I wouldn't mind if societies also made some compromises for me too. Currently it feels like I'm making all the compromises to fit in but made to feel like it's never enough.
Feels like I'm trying to fix an awful relationship by doing all the hard work myself. I'm tired.
I try to remind people that doing nothing is not a bad thing and something you can enjoy. Productivity can be quite addictive for some people. For others, it can be so ingrained into their mindset that they are driven by guilt to remain productive.
In a couple years from now when the sun finally decides to kill all life on earth for shit and giggles, all that progress and productivity won't mean anything. I'd rather chill the fuck out and enjoy the nice views with the people I like around me and I only have one life to do that.
Some men are so desparate for love from their male friends but can't handle the idea of showing any form of sincerity towards another man.
Instead of calling it love between male friends, respect becomes a currency for love and takes on some pretty toxic and abusive traits. Name calling, belittlement, insults, questionably aggressive forms of physical touch and more just to avoid giving a compliment or a hug.
That underlying love never gets expressed in a healthy way and you get the strange, hypocritical and mind breakingly confusing behaviour. Why do they hate everything about me but want me to go out for drinks after work tonight?
I think all this unaddressed love disguised as respect is more gay than the time I walked into the bathroom at a gay club and saw two guys giving another guy a blowjob.
Go give your buddy a hug, it ain't as gay as the 50th dick joke of the day that you have to say. Hell, it's not even lunch time yet, my dude.
I think I meant gardening instead of farming in my first comment. I'm drawing comparisons from the majority of my life in the suburbs. I have strong feelings about industrial farming that I'm not interested in going into at the moment.
I do believe it's important for us to learn how to rejuvenate our land as a step towards a sustainable future which is why I'm interested in learning and sharing such things. Food is quite important to our lives.
Not being able to till or use synthetic fertilisers makes it a lot harder to scale up production.
This is exactly why I believe we need to start relearning soil health care among many other things. This is why we need to bring food back locally into everyone's yard's and parks. This is why we need this knowledge now to help future generations.
It's hard to imagine another way of living life but we'll never know if we don't collectively try.
I've personally drawn a lot of inspiration from Australian indigenous peoples and their approach to land management which is why I feel so strongly about learning soil health.
I've only had a year experience with growing crops but learned a lot about how important "living soil" is from having a bioactive terrarium.
Bioactive refers to making an active ecosystem with plants, insects and even microfauna. In mine I had plants, isopods (land shrimp) and springtails. The isopods break down fruits, veggies, poop and decaying matter like fallen leaves. The springtails eat fungi and mold that forms from constant moisture. The plants thrive off the nutritious bug poop.
Learning about this cycle was important to me understanding that creating a garden means creating a home for all the insect and microfauna first, the resulting crops were the tasty bonus.
Clover is amazing for ground cover. The roots will help losen soil. Along with underground insects, this helps create air pockets in the soil for all plant roots to breath. It helps prevent moisture loss, keeping enough moisture for roots to gather nutrients with less watering. The roots also act as a home for bacteria, fungi and anything considered microfauna really. The flowers attract pollinators which is so important for both crops and local pollinator populations. It may also bring nitrogen into the soil providing food for other plants or crops. I'm recalling most of this from memory so there may be outdated or slightly misremembered info but that was my take away from my initial research into healthy, living soil.
My first year of crops grew amazingly and I hope for more of that. This year I'm adding walking planks and a few large stones to my garden. Between the clover ground cover, stones and wood, that should give even more protection for my tiny insect\microfauna friends. I even went as far as to add a layer of fallen leaves over the soil to help protect it during the winter.
I can never look at "traditional" western farming practices the same again. Soil health is just not given the attention it truly needs.
I have mixed feelings on this because yes, information can be used to cause harm. That same information has also been crucial to me in understanding how abuse and manipulation have affected me. Without identifying the motive behind certain behaviours or actions, how am I supposed to know which boundaries to put up to protect myself? This is obviously very situational to me because in order for me to act on something, I need to understand the under layers of a topic in order to effectively change my views/habits/behaviour.
This article to me reads as an "Ah-Ha!" moment in understanding how to approach the topic of abuse to abusers. Unfortunately, that part wasn't expanded on enough and since the article is nearly 10 years old, I don't think I have the patience enough to see if there is any sort of follow-up regarding how to talk about abuse to abusers.
