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When politicians say that the state is inefficient at managing whatever stuff, arent they implicitely saying that they themselves are fucking incompetent?
My place of work had a huge banner of Allende on the front of their building today
I wish we did stuff like that, but I live in Texas, so the closest we’ll get is someone flying the Chilean flag thinking it’s the Texas flag
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I commented about this a few weeks ago as well, but there is an increasing crack problem starting in Antwerp and Brussels. It is seemingly coming out of nowhere and I wonder what’s the deal with it. Brussels is hit worse than Antwerp, maybe the cartels running Antwerp have something to do with it, idk. But it is becoming more mainstream every day.
It comes in handy for right wing parties because it mainly seems to affect refugees and homeless people, who are creating tense situations at busy places in the cities.
Drugs aren’t new. There’s a cocaine war going on in Antwerp, with a grenade explosion every other day. But crack is new and it was there all of a sudden.
The increase in economic hardship as a result of NATO’s war is a main cause I think, western Europe in particular is experiencing a lot of this and it’s feeding into right-wing talking points. It’s rough and likely is only going to get worse. Social democracy is rotting in real time.
Reaching conspiracy nutjob territory here but it would not surprise me in the slightest if one of the three letter agencies is dropping crack into minority communities again in order to promote a more right wing Europe as a US partner.
It’s been done before and will be done again. I don’t think it’s conspiracy nutjob territory at all to consider connections between the state, and organized crime/drug cartels.
There’s a lot of talk about getting the right insulation for your house so that you have to use less energy to heat it, but I think that, especially with global warming in mind, focussing on keeping the heat out in the summer should also be a priority. The past week we had a heat wave over here. It was ‘only’ 32 degrees but when you live in a swamp area the humidity is enough to completely wreck you. The city I live in is notorious for having 1) bad insulated houses and 2) having almost no green spaces to cool down in outside. Most squares are concrete slabs die to the concrete lobby having connections in the government. It is one of the hottest places in the country because of this, with a four degree difference in some areas. My bedroom has been at 31.5 C at night for the past week. I have a rash on my skin caused by the heat. Most people live in appartments without AC and without a garden to chill in. Green spaces outside and better housing conditions are a must, imo.
Anyway, new week, new left wing struggle. I sometimes feel as if I completely lose the plot of living a life because of politics. I’m at a point where I get envious if I see other people living life and just enjoying the mundane, regular life things. I wonder if taking a step back and touching some grass for a while is a good thing to do right now.
Time to live in caves again, best natural insulation
For some off grid climate leftists that seems to be an actual option lol
Wouldn’t good insulation also assist in keeping the heat out? Like a thermos
Yes good insulation helps with that. But something as easy as planting more trees in a street helps as well. Or getting people with gardens to remove tiles and swap them for greenery. I think we should also think about how designing the public spaces can help with conserving energy, cooling down a city, etc. Luckily more orgs are aware of this right now.
I’m also wondering what’s going to happen with heating in general. In Germany for example heat pumps are all but required now for all new heating systems in homes. But why do we need to have one heater per home? District heating can be done far more efficiently than individual buildings, but it’s almost never considered. Of course companies can make a lot more money selling hundreds of thousands of gest pumps than they can building a few district heating systems. And those would again most likely be powered by fossil fuels, as existing ones outside of China and Russia are.
Anyway, I’ve just been thinking that there are alternatives, but instead profits and “individual responsibility” must be prioritized rather than the climate emergency.
¡Venceremos!
It’s been an anniversary of the coup, hasn’t it?
Yeah, yesterday
If I ever become head of state in a communist dictatorship I’m banning humidity. It’s at 83% right now. Just sitting and slowly chewing my food makes me feel like standing in a shower.
yea humidity makes it awful. like i prefer a 40 degree temperature with low humidity than a 30 degree with high humidity. it fucking sucks taking a shower and coming out sweating 😂
Humidity also makes cold feel worse. For example -10C in Leningrad feels nightmarish, while the same temperature in, say, Kogalym would see people walking around with no hats
10C is already unbearable for me (with high humidity) 😂 people living under those conditions are built different fr
I went to Kashmir in August, it was 2 deg C. Man, it was chilling. -10 would be a death sentence for me 🤣
Is it normal temperature for this season in Kashmir?
I am banning the sport cricket in India…I don’t know what’s wrong with this sub continent but most of the males are addicted to this colonial game of UK🇬🇧 and which requires you to spend 5+ hrs each game.
Agreed.
It’s stuff like this that makes me realise how much better a head of state Thomas Sankara was than I’ll ever be though. Homie refused to use airconditioning in his office because it was considered a luxury in Burkina Faso.
I believe Suslov was another revolutionary figure who eschewed the privileges that he had access to on the grounds that if it was good enough for the masses then it’s good enough for him.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
oh yeah, well how about you have a nice week, how do you like that
Thank you Oppo you too
How was festival?
Festival was fun. Really nice weather, lots of interesting talks and people around. Great international food. I had a great time and managed to speak to a lot of people from around the world. I was looking for someone to wish me a nice week but unfortunately no one did.
I am afraid travel would have been a bit to expensive
You were there with me on my mind, that’s what counts
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Would be hard to guess which site that was from if it wasn’t for the greentext/UI lol.
Don’t share images of slurs like that
Anarchists irl
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In one of the communities where our party is in the government we managed to make sanitary products for women’s periods free in schools and libraries and other public buildings. And people are mad about it somehow 😭😭
Like, how can you be mad at free shit man
that’s like being mad about toilet paper in restrooms
No. Don’t do that. Don’t give them ideas.
I hate how the media gives everything coming from Ukraine a nickname. I saw a video about a pregnant women in the army and the media said: ‘they call her the Ukrainian Joan of Arc’. Like fuck off no one is doing that probably.
Ukrainian Joan of Arc
Ghost of Kyiv
Russian ‘General of Terror’
Ukrainian Potato of Eternal suffering, heir of the third Nebula, bringer of Justice, brother of Dave
It’s marketing, pure and simple
You know your civilisation is on the brink of collapse when you hand all power to people whose job is to make things up in the service of a higher power.
holy shit i am gonna get a brain aneurysm by reading these mainstream media articles.
in the last months outsourcing transformed into nearshoring and just now i saw an article calling it friendshoring 💀
i have that. i wanted hard copy 😀
right, I posted the link for those who don’t know that the PDF is free
why the fuck do these tech bro influencers keep ragging on commies and commie countries and praise murica? so sick of this shit everywhere
They’re techbros. They think they got where they are due to actual merit instead of dumb luck.
Was about to comment on someone’s post looking for Linux help with the distro and DE I happen to use until I realized they’re from lemmy dot ca who defederates us, so OP wouldn’t see it 😩 Not about to make an account on another instance just so I can interact better with the
pit anyway
