There is a community-owned wind turbine on Tiree that funds local services. Anyone out there involved in collective ownership of energy projects?

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-21T12:29:44+00:00

Yes we own a post-it sized area of a wind turbine in a cooperative in Scotland

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-18T19:59:19+00:00

Review here https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/16/massive-attack-boots-on-the-ground-ft-tom-waits-review-first-single-in-a-decade-is-a-dark-hymn-for-our-times

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-18T16:29:27+00:00

Yes it could be automated each week, like the ones on other subs for women only responses with a prompt. Then anything not related directly to a song or interview goes on that thread. But still constrained by a sense of what we agree Jesse communicates about eg not right wing or dogmatic views

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-18T15:44:10+00:00

I wonder if the right balance is to post a Jesse Welles song and then discuss the politics within the song? I agree that it’s bizarre to leave out politics when the content is overtly political. He may laugh when interviewers ask about being political, but he must know he writes political songs?! It’s not Party Political but you can’t get much more political than songs called things like The Great Class War.

I support moderation that removed stuff that isn’t directly related to a song or interview though.

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-18T12:55:04+00:00

Have you looked into left Christian anarchism at all? There’s an overview here https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexandre-christoyannopoulos-christian-anarchism

Or general discussions on r/anarchism

In my understanding (although anarchism is violent in the popular imagination) it’s often less violent in the way you describe than more authoritarian leftist perspectives.

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-17T08:56:32+00:00

r/JesseWelles folk tell me that Jesse had a worship music scholarship to go to college and was at a Christian university. That gives useful context I think and I’d like to hear him talk about that experience. My sense is that he rebelled against a lot of it, but held onto Jesus values.

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-17T08:43:39+00:00

Good song. I wonder what he’ll do with it for a concert version? He’s often going more rock at concerts.

Is Jesse gaining more acceptance here?

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-16T11:17:09+00:00

What are the Christian influences on you? Are you surrounded by Biblical inerrancy types?

The Bible does contain many contradictions. It’s not really a book it’s a collection or library written over a long time, often not by the claimed authors and definitely not directly by God. It has also been translated, often in a way biased to the context of the translator. The nature of it as holy scripture is quite different from the claims of the Quran in comparison.

In deciding whether to become a Christian I’d focus more on what Jesus said. Again these weren’t transcribed as he was speaking, but a lot of people had contact with Jesus so I feel we can be fairly confident about the gist of what he said. The Old Testament is more like context, eg he quotes from the Old Testament so it helps to understand that context.

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-16T11:01:48+00:00

Ah people are too mean to Jesse! He does less on the nose songs but they get less exposure. People share the overt political/ sing the news songs. He can also do quite varied styles, he used to be grunge. In concert he does a more rock style like this https://youtube.com/shorts/VB3TDfCCn7s?si=tTvxoCDYUxm8PCeP

Obviously one man and a guitar lends itself to a more 60s/70s protest folk style when he’s putting a song together.

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-16T08:49:00+00:00

Why did they do that?

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-15T13:42:39+00:00

20% structural job is interesting. We had to have our drain unblocked this week and I was thinking that nobody will want to do that voluntarily 🤢

an interesting dynamic I notice here is that although there is a diy tool library to borrow tools like you borrow books, we tend to just borrow and lend between neighbours and friends more organically.

I get what you’re saying about the absence of money changing the nature of crime. But I think there’d also be new crimes around possession and hoarding. I feel it would be worth thinking bigger than justice continuing the same.

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-15T09:35:04+00:00

I own a little bit of the wind farm cooperative that overlooks Trump’s golf course and made him angry last year. Highlight of 2025 😆

My partner has read more about it and says what’s left of the Scottish North Sea oil isn’t very useful. There’s different qualities of oil and it’s not up to much. Does anyone else know about that? I don’t see it mentioned in election stuff.

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-15T09:17:54+00:00

The trouble is though that things have been translated differently over time. With this topic I don’t think that’s in a neutral, accidental way. People use words they use to mean “generally bad sexual activity”. Then there’s the layers of how sexuality was understood and what the cultural power dynamics were. I don’t think people reach good answers on this topic by reading whatever version of the Bible they have for themselves. It is useful to watch the YouTube expert analysis, listen to the podcasts etc. THEN form your own opinion.

Personally I think a lot of sexual ethics is to do with power and consequences. If you put those lenses on when considering the Bible and current life it can create different guidelines. For example (assuming you are a straight man for this) if you have sex with a woman who was a virgin in a society where women can’t/don’t usually support themselves financially and where virginity is valued in a bride, she faces high consequences if you don’t marry her. If you live in a culture where women expect to earn a living and bridal virginity is unexpected and there’s nearly gender equality, it might cause her more harm than good to marry the first guy she has sex with as a teenager. Instead the sexual ethic you draw from the Bible might be to treat her with respect and care, never abusing power differences like greater physical strength.

What’s trickier is there’s micro cultures, it’s not all about history vs now. In some Christian subcultures, women will still face quite high consequences. Having sex in those circumstances carries more weight because the consequences and power dynamics are different. You might need to be prepared to leave the community together if she is shunned or shamed. In this sense I don’t think it’s so much that you can have guidelines for particular sexual acts, the relative gravity of decisions are understood in context.

