stopburningthings.bsky.social
In Southern California. Reply more than I post. 1/2 serious posts. 1/2 jokes. On the left, but probably either more left or not as left as you want. Utopia is for everyone's needs to be met sustainably.
Pic is unfairly maligned California delta smelt.
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for friendship and loneliness/for medical advice/etc.
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Gavin Newsom probably, I mean this actually may be influenced by the abundance agenda (of course CA does have a notorious housing shortage as well)
www.gov.ca.gov/2025/05/14/g...
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if other countries can do it, it's doable.
If no country anywhere has ever done it, it might still be doable and even necessary, but then it's a harder persuasion job that requires a certain amount of optimism as well as trail and error in implementation.
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it's Trump (tm) cadence. Who else even speaks like that but Trump? I actually suspect it's AI trained on Trump speeches, but it could also be an actual human aping dear leader, which is like how much brownnosing does your job even require, have some dignity man ...
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Do we now have AI posting as homeland security, having been fed nothing but Trump speeches as input? Kill me now, please, I don't want to live ...
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oh yea that msn homepage is REAL BAD, it's gotten MUCH worse recently (since Trump2 maybe?). I'm not seeking it out for news, but I've seen it, it does allow some paywall bypassing. But it tends to feature British rightwing media as if was legit, all panic, all the time.
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Is this posting click bait? The opposition party DID win the next election. Noone has to imagine, it's history, 2020-2024. The opposition party was the Democrats though, so might as well have abandoned all hope.
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elder/child/longterm theoretically uses markets and sure they exist. In reality it often uses (overwhelmingly but not entirely female) unpaid labor to keep anything kind of afloat, and not well.
Because the markets fail.
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possibly they care less about most scientists or even scientific endeavor, than some geopolitical game of who is winning. Obviously the u.s. is not exactly on the road to winning anything in terms of power/economics, having put this regime in power. But there are other bigger concerns.
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No constitutional method for that in the u.s. All we have is impeachment. Having an ancient constitution like the u.s. kinda sucks.
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how do general strikes work in your country (or province, if the issues are all federalized) or do you not do them either? Who organizes them & are there income supports etc? We need some successful models to draw on. Still though they might not work here, the legal supports simply may not be there
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unions can strike but there is no protection against firing if it's for some larger political agenda (as opposed to for the usual union demands, better wages and benefits from an employer)
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if a lot of the country is illiterate, then yea maybe
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40 is extremely optimistic, planning to get rich I guess.
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I don't think ideology matters but misogyny and racism probably do, so white guy to the left I guess, Bernie is too old.
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people become California governor IN ORDER to run for President, it's almost the whole point of the position (a few are barred like Arnold (not born here) and many are not successful but ...).
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and avoid the sirens of, if I'm going to in effect have a second job, shouldn't it be one with any prospects of um money?
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and all the debris? That seems like a bad approach to any type of development that isn't purely immaterial like software is.
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all the same ones who supported black lives matter right? Where are they now? Oh dropped it as soon as the political winds changed (and barely changed at that, Trump won a bare majority, but he is of course in power). Yea the word and words of these companies is worthless.
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important as in what, getting media attention? Most protests are not going to get that much of that. I love Greta, I'm just saying most protests aren't going to get that level of attention, she was young and on fire. But can I name a male protestor? climatehuman (peter kalmus) posts to this app.
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tbf it's supposedly less impact than beef. tbf the impact of beef breaks the charts pretty much, it's such an outlier in having such a huge climate impact as far as foods go.
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acid rain?
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Nazi salutes are bad (wait do I live in a time I have to point that out). But the DOGE stuff will kill a lot more people.
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do make the recipe on the package with the lime juice then, it's 😋
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hit and run
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I keep telling people it should be about not wanting the full collection social security age to be raised in the hope that at least Gen X hears. Because funding a retirement entirely on 401ks - LOL hahaha
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it can cause "ketamine IC" (Interstitial Cystitis) called ketamine cystitis, but it's possibly worse than many cases of IC.
