinks it’s also water vapor (evapotranspiration) it either forms clouds that rain (if lots of trees) or it just makes the atmosphere hotter

the internet has a big physical footprint

i don’t think tokens help.

see this for a bit of education on the topic: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

speaking as a man who was born with and still has a penis and, since puberty, plenty of healthy testosterone :

There’s enough of ‘jokingly’ blaming the people whom I adore as equals (women) for things gone wrong, thanks.

How about, “Empire, you dumb dick” (for building concrete heat-concentrating-cities, among other things)

orrr there’s always the sex-neutral “Asshole” !

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

My response to those sorts of ridiculous claims is, •Huh. I guess you haven’t heard of “intersex”. What do you call a human baby who was biologically born with bits of both??

That usually stumps them for a bit. Data-does-not-compute. Oe they ignore it and go back to their original point. … at which pt i have to hold empathy-space & validation (≠ does not equate with agreement/condoning, see footnote [1])… … and then — if and only if they seem open — ask them about if they’re aware that some human babies — to be clear, not trans folx in most case (well except by way of uninformed/nonconsent at birth, ugh) — but some human babies are born intersex.

usually tho i just leave it and no pt in doing so online usually

[1] hold empathy-space & validation does not equal & does not equate with agreement/condoning btw, as any good de-escalation specialist (like an fbi hostage negotiator or a therapist or life-coach) can tell explain better than i can rn.

Looks like a lot! Hope it’s being split 2x ways.

But that wouldn’t generate as much profit, see! You gotta have Scarcity, otherwise ya cannot jack up the prices so high!

also: permaculture regenerative agriculture ecological stability dynamic equilibrium etc

also, news: India’s regenerative water permaculture development

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy Goes back to the 1960s (see also the Lewis Powell memo)

(also see “The Democracy Project” by David Graeber get it cash from a used bookstore leave no trace LNT )

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

This. Is. One of the Best. Hidden Political History. Ever.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

blew my mind. see also anything else by thom hartmann and the Lewis Powell memo. and The Democracy Project by David Graeber (buy it at a used bookstore with cash)

Digital detritus = SO not important. … i mean RELATIVELY. Trust me.

Go live your life, insofar as you are able to, friend :-)

Find an actual sharing group like #BuyNothingProject or #ToolLendingLibrary or something crew to kick it with.

or https://shareable.net for reading (been ages since I checked it).

@lemmy@fmhy.ml any idea why I can’t see that post in-app by going to RenWillis’ timeline, but why I can see it via a public web browser?

“Does anyone know why this is happening?”

Yes. Thom Hartmann and others have written about this. It started after the civil rights, antiwar, feminist, peacenik, environmental, etc movements of the 1960s and early 70s.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated specifically because he was uniting poor Whites with Blacks, calling for Socialism, and launching the Poor People’s Campaign.

It was a conscious, deliberate response by the elite — against the economic and political warfare conducted by the middle class in order to eliminate the classist systemz of oppression.

The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy

Written in 1971 to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

see also Thom Hartmann’s book: “Screwed: The Undeclared War on America’s Middle Class”

also: “

**Why Oligarchs Don’t Just Want to Be Rich, But Kill Democracy Too ** The deeper reason why the powerful and wealthiest think your ability to vote is dangerous.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

see above article — one of the best. chock-full of the best history lessons — including England’s maximum wage law back a few centuries ago.

“Power attracts the corruptible.

Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible.”

— DUNE, by Frank Herbert