Wisely selective hunting in the absence of adequate predation can be important for an ecosystem, it’s old wisdom. (Not that that is how hunting regulation works in Canada of course.)

But in an interdependent origination view of living in a web, hunting like that is not totally different from how we manage plants that evolved with herbivorous megafauna. Those megafauna are extinct, so now part of the web is broken. So people coppice willows, and they live three times longer and are more resistant to disease. Pruning by teeth is what many deciduous trees and shrubs evolved for, so we have to fill the gap to get a really healthy orchard.

It was impossible to garden until we put up a skookum fence, and with only a few occasional predators (gulf islands) the deer are shrinking in size yet browse in greater numbers. The forests are out of balance because they are overbrowsed.

Not much hunting locally due to restrictions, I think it was only shotgun slug and bow a few years back, and there’s not much crown land around, so we have a bad deer problem.

We pulled one part of the ecology out, predation, and people object to replacing it or any fix. It’s going to make wildfires worse and reduces biodiversity.

don’t want a world where crimes are expected

Yes, that is one of the Warlords: The Great Filter timelines.

To be clear, different organic certification standards exist, and some, like oregon tilth, test soil for drift from the neighbouring fields. Part of why organic food is more expensive, it’s an externality from conventional agriculture.

Huge shoutout to Errol Nazareth, his worldly playlist is like my favourite part of my music collection, but mostly new to me.

Yes, our team uses it as a Skype/teams replacement, we pay $20 per month for a server on etke.cc in Germany. Their implementation, however, doesn’t seem to do group videocalls with screensharing, just group voice.

We are not federated because it is just an internal service that we need.

Yes, in part, the struggles of a person inside a utopia would be difficult for an audience to appreciate, so The Culture novels and Star Trek both take the action to the margins, where things are messy and the struggles are more familiar.

Starring “Book” from Discovery.

Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and the Roman church are all catholic, I have been told by a seminarian, but two of them are not roman catholic.

What if there was, after all, reverse psychology at work? A little plausible deniability, a little fun.

Yeah, obviously. So, are they in denial or do they know something we don’t?

But… not the pilots and brass, apparently, they want the power platform promise that hasn’t been demonstrated yet.

Multiple fronts required. No one action will be the solution.

• Vote to establish legitimacy.
• Protest to register dissent.
• Civic pressure to demonstrate conviction and organization.
• Fringe ‘performative’ resistance to sow sone unrest and uncertainty and maybe inspire.
• Some violence for fear, mostly aimed at inanimates.
• In the street security details, like minneapolis.

And most importantly, daily microresistance and malicious compliance, sabotage, redirection, and education.

Had to move a small team away from skype/teams quickly so renting dedicated matrix hosting in Europe and not federating the instance has been working great, except for some issues like group calls over jitsi not working properly and users reluctant to learn more odd interfaces.

Um, no. Being obtuse. Stop

Air fryer and convection toaster oven nearly same size and energy production and work on same principle.

Working hard for the Archons! Suffer so that they may feast.

We’ve had a countertop convection oven since the mid-2000s, one of them was a black and decker, first one was a delonghi, current one is cuisinart.

We also had a modern ‘air fryer’ gifted to us, which is loud and more aggressive with the fan, but only a little faster… it has some extra accessories. Thinking of getting rid of it as redundant, and the ‘toaster oven’ is more flexible.

Jimmy Pattison is a billionaire and got there by being a colossal asshole. His loyalties are not with you or me. He’s a net negative for BC. I avoid as many of the Pattison assets as I can, but it’s hard to track all of them. The Buycott app helps me trace ownership.

Large scale media has studiously avoided saying ‘treason’, so having a political leader say it is helpful.

Fukan lol, been there