Jesus. I can't imagine having murdered someone at that age. I mean obviously it'd wreck me at any age, but I didn't have any kind of coping skills or support system at 21 and if she's trying to rob houses then I can't imagine she does, either.
It's a tragic situation all around. I wish we had better options for handling crimes like these so that maybe this could have been avoided.
I would love to see an anti-AI rule for slrpnk.net as a whole. Too many gross tech bros who think data centers guzzling water and spewing pollution is somehow compatible with protecting and embracing the environment :/
Your part in this transformation was never about matching the magnitude of the problem: It’s about finding a way to stay in it that’s personally sustainable.
This feels really meaningful to me. My disability means that I can't often participate in the ways that I want to and I hit my capacity much faster than I feel like I should. But it really is a marathon, not a sprint.
Maybe I could say that I'm frustrated by my physical limitations even as I acknowledge that it doesn't all fall on me.
The Pilot Metropolitan is also very affordable and writes nicely. I know OP didn't ask for a fountain pen, but fountain pens are universally refillable and a good one (such as the Metropolitan or basically every TWSBI) is repairable too, in a way that ballpoints really can't be - in my opinion, a good fountain pen is truly Buy It For Life.
If you're willing to spend some money, there are some lovely ballpoints on the market. But in general, a ballpoint pen is not a BIFL item.
Wanted to swing in here with a disability perspective if that's okay - while it's not exactly off-grid living, a lot of people with disabilities have homes that are optimized for accessibility which can be confusing for visitors! We also tend to need stuff to be done a specific way which, while not technology related, is really important and can add a learning curve.
Some examples off the top of my head: Computers might have screen readers, trackballs, alternative keyboards, accessible buttons, etc. Stuff like light switches, thermostats, door handles might be modified to suit limited mobility. Appliances like microwaves or coffee makers can be voice activated or have larger/more grippable buttons (which aren't always intuitive in today's touch-screen world).
The smallest personal example I can think of would be cooking with food allergies, which I know is not an unusual thing these days, but a lot of my friends are still confused about how cross contamination works, e.g. if you use a butter knife for butter you can use it to spread that butter on your toast but you cannot dip it in the jar of jam, because that would contaminate the jam with dairy and gluten. Or, a personal example, I was teaching my partner how make a mug cake using only one tablespoon measurer and explained that you must add the ingredients in a specific order (such as flour last) or you'd be successively contaminating each ingredient for my little brother.
My household also just does a lot of things very specifically for our needs, like we vacuum instead of sweep because of my allergies, and I go around and shut curtains in various rooms throughout the day because our AC isn't strong and we try to use it as little as possible. I wash laundry on cold to protect the fabric but dry it on hot to kill the dust mites. We use soap bars instead of soap dispensers for hand washing which often throws off guests, and I keep the liquid dish soap in a hair conditioner pump bottle (it's what I had, can't afford a fancy decorative one, also it works really well anyway) which also throws off guests XD And the left side of the sink is always clear and we do not put dirty dishes in there, partly so we can refill water bottles without them touching dirty dishes and partly to accommodate my partner's autism.
My balcony garden has a weird system of jars underneath the plant stands to catch any water that drains out of the pots after I water them, plus there's currently a bunch of soup pots and random containers on the roof to catch rainwater. There's no spigot on my balcony and I don't have the energy to go back and forth a bunch for water XD And my "watering can" is an old vinegar jug.
Not sure if any of that is helpful for what you're looking for, just some thoughts c:
Same thing, I don't fuck around with milk or meat. Otherwise I try to use my best judgment. Saw someone say they threw out unopened baking powder that had expired and ngl I was a little bit horrified...
Yes, good. I want to convert everyone I know to Linux. Windows just sucks (she says, typing from a Windows OS, because the software she needs for her job isn't supported on Linux ;-;)
That's cool as hell!! I didn't know people did that and I'm now delighted with this information.
I'm exactly the same way. It's hard, but y therapist pointed out to me, when I was bemoaning my inability to write, that I've never stopped being creative for even a minute, and all the projects and ideas I'm working on are filling and expanding my creative well <3 I love your analogy "the butterfly of inspiration" too - it feels very kind and intuitive c:
I loved being apart of the Canvas event, it was so much fun to work together with everyone and see things change <3
For my personal solarpunk journey, my partner and I once again hosted our regular community night and ended up bringing together some groups of people I think wouldn't have connected otherwise, which was really special. Hosting casual events like these feels really important to me - it gives me a lot of hope and feels very grounded and real compared to the constant doom and gloom of The US Government and The News and so on. Hosting is a lot for me to handle physically speaking unfortunately so I've been sick in bed since then. But it's worth it!