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yea people will use drugs, humans always have, and some abuse them, but this is just more evidence (as if we needed it) that billionaires shouldn't exist. It's the being a billionaire that made him a danger to everyone.
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Trump sucks, but where are people getting this from? Yes, people died of covid, but people died of covid worldwide. The death toll was also higher than many "comparable" countries. However, the U.S. also doesn't have a healthcare system the way most countries do, it's not really "comparable" at all.
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yea whatever some people who could never fully define why their childhood was such a struggle/hell (and of course that carries over into adulthood though it's not the same) don't choose to have kids🤷 Was it the abuse? Was it neurodiversity? Neglect? Faulty brain wiring? All of the above? Who knows
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If it hits a heatwave it's not going to be great biking weather either, not that L.A. is optimized for bikes at all.
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This seems incomplete without noting many localities had eviction moratoriums, and people couldn't be evicted for not paying rent. Los Angeles, homeless epicenter of the nation seemingly, had an eviction moratorium for years for covid.
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Musk can get rehabilitation when he makes restitution to all the victims (or on the other hand maybe we should just hang him)
All the damage done by DOGE has not been mended AT ALL. Social security services still damaged, data stolen, computer systems made insecure etc. etc.
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I don't think insurance companies are what is driving policy with this admin. One can still hate them for everything else 😆
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Are we lawyers or are we dancer?
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They seem to be pushing 2 Harvard bashing articles just today. I am not some Harvard stan, but we all know they have a beef with the Trump regime, and at a certain point one can't help but see the articles as favors to this fascist regime.
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if you abandon the climate cause for a snub of all things, you are not a climate hero and never were. You are a mental 10 year old. Fuck Elon Musk.
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we need more nurses. Like we actually do, the shortage is probably worse than electricians and plumbers. But that's not masculine coded.
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It's more nuanced, it's jobs using a degree as a filter not universities per se, that is a barrier to growth. But without universities they would use other filters. Used to have to test into a lot of jobs like the civil service, tests were used as a filter, weeding out people bad at tests.
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some resentment was always built into the lie that was America, that everyone has the same opportunities, that it's classless. Nonsense. That leads everyone to believe they should have gone to Harvard or something. It's pointless. I just want less inequality, everyone's needs met, & research funded
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the Republican ones are too busy destroying Medicaid and pushing more tax cuts for the rich than Trump himself wanted.
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There were several issues at one point, including that the tickets from speed cameras cost more than those from cops. That was hard to justify on fairness grounds, although it was justified as needing to pay for the speed cameras.
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maybe you *ARE* a woman and you are afraid people would either hit on you, criticize your appearance and degrade you (because not someone they want to hit on), or just not take your opinions seriously, so you decided to post anonymously as a man. These opinions are still pathetic though.
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I'm almost afraid he is, and I believe it's unethical for adults to pile on teenagers. 🤷
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Bouie's whole perspective isn't even really social democrat much less anything left of that. He may mean well in his relentlessly centrist liberal way, but I think it would annoy most people (on all sides) for the same reasons his political philosophy does.
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the only thing twitter ever gave me post Elon was anger & contempt, complete contempt for those I was arguing with as they were brainwashed idiots. I don't really see the positive in endless anger and contempt. And a few good experiences with the few good and smart people remaining there alas 🤷
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people are hopeless (and bored) with politics now in a way that was less so in the first few months (it's just new bad news every day, with very little in means to stop it, I thank the legal system and anyone, for trying to though). Not enough non-political content?
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you can also get a trade education at community colleges, in fact some specialize in trade training.
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It's a grift. I suspect the best way to fund trade training (although there are multiple ways including via unions) might be through community colleges (they can focus on trades too). But it's going to be run through for profit crap & steal $ if it happens at all. The attack on Harvard is political.