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Fix’d.

When you cremate your remains and then seed the ocean with your ashes, it feeds the bottom of the ecosystem.

CORRECTION Cremated remains have all organic compounds broken down and is a process used to stow or preserve remains (since it’s mostly carbon, it can be used to make an artificial diamond). Also someone I know who planned on this as his return to earth funerary choice was misinformed.

That said, there is a tradition to carve a cadaver up and grind the bones and make sausages for the local wildlife, who will happily partake. In fact part of the ritual is noisy and consistent so as to inform the locals that dinnertime is coming.

Just drop the body into the wilds and the local fauna (mostly invertebrates) will do a fantastic job of utilizing your remains, and reintroducing the material back into the ecosystem. Avoid permafrost places like the Himalayas, seas that are lifeless (like the Dead Sea). Deserts will just desiccate you quickly.

Planting your body under a sapling (without formaldehyde or any other preservatives) will make sure you’re literally worm food.

I don’t, and Karl Marx explains this is the inevitable outcome of a capitalist system in Das Kapital.

Right now the EU is trying its hand at it by making a regulatory system that is difficult to influence. It’s happening, and some countries have devolved into neoliberal parties vs. far-right (monarchist) parties, showing us that Marx is once again right.

If I were to get a soviet (lower case) committee of scholars to hammer out a workable system, I’d avoid capitalism in favor of a post-scarcity socialist / communist state (and if we don’t have the means to kick off with one, then we’d lay out a tech-tree path towards one.

But that’s not how societies work. We have to work towards a world in which people are given the liberty to live as they please, and not be burdened by want of essentials. We can’t seize all the property today and have food kiosks available tomorrow.

Also, I’m not even a poli-sci graduate, and I’d defer to those who’ve actually learned the history and checklists. But I could see a country deciding to invest some taxes in a massive potato growing project, and offering free potatoes to everyone; as much as they need. And then following up with other extremely common, extremely useful products (pencils and paper)? Lumber in standard sizes? Steel wood screws? Eventually, the state would offer protein bars and issue bog standard smart phones.

We’ve already seen ur-programs like this, from government cheese, food stamps and SNAP to the electric companies offering flourescent bulbs and later LED bulbs to get all households on the same page.

That said, these are all guesses. I can’t predict the future and how we advance.

It really is like a movie where all the bad guys share a style so we know which ones to root against.

It’s the 21st century version of the full-face covering, the stormtrooper helmet.

The federal government really has been taken over by the Legion of Super-Villains

I wouldn’t hold my breath either.

Human society continues to careen towards multiple great filters it is ill-prepared to navigate, and the trillion-dollar propaganda machine that got Trump elected works. We just may not be evolved to cooperate at the level that gets us to community-based governments without monied interests interfering.

Mark Twain invested his money into the Paige Compositor, an automated mechanical typesetter, which had over a thousand moving parts in an era that lacked the capacity for precision molding. Babbage constructed the difference engine 2 which worked like a charm when built by students a century later, but he was defunded at the wrong time.

Sometimes we’re just not ready for good ideas, and not capable of implementing them at the time they are discovered.

All Cops Are Bastards, a sentiment that arises from the blue code of silence, so that even the well-meaning ones are obligated to lie in court to defend the violent ones, what allowed the loyalty-over-principle sector to rise into power, which is why there is such staunch resistance against publication of disciplinary hearings against police who misbehaved or broke laws, even though such documents are supposed to be public as per FOIA statutes.

When California passed a law reinforcing the notion that such files would be made accessible to the public, the precincts literally shredded or burned their files.

The institutions are corrupt through and through. It was especially evident during the Ferguson unrest, when the blue lines showed they had no trigger discipline for the military hardware they were wielding. It was laughable, except for the danger they were posing to the demonstrators.

Officers who seek to serve their communities quit. Some of them have publicly denounce police services and have become staunch police abolitionists. The only officers that remain are either violent killers, or the ones willing to cover for violent killers.

All cops are bastards.

It’s a long process, especially since people who have a lot of power really, really, really want to keep it.

For now the process is getting people on the same page. Or as a certain poet put it:

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will be one

We need to pursue a society in which everyone has equal access to rights and resources, where no one has to worry about food or shelter from the elements, or whether their family will be ripped away from them due to circumstances. Where no-one is given exception, even when they are deeply in debt or committed heinous crimes, or are the most deviant of sexual perverts. We can include them and address the issues as well.

A society in which everyone has exactly the same amount of political power may not be possible but we can get closer to this than we are now. This is what that more perfect union bit is about.

