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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It’s such a broad body of work that it’s hard to list all of the issues I have it it. I guess the biggest issue is just that Marx’s writings were an early attempt at describing a more rigorous case for social reform before more scientific theories of social change and economics were developed. So while his ideas were groundbreaking and innovative at the time they were written, not all of them have held up or are relevant to today’s world. And yet I don’t see many Marxists who have been willing to seriously dissect his ideas and take the useful ideas while discarding the bad or irrelevant ones. And in fact, those few who are willing to take a more critical stance are often ostracized and deemed “revisionists” which strikes me as a frankly absurd accusation. If you are not revising your theories then they are no longer theories but mere dogma, and that seems to be the state of mainstream Marxism today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

This is just one idea. It is not meant to solve every problem. Though, frankly, I don’t think your critique is very relevant. The poor typically have little or no savings and spend their money immediately. So they should be largely unaffected by this. And increased spending and lending by the more privileged should benefit the poor to some extent, as will the reduction in the wealthy’s spending power.

But yes I think further ideas and programs would be needed to fully solve poverty. This type of currency would easily accommodate a UBI or similar benefit programs since the natural reduction in money supply would solve any issues of inflation typically associated with large direct payments to citizens.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 hours ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Thanks for posting this here. I don’t understand how this article was a violation of the rules on the LW politics community. Perhaps the mod simply did not like the content.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Don’t obey in advance. With the exception of the Supreme Court, most other systems and protections remain in place and may continue to exist regardless of Trump’s intentions, especially if they are fought for and protected.

But direct action of the type the author is discussing has been very successful across many contexts, including brutal dictatorships with no human rights guarantees. So the whole thrust of your comment fails to grapple with the real history of popular struggle.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Is the dilemma that I can’t take the tram to my foraging grounds? If so I agree that is a problem.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haha yeah he’s not too memorable otherwise but it’s a funny mistake since Romney and Trump hate each other.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Romney? Did you mean Perry?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why do you think he was selected for AG?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The crackdown against activists in the UK is getting very serious. If people don’t wake up and push back it may be the beginning of a very dark time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

The conflation of property destruction (especially of extremely wealthy businesses) and violence against people is extremely silly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Biden has backed Israel since Hamas-led gunmen attacked the country in October 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 hostages. Since then, more than 43,500 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in Gaza, with 2 million displaced people and much of the strip reduced to rubble.

How mysterious. I wonder who killed them?

 

Anyone out there?

 

As promised, a more difficult nut for today!

I will give this one 3/5 difficulty.

Photo credit: Lior Golgher, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hint:

spoilerThis nut is named for its most common country of origin.
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Answer and some fun facts about this nut:

spoilerIt's a Brazil nut! Brazil nuts are fairly unique among nuts one might commonly see in a grocery store. They are not a domesticated crop like most other nuts, and are mainly wild-harvested from the Amazon rainforest. Some have advocated this as a model of a sustainable economic activity in the rainforest, but other studies have noted that in areas where nuts are heavily harvested, the regeneration of the species is poor.
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Tune in tomorrow for more nutty knowledge!

 

Despite their drab color, I find these quite beautiful!

I expect this one will be fairly easy, so the next one I post will be a bit harder.

Need a hint?

spoilerIt's in season right now, and is often cooked in a seasonal dish...

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Photo by Geo Lightspeed7 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Click here for source and answer.

 

A conversation about adapting to sea level rise in California using nature-based solutions. Solarpunk even gets a shoutout.

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An interesting overview of this CIA document which, if you’ve spent much time discussing politics on Lemmy, you’ve probably heard of. But the existence and meaning of the document is not as simple as many believe.

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Gardening is not so much about following rules, says Rebecca McMackin, as it is about following rules of observation. For Ms. McMackin, the director of horticulture at the 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park, that means keeping in mind goals that will support wildlife in the garden, and the greater ecology.

Rather than following the common practice of planting and transplanting in spring, for instance, she suggests shifting virtually all of that activity to autumn — and not cutting back most perennials as the season winds down.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/16383867

ghostarchive link here

 

A video discussing the tension and trade offs between conventional rewilding and guerrilla rewilding.

 

A well-researched video that explains why some dense urban areas are quite expensive.

TL;DW: Despite a substantial historic housing stock, our most expensive cities have built very little housing in recent years, leading to very low vacancy rates and high prices. Ramping up housing construction will be a necessary part of solving the affordability crisis.

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13574268

A really innovative study that went beyond statistical association and actually planted trees in low-tree neighborhoods and measured the impacts.

After the plantings, the research team reassessed residents' health. They found that those living in the greened area had 13-20% lower levels of a biomarker of general inflammation, a measure called high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) than those living in the areas that did not receive any new trees or shrubs. Higher levels of hsCRP are strongly associated with a risk of cardiovascular disease and are an even stronger indicator of heart attack than cholesterol levels. Higher CRP levels also indicate a higher risk of diabetes and certain cancers.

A reduction of hsCRP by this percentage corresponds to nearly 10-15% reduction in the risk of heart attacks, cancer or dying from any disease.

Although several previous studies have found an association between living in areas of high surrounding greenness and health, this is the first study to show that a deliberate increase in greenness in the neighborhood can improve health.

 

A really innovative study that went beyond statistical association and actually planted trees in low-tree neighborhoods and measured the impacts.

After the plantings, the research team reassessed residents' health. They found that those living in the greened area had 13-20% lower levels of a biomarker of general inflammation, a measure called high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) than those living in the areas that did not receive any new trees or shrubs. Higher levels of hsCRP are strongly associated with a risk of cardiovascular disease and are an even stronger indicator of heart attack than cholesterol levels. Higher CRP levels also indicate a higher risk of diabetes and certain cancers.

A reduction of hsCRP by this percentage corresponds to nearly 10-15% reduction in the risk of heart attacks, cancer or dying from any disease.

Although several previous studies have found an association between living in areas of high surrounding greenness and health, this is the first study to show that a deliberate increase in greenness in the neighborhood can improve health.

 

Shoddy construction. Very disappointing.

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