Cy / is on Nostr

Desperately lonely wannabe activist in #hillsboro near #Portland in the Pacific Northwest. ([#PDX)](https://fedicy.us.to?t=pdx) )
Always looking for ways to meet with people who live nearby so we can organize our community. Not... succeeding for 20 years is kind of discouraging.

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2024-06-27 21:00:53

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Ah uh... actually... fewer births is the only method that gives us way too many old farts to deal with. It's still better than wholesale slaughter, but you won't have a disproportionately elderly population after a cat6 hurricane.
In the worst case scenario, people start eliminating the weak and elderly, trying to keep the population manageable. We have to make sure we're ready for people to die of natural causes, or that kind of thinking can take root.
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2024-06-27 20:45:55

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Yes, I didn't mean to imply we as a society were incapable of caring for the elderly. Just that it gets harder to do as population decreases. I think slow depopulation wouldn't be too much trouble, if living in an overcrowded population with nowhere to go. Honestly, population isn't all that big a problem. It's a big number but:
1. a few people are producing most of the pollution
2. without tyranny like consumerism, our population will grow or shrink as needed on its own
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2024-06-27 20:27:46

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IMO the problem is that old people need care. If there's more of them than young, capable, able-bodied people can take care of... that's why falling birth rates can be problematic.
A degrowth economy would be better than consumerism though, even if the population didn't decrease at all.
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2024-06-23 18:20:41

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In the real world, anyone who has heard of Mastodon has heard it's failing, it's on its way out, it's not a good alternative, it's for nerds and weirdos, it will attack your children, and nobody uses it. So stick to saying the Fediverse, because big media hasn't yet gotten around to poisoning that well.

2024-06-19 18:25:40

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The terrifying thing about it is borders have never been more closed than they are now. Humanity is migrating at an unprecedented rate never before seen by any organism, taking our disease and invasive species with us, and yet we are only allowed to *travel,* not move. We have vast surveillance and accounting to ensure people are imprisoned in their birth nation, incredibly restrictive immigration requirements, and laws all the way back to Rome geared at preventing people from escaping their oppressors.
None of that will matter before an actual drought driven migration, but it will mean good decent people forgetting their compassion and coldly gunning down refugees fleeing for their lives. Normally that only happens in isolated incidents, and the mass murder only starts when elites start to send armies at their neighbors, but now we have a wholesale persecution machine prepped to make us slaughter people not for trying to invade, or to drive us from our homes, but simply for trying to escape. That didn't exist in the last big American drought; elites had very little clue who was allowed to be where back then.
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2024-06-17 04:23:14

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The worst thing about the city forcing businesses to bow before crummy landlords is that the lords can simply refuse to renew the lease, even if the business is doing well. They can force our businesses to be worse and less efficient ,by evicting them as soon as they start treating employees decently, respecting minorities, or producing good, healthy, high quality products.
No amount of success can shield a business from this; they will still have to take the huge financial hit of completely rebuilding their entire facility in a new location (assuming landlords aren't conspiring together, again) (assuming one landlord doesn't already have a monopoly over all commercial real estate within the nearest 50 miles).

2024-06-12 05:43:34

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ur mom is the algorithm

2024-04-18 03:23:51

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Should come as no surprise that women get paid less, when we allow the NBA to totally exclude women to the point that they have to found a WNBA just to get a chance to play basketball. It's this sexually segregated system that causes the pay gap. No miracle on earth is going to make the WNBA as popular as the NBA. Sexists can oppress women without looking sexist, just by preferentially funding the men's organization. Oh sure they totally support and are rooting for the female only organization (heh heh) but they simply haven't got the cash after investing $50mil more in the NBA. Not sexist at all!