We need to less follow ideologies which operate more like divine command theory as dicta or creeds, and more see societal models as exactly that: models. We know democracy on its own needs to be fine tuned. We know capitalism works only when well regulated and upper management isn’t allowed to behave irresponsibly. We know command economics requires a lot of deliberation and the willingness to listen to and address gripes from the public. The end goal is still the same: Everyone eats. Everyone is warm. Everyone is welcome.

This is my mission statement.

It was a fucking lie when it was written, having not included slaves or women.

Jefferson was an abolitionist when speaking hypothetically and invented the dumb-waiter so that his abolitionist friends didn’t have to observe the slaves that made their food when Jefferson had them over for dinner.

So when we create the new society, we need to assure – with ironclad language – that everyone has rights and is equal under law, down to the most heinous wrongdoer, the most crippled disabled person and the most squallid transient.

Let’s build a society where the poorest person lives pretty well, and has full access to their rights.

(It might also help if the richest person is limited in their wealth, say only a thousand times the worth of the poorest.)

It’ll take some work and deliberation.

I keep trying to formulate a plan in my head:

On one hand ACAB: They all promote the national security culture within the law enforcement sector that we civilians are the enemy. The departments are all corrupt through and through

On the other hand the non ICE officers hate being used as S𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡 or Einsatzgruppen (German SD, or Death Squads, respectively) to pick on innocent civilians to be shuttled away to concentration camps. And I wonder if there was a way for the public to tell them we’re sorry they are being abused by being repurposed as general goon squads, and if that might encourage them to resist more than they do.

Also, ICE agents, either pre-Trump used to sometimes engage in action that at least had the appearance of legitimacy, e.g. tracking people with violent records. New recruits (post OBBBA Budget) were told they’ll be hunting the worst of the worst and then are picking up day laborers and ice-cream vendors, which is soul crushing for even MAGAs who wanted to be the hero.

We need to be able to take these sentiments and weaponize them against the system, and the policy-makers that are forcing them to be evil fucks for The Man.

I don’t know the specifics, but there’s a schematic in there somewhere.

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Full Goblin Mode.

In my defense, either I dress, or I turn out all the lights at night so no-one has to see my undressed form, except as a shadow.

In the summer here (July and August during heatwaves) my office goes between 80°F - 90° so no, I don’t wear a thing, hence the towels.

On my regular furniture, if I’m wandering around unclothed and need to sit down, I’ll drape something, often my briefs, before planting my butt.

Yeah, in my case ECT (shock treatment for the layfolk. Zapping my brain.) is on the table, and the research I’ve done on it is not reassuring that they know what they’re doing.

So I’ve thought about this at extreeeeeeeme length and with a philosophy background could probably argue before a judge… assuming the court wasn’t corrupt.

If they do I’ll regard it as suicide-lite: They’re destroying parts of my brain so that my behavior is less offensive. I’m sure I’ll love Big Brother will all my heart.

Ernest Hemingway and David Foster Wallace both got ECT, and decided they didn’t like who they were after the fact, eventually taking their lives. So if I go that route, it will be an absolute last resort.

I agree. As a vampire who immolates in the sun (well, gets sick after about an hour of light sun, or twenty minutes of August desert sun in 117°F) I’m not made to wave signs. Also I’m not great with crowds.

So for the No Kings rally, I figured: park me under a pavilion and I’ll hand out water bottles! Or put me on the cook line and I’ll stuff tacos! We are giving out tacos and water bottles right?

Not even water bottles in a major municipality. WTF?

With further research I found that the only food-centers mutual aid organizations are a couple of food pantries. In Sacramento, California.

Disappointment! Disappointment as far as the eye can see!

Personally I call shenanigans having had executive and standard office chairs made of leather, pleather and nylon mesh.

None of these are comfortable on the bare butt, and even will get sticky once you start sweating against them, so I’ve always had to drape towels between me and the chair.

Also do not get leather / pleather if you have cats.

If you can’t afford one, or rent, or wander around, travel bidets are about $20-$30 and are a water bottle with a hook-shaped wand-spout and an air valve.

My proctologist has a personal vendetta against wiping, and I messed up my piles from ages of wiping too hard. Bidet and dab to dry.

I had art I personally crafted accused of being slop (gen-AI free!). Dunno if it’s a compliment or a criticism.

I was the black sheep of my family before it was cool.

…like in the 1970s.

ETA: I have an ancient blogpiece about this, and author Janet Hardy surmised that we weirdos kicked out of our paddling for being the ugly duck often have to go and find a paddling of like-souled ducks who don’t find those traits so ugly. We don’t necessarily grow up to be swans (or even scrappy geese who come back for revenge) but there are folks out there who get you.

I already suffer from psychosis

To be fair, I’ve already done something similar. In the aughts, thinking