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❤️ for all (even if not all want itm for those that do) <3

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Simon Brooke

I've never done an #introduction on here, I probably should.

I live alone with two cats #offgrid in a home-made #tinyhouse in remote rural #Scotland; I'm a very small-scale #organic farmer/crofter. I write #opensource software both for a living and as a contribution to society.

I'm interested in #landreform and #rewilding. Politically I'm in the anarcho-syndicalist-communist corner, and pro #indy.

Pronouns he/him, but I don't see gender as binary.

I'm #mad.

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Poverty - Redefined by World Bank...!

What is 'extreme poverty'?
by The World Bank...

and from journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu

1 ➡️ Poverty is:
A person living securely on their customary lands, in housing built by themselves using materials freely obtained from the local environment, eating a secure, substantial, varied and healthy diet based on customary agriculture supplemented by fisheries and other activities, with low levels of overcrowding, environmental pollution and infectious disease, owing no rent or tax to anyone, and taking part in regular celebrations and dances in a community of friends and relatives, is in absolute poverty;

2 ➡️ Not in poverty is:
A person living in a dilapidated one room slum apartment in an anonymous overcrowded jerry-built tenement over an open sewer, and working fourteen hours a day in a factory with no natural light to earn two dollars of which $1.70 goes in rent, leaving 30 cents to pay for street food made from scrapings of mouldy rice from the floor of the warehouse and whatever offal the fly-blown knacker's yard couldn't otherwise sell — and nothing at all left over to pay for the medicines needed as a result of the swirling infections and filth of overcrowded, highly stressed urban living, or for new shoes, or clothes, or entertainment — that person, hallelujah, praise the World Bank, praise capitalism, that person has been lifted out of absolute poverty.

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MY COMMENT:
What a redefining of the word poverty eh !

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The Fool on the Hill: Extreme poverty

By: Simon Brooke :: 6 July 2023

People lifted out of poverty

I haven't done my research on this. I have literally no idea to what extent what I'm saying here is true. So you may take it, if you like, as the ravings of a deranged madman; or the seeding of a conspiracy theory; but.

But.

"China declared itself successful in lifting 770 million of its citizens out of poverty"

"India Lifted 271 Million People Out Of Poverty In A Decade"

"at the birth of capitalism, there were only about 60 million people in the world who were not living in extreme poverty. Today there are more than 6.5 billion people who are not living in extreme poverty"

That's a lot of people raised out of poverty, isn't it? And yet,

Branko Milankovic, the former lead economist at the World Bank, is one of the world’s leading authorities on economic inequality. He says bluntly that we are now experiencing the highest level of relative and absolute global inequality at any point in human history. (citation)

Something smells. It smells extremely bad. Let's think about this a bit.

What is 'extreme poverty'? What all the people above mean, is having a limited cash income. The World Bank (yes, that same World Bank) helpfully tells us that it means "Between 2008 and 2015 that line was set at $1.25/day in 2005 [US] dollars..." but it's been updated, and it's now "...$1.90/day in 2011 dollars"; the change was made bearing in mind the need to "minimize changes to the World Bank’s goalpost for the objective of ending extreme poverty by 2030".

So, to be clear, under this definition:

A person living securely on their customary lands, in housing built by themselves using materials freely obtained from the local environment, eating a secure, substantial, varied and healthy diet based on customary agriculture supplemented by fisheries and other activities, with low levels of overcrowding, environmental pollution and infectious disease, owing no rent or tax to anyone, and taking part in regular celebrations and dances in a community of friends and relatives, is in absolute poverty;
A person living in a dilapidated one room slum apartment in an anonymous overcrowded jerry-built tenement over an open sewer, and working fourteen hours a day in a factory with no natural light to earn two dollars of which $1.70 goes in rent, leaving 30 cents to pay for street food made from scrapings of mouldy rice from the floor of the warehouse and whatever offal the fly-blown knacker's yard couldn't otherwise sell — and nothing at all left over to pay for the medicines needed as a result of the swirling infections and filth of overcrowded, highly stressed urban living, or for new shoes, or clothes, or entertainment — that person, hallelujah, praise the World Bank, praise capitalism, that person has been lifted out of absolute poverty.

Let us all give thanks!

OK, step back a bit. People living in customary rural societies have over the past several thousand years been widely parasitised on by thugs, rentier classes, soi-disant aristocrats. Customary rural societies have not universally been bucolic paradises. The very fact of living at a low population density and with limited access to the money economy has made it hard to organise effective resistance to oppression. And they've been extremely vulnerable in times of war.

But for the most part, being primary producers of food is not a bad place in the economy to be: it takes Stalinist levels of oppression to drive peasants to starvation.