Solarpunk plans for this month: working on my submission to the Lunarpunk anthology, participating in Postcrossing which I just discovered exists, hosting another community night, and working on customizing some of my clothes with paint, stencils, and stamps c:
I reject the idea that law enforcement is always necessary. Laws are frequently unjust and anti-solarpunk. I don't care about people breaking laws if the laws don't serve the people. But let's say all the laws are just - I also reject the idea that we need a bunch of power-hungry assholes with weapons and legal immunity to "enforce" them.
Here's the thing - we rely on the police to do a broad range of tasks and, at least in the US, we hand them a gun to do all of those tasks. The traffic lights are down? Take your gun and go stand in the intersection. Parking tickets? You'll need your gun for that. Homeless people on the streets? Don't forget your gun. House broken into? Here's a gun, try not to shoot the wrong person.
The simple answer is that we should have a different team of (trained, specialized) people for each of those scenarios. Police don't receive training in each of those areas which means they are frequently in danger and frequently relying on violence or the threat of violence to get things done. It's not fair to the officers and its not fair to the people they "serve." I want to see a team who handles traffic, a team to respond to homeless people (though hopefully we'll be on our way to finally providing housing for all), a separate team for crimes like burglary and theft, etc etc.
As for a military - I will be completely honest, I haven't educated myself as much on alternatives to that, but I do question your assumption that we will always need to defend ourselves. It assumes that people will always be attacking us.
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This is my thought as well. I know it's not palatable to think about - we don't want to extend empathy to rapists, of course we don't. But we can't say that some people deserve help and others don't. I've thought about this a lot for my own moral values, and yeah, if we have someone who is unable to stop themselves from raping (whether by some kind of psychological issue or because they simply don't want to), then I want to extend community support to them just like anyone else.
That might look like having them in some kind of supportive housing situation (NOT a prison) where they can be supervised, or allowing them to go out and have a job if they're showing signs of working hard against the urges with a caretaker present to, well, stop them from raping. Medication that lowers the libido would be necessary. So would counseling.
I don't like the idea of helping someone who happily rapes any chance they get, but I will not ever play God and decide who gets human rights and who doesn't.
In terms of "enforcement" in the cases of rape, I think we can safely get rid of cops and lean toward a team of mental health professionals who can employ things like supportive confinement and counseling etc.
Jesus. I can't imagine having murdered someone at that age. I mean obviously it'd wreck me at any age, but I didn't have any kind of coping skills or support system at 21 and if she's trying to rob houses then I can't imagine she does, either.
It's a tragic situation all around. I wish we had better options for handling crimes like these so that maybe this could have been avoided.
Holy shit Jacob this is incredible!!!
Hell yeah. Love to see it :D
I would love to see an anti-AI rule for slrpnk.net as a whole. Too many gross tech bros who think data centers guzzling water and spewing pollution is somehow compatible with protecting and embracing the environment :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ70hCa3JJo < this guy made one out of junk!! I haven't tried it myself though
This feels really meaningful to me. My disability means that I can't often participate in the ways that I want to and I hit my capacity much faster than I feel like I should. But it really is a marathon, not a sprint.
Maybe I could say that I'm frustrated by my physical limitations even as I acknowledge that it doesn't all fall on me.
The Pilot Metropolitan is also very affordable and writes nicely. I know OP didn't ask for a fountain pen, but fountain pens are universally refillable and a good one (such as the Metropolitan or basically every TWSBI) is repairable too, in a way that ballpoints really can't be - in my opinion, a good fountain pen is truly Buy It For Life.
If you're willing to spend some money, there are some lovely ballpoints on the market. But in general, a ballpoint pen is not a BIFL item.
Found the vulva c:
This is beautiful :O
Very cool!! You must look stunning in it! Nice job stashbusting too :D Does it have a band over the forehead?
Right yeah like it won't make you sick but you don't know it's off yet. Plus you could add a little bit extra if it is a bit "flat"
Wanted to swing in here with a disability perspective if that's okay - while it's not exactly off-grid living, a lot of people with disabilities have homes that are optimized for accessibility which can be confusing for visitors! We also tend to need stuff to be done a specific way which, while not technology related, is really important and can add a learning curve.
Some examples off the top of my head: Computers might have screen readers, trackballs, alternative keyboards, accessible buttons, etc. Stuff like light switches, thermostats, door handles might be modified to suit limited mobility. Appliances like microwaves or coffee makers can be voice activated or have larger/more grippable buttons (which aren't always intuitive in today's touch-screen world).
The smallest personal example I can think of would be cooking with food allergies, which I know is not an unusual thing these days, but a lot of my friends are still confused about how cross contamination works, e.g. if you use a butter knife for butter you can use it to spread that butter on your toast but you cannot dip it in the jar of jam, because that would contaminate the jam with dairy and gluten. Or, a personal example, I was teaching my partner how make a mug cake using only one tablespoon measurer and explained that you must add the ingredients in a specific order (such as flour last) or you'd be successively contaminating each ingredient for my little brother.
