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 How do you distance yourself from your country when it doesn't represent your views anymore so you won't be viewed by the rest of the world as part of the problem? 5 days ago:
Don’t take up space online defending yourself as “one of the good ones”, or saying not all people from your country are like that.
Don’t take up space online replying to content critical of your country by saying how ashamed you are to be from your country, or how sorry you are.
Strangers online don’t know you. If you truly believe you are not part of the problem you should be able to rationalize negative comments about people in your country as generalizations and/or venting and therefore not directed at you personally. There is no need to correct them. There is no need to make sure they know you are not part of the problem. That does not help them, it only helps you. Let it go, stay out of it, move on.
(This isn’t a passive aggressive meta comment btw)
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Where I live
Sorry they don’t teach us about ass backwards tax systems at school 🤷♀️
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Where I live, taxes are in the assessed value, which isn’t the same as the market value. The assessed value compares your house to other, similar houses. Your assessment is unlikely to go up unless you improve it. Or your house is much nicer than the newer houses that are being built.
Property taxes that the total cost of running the municipality and divide that proportionally between all the tax payers, and proportional to the assessed value.
Raising property taxes is unpopular, so some municipalities will raise them insufficiently to find next year’s projected costs, and cuts will need to be made.
So no, not directly. Businesses are sometimes given tax breaks to set up shop at a specific location, but I don’t think extending that to residences would bring any benefit.
- Comment on Does it seem like US presidents just throw a dart on a spinning globe and say he lets start fucking with this or that country? Used to be arbitrary, now it seems the GOV no longer lie just do. 1 week ago:
It was like 22 years ago that it came to light that the US and Britain lied about Iraq stockpiling WMD so they could invade Iraq. The US had been trying to find an excuse for a little while. It is maddening that GW Bush was able to rehab his image to folksy grandpa from blood thirsty war criminal.
It sure felt like there was more resistance from the public for that than for what Trump is doing now. There is a reason the education system has been allowed to go to shit and people are kept distracted with the red vs blue instead of seeing what every US administration has done on behalf of the american people.
- Comment on Does it seem like US presidents just throw a dart on a spinning globe and say he lets start fucking with this or that country? Used to be arbitrary, now it seems the GOV no longer lie just do. 1 week ago:
Respectfully, I’m not a historian and everything I shared came from my garbage memory of history class and Wikipedia 😅
- Comment on Does it seem like US presidents just throw a dart on a spinning globe and say he lets start fucking with this or that country? Used to be arbitrary, now it seems the GOV no longer lie just do. 1 week ago:
The following is extremely simplified. You might also want to learn about 20th century treaties because I think those are critical to understanding the conflicts in east Asia.
Vietnam/Cambodia: proxy war between USSR and the US. Conflict originated from colonialism (see: French Indochina). Japan occupied the region towards the end of WW2 and when they surrendered the Việt Minh (communist) declared independence and opposed the return to French rule. France was like, hell naw and you get the First Indochina war. That ended with the country split into north and south (at the 17th parallel).The French, the USSR and China supported the split and convinced the North Vietnamese to accept. The US and the South Koreans did not agree. France left the conflict at this point and I guess that is why the Vietnam war was a new war 🤷♀️
Korea: Korea had been occupied by Japan since 1910. When the USSR and US defeated Japan they just kind of split the country in half, each responsible for administering a side until things settled down and they could have elections. As far as I understand there was no intent to colonize the old fashioned way, but this was also a proxy war so…
Desert storm: the popular answer is going to be oil but I think it’s important to understand the impact the cold war had on this part of Asia too. I am way less familiar with these wars but the wiki article on the Cold War in Asia looks pretty promising.
Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory: This was bombed because of suspected ties to al-Qaeda. The US was in conflict with al-Qaeda at the time in retaliation for the embassy bombings. Again, this is all linked back to the Soviet-Afghan war.
Afghanistan the first time (?): do you mean 2001? The US decided the al-Qaeda was behind the attacks and that the Taliban was helping them. The Taliban was the government of Afghanistan. The US attacked them because they did not hand over bin Laden.
Iraq the second time: Oil. The Gulf war was never resolved. Regime change was the stated policy of the US since 1998. Bombing happened right after that (with the UK helping), but 9/11 gave them to excuse they needed to actually invade.
Iran: we’ve come full circle to the proxy wars again. Maybe that’s a stretch but there is a shift in who the “world powers” are and I think that’s raising the stakes in a conflict that is otherwise probably mostly about oil. Way back in the 1950s the Iranian government nationalized the oil industry so the US/UK supported a coup d’état which gave the shah (hereditary ruler) more power. The Iranian revolution replaced the shah with the Islamic Republic. Iran and the US have been in indirect conflict in the region since then basically. There are pro and anti Western groups in the middle east and it comes down to access to oil. Why now? Israel asked. Iran and Israel are enemies and the US has interest in regime change.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
Your comment sounds like you are not replying to the meme, but are calling someone (idk who, the meme isn’t about an individual?) a tankie. My instance doesn’t have down votes but this is what I understand then to be for: identifying posts and replies that are off topic or do not contribute to the discussion.
