You hurt their donors. You strike at your regular job but it only works if the majority do it or in key industries. It’s why the US has worked so hard to dismantle and discourage unions. Unions give the people power they can leverage.

Hard boycott is to stop consuming products from companies that donate to the administration. Dont buy them. Find alternatives where you can and go without when its not a necessity. It’s really really hard but its the most powerful non violent method available

Strikes and hard boycotts are incredibly effective. There are other less favourable options too, but you should probably start with the strikes and boycotts.

I would start or participate in your local community garden. They are solarpunk af! If they don’t already have it, an apartment composting scheme at the community garden.

As far as inside goes: maximising natural light and doing a balcony garden and filling the living space with house plants. Hydroponics is solarpunk. I would set up a wee fishtank nutrientcycler like they do in east asia. They look aesthetically solarpunk and help fertilise your garden…just make sure you get the right sized tank for the fish you choose.

We have different values, I guess. I don’t think tolerating intolerance is acceptable. I think tolerance of intolerance is essentially condoning it. I don’t see how silencing hate speech will “come back to bite me” any worse than the environment it creates. Allowing violence in language encourages violence of other forms, slippery slopes and all that.

You can point the finger in the other direction, saying silencing speech is a slippery slope to limiting all speech, but I’m still confident in my beliefs that tolerating intolerance is the greater of the evils to me.

Paradox of tolerance. At this point in history it’s important to draw hard lines. It will be up to police enforcement and since generally police are sympathetic to white nationalism, i don’t think it will be used outside of public displays of clear intention.

They outlined it. It’s project 2025 + a push from putin around expanding the US empire

Facts. I’m on lemmy via boost app on my phone. I wouldn’t be otherwise

Nah I don’t tell anyone unless it comes up. That said, I’m on social media and get DMs telling me I have autism accent, like multiple strangers, so I must not be subtle.

You’ll feel so much better once you get them out! My partner did last year and went from being sick half the yeat to getting sick once or twice. You have to go under full, so that was hard as they get a lot of nausea. Took a few days to heal enough to eat more than soup and ice cream. Overall, 10/10 would do again

Kia ora 😊 My partner goes hunting a couple time a week but mostly to feed families in our village and help our forests stay past free. I spend a few hours a day in the garden or with the birds, but most of my time is spent with my daughter or working on various community projects. I don’t have a paying job at the moment but I’m looking to take some apple sorting shifts this season while the emergency communications for vulnerable people start-up I’m a part of sorts funding.

Our cost of living is much lower. No utility bills. The rate on our property is lower. Our mortgage is lower. We have no meat or eggs to buy and most our veggies are sorted as well. We do have higher start up costs like sorting a solar set up and rainwater system. It takes money or connections for naterials to get started

The hydro soil system sounds ideal! I really like data which is why I’m hoping for a system with some reporting features but maybe i start simple and add as I go.

I do have ollas in my berry patch, but as the raised beds are made of stacked stone, they’ve been losing water way too quickly. This year, I’m going to unstack and line the beds to hold a bit more moisture.

Thanks so much for your help!

Hope your therapist helps get ypu sorted 🫂

4g on my phone!

Hope you’re feeling better mate! Finding a good fit for therapy is so hard… even if they aren’t much help if it’s not costing anything, you can try and figure out exactly what you don’t like to make finding a better therapist in the future a bit easier.

Congratulations on your jobs and successful break! I can’t remember the last time I felt like I was on break… I need to sort that out

I’ve got all the readers digest sewing books in pdf form from sailing the 7 seas 🏴‍☠️. They have been a great resource for trouble shooting. They also introduce altering patterns and tailoring.

Thank you so much 😊 I joined beehaw last year sometime but haven’t been as active as I’d have liked as I was drowning in local politics drama. I’m in a better space now.

I’m leaning towards home assistant but I’m looking into the grow op stuff to see if there is anything already built exactly how I’d like.

Yeah that’s the one! whenever i say the “women’s weekly duck cake” Americans don’t know what I’m talking about. They have all seen bluey though!

Thank you so much! Also thanks for car conversion write up! I’d love to do something live this with an old Suzuki Jimny.

That’s a good idea! I hadn’t heard of pixelfed! I’ll see if I can enable cross posts and slowly shift all my stuff over.

I definitely want something centralised and that can document usage. Long-term, I’d like it to work alongside a moisture and weather monitoring system so that I can really maximise my water efficiency.