My household also just does a lot of things very specifically for our needs, like we vacuum instead of sweep because of my allergies, and I go around and shut curtains in various rooms throughout the day because our AC isn't strong and we try to use it as little as possible. I wash laundry on cold to protect the fabric but dry it on hot to kill the dust mites. We use soap bars instead of soap dispensers for hand washing which often throws off guests, and I keep the liquid dish soap in a hair conditioner pump bottle (it's what I had, can't afford a fancy decorative one, also it works really well anyway) which also throws off guests XD And the left side of the sink is always clear and we do not put dirty dishes in there, partly so we can refill water bottles without them touching dirty dishes and partly to accommodate my partner's autism.
My balcony garden has a weird system of jars underneath the plant stands to catch any water that drains out of the pots after I water them, plus there's currently a bunch of soup pots and random containers on the roof to catch rainwater. There's no spigot on my balcony and I don't have the energy to go back and forth a bunch for water XD And my "watering can" is an old vinegar jug.
Not sure if any of that is helpful for what you're looking for, just some thoughts c:
Same thing, I don't fuck around with milk or meat. Otherwise I try to use my best judgment. Saw someone say they threw out unopened baking powder that had expired and ngl I was a little bit horrified...
Fuck Flock and all the companies like them <3
Yes, good. I want to convert everyone I know to Linux. Windows just sucks (she says, typing from a Windows OS, because the software she needs for her job isn't supported on Linux ;-;)
That's cool as hell!! I didn't know people did that and I'm now delighted with this information.
I'm exactly the same way. It's hard, but y therapist pointed out to me, when I was bemoaning my inability to write, that I've never stopped being creative for even a minute, and all the projects and ideas I'm working on are filling and expanding my creative well <3 I love your analogy "the butterfly of inspiration" too - it feels very kind and intuitive c:
I loved being apart of the Canvas event, it was so much fun to work together with everyone and see things change <3
For my personal solarpunk journey, my partner and I once again hosted our regular community night and ended up bringing together some groups of people I think wouldn't have connected otherwise, which was really special. Hosting casual events like these feels really important to me - it gives me a lot of hope and feels very grounded and real compared to the constant doom and gloom of The US Government and The News and so on. Hosting is a lot for me to handle physically speaking unfortunately so I've been sick in bed since then. But it's worth it!
Solarpunk plans for this month: working on my submission to the Lunarpunk anthology, participating in Postcrossing which I just discovered exists, hosting another community night, and working on customizing some of my clothes with paint, stencils, and stamps c:
I want one SO BAD my balcony gets tons and tons of sunlight!!
I reject the idea that law enforcement is always necessary. Laws are frequently unjust and anti-solarpunk. I don't care about people breaking laws if the laws don't serve the people. But let's say all the laws are just - I also reject the idea that we need a bunch of power-hungry assholes with weapons and legal immunity to "enforce" them.
Here's the thing - we rely on the police to do a broad range of tasks and, at least in the US, we hand them a gun to do all of those tasks. The traffic lights are down? Take your gun and go stand in the intersection. Parking tickets? You'll need your gun for that. Homeless people on the streets? Don't forget your gun. House broken into? Here's a gun, try not to shoot the wrong person.
The simple answer is that we should have a different team of (trained, specialized) people for each of those scenarios. Police don't receive training in each of those areas which means they are frequently in danger and frequently relying on violence or the threat of violence to get things done. It's not fair to the officers and its not fair to the people they "serve." I want to see a team who handles traffic, a team to respond to homeless people (though hopefully we'll be on our way to finally providing housing for all), a separate team for crimes like burglary and theft, etc etc.
Here's a resource for you (and others) to check out, they explain things much more succinctly than me: https://defundthepolice.org/alternatives-to-police-services/
As for a military - I will be completely honest, I haven't educated myself as much on alternatives to that, but I do question your assumption that we will always need to defend ourselves. It assumes that people will always be attacking us.
TW: rape mention
::: spoiler This is my thought as well. I know it's not palatable to think about - we don't want to extend empathy to rapists, of course we don't. But we can't say that some people deserve help and others don't. I've thought about this a lot for my own moral values, and yeah, if we have someone who is unable to stop themselves from raping (whether by some kind of psychological issue or because they simply don't want to), then I want to extend community support to them just like anyone else.
That might look like having them in some kind of supportive housing situation (NOT a prison) where they can be supervised, or allowing them to go out and have a job if they're showing signs of working hard against the urges with a caretaker present to, well, stop them from raping. Medication that lowers the libido would be necessary. So would counseling.
I don't like the idea of helping someone who happily rapes any chance they get, but I will not ever play God and decide who gets human rights and who doesn't.
In terms of "enforcement" in the cases of rape, I think we can safely get rid of cops and lean toward a team of mental health professionals who can employ things like supportive confinement and counseling etc.
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