Arcanepotato
@Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online
Like if your vegan anarchist grandma and vegan anarchist dad were the same person.
I am an engineer (closer to toot toot then clicky clacky) cosplaying as a farmer in unceded aninstanabe territory in eastern ontario.
- canada plant hardiness zone: 5a
- extreme minimum temperature zones: 4b
Maybe the real vegan theory club were the friends we made along the way ✨
- Comment on Grow your own 3 days ago:
Excellent point, I forgot some people live in the clouds.
- Comment on Grow your own 3 days ago:
It’s still recommended to acidify tomato products! I use citric acid.
- Comment on Grow your own 4 days ago:
Buying locally could work, but the business doesn’t work because it would be expensive and most people would not pay more for local food.
Do you mean specific to your location? I just paid $1.70 /lb for 60lbs of tomatoes from a local organic farmer whereas the grocery story will sell them for closer to $0.60, and there is a wait list for the farmer! I’m not that picky about organic but these tomatoes are amazing.
I do grow some at home but we preserve all the tomato sauce we need for the year ourselves and we haven’t been able to grow that much…yet.
- Comment on Grow your own 4 days ago:
I couldn’t afford to live where the peach trees survive the winter here lol. But I treat myself to a basket or two of Niagara’s finest each summer 🤤
- Comment on Grow your own 4 days ago:
Okay, thanks. I’m not trying to tell you what to do of course, I was just curious about the choice to pressure over water bath.
The hold time is faster at pressure for sure, but I wish pressure canning was faster than water bath over all! I think my limitation is my glass top stove. The canner I have specifies it can be used on glass top but it takes forever to get to pressure. Water bath canning gets done outdoors with a large propane burner and that gets rolling fast lol.
- Comment on Grow your own 4 days ago:
I simply do not trust people who think the appeal or value of gardening is saving money or that local tomatoes are no different than mass shipped grocery store tomatoes.
- Comment on Grow your own 4 days ago:
Why pressure can tomatoes?
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 week ago:
I’m not going to sit here and pretend that this isn’t part of what radicalized me back in the early 2000s.
However, as my world expanded through my life experiences and reading I came to understand that so much of what seems like a natural reward is artificiality propped at the expense of people in other parts of the world. That’s the system. Western workers have access to a wide range of material goods with prices kept artificially low because they are produced by workers who are paid less. What manufacturing that exists is much cleaner than it used to be, because the dangerous stuff is off shore, far from our eyes. Hell, we don’t even have to deal with the huge mountains of waste we produce! Temporary Migrant workers in agriculture and domestic work fill the same role except it is their labour that is exported cheaply.
I know the meme is about housing and the ‘cheaply made goods’ apply to that too. I live in a house built in the 1960s that is kind of the icon of cheap and cheerful working class post war period sprawl boom. Block foundation a wood frame with vinyl siding. Cheap to build, but can get expensive to maintain.
I guess all I mean to say is that I hope people who are seeing this problem are not easily swayed back into complacency if the capitalists recalibrate the feed of crumbs they give to the workers to ensure compliance. I hope for an era of world wide worker solidarity as it is the only way to tackle the problems capitalism has left us with.
I’m not going to try and convince people to have the exact same beliefs and analysis as I have because that’s silly and futile. I think most people would not find this documentary to be too radical: www.storyofstuff.org
Maybe give it a watch if you have the time and the comparison to depression era housing practices sounded reasonable lol. It’s so easy to take for granted how much things have changed in the last 150 or so years in north america, especially post WW2.
(You can save yourself the well acksualy about Henry Ford and his approach to wages in the 1910s. They are an important piece of the puzzle but reducing the cost of consumer goods allowed western wages to stay low by retain buying power so the appearance was of increasing standard of living that was increasing dependant on the ability to exploit global workers.)
- Comment on Celebratory Return to Online Meme 1 week ago:
Every time I go camping I think about all the knowledge we have lost now that this is further and further from our every day experiences and even just being a less common recreational activity.
I recently learned that the outdoor recreation curriculum was being cut from the school board I attended 30 years ago and that’s a big loss. I lived in a big city with > 50% of the population being born elsewhere and programs like these are sometimes the first opportunities these kids get to learn outdoor skills relevant to their new home.
