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Notices by Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net), page 37
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other primates can acquire language. so can other non-primates. we're not that special. even some brainless creatures have shown the ability to learn and override so-called instinctive behaviors
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that's what they want you to think! :-P :-D
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paulo freire wrote that, when education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor
we should be striving to break that cycle, not picking sides to perpetuate it
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I doubt this "most animals" thing. evolution is incremental, and AFAICT it most often adds adaptation layers that can add flexibility to override behaviors that were previously inflexible. there's a well-known divide between the reptilian mind and the bulkier mind we've grown, but I'm pretty sure there must be many more layers than that, underneath and within each conceptual layer, because of the way such things evolve. we humans are not that special a species as we make ourselves to be. it's just that, as in a game of monopoly, minute random differences end up driving increasingly disproportional outcomes
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o que acho mais canalha é focarem tanto no sofrimento humano de um lado (entrevistas, closes), mas ignorarem completamente o sofrimento humano do outro (no máximo um horizonte urbano, nada de gente narrando os abusos)
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... and haven't realized it yet? yeah, looks like it :-(
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it's not fair to say that they abandoned the goal
it's more like, back in the day, they started rowing in a certain direction in pursuit of that goal. turned out that rowing upstream is pretty hard, so they decided to try rowing downstream instead. they can still see the goal, it's getting farther and farther, but they can legitimately say they haven't given up the goal if they honestly believe that rowing further and further downstream will somehow take them there. I can't say that I follow their reasoning, and ISTM that they're fooling themselves and others in the process, but I can believe they (or at least some of them) still think they're pursuing that stated goal somehow. perhaps an outvoted idealistic minority surrounded by double-thinkers and misguided strategists... :-(
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money! all criminals use money!
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> Ultraprocessados matam 57 mil pessoas por ano no Brasil
onde está o ministério público, que deveria processá-los ainda mais? :-P
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> what's stopping them
your plutocrats have deeper pockets than theirs?, I guess
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that URL didn't work, in part because of the excess tracking bits. this one works, and it was an interesting read. thanks for sharing.
https://gnusocial.net/url/20073915
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talvez o noblat esteja lendo/supondo demais sobre a declaração
pra mim, não há qualquer dúvida de que esses ataques contra alvos civis tinham intenção de provocar o terror. isso é a essência do significado de "ataque terrorista".
isso *não* quer dizer que o povo Palestino, oprimido pela ocupação do Estado de Israel, seja terrorista
assim como os ataques e contraataques terroristas promovidos pelo Estado de Israel não tornam terroristas o povo de Israel
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answering your question, I'd normally use GNU parallel to orchestrate shell commands over multiple files. to skip already-converted files, I'd just add a conditional to the parallel command, something like:
parallel < input-list --gnu -j<N> test -f {.}.<ext> '||' <convert> {}
the {} notation saves a lot of trouble with whitespace quoting as well
and if you have the files as an argument list rather than in a file, use ::: "$@" at the end instead of < file
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uhh... provavelmente preciso estudar mais, mas nunca entendi nem concebi assim. pra mim o estado, numa sociedade assim, seria a incorporação da estrutura ultrademocrática e a expressão do poder democrático da população. assim eu vejo espaço para legislar e regular meios de produção e governo para melhor servir à população. talvez essa estrutura de governança leve outro nome ou seja concebida de outra forma na literatura técnica, mas é disso que eu tava falando: a sociedade organizada tem que ter como regular, sim, e tem que ter como planejar e organizar os meios de produção para servir ao coletivo. sem uma estrutura de governança, já entendo como anarquia, e acho que não é disso que falamos. na minha concepção, o papel de regulação cabe ao coletivo e, talvez por falta de vocabulário, jamais deixei de conceber essa estrutura de governança coletiva como Estado
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it seems like a good time to remember this:
https://gnusocial.net/url/20069163
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even if we accept the qualifiers you use, for the sake of the argument, why do people seem to think one must side with one of two evils, instead of criticizing and rejecting both evils?
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now, my point is to share the reality, to me and to many others, that struggles take effort, and even when we don't manage to make all the way like others who have it easy, or who are able to make greater or more focused efforts, it is still good that we undertake them. it is better to undertake them than to give up in frustration.
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I can relate. my conscience, this cricket that drives most of my conscious action, has gone through that transition. the problem is that, inside me, there are two wolves. and both are carnivore ;-)
more seriously, I grew up having meat that I found delicious and comfortable to eat. it was so far removed from the cruel reality that animals are so mistreated throughout their lives that it takes a conscious effort to even make the connection and use it as motivator. and I still hope to get to eat vegan non-sentient meat in my lifetime.
point being, I enjoy meat, I love its taste and texture, and I would be lying if I said that it's not pleasant, to this day. and there's a part of me that wants, that craves for that pleasure. it takes a huge conscious effort for me to override that craving, and I've never been very good at controlling food cravings. being vegan makes me feel ashamed and guilty of even admitting to want that pleasure, to enjoying it; it also significantly impairs the pleasure of the experience. but it doesn't make the craving go away! it's a permanent struggle against myself. and though I am very strong-willed and persistent, when I'm fighting against myself, that works both ways: neither opponent gives up or defeats the other, so both end up exhausted.
just yesterday, I went through a major neurodivergence-related crisis, I felt depleted getting up, and I fought meat craving the whole day. the day sucked, but it was a small lucky victory
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pretty pictures! because a thousand words was found to be too much for headlines ;-)
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acho que perdi a parte da conversa em que se decidiu abolir o estado. eu sou contra. como diz um amigo meu, eu tenho até uma glândula pro-state :-)
sigo a relatora quanto a reduzir centros urbanos
tenho sentimentos conflitantes quanto a importação e exportação. produção local é bem importante pra conservação, mas comércio equilibrado com produção sustentável também me parece propiciar eficiências valiosas pra conservação. mas manter o equilíbrio e a sustentabilidade, tanto do ambiente quanto do comércio, parecem ser enormes desafios ante mentalidades que demandam crescimento exponencial ao invés de subsistência sustentável
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
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