LibertyLizard

@LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tough, I just heard about it through word of mouth. You can try web searches but it will be hard because most coops are consumer coops which won’t necessarily have the same democratic rights for workers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn that sucks. I bet there is one somewhere though, they may not have all of them listed in once place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Talking to other people who work there and reading reviews can help. But the real issue is hierarchical management style is always going to be vulnerable to abuse by bad actors because your managers have near total power over you.

  In the private sector the solution is worker’s coops. I’m not sure what it would be called in the nonprofit world but there are likely more democratically run organizations in a similar vein.

  Another alternative is finding somewhere with a strong union. Unions can also be toxic in some ways but usually far less so than normal work power dynamics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  First, contact as many people as you can, especially local ICE watch orgs. A lot have hotlines which you may be able to find with a web search. Next start recording. Delay as long as possible. Ask for a warrant, stay calm and maybe try to negotiate as a stall tactic. This will hopefully give community members time to arrive and record or hopefully apply pressure if they are brave and numerous enough. It is possible to intimidate and drive them back with enough numbers.

  All else fails at this point I would not fight back and allow yourself to be arrested. Most citizens being arrested right now are being released. The courts are slow but still upholding the law for now. If you are not a citizen then your options might not be as good. Fighting back is likely to get you injured or killed but if you have an escape route it could be worthwhile, especially if you can escape in areas where motor vehicles can’t go. Their level of fitness is generally low so they can’t give chase for long, and as long as you’re not high profile you might be safe once you get away, though you’ll likely need to lie low somewhere.

  If you’re asking what to do about the current political situation in a broader sense then I have different answers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legal analysis of killing of Renee Nicole Good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit I’ve been waiting for this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you guys and gals let me take over AskHistorians please? Hell the creator/mod is literally a karma bot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do we have historians on Lemmy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Venus.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  for no reason

  🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is kissing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll note that kissing is not culturally universal. Remember that colonialism has made a lot of European ideas and norms seem way more universal than they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generation Wars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is literally me 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans are part of the ecosystem.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well first was this guy’s ideology really distinct or is he just a fascist who talks about environmental issues as a post-hoc justification to make his objectively deranged actions seem more reasonable?

  But I didn’t mean there are no singular eco-fascists anywhere on earth. There are 8 billion people on the planet so I could make up a mad lib ideology and chances are it’s similar to what someone somewhere believes. But I’ve never met one to my knowledge, not even online. There’s no organized push for this or political power behind it. The vast majority of fascists don’t give a shit about the environment and the vast majority of environmentalists oppose fascism. So the only time I see it mentioned is when people get criticized for discussing the impacts of human population.

  I understand why it’s a touchy subject. Past racist policies used overpopulation as a justification for crimes against humanity. But that the human impact on the earth is proportional to our population is just a fact, and it doesn’t make you a fascist to acknowledge that. You’re only a fascist if you think that fact gives you a right to brutalize people, and, as I’ve said, I just don’t hear this from any organized or popular thinkers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have to be orchidding me!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same with oaks. Down with the splitters! Lumpers are the chosen people who will inherit the earth botany.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans are part of the ecosystem.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ecofascism isn’t a real ideology I don’t know why people keep insisting it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also our bridges are subjected to the insane forces of truck freight transportation. Who know how long they would last otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨publication maxxing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about, y’know, doing the actual research you’re supposed to be writing about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a bat's life⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I could be this cozy when wet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snitches get switches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In some places it could be. Depends how anal the rangers want to be. They’re basically cops so I’d say chance of a power trip is high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐦‍⬛ Blackbird singing in the dead of night... (人´▽`*)♪⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hilarious saga. I kinda enjoyed their downfall because they were a crow guy but people asked them about all kinds of nature questions and a lot of what they said outside of their expertise was wrong…

  But me with the right answer was sitting with 2 upvotes while Unidan got 1000.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy ‘league table’, but sheep are sluts.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this is true. There is certainly a large degree of individual variation in animal behavior too, it’s just not that well studied.

  I had a professor who studied owls, which are usually highly monogamous. But there was one male who always tried to have two nests with two different females. It was hard for him because he had to hunt twice as much food, but for whatever reason that was what he felt like doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s already the way the world works today. But the difference is, the state won’t forbid you from organizing community self-defense as needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breed back better, or whatever Biden said⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidodendron

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe I already answered this? There is no ownership without a state to enforce your claim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same way animals do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you're doing ReSeArCh rong!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But understanding how science works is key to having trust in it. If you lack that understanding you may just think it’s a bunch of stuck up eggheads who pick whatever truth is convenient to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨History of Biodynamics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait biodynamic farming comes from Nazis?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this the future that transhumanists want?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure why not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lol, lmao even.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are certain types of problems they are better at solving. Basically if we already have all of the needed information, but you need to synthesize a huge amount of it into the final answer, they’ll be excellent at that kind of issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOLO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe a bizarre suicide attempt by someone with some chemistry knowledge?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assumptions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Capybara are dangerous?! Do they kill by biting or what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*confused flatfish noises*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would assume insects would be evolutionarily similar to other types or prey.