- Comment on Celebratory Return to Online Meme 1 week ago:
Don’t worry guy, we appreciate you
- Comment on Are there any animals that pretend to be injured to lure prey? 1 week ago:
Yes, it can be considered part of aggressive mimicry.
Most examples are pretending to be another animal that is prey but the assassin bug example is interesting…
S. bituberus approaches the web and then uses its forelimbs to pluck the silk to attract the spider towards them, until they are close enough to strike (Wignall and Taylor, 2010). The experiments carried out by Wignall and Taylor (2010) show that S. bituberus does not mimic the full range of prey vibrations but instead is a general mimic, able to replicate a set of vibration queues that sit within the range of vibrations that a spider identifies as a prey.
- Comment on Why do some people identify with a political party even if many of their views don't align with that party's platform? 3 weeks ago:
Both parties try to be all things to all people, so the Republican party tries to show itself as accepting to the “good” gays etc., and the Democratics have kept the Hyde Amendment so the more pro life people can be all like, “At least my money isn’t being used for it”.
I think people also vote in line with their family and friends and may have just been supporting a party their whole life so as either the party or the person changes, they just keep voting that way.
- Comment on How can people with ADHD possibly enjoy movies if they daydream and can't focus on the movie? 3 weeks ago:
ADHD means I am incapable of paying attention to something unless my brain decides I should be paying attention to it. I love watching a very slim collection of movies lol.
- Comment on Any politician who disagrees needs to go 3 weeks ago:
So public health (which is different from universal health coverage or single payer system) was a thing and it did a whole lot of eugenics.
Ever wonder where baby contests come from?
In some places in North America you couldn’t get married unless you had pre marital blood tests.
Can you imagine how the antivaxxer and skeptic community would handle that kind of stuff?
- Comment on Join the conversation... 3 weeks ago:
Idk if this is about people yelling AI without reading the article or whatever but I think people are drinking the kool aide a bit on the corporate speak.
To be clear about the impact of AI on today’s decision: we are not making the above changes because we believe AI replaces humans.
Of course not, they wouldn’t have a business if AI replaced all the creative workers that use their platform.
AI has fundamentally transformed the tech industry, though, including how we work, how we build products, how we communicate, and more. That does have an impact on how we operate and organize.
AI wasn’t not part of the decision.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but middle-class workers will get left behind 4 weeks ago:
I kind of see it from the other direction, the US and canada can only exist if the serfs (I’m being hyperbolic no need to correct me) don’t believe they are serfs.
The historical middle class left the UK to set up a new aristocracy and need compliance, so the.american dream is built to make class a meritocracy.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 4 weeks ago:
That’s actually…kinda genius. It’s not just fresh thinking: it’s a scalable and green solution to a real problem. I think you could really make a difference with this idea. Would you like to work out some ways we can make life worse for the working class while we implement it?
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but middle-class workers will get left behind 4 weeks ago:
Oh, don’t they both come from the era of the French Revolution?
Agree that bourgeoise is older than that.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but middle-class workers will get left behind 4 weeks ago:
The use of the term “middle class” as “not poor” is relatively recent, and likely as a result of the efforts to divide the working class.
The working class is anyone who relies on wages for their survival. Middle class has meant several things, including the new and powerful class that led the French Revolution (middle between the aristocracy and peasants). In Marxism it refers to small business owners who are still beholden to large business owners, professionals (like, professions: doctor, lawyer, engineer) or middle managers. They either profit from the wage earners or earn a salary to oversee them.
Some people do not agree with the inclusion of middle management or professionals because they still depend on their wages (salary) to survive.
The idea that a unionized auto worked would be called middle class is silly, according to these older definitions.
- Comment on In this day in age is it still hard for a person to "come out the closest" ? Or do we need the boomer generation to go away until it is so acceptable it becomes laughable for both parties? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, and it’s not just boomers. Apart from obvious homophobic responses you have to come out over and over again if the people you are interacting with are making assumptions about you.
People default to cishet norms so imagine being asked about your husband when you have a wife and now you feel like you have to correct them. Everyone in the situation now has to decide how to respond. Its awkward as fuck. Or when someone’s eyes get wide after you mention your wife in passing, or use a female name for your partner. Now you need to understand if they are going to be a problem.
