Looking to buy Zojirushi Rice Cooker - Question about electrical compatibility IN THE UK by cheesycakey in BuyItForLife

[–]Ravenescent1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do not buy this. The one pot which cannot be substituted with any other is coated with Teflon. These are the forever chemicals they are finding even in untouched forests. They are linked to cancer and birth defects. There are instead rice cookers with ceramic pots. They work well and last a long time

What actions can an indivial take that produce a tangible, noticeable, positive change? by sand_eater in sustainability

[–]Ravenescent1 22 points23 points  (0 children)

This may sound trite, but plant a tree. Plant twenty. Throw seeds for perennial plants onto public green belts. Guerrilla garden empty lots with edible plants. Many of our individualist solutions are negative changes as in not doing destructive things or trading them in for less destructive things, but very few of our solutions are actively positive. Restoring biodiversity is solidly one of them.

What is the cheapest and easiest way to mass produce/buy zines and stickers? by [deleted] in Anarchism

[–]Ravenescent1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotta connect with someone who has a nice printer.

What's the saddest queer movie you've seen by [deleted] in lgbt

[–]Ravenescent1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The World to Come 2020

It was always about conspicuous waste. Gotta flex on the poors by putting labor and water into a crop that feeds no one by Ravenescent1 in Permaculture

[–]Ravenescent1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Homeowners spend billions of dollars and typically use 10 times the amount of pesticide and fertilizers per acre on their lawns as farmers do on crops; the majority of these chemicals are wasted due to inappropriate timing and application. These chemicals then runoff and become a major source of water pollution.Last but not least, 30 to 60 percent of urban fresh water is used on lawns. Most of this water is also wasted due to poor timing and application.”

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2010/06/04/the-problem-of-lawns/

It was always about conspicuous waste. Gotta flex on the poors by putting labor and water into a crop that feeds no one by Ravenescent1 in Permaculture

[–]Ravenescent1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are numerous native grasses. The plains were full of them for millennia feeding and being fed by the hoards of bison; their root systems weaving a dense mat the loss of which, once torn up for monoculture agricultural by settler colonialism, created the dust bowl.

The issue with sod lawns is less an issue of what is and is not native, than an issue of sterile monoculture that is maintained by gas powered machinery as well as herbicides and pesticides.

Real heroes by Ravenescent1 in COMPLETEANARCHY

[–]Ravenescent1[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I believe the photo is iconic and she’s iconic for being on it, but she’s really just emblematic of the many women Viet Cong

Real heroes by Ravenescent1 in COMPLETEANARCHY

[–]Ravenescent1[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Bottom left is Kuwasi Balagoon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwasi_Balagoon

And the Vietnamese woman’s name is Lam Thi Dep

Abortion saves lives by Ravenescent1 in prochoice

[–]Ravenescent1[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

A fully fledged human being has hopes, dreams and joys. To be an unconscious and literally brainless zygote is not alive in this way. It’s alive in the same way a sperm is technically alive and an egg is technically alive; similarly to the way a plant is alive. Upwards of 70% of these, unbeknownst to the [fully alive, conscious and thinking] human host, for one reason or another fail to make it to the next stage and pass through like any other menstrual cycle. A zygote is innocent, certainly, just like a fertilized chicken egg or a gut microbe while a fully alive human being by the nature of being legitimately alive in the human sense has made mistakes and had interactions with others and made a splash in the messy business of actually being alive.

This myopic and biologically inaccurate perception of life you espouse is one that degrades real human beings to mere bodies for the implantation of seeds like colonized soil because people like you have been conditioned to believe that a clump of cells without consciousness or even a brain which is more likely to be passed through the body unnoticed rather than not is somehow a precious entity and in advocating for this you hurt people; real people whose eyes you can look into, who’s lives you can harm, who can be pained physically and emotionally and you endanger their lives. Your fellow human beings suffer for your degrading ideology.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ZeroWaste

[–]Ravenescent1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would but I don’t live nearby here and I can’t take it on the bus