- Comment on How do I remove bird poop from cement and/or metal surfaces? 2 months ago:
I’ve had decent luck with a deck brush and water if you don’t have access to a pressure washer.
- Comment on Conceptually, the population can be thought of as balls 2 months ago:
Population is stored in the balls.
- Comment on Is a video streaming co-op a useful idea? 2 months ago:
I don’t know where you are or what the laws are but this would likely count as a public performance and/or if more than one person accesses the files at a time that would likely be seen as making a copy.
- Comment on Life never works exactly the way you want it 2 months ago:
…this meme feels targeted to my age group but it’s 100% boomer humor so does that mean???
😥
- Comment on Not looking for how to meth. But is not a moonshiners still about as dangerous as a meth house exploding? What the difference? 2 months ago:
Not an expert but I am a chemical engineer and that means everyone thinks I know how to make meth.
I think the main reason is that fires in stills are self limiting. The process is creating the fuel (ethanol vapours) and once the still goes boom it’s not creating more vapor. So explosion, but no ongoing fire.
Chem lab fires come from the reagents, like red phosphorus and lithium metal. So you have stashes of this stuff sitting around so if it catches fire the fire has lots of fuel.
- Comment on Is this accurate, Canadians? 3 months ago:
There is nothing more canadian than being smug about not being american.
- Comment on What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out 4 months ago:
Weird how chronically underfunding a critical service causes issues
(Sorry to hear about this comrades, I hope things get turned around)
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 5 months ago:
Importantly other countries aren’t that mad about it either. I saw some posts about Trump making comments that seemed to suggest that mexico and canada could be targeted in the future for intervention related to drugs, so I went to canadian news sites to see what was up. The canadian government is basically like, “I’m not angry, I’m disappointed” and mostly because it goes against the norms of polite imperialism.
I won’t link to her twitter account, but here is the statement: Image
Alt text:
The Hon. Anita Anand Minister of Foreign Affairs
Since 2019, when Canada closed its embassy in Venezuela, we have refused to recognize any legitimacy of the Maduro regime and opposed its repression of the Venezuelan people, including the persecution of dissenters and particularly political leaders opposed to the regime.
In keeping with our long-standing commitment to upholding the rule of law and democracy, Canada calls on all parties to respect international law and we stand by the people of Venezuela and their desire to live in a peaceful and democratic society.
Canada is engaging with its international partners and monitoring developments closely.
Canada stands ready to assist Canadians in need through our consular officials and embassy in Bogotá, Colombia.
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 8 months ago:
My view is that the train autists are laying in wait to be unleashed when the rizz autists convince someone to fund the trains.
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 8 months ago:
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 9 months ago:
I could believe it, but my pessimistic interpretation is that whoever made this meme has seen it and doesn’t think Kilgore is a monster.
- Comment on Americans have the gun industry so far up their ass that they don't even notice their asshole is gaping. There is no other country where uneducated morons are allowed access to guns easily. 9 months ago:
This person assholes
- Comment on Americans have the gun industry so far up their ass that they don't even notice their asshole is gaping. There is no other country where uneducated morons are allowed access to guns easily. 9 months ago:
I don’t think permits would fix the veneration of force, ideal of the rugged individualist protecting their family from constant threat, or deep distrust of others tho.
- Comment on because you can't enjoy some Lemmy without a little Marxism edging in 9 months ago:
I just misspelled the spelling in your photo
- Comment on because you can't enjoy some Lemmy without a little Marxism edging in 9 months ago:
Is someone going to repackage every single leninaide bottle to a slightly different name while still making reference to leninaide?
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 9 months ago:
Two criticisms that come to mind are:
- the cause of the epidemic is the patriarchy, therefore it’s men’s own fault, i.e. the rigid gender roles and “man up attitude” are within the power of individual men to overcome and they just need to um… man up and break down those barriers.
- the cause of the epidemic is men trying to cling to the benefits they would have otherwise under the patriarchy and it’s a reaction to non-men having more status and freedom.
(Before you hit reply please remember OP didn’t ask for an discussion on if these are real or correct - just what some of the criticisms are. I’m not saying I buy into either of them.)
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I can’t tell if this is a brilliant shitpost reply to pretty good shitpost or if it’s a genuine reply to a pretty good shitpost that still manages to out-shitpost the original.
Either way, I’ve been fundamentally changed by this experience and realize how much more work I have before I can claim mastery over this art.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 10 months ago:
Because they are military and some people do not like that.
- Comment on I have a question on how and when coal actually formed. 10 months ago:
This might be a helpful link: www.abc.net.au/science/articles/…/3691317.htm
Yes, it is still being formed. It’s a super slow process.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 year ago:
Cops don’t exist to protect you and they don’t have to be physically fit to serve their purpose: using the threat of violence and the prison industrial complex to protect the interests of capital.
