In the (anarchist) union I‘m in, we have neighborly get-togethers every month, where we talk about our life & work & just eat some food together. But it‘s really nice, there are people of different ages & different professions, so a lot of different perspectives.
Ist das schon der stochastische Terrorismus? Bald gibt es wohl Tote bei solchen Blockaden…
Huch, seid ihr nicht derselben Meinung? Ich bin leicht verwirrt…
It is good to find some joy in troubling times. But let‘s not do 100% escapism. With the right peers, we could fight climate change and enjoy furry art at the same time!
Cute! :)
I‘m not particularly hyped about synthetic fuels, but the application to low-carbon cement seems important to me, if this is possible at the scale required
That depends: In a certain way, we are already 4D creatures, with three spatial and one time dimension. However, in these contexts it‘s often useful to only refer to spatial dimensions. The 4D creature then has 4 spatial dimensions, and shares our time dimension.
But maybe its four spatial dimensions are our three spatial dimensions plus our time, and its time is something else completely? Then, by rotating you, it could place your head at a different time than your feet. But that also breaks causality and stuff.
Your wish can be arranged 🪄
— The mosquitoes
The connection to nature and the universe stops once mosquitoes enter the picture
Ich als ziemlich introvertierte Person denke dann immer: Vielleicht sollte ich mich offener (queer und) antifaschistisch zeigen. Also zB durch Anstecker. Das ist nicht viel, aber vielleicht besser als nichts. Denn es darf nicht passieren, dass Nazi-Positionen normalisiert werden in öffentlichen Räumen, nur weil sie eben sichtbarer (oder hörbarer) sind.
Naja, und eben kollektiv denken. Also bevor du alleine was sagst, und Angst hast, verprügelt zu werden, denke ich hilft es, mal die Situation bei anderen Leuten anzusprechen und Aufmerksamkeit zu schaffen.
I've also been distro-hopping, but settled on NixOS. I find it very clean, you know exactly where your (system-level) configuration files are (...and could even manage user-level config files using home-manager). There is a stable branch, which is, well, stable. And even if it wasn't, you can rollback the system at any point, which is trivial (just select a different generation during boot).
One of the biggest advantages for me is universal reproducible working environments. Using Nix+direnv, I can lock all tools (make, gcc, JupyterLab, Python, Julia) that I'm using in a project to specific versions (and upgrade/rollback). I can install programs/libraries in a nix shell and they will be removed on the next garbage collection. Upgrades are extremely safe: I once had a problem with RAM that corrupted a lot of my files during an upgrade. Nix can detect and repair this.
Downside is that Nix doesn't follow FHS, so some programs need a little help, for example by Nix' steam-run.
Fortunately, snail speed doesn‘t scale linearly with size, as the relativ slowing down of oxygen diffusion into the cells would shut down metabolic processes in the snail and lead to its asphyxiation.