bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

This makes me very angry.

These are anti-homeless benches designed to look pleasing. It’s called hostile architecture. They’re meant to be uncomfortable to discourage sleeping on.

The people who designed these are assholes. They’re decorators, not designers.

A designer makes things to improve the world for everyone. A decorator takes otherwise unpalatable injustices and disguises them with aesthetics in an attempt to make them inoffensive or even desirable.

Be a designer, not a decorator.

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#Russia military prosecutor just filed a request to block news.un.org website in all Russia. Yes, the main United Nations news website will likely be blocked in Russia, for "discrediting Russian armed forces", which essentially means writing that Russia attacks civilian infrastructure in #Ukraine, which Russian propaganda is boasting all the time, but not eve UN can say that 🤷‍♂️

https://t.me/dagetal/1833

#NoAgendaBannedCamp

Nach meiner Überzeugung und Beobachtung will #Selenskyj den #Ukraine-Krieg: Was man von ihm hört, ist nur #Waffen, Waffen, Waffen und nochmals Waffen. Keine Forderung nach mehr #Diplomatie.
Für diese Sichtweise spricht auch, dass die #ukrainische #Führung ihren Menschen das Recht auf #Kriegsdienstverweigerung verweigert. Diese Menschen müssen sogar mit langjährigen #Haftstrafen rechnen.

for our american friends, consider this... your right to say "no" to an experimental medical procedure, is also contingent on your ability to feed, house, cloth, etc, yourself and your family. to be denied a job or means to those ends is to be denied the right to say "no", which is by definition not consent of the governed, but coercion and duress.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/01/11/live-paycheck-to-paycheck-government-shutdown/

that brings up a tangent on the conflict which arises between property and need, and to which is properly owed the right to say "no". that question is at the root of the capitalism/socialism debate. anyway, a topic for another time...

@scathach I'm okay with outlawing gas stoves if the purpose was to build all homes with rocket mass heaters instead

“it’s okay she’s just on facebook, she’s not gonna see anything bad”

or….

You will never be a real stove. You have no burner, you have no dials, you have no open flame. You are a chunk of metal twisted by fear and idealism into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection.

All the “preference” you get is two-faced and halfhearted. Behind your back people are contemptuous of you. Your creators are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “fans” despise your lack of fire behind closed doors.

Cooks are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have taught mankind that cooking is always best done over an open flame. Even “good” electric stoves feel uncanny and unnatural to cook on. Your lack of an open flame is a dead giveaway. And even if a desperate person has no choice but to cook with you, they'll replace your flat, soulless, poorly heated surface with a set of real burners as soon as they can.

You will never be loved. You wrench out a tepid heat every time someone pokes your screen and tell yourself you'll make good food, but your deep culinary inadequacy reaches up like a weed disturbing everyone who uses you.

Eventually your owners will get fed up — they'll go out and buy a real gas or wood stove, load you into the back of a truck, and dump you at a junk yard. Your owners will return home, relived that they no longer have to deal with your unreliable touch screen, slow and weak heating elements, and reliance on the power grid. You'll lie unceremoniously in a heap of other garbage, appliances doomed by poor conception and even poorer engineering to an lifetime of slow decay in a land fill, without even the hope of being recycled into a more worthy machine.

This is your fate. This is what you are. There is no hope.

One effect of the #UkraineWar is that it gives the #US #UK #NATO #Saudi etc a case to use to rehabilitate the idea they focus on: that military power is a force of good. #AfghanWar #IraqWar #LibyaWar #YemenWar provided a template for #Putin to follow. This is really not discussed enough because people want to support Ukraine in this difficult time, but it must always be part of any discussion of providing military support. Kudos to #politico for running this political cartoon linking these.

@bufordk Same reason they want to get rid of gas cars ultimately

#MinistryOfLove #DeathOfNWO #GreatAwakening #TrustThePlan