With the information I've learned about abusers and manipulators over the past years, I've been not only helping myself place proper boundaries, but encouraging the women in my life to protect their boundaries too by informing them of both actions and intent behind those actions from abusers.
My help is one sided though because there are a few men in my life that are on the border of being decent people, they just need light pushes away from toxic masculine influences. Too much can cause things to crumble. Understanding their intent behind their words has helped in avoiding unnecessary, name-calling backlash. It's an exhausting balancing act. I more often choose to not engage them because it's such a long, draining process.
I do wish there were more effective ways of educating the dangers and damage from such forms of masculinity. In my area, medical professionals throw Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Mindfulness at people and call it a day. I feel those methods are like placing a bandage over a problem without looking at the cause. Those methods seem to cause more anger, regret and frustration. It's such an overburdened mess. It seems the author is attempting to reframe his methods from "treating batterers" to "a consistent coordinated community response." Or at least advocating for a consistent coordinated community response in general. To approach this sensitive topic from another approach. I can agree this point could have been expanded upon.
Humans are too complex and there's so no one perfect way to teach other people. What works for one person would completely zone out another person. What can be useful by one person can be harmful by another. There's really no easy way to talk about uncomfortable topics and it sucks we have to resort to war tactics regarding such information.
I didn't read in this article any claims that this was a scientific study. Should this person's experiences be any less valid?
To me it reads as a person attempting to understand why men want to commit violence and abuse against women. It also didn't read as if it promoted abuse against women but rather promoted publicly addressing and dealing with abuse through public education.
I get that gender related violence is an awkward, uncomfortable topic but this article can be one step of many in understanding and dealing with abuse.
Had this person framed this article as a scientific study, I would definitely doubt it's message and validity as that would be intentionally deceptive.
I don't understand what is meant by raw data in the context of this article.
This seems less like a scientific study and more like a black board brainstorming session. The list that was shown seems to read as a disorganized list of thoughts, the type you'd find in a brain storming session.
It seems to me that this court mandated facilitator for men who batter was merely trying to share their experiences and insight for why men abuse women.
I think managed is an appropriate word which describes the process the indigenous people applied to the land. They not only farmed on the land, but the use of controlled burns helped renew the area after it had been used. After farming in an area, it will deplete nutrients in the soil. If you want to use that area again in the future, you will have to have some sort of long term understanding of the land to regenerate the area.
Those fires also help guide wildlife to previously used, burned and planted areas ensuring the wildlife is not wiped out in the process. And since the burns are low heat, this helps get rid off weedy overgrowth, open seed pods and prepare the area for a new growth cycle. I assume there will be lots of bugs and micro-fauna survive underground to help kick start the renewal process quickly after a burn occurs. Managing this cycle requires a lot of effort. Especially if you consider that this was happening all over Australia by many different communities.
Australia was described to be green and beautiful by the first European settlers who arrived there. Without indigenous intervention, the land has been trampled and ruined by European farming practices. Now we have the red desert many people imagine when they think of Australia.
If you want to know more, I'd suggest watching This 14 minute mini-documentary which briefly covers things nicely with sources.
I think what bothers me most about this comment is that there seems to be a recurring theme I'm seeing on lemmy. Whenever there is a post or comment about indigenous peoples, there will be someone quick to post minimizing and belittling statements about indigenous peoples. These statements never have any supporting evidence and from my perspective seem to be aimed at erasing indigenous culture, history, efforts, achievements and dignity.
If anything, now more than ever, we need to learn from these communities. We may have lost an incredible amount of indigenous/local land knowledge due to unchecked colonialist pursuits, but there is still knowledge out there by people willing to share. We shouldn't ignore or erase these peoples because someone else told us they are simple barbarians.
For a little background, I worked in the field for about 5-6 years, half the time as a contractor/helper, and the other half as an apprentice (which I never completed). The company built automation lines which primarily did metal welding. High voltage spot welding, Automated MIG welding and Laser welding/braising.
As for wastefulness, I don't even know where to start and I am sure I will miss a bunch of things. In no particular order of importance:
Automation requires A LOT of materials. Pipes, cables, trays, robots, supports, safety, devices, fasteners and the list goes on. Keep in mind that All these materials need to be extracted, transported, refined and remade into what we need to build an automation line.