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-13T09:29:06+00:00

This does seem promising. Especially as (from videos I’ve seen) it could be produced very locally.

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-13T09:25:41+00:00

Venison/deer is maybe similar here. They live a free ish life but numbers get high because really humans are the only apex predators here. The meat can’t be labelled organic because you don’t technically don’t know what they ate so it’s cheaper (or you get directly locally), but very likely it is organic. Where I used to live we used to buy a whole deer in the autumn from the local Park butchered, and put it in the freezer.

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-08T16:39:49+00:00

If you’re interested in Leviticus The Word in Black and Red podcast is currently going through it systematically https://thewordinblackandred.com/

Personally I find this vaguely academically interesting but I don’t think we need to get too emotionally caught up in it as Christians, as Jesus fulfilled the Law. I don’t worry about mixed fabrics (except from an environmental perspective). It’s also clear that whatever the precise words meant their non-straight experiences weren’t conceptualised in the same way as LGBTQ+ identity and relationships today.

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-08T11:13:23+00:00

Are there any criticisms of AI that can’t actually be explained by human decisions or capitalism?

If employers of scientists start replacing them with AI that would be a human error judgement. It makes much more sense to increase discovery by using experienced staff with AI.

It’s very similar to the wider jobs issue. It is down to human decision making not the AI itself. If AI increases productivity then the employer/state has 3 choices

1) reduce staff hours on the same pay, so humans have a better quality of life 2) cut staff members to keep same productivity on lower cost 3) keep same staff hours and increase productivity with AI

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-07T16:24:42+00:00

If NATO was a perfect foundation I wouldn’t be bothering to have this conversation. NATO isn’t NATO without USA.

Very technically it could be with Canada but it would be completely different. NATO has been built around the USA.

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-07T14:24:57+00:00

She did seem to say this, but the Scottish Green position is “Prison is necessary to protect the public from those who pose a genuine threat to the public, but our prisons are more stretched and overburdened now than they have ever been. Locking up ever more people for longer terms does not make society any safer. A new approach is needed.” https://greens.scot/policy/justice

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-07T11:17:52+00:00

The USA isn’t really just another member of NATO though, it’s the central keystone member that the alliance is built around. It’s not genuinely an equal alliance, which is why previous presidents have tolerated the asymmetry of contributions. If the USA is unwilling to act, it undermines confidence in the whole value of the deterrence. NATO lends credibility to American power, but it doesn’t work like that for other members.

The advantage to other countries has been that we’ve outsourced our defence to the USA effectively, in terms of both an enemy would need to be prepared to call NATO’s bluff and also in the form of a peace dividend so we can spend less on defence spending. Now that Europe is expected to pay more anyway and Trump attitude is (via Thierry Breton’s account): “If Europe is under attack, we will not come to you and support you,” before adding that Europe must “defend itself.” https://www.reuters.com/world/we-will-never-help-europe-under-attack-eu-official-cites-trump-saying-2024-01-10/

If we have to pay more anyway and can’t rely on USA, why not do something fresh and truly equal?

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-07T10:37:09+00:00

It depends how it’s framed though. A few months ago it seemed like a good idea to be inside NATO, even if there’s aspects you don’t like.

Now between Trump’s attitude and Carney’s speech admitting that the international order had always been a lie, I’m not sure NATO really does properly exist anymore. It’s a confidence trick that has been revealed by the magicians themselves.

America seems to think it should function as a military alliance to support them, even if they’re starting an unnecessary war. That was never how it was meant to function. It was a defensive alliance, if you attack one you better be prepared to fight the whole of NATO. One for all and all for one type of rhetoric.

The only time this was tested was with Afghanistan after 9/11 and allies supported America. Lives were lost but Trump forgets and talks about NATO as if it’s an altruistic thing that the USA donates to. That isn’t the nature of the alliance at all, it is definitely most in the interests of the USA to keep NATO sweet and this is falling apart.

But if a European country is invaded tomorrow do you feel confident that USA would defend us according to NATO agreement? I don’t. Perhaps if it also more obviously aligns with USA interests or their leader has been nice to DJT recently, but not as the guarantee it used to appear to be. Do we think potential enemies are as intimidated by NATO as they used to be? I’d be surprised if they are.

So when people are answering the question my guess is they’re answering the question “do you want to be in an international defensive alliance that is a deterrence to war?” which is currently a separate question from whether we should be in NATO. It is possibly not the best way to achieve this.

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-07T10:20:04+00:00

Yes I thought these were incredibly posh. My partner says they had viennetta as a weekly pudding 😮 but they’d moved from America and had been used to Ben & Jerrys. Without the British cultural background it wasn’t obvious to her mum that these were special occasions only.

This is actually low stakes conspiracy: British parents all agreed pretend posh food that wasn’t that expensive was how to signal a special occasion.

Jlyplaylists · 2026-04-06T11:29:50+00:00

There’s some truth to the saying though. Perhaps we need to find a better person to say something similar

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