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 The town and HOA only have two settings for a holiday: Jesus and Troops. I guess Labor days is a "Troops" holiday. 2 days ago:
A troops holiday for the class war o7
- Comment on Trump’s Top Gaza Official Says Israel Is Jeopardizing the Cease-Fire 1 week ago:
We need a log in to view gift articles now? Bummer.
- Comment on Just posting the dinner I made 1 week ago:
Please tell me what this food product is it is making me uncomfortable
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s a Yiddish word that I think originally had more negative connotations but means nerve or audacity. It is used in more positive ways today, more like courage.
- Comment on The beef industry currently 1 week ago:
Can confirm, I want this future.
- Comment on The beef industry currently 1 week ago:
Good.
- Comment on XCancel and Nitter: Why bother with US Law? 1 week ago:
Look, you obviously aren’t obligated to answer but it feels like you are taking my question as an insult or picking a fight. I really just want to fill the gaps in my knowledge so that I can be better informed.
- Comment on XCancel and Nitter: Why bother with US Law? 1 week ago:
Sorry, I meant more specifically about the dependency on users and income.
- Comment on A shit ton of sushi 1 week ago:
I’m picturing it as a reference to Reggaeton and that it must be a very cool place lol
- Comment on XCancel and Nitter: Why bother with US Law? 1 week ago:
If they do not care about any users from there, and do not take money from there (for example from ads) they can show them the finger.
What’s the basis for this? (More specifically: is this from a specific jurisdiction?)
- Comment on XCancel and Nitter: Why bother with US Law? 1 week ago:
Adding on to the comment about the Berne Convention: Threats of legal action are sometimes meant to intimidate and inconvenience. It doesn’t really matter if they have legal standing or not. The fear of having to defend yourself in court (or a service provider deciding the don’t want the risk and dropping you) is sometimes enough. These letters are super cheap to draft and send so they are sometimes scatter shot.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What I find really fascinating about the response to this comment is the fear of “what if…” with respect to being challenged on it.
I’m not downplaying what a pain that will be. The alternative is making discriminatory rules based on something that isn’t even technically required, and that feels so… wrong? It’s so much easier to say “nah” to a “should” rather than a “shall”. It just takes a tiny bit of chutzpah.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I retain hope that case law will find the guidance unlawful because of how violating enforcement would be. But as another commentator pointed out, damage is already being done as it is being adopted.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was just curious about Keilik’s world view in particular and how it led to them having this perception. They explained in another response that in their experience people could afford to live alone so it appeared to be a choice to live together (and then assumed it was romantic versus for other benefits like to platonic companionship/safety etc.)
But actual literal platonic roommates have existed for a long time. Like, it’s relatively recent that people started to practice living exclusively with romantic partners and family.
My instinct is to think that housing practices depend so much on social and cultural norms so it seems like this needs some really specific context to be true but then I catch myself realizing I have no idea what you mean about recent so I am in fact a clown for jumping to conclusions about your meaning 😅
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 2 weeks ago:
LMAO was this influenced by people pushing back on the “just gals being pals” trope and being like, “No Gladys they are lovers it’s okay to say that”?
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 2 weeks ago:
LMAO was this influenced by people pushing back on the “just gals being pals” trope and being like, “No Gladys they are lovers it’s okay to say that”?
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
It’s a pretty good analogy for how people are willing to look the other way with respect to environmental protection and workers rights for cheap consumer goods tho.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 weeks ago:
I sure hope you mean this to say the “market” is bad, actually.
- Comment on This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits 2 weeks ago:
She was imprisoned as a child/teen.
- Comment on This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits 2 weeks ago:
I think the joke was more that she doesn’t know what fruit shampoo is. She was excited to shower, she knows that bathing is even if she doesn’t do it often.
Does that mean she’s removing body hair? No, I get why it seems inconsistent. I do think humans have a very diverse expression of body hair and some people have barely any visible body hair even if they don’t remove it.
If I want to appear hairless I need to shave daily (or more, dark hair on pale skin RIP) whereas I have friends who appear hairless on their legs and armpits unless you get really close. No, it’s not from waxing or laser, it’s just the texture and colour of their body hair.
I’m not trying to suggest this is definitely what is going on here and it would be nice to see a wider expression of appearances in media. Maybe then we’d get over the narrow view of “acceptable” body hair.
- Comment on How come Pornstars don't teach Master Classes? So the average joe or joness can improve relationships and get better orgasms. Who would be better than pornstars? 2 weeks ago:
Pornography is (typically) not just filming people having sex. It’s acting. The positions and sex acts chosen are ones that film well and are appealing to the target audience as fantasy, not ones that are necessarily the most pleasing. There is also no universally pleasing sex act.
- Comment on If we flipped the script, and the people working the shittiest jobs in America got Elon Musk money for working what would happen? Then gave the rich the same wage the lowly worker would earn? 2 weeks ago:
There was another comment talking about taking assets and while I agree rich people often don’t have wages, I think what is missing is looking at the fundamental power dynamic.
Wherever it means now, “working class” has been meant to describe people who fund their lives with employment income, in contrast to aristocracy or those who make money off their investments. I’m using investments in a super broad way here: stocks etc, landlords, business owners pay wages to employees, sole proprietors, etc. basically anyone who isn’t paid for their time in the service of an employer.
The income of the working class is controlled by those who profit from their labour. It’s not even that “society” values certain jobs over others, it’s that the people with the money have the capital and own the means of production and therefore get to decide how much they will pay people to work for them.
The simple examples that are used to illustrate the means of production aren’t really adequate anymore, but they are still part of it. Say you own a saw mill. You can hire people to operate and maintain it on an hourly basis, pay your expenses from the revenue and any extra becomes profit. You aren’t earning an income necessarily. Adding a few more modern twists: You can take loans against the saw mill, sell stocks in the saw mill to raise money, use those stocks as collateral against loans, use your connections to get preferred access to feedstock, lobby the government for subsidies or to regulate the industry to make competition harder, etc. A lot of that isn’t taxable, and it prevents others from successfully challenging established businesses if they formed a co-op for example. That’s why taxes or redistributing some assets wouldn’t solve the problem.
- Comment on Grow your own 3 weeks ago:
Excellent point, I forgot some people live in the clouds.
- Comment on Grow your own 3 weeks ago:
It’s still recommended to acidify tomato products! I use citric acid.
- Comment on Grow your own 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Why pressure can tomatoes?
- Comment on The System does not work. 3 weeks 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.)