Automation is Heavily dependent on fossil fuels. We need machines to extract raw materials. We need machines to transport raw materials. We need machines and heat to refine raw materials. We need machines and heat to create a final product. We need to transport those final products and then we can finally work with that final product to install into an automation line. Some materials that we work with such as cables, hosing and tubing will create some sort of waste during the installation process. Maybe not as much as the other steps but it all adds up in the end.
I worked in electrical and all of our cables would have some sort of plastic/rubber/silicone sheathing. I honestly don't know how we can expect to keep up with the growing electrical demand AND cut down on crude oil extraction. We need insulators to safely use electricity and plastics do that job very well.
I don't know how resource extensive it is to make a microprocessor, but I imagine it still takes a lot of machinery and heat to create them. Microprocessors are in a lot of devices used in automation.
Wear and tear on mechanical parts. Robots are great for doing repetitive tasks. Robots and anything that moves (conveyors or clamps, for example) will involve moving parts. Anything with moving parts will wear down eventually. Those parts are generally trashed and replaced with a functioning part.
Electronic Devices. Computers, PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers), Sensors, power supplies, transformers, lights, and HMI (Human-Machine Interface) are some of the devices used in automation. Lots of plastics, metals and microprocessors. Since these are electronic devices, they need to be shipped in plastic to ensure the devices are free from moisture or shock damage. The plastic wrapping and plastic shock foam pads that have no purpose after the device has been removed from the packaging get thrown out.
Shipping. Everything coming in or leaving has to be shipped. For smaller items, they may be bundled up on a transport skid which may mean it is wrapped in layers and layers of shipping plastic wrap in order to secure the load. Larger items may require plastic or metal tie-down straps. All of which are disposed of after use. Robots, tooling, fencing, piping, cables, power disconnects and so on are VERY heavy. All this weight requires so much fuel to transport from place to place before reaching the final installation site.
Reusing vs. replacing. Depending on the request, we may reuse old robots or tools but in many cases, A LOT of old, still usable material just gets chucked into the trash. Companies care less about waste and more about downtime. It's far quicker to tear out the old, bring in new cables/piping/tray, slap it in and get that power running as soon as possible.
Weight. Things are getting heavier. Heavier stuff means bigger robots. Bigger robots require more power. You can probably look back at some previous points to understand why the extra weight is not good.
Energy consumption. As we push further into automation, we require more electrical power. Before I left my company, the power demand was increasing at a mind blowing rate. Towards the end of my time there, I spent months with a couple other people prepping high voltage power main disconnects. When I first started there, there was only one person prepping disconnects when the demand required it.
Oils and fumes. Moving parts generally require lubrication. Greases and oils are generally not so nice to the environment considering the actions required to handle, dispose of, or clean up oil. Lots of fumes are created from welding metal together and it's pretty nasty stuff. My patience with that company disappeared after they started welding aluminum without filtering the aluminum welding fumes.
Management are prideful idiots. The dingleberries that run the place have no idea what they are doing and have no idea what it takes to build an automation line. Some of their mistakes cost millions of dollars in wasted materials and all that shit just gets chucked. It's fucking mind blowing.
I'm sure there's more but my brains done with this for now. Automation is super cool and fun to watch when all is done and it's running. It can definitely push out higher production numbers compared to humans. It is definitely not as green or sustainable as any tech company would want you to believe. I believe, from my perspective and experiences in that field, it's an unsustainable disaster. If it seems like a green alternative, it's because we aren't talking about the resource requirements to build, maintain and upgrade automation systems and only focusing on the production output.
Personally, I believe our green alternatives shouldn't depend on green technology but rather draw heavy inspiration from nature itself. The hard part about that is imagining a life that isn't intertwined with capitalism, money and hierarchy. Once we shrug off those evils, we can start to observe and listen to nature again.
This game has caught my eye. The visual style alone is what really draws me in to the world.
There's something about the Half-Life-ish graphics and unique style that sort of hits a personal nostalgia for me. It has a wonderful combination of weird and abstract with a touch of familiarity. It also feels both vibrant and gritty at the same time. Something I didn't realize I was missing so much. Especially after playing Baldur's Gate 3 which has absolutely gorgeous but very busy graphics.
After I get over my Caves of Qud hyperfixation, I am definitely going to pick this game up.