Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

Largely forgotten until now, between 1933 and 1945 hundreds and hundreds of Jewish women and men performed individual acts of resistance in Nazi Germany.

Jews of all ages destroyed Nazi symbols, protested in public, disobeyed Nazi laws and defended themselves against insults and physical attacks.

Pictured: Lizi Rosenfeld, a Jewish woman, sits on a park bench bearing a sign that reads, ‘Only for Aryans,’ in August 1938 in Vienna ⬇️

https://theconversation.com/how-individual-ordinary-jews-fought-nazi-persecution-a-new-view-of-history-210337
#history #histodons #protest

Hello to a new smol fren in my backyard pond. Reminds me of some of the best advice my dad ever gave me: That snake (or spider/toad/caterpillar/etc.) is more scared of you than you are of it.

The 50 scribbles I did the other day are up on redbubble
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/152031854

Want to know why the #NHS rules and why Brits love it and will defend it to the death?

I take:

Sertraline ($76 USD per month)
Atarvostatin ($148 /m)
Propranolol ($42 /m)
Estragel ($158 /m)
Decapeptyl (~$100 /m)

$524 every month.

I pay £110 per year / ~$12 per month.

Also I was out of sertraline so the pharmacist said "come in, I'll give you some".

And while I was at the pharmacy, I got a free flu shot (cos I'm a fat squidge).

No wallet biopsy. No insurance.

TREASURE THE NHS.

This decades-old GOP movement is finally scoring breakthrough wins in the Biden era https://www.vox.com/politics/23689496/school-choice-education-savings-accounts-american-federation-children

The Home Science Labs of English Noblewomen: elite women in eighteenth-century England pursued scientific inquiry by distilling products for medicinal use. https://daily.jstor.org/the-home-science-labs-of-english-noblewomen/

Texas' government just spent $31.7M in the middle of a heat wave and energy shortage.

No, not to provide fresh shelter to the homeless. Neither to install booths with free fresh water. Neither to increase the number of public spaces (outside of shopping malls) where people can gather, instead of burning energy to keep their homes cool 24/7. Neither to boost its investments in renewables and pivot away from the oil that it keeps digging.

No, the government just gave that money away to Bitcoin miners to convince them to turn off their energy-hungry machines, so everybody else can also use energy to keep themselves cool.

Let that sink in. Even a life-threatening heatwave can't get miners to behave cooperatively and turn off their machines, whose only purpose is as pointless as randomly guessing a number whose SHA256 hash satisfies a certain arbitrary numeric constraint - and they skim some profits out of these pointless puzzles just because someone decided that putting up a system with such perverse financial incentives was a good idea. In order to get them to behave as someone who's not a complete selfish sociopath and evolutionary failure, the government had to compensate them for the losses that they would make by turning off their computers.

I guess that today's capitalism is that system where it's actually ok for the government to spend public money - as long as that money goes to those who need it the least.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-cryptocurrency-riot-texas-power-grid/

https://ask.metafilter.com/375214/Be-careful

This #MetaFilter Q&A on what a person means when they say "be careful!" reminds me to share a bit of personal discipline I'm working on:

Instead of or in addition to literally saying the vague advice-phrase "be careful" to someone who's about to do something, I must SPECIFY a particular kind of caution or behavior change. Examples: "it's slippery," "cars often break the speed limit here," "that's more fragile than it looks so notice if the tension starts changing."