It'll be okay, we'll make it.

@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social Many of the stories and predictions for a cleaner future involve "replacing" the old, oil-tied machines and mechanics of the present with more independent energies of what hopefully will be the future, and really should have been the present.

I find this notion a bit disheartening, since it implies the old machines can't be remade or modified. Not everything is an Apple product. I prefer "retrofit" to "replacement", but is that wrong?

#SolarPunk #RightToRepair

If your platform(s) openly allows blatant propaganda and misinformation, whether by private party or otherwise, your platform is a threat to everyone, not a service.

Google is a threat, an existential threat, and nothing but a threat.

#bikes #bikeTooter #welding #diy
First legit welding project, making a disc brake caliper mount for an old MTB.

I know shit is fucked, but I just want to hear something that is right for once.

If you intentionally target an already disadvantaged population, excluding nuance, adjacent populations and examples, and repeatedly state correctness in the process, you're not making a factual claim or a empirical follow up to a real argument or line of reasoning, then it is evident that you are participating in bigotry.

for example: "crime rates in Black and Mexican neighborhoods are higher than many other places..."

missing nuance: "...because they are subjected to aggressive zoning tactics, 'poor taxes', decreased humanitarian aid, and institutional racism.."

evidence: "...places like Detroit restrict the amount of economic and social force you can exert through strict definitions what what a yard, house, and building can and can't be, and in order to overcome this definition, you have to push through the city's councils and legislators, instead of asking your neighbors."

Partially claiming a fact without nuance is a logical and journalistic crime, and should be treated as such. It just so happens that much of corporate social media and journalism thrives off of this content.

It's already 92 F in the valleys near Glacier Peak. I have a bad feeling about the fire risk now, there's too many hillbillies with no brains and much oil ready to burn anything they won't dispose of properly.

I'm not even going to use the blowtorch unless absolutely necessary. There isn't enough fire extinguishers in the world for a situation like this.

Bioplastic experiments went better than expected, at 50% w/w glycerine to corn starch and 15% citric acid the curing scheme I have yeilds a hard, crumbly plastic on top and a gradient of curing progress underneath. This is expected for such high levels of citric acid and lack of vacuum drying. Next is 10% and 5% CA.

Good news, the gay virus is spreading, next the trans virus will take, along with the enby and genderfluid pathogens.

https://www.them.us/story/queer-planet-gay-animal-documentary-conservative-backlash