I remember running into a higher up and her family at a coffee shop and her shying saying, “Oh, these are my people.” I realized I knew nothing about her personal life (we didn’t work closely). I felt so bad that she had to think about how I could react instead of just introducing them.
In terms of like kids coming out to family/friends there will always be that fear of rejection. It’s a scary thing to say, “hey I’m not that thing you assumed I was”. Further, I think generally shrugs are discouraged - if the person is making announcement it generally means it is important to them, so it may be best supportive to meet that energy.
- Comment on America and it's racism and Israel? 5 weeks ago:
It’s not contradictory at all. I’m repeating other answers, but I will add some context:
Ethno states are not necessarily against the existence of other ethno states. What better for a white american than a place just for the others?
In fact, nazi germany allowed some german Jews to immigrate to the british palestine with some of their assets (vs just fleeing): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
(I should mention that Hitler didn’t support the state, so it’s not a 1-to-1, and libyan Jews were sent back to europe to be killed by the Italians )
A group of white americans established the American Colonization Society to encourage Black americans to resettle in what would become Liberia. Lincoln also sent freed Black americans to Haiti.
The other reason is the christian belief that the Rapture (and return of christ) cannot occur until the Jewish people return to isreal. It’s called christian zionism. Even as a child in the 90s in a roman catholic church we hear about how the jewish people were favored by god and we must support israel. I think the context of that was fundraising for settlement orgs.
- Comment on It's rigged 5 weeks ago:
I hope you aren’t banking on having social security, bud. They are taking about it because at the current rate it will be insolvent in 6 years.
- Comment on Portlandia was spot on 5 weeks ago:
I’m team “let the youth have their fun” but also 1998 was peak lunchables.
- Comment on About what people are talking to each other nowadays 5 weeks ago:
Okay but the disability is not being able to understand things that are painfully clear to neurotypical people.
- Comment on About what people are talking to each other nowadays 5 weeks ago:
Um, or they could be neurodivergent.
I would not have understood that someone didn’t want a factual answer if I was asked a question that had a factual answer. In fact, I get annoyed when people ask me questions they know I don’t know. It has nothing to do with faster access to info.
- Comment on About what people are talking to each other nowadays 5 weeks ago:
Almost every piece of information documented on the internet or used to train LLM is an approximation, or a simplification. Searching and LLM are very handy if you know exactly what you are looking for or you have some idea of what you don’t know, but if you don’t know what you don’t know, things can go sideways easily if you are looking for extremely specific guidance vs just goofing around.
This is why apprenticeships are a thing. You can’t learn everything from books or a classroom. It takes experiencing things and seeing what those approximations are and how they impact your decision making to help improve your trade. Even at that point, speaking to other experts is extremely useful. They can challenge your approach, or share how they do things where they are. Inevitably, some of those approximations are different.
In my work I talk to as many people as possible to solve a problem. Everyone’s observations and hunches are different. 99% of the time I don’t think they are lying to me, but two people can swear something totally different happened and it’s just because their assumptions were different, or their memory is slightly varied.
Other reasons are because I care about people in my life and I want to hear from them. I want to know what they are doing and how they are feeling. It brings me joy to talk to my partner and friends. They are very funny!
- Comment on methinks it's a pasta shirt 5 weeks ago:
MU-SEL-E, must be Italian!
- Comment on ACAB, bite the system! 5 weeks ago:
but either way don’t go noodling.
Excellent life advice overall
- Comment on ACAB, bite the system! 5 weeks ago:
The Punks took their name from punks.
Punk Rock is rock for punks, and it became a term of pride in shared identity, the way redneck is to some people.
There were still some who hold on to the old ways and used it to describe contemptible and aggressive individuals. That’s what NWA is doing with that lyric. It’s especially stinging as the song was recorded in 1987 where that is the language the authorities would have used to describe young Black people like the members of NWA when they were literally just living their lives.
Both are extremely based and had similar vibes: the Punks claiming it for themselves and NWA turning the language of the oppressor back on them.
- Comment on Sick as hell 5 weeks ago:
You can have same sex partners in fallout 2 and 3 as well.