And I strongly suspect that, as with the vaunted 'agricultural improvements' of eighteenth century Britain, of which the World Bank's current campaign is very much the spiritual successor, the lands from which the 'unproductive' rural population are being driven in the World Bank's beneficent and disinterested effort to 'lift them out of poverty' into urban sweatshops and slums do not remain the property of those customary societies who have been evicted. Rather, they either remain property of the descendants of the thugs and bandits — take a bow, Richard Walter John Montagu Douglas Scott — who formerly extracted rent from them, or else in the hands of members of the corrupt elite.

Which amounts to the same thing.

It's easy to see, of course, how forcing people into the money economy benefits capitalism. It's easy to see how it benefits bankers, and elites. It's much easier to extract rent from the poor and the powerless when those poor and powerless are already transacting in fungible tokens.

But let's not pretend this is a useful measure of poverty.

We cannot afford an urbanised world. Megacities can be fed at all only with extraordinary input of fossil fuel energy; and our 'modern,' 'improved' systems of agriculture depend utterly not only on huge inputs of fossil fuel energy and fertilisers, which in themselves destroy soil structure and thereby long term fertility, but also on massive inputs of novel synthetic toxins — biocides, poisons — which are exterminating many of the species, for example pollinators, on which food production and thereby human life depends.

We cannot continue using fossil fuels, or fossil hydrocarbon-based fertilisers. The planet is already burning. We cannot continue poisoning our own environment. The biosphere is already dying.

We need to resettle people on the land, where they can tend it intimately, where they can produce their own food without massive, complex economic superstructures extracting rent.

But more: we need to provide for people places to live where they are secure, from which they cannot be driven; where they can live together and together, convivially, in community, agree the customs by which they will work together to provide the things which they mutually need to live good, fulfilling lives.

Money does not provide this. $1.90 a day does not provide this. Every member of any good society would automatically be deemed by the World Bank to be 'living in extreme poverty.' They are measuring, as classical economists always do, precisely the wrong thing.

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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

Gotta be EXTREMELY careful who owns your nuclear power plants.

Belgium's nuclear fleet is owned by a French natural gas company and they're threatening to destroy them all if they don't get what they want from the Belgian government.

Ugly situation, not looking good for Belgium.

It's absolutely the fault of Belgium's shockingly stupid antinuclear energy laws that the country finds itself in this horrifying situation: held hostage by the French and about to lose most of its nuclear reactors over the next year.

The incoming Belgian government sensibly wants to correct things to save their country from utter devastation that would result from losing about half its electricity supply.

So the French fossil fuel company ("Engie", a pun on "N-G" or "natural gas") says that it may just have to destroy them all if the new government tries to life-extend more nuclear reactors.

Their excuse is that they say that if the 𝘯𝘦𝘸 Belgian government tries to save more reactors, then the antinuclear EU will reject the subsidies the 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 Belgian government gave them as protection money to keep just two of the 7 threatened reactors online, for just ten years instead of 20 years the new government wants.

All of this is downstream from previous Belgian governments passing laws forcing all the nuclear reactors to close by 2025 despite them making half of Belgium's electricity (the cheap half).

The whole thing is pretty psychotic and makes me immensely grateful to be American and not European.

Not sure Europe is cut out for survival.

[Original text by Mark Nelson, as posted on Twitter]

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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

An 18 lane freeway, 100 meters wide, moves less people than a busy subway line.

The Brooklyn bridge used to move 420,000 people per day.

In the 1950s, trolleys were removed, and since then it has never moved more than 180,000 people per day.

Cars 👏 destroy 👏 cities.

Info from @notjustbikes

#Urbanism #PublicTransport

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Tool ! :mastodance:

MeowViewer is a tool that lets you *read and search* your old posts by reading an offline copy from any profile... even after switching instances online etc!

⬇️ MORE INFO / FOLLOW ! ⬇️ @meowViewer /
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P.S Can I run this software offline / as executable on Windows?
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Eminem BLASTS Donald #Trump QUOTE 🗨️ You're either for or against!... 💬 

BLASTS Donald

🗨️ You're either for or against!... 💬
(Drawing a line in the sand)

respect! Life is political.
( is from back in 2017 )

And shows difference of loving and even but not the !

pol1.iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=cK

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TO THE WORLD
= MAKE A CUSTOM FAMILY!

➡️ "Do It Yourself Family!" ⬅️
Not just your immediate family! :)

💗 ❤️ 💜 👪 💜 ❤️ 💗
Pick and choose from Fediverse!
Be more like family
💗 ❤️ 💜 👪 💜 ❤️ 💗

= Add Online Family HERE for text / audio chats and see how it goes merging existing keywords and workflow so it's a constructive OPPORTUNITY at the same time as help us go through existing life and extending a bit of help and habits etc!

Your existing family + others!

Asking for things and deeper chats basically(you have my permission and direct message ok!)

MANY do have space and time
(and if you don't ok too!)

Hashtag :)

Ask me if it's unclear - it's what we do already but increasing actively looking for fun and relativity + real work for ourselves / humanity in each other's life / our stuff in whatever we like already!

Check my media page for for ideas!

💗 ❤️ 💜 👪 💜 ❤️ 💗
Towards more of a family thing without needing to know everything either!
💗 ❤️ 💜 👪 💜 ❤️ 💗


= !

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Nicolas Hoizey

I have to admit that I'm often sad when I read “Font Awesome” in the code of projects I'm auditing for performance. A fairly heavy font is often loaded to display a few icons, whereas we've known for a long time that SVG is generally more suitable.

But the arrival of Web Awesome, and my enduring admiration for @zachleat and @leaverou (and their creations) means that their arrival at Font Awesome may…

#Eleventy #FontAwesome

⚓️ nicolas-hoizey.com/notes/2024/

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Nicolas Hoizey

“HTML for People” by @bw

🔗 htmlforpeople.com/

> anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This book will teach you how to do just that. It doesn’t require any previous experience making websites or coding. I will cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way.

#HTML #CSS #tutorial

⚓️ nicolas-hoizey.com/links/2024/

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Ewen Bell 📷

Family is not a happy place for many of us, and certainly for me.

So where does that instinct for care and generosity take shape in the absence of family? And how come some people manage to understand kindness into a wider realm, not just their immediate genetic relations.

As I watch this film, I'm thinking about how affection for your family should be a training ground for something much bigger. It shouldn't be the boundary.

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We're living too long.

Imagine not that long ago at 40/50...

Now we're '' almost double that and held up by increasing energy drains.

We're simply not that worth it and even losing quality until 60/70.

of + to others vs ?

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🍎 🌻 🍠 🍓 Video clips at this account worth following:

@ufwupdates or
hashtag

Low-paid workers who are a lot of the food for everyone else and some comments by workers. Big respect. 🌴 🥦

Thank You.

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DON'T HAVE FAMILY UNLESS YOU ACCEPT SLAVERY

"... she earns $32 per 900 lb bin. She's been doing this work for 14 years. She shares it's hard work, but it feeds her family. "

= DON'T HAVE FAMILY - you will have to work for whatever money and constantly less or more work for same money.

➡️ Original post + picture: union.place/@ufwupdates/113487

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UFW

Lorena shared this pic from where she was harvesting apples in WA State. Filling these 900 lb bins full of fresh apples is hard work and she only earns $32/bin. She wishes farm workers had better labor protections as there is a lot of discrimination and intimidation. #WeFeedYou

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William Lindsey :toad:

"Trump voters, many of them, really just have no idea. They’re only now learning, and some of them still haven’t, that tariffs are taxes. They have no idea how much of their food supply comes from immigrants; they have no idea really what Trump is planning to do."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #economy #tariffs #immigrants #deportations #disinformation
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newrepublic.com/article/188346

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If the Fediverse fails to organise itself, the future is #Fascism 

" If we fail, the future is . "
- comment on website (about etc)

justcollapse.org/2023/03/13/a-

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by ageingoptimist Nov 2023

As Homo selfishens breaches more planetary boundaries (climate being just one of those) the will show up not just via adverse events but through serious# economic disruption. That will include worsening inflation, problems, # failures, and debt default. The result will be increasing inequality, and .

Conventional economics will attempt to explain these in the usual hand-waving terms, and fail.

Angry will, as always, blame the incumbent . In this will lead to pointless lurching from left to right and back again, with – very likely – a gradual trend towards . In non-democratic nations, it’ll lead to a rapid clampdown on human and . The end result, in either case, is .

To that mix, add the increasing problem of mass from states that are failing as well as gradually becoming unlivable due to climate disruption, and we have the perfect recipe for in coming .

Any for a viable future must surely take this into account and try to the wider ; if we do that we might ameliorate the worst of it.

If we fail, the future is .

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If the Fediverse fails to organise itself, the future is #Fascism 

" If we fail, the future is . "
- comment on website (about etc)

justcollapse.org/2023/03/13/a-

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by ageingoptimist Nov 2023

As Homo selfishens breaches more planetary boundaries (climate being just one of those) the will show up not just via adverse events but through serious# economic disruption. That will include worsening inflation, problems, # failures, and debt default. The result will be increasing inequality, and .

Conventional economics will attempt to explain these in the usual hand-waving terms, and fail.

Angry will, as always, blame the incumbent . In this will lead to pointless lurching from left to right and back again, with – very likely – a gradual trend towards . In non-democratic nations, it’ll lead to a rapid clampdown on human and . The end result, in either case, is .

To that mix, add the increasing problem of mass from states that are failing as well as gradually becoming unlivable due to climate disruption, and we have the perfect recipe for in coming .

Any for a viable future must surely take this into account and try to the wider ; if we do that we might ameliorate the worst of it.

If we fail, the future is .

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I'm following the ways from 1960s/1970s listed here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_sch

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