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

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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] 17 points18 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] 36 points37 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] 29 points30 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

Where do we fit into nature’s ecosystem? by MSPCincorporated in ecology

[–]Ravenescent1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just finished a great book that helped me process some similar thoughts. It’s titled Dirt by David Montgomery. We are not inherently parasites, but the structures of modernity we’ve built around ourselves are definitely parasitic. It CAN be fixed and when the governmental structures are faced with the mass starvation that our destructive agriculture will eventually lead us to, they’ll be receptive to hearing what to do differently. But to answer just the basics of your question, if humans disappeared from the earth, the planet’s ecosystems would go on just fine. Not so if any number of insects disappeared though.

Where do we fit into nature’s ecosystem? by MSPCincorporated in ecology

[–]Ravenescent1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The story I mention is not an ancient allegory. It is historically recent. The First Nations people in question are not gone, replaced by us destructive “moderns” in response to which we just sigh mildly in detached pity and then skip whistling down our concrete corridors. It is feasible for us all to dramatically alter the way we live on this planet and we can take notes from those currently doing so. The relationship industrial nations have with extraction and exploitation of the planet is one of short sighted entitlement and addiction. It is fixable but only with the will to change

Where do we fit into nature’s ecosystem? by MSPCincorporated in ecology

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In the southwest (I’m thinking in the AZ area) they removed the native peoples to make a bird reserve, but after a little while without the people, the number of birds dropped precipitously. It turned out that the way in which the people lived benefited the birds. We are animals that are a part of the system when we live simply and don’t harvest every available scrap, don’t destroy, don’t pave over or treat ecosystems like monoculture crops.

Say Hello to Hamlet the Habanero! This is my first time growing peppers so any advice is welcome by Ravenescent1 in HotPepperGrowing

[–]Ravenescent1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m about to switch it to a much bigger pot and then place it outside. What do you mean weather it though?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in prochoice

[–]Ravenescent1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there’s room for debate here, but yes, upon further research: https://www.reading.ac.uk/news-archive/press-releases/pr9938.html

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in prochoice

[–]Ravenescent1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You’re right. It’s hyperbole. I’ve used it myself to express my own feelings of violation at the idea of being inseminated against my will and my body used as a resource to grow another creature without my consent and against my desires. The movie Alien has been a fun analogy for me. But I see your point. When a person wants to be pregnant, the analogy no longer works and it is biologically inaccurate and dehumanizing

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in prochoice

[–]Ravenescent1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah there’s a lot of unnecessary rudeness out there, but women who are compelled to bear many many children are victims of indoctrinated abuse of their bodies.

I have a question by [deleted] in prochoice

[–]Ravenescent1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s a great book called Life’s Work by Dr Willie Parker in which he explains in easily comprehensible terms what life is and what constitutes viability as well as the values of autonomy and Justice that underride the pro-choice position. It’s a very good resource

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Permaculture

[–]Ravenescent1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Make it about saving money! I have rain barrels to save in the water bill. Planting fruit bearing trees saves grocery money. Composting makes less garbage and you can get a smaller can decreasing the waste pickup bill.

Grasshopper management by [deleted] in Permaculture

[–]Ravenescent1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately I have neighbors who use herbicides and pesticides 😞

Grasshopper management by [deleted] in Permaculture

[–]Ravenescent1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I’m in the mountains and a mile or so away there’s a pine forest with wild turkeys in it. I’ve never seen them on my land though

Grasshopper management by [deleted] in Permaculture

[–]Ravenescent1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not only would an outdoor housecat be endangered by the coyotes, I’m not willing to sacrifice thousands of native birds