It's not like we aren't already irreparably fucked, but losing having any rational voice in the Senate will feel like another blow to our corporate owned zombie of a nation.

That said, not like our single digit collection of leftist Congress people are able to do anything but spin wheels. The Neoliberals have more respect for their old guard Republican opposition than for people like Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez.

2y ago

How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

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AllonzeeLV @lemmy.world 2y ago

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Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive and change lol lol lol

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AllonzeeLV @lemmy.world 2y ago

Humans:

2y ago

A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say

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AllonzeeLV @lemmy.world 2y ago

I don't mean it that literally. I mean just observing swaths of people putting straws into drinks, putting ointments on scrapes, etc might make them extrapolate and try similar actions using what's available to them.

It's not much of a reach for a primate seeing a human manipulate and dig with a shovel, and use that as inspiration to manipulate a bamboo shoot to scratch their own back.

We homosapiens spent 180,000 ish years wandering around in the dirt like idiots before it occurred to some of us that we could grow food in one place, thus beginning the path to civilization. Even we need examples to extrapolate from.

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A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say

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AllonzeeLV @lemmy.world 2y ago

The difference might be in primates in captivity learning from humans using tools around them all day every day. Primate see primate do trial and error.

One seen doing it spontaneously in nature might be more significant.

2y ago

Israel tells U.S. it will punish Palestinian Authority if ICC issues warrants

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AllonzeeLV @lemmy.world 2y ago

"Cancel D-Day or ve vill gas all ze Jews!"

Kind of an empty threat considering that's what you were actively doing anyway...

2y ago

I’m in a park. The grass is being mown by a robot.

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AllonzeeLV @lemmy.world 2y ago

I imagine they would make excellent fertilizer.

Plays Circle of Life from Lion King

2y ago

"We totes promise we're also the cure!" -The Disease

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AllonzeeLV @lemmy.world 2y ago

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Workers RULE

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AllonzeeLV @lemmy.world 2y ago

Because we the sucker peasants of the west have largely been propagandized by the owner class from birth into embodying this meme:

2y ago

"We totes promise we're also the cure!" -The Disease

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AllonzeeLV @lemmy.world 2y ago

Why do vaccines need to be made by private companies for private profit at all? Why not publically funded research at universities and agencies that charge reasonably for use, where that capital is either turned into more public research or other commons? Other than the fact that we starved public research almost to death to cut private industry for private profit's taxes.

Also private industry does NOT belong in basic utilities everyone needs AT ALL.

There should not be a single power plant or utility that's for private investor profit. It's too important to have any allegiance other than serving the citizenry full stop. There should be no private investor in a position to advocate sticking it to captive customers (or our sole shared communal habitat), who need any common utility like elec-fucking-tricity, to increase their quarterly private profit expectations. But here we are.