szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

"Z życia kontrolerów widma radiowego - czyli o różnych przypadkach zakłóceń"

Ależ fajny wpis na blogu UKE!

https://www.uke.gov.pl/blog/z-zycia-kontrolerow-widma-radiowego-czyli-o-roznych-przypadkach-zaklocen,33.html

although i barely see them anymore, when people come to visit they notice the deer legs the dogs brought home hanging in the trees.

#RuralLife
Daily #photography

@szescstopni wait, but, like ... harvesting a mushroom isn't going to cause it to exist less. If anything, harvesting helps them out, as long as you're responsible and use a mesh bag so their spores can spread!

(You and I know that; your lawmakers might not.)

As is often the case, the exceptions prove the rule. Under capitalism, we live in the presence of hyper-abundance, and yet there is hunger and starvation under capitalism in ways that do not exist in non-capitalist societies that enjoy dramatically less material abundance.

Consider Ireland, which lost so many people during the Famine that its population is actually lower today than it was in the early 19th century. Starvation during the Famine was not, as popularly thought, a result of an absence of food:

“[N]early 4,000 vessels carrying food left Ireland for ports in England during ‘Black '47’ while 400,000 Irish men, women and children died of starvation. Shipping records indicate that 9,992 Irish calves were exported to England during 1847, a 33 percent increase from the previous year. At the same time, more than 4,000 horses and ponies were exported. In fact, the export of all livestock from Ireland to England increased during the famine except for pigs. However, the export of ham and bacon did increase. Other exports from Ireland during the "famine" included peas, beans, onions, rabbits, salmon, oysters, herring, lard, honey and even potatoes.”

Even potatoes. The Irish starved not because there wasn’t enough food, but because they could not afford to purchase the food they were themselves growing.

6/11

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1997/09/27/the-irish-famine-complicity-in-murder/5a155118-3620-4145-951e-0dc46933b84a/

Among societies such as the Wendat and Haudenosaunee, it was as unconscionably rude to refuse food to a hungry person as it would be for me to let a door slam shut in the face of a stranger. I’m honestly not sure I could even bring myself to do it, although there is no mechanism to force me to do it.

I’ve encountered quite a few critics of egalitarianism who scoff at the idea that anyone would “do something for nothing,” but I suspect all of them routinely “do something for nothing” without ever even thinking of their behavior in those terms. It is, as Graeber noted, the fundamental basis of human sociality. None of us would survive childhood without at least a few people “doing something for nothing” on our behalf.

5/11

Because over and over in the historical, anthropological, and archeological record, we find that hunger and famine are the sorts of things people used to experience only in cases of extreme deprivation.

People used to go hungry or starve, generally, only when there was absolutely no food to eat, as in cases of ecological collapse.

“For a Hadza to die from hunger, or even fail to satisfy his hunger for more than a day or two, is almost inconceivable,” wrote J. woodburn in “An Introduction to Hadza Ecology.”

“In general, it may be said that no one in a Nuer village starved unless all is starving,” wrote E.E. Pritchard in “Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer.”

“Starvation or real want in one family was impossible while others in the village were abundantly supplied with food,” wrote Raymond Firth in “Economies of the New Zealand Māori.”

2/11

A few years ago, NPR published an article about an “archeological mystery.” In Ghana, a place now associated with poverty and hunger, archeologists found that food security peaked about 500 years ago, in the midst of an epic two-century long drought, and declined in the mid-19th century.

Now, in Ghana, people struggle to find enough to eat during the annual dry season, switching to less-nutritious foods—if they can even afford them in markets.

And I’ve always been surprised at the author’s surprise. Where, exactly, is the mystery?

1/11

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/07/20/486670144/an-archaeological-mystery-in-ghana-why-didn-t-past-droughts-spell-famine

"At 4am, Republicans in the Iowa Senate passed a bill allowing 14-year- olds to work nightshifts, 15-year-olds to work assembly lines, and 16-year- olds to serve alcohol. They're trying to child labor to fix their labor shortage."
- Sawyer Hackett

oh my god http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

Nigdy nie mów nigdy 😁

Serious Trouble episode (with a re-recorded section after settlement) about Dominion dropping today. We didn’t talk about:
* No trial result would have had the judge ordering Fox to apologize on air
*No trial result would have resulted in Fox being punished for damage to democracy
*. No trial result could have ”established facts” as true or false for all purposes in America
If your expectations for the legal system are not reality-based you’re going to be consistently disappointed.

There will be a rare hybrid solar eclipse tonight starting at 9:36 pm EDT (April 19), 0136 GMT (April 20).

It will be visible in Australia and that part of the world.

We won’t be able to see it here in North America, but you can see it happen live online (see link below).

#Space

https://www.space.com/hybrid-solar-eclipse-april-2023-livestream

Think I might have solved the mystery of our limping cat: previous owner of our house, who reportedly did not like cats, left these along the top of one of the fences!

#mushrooms #Mosstodon mushroom on old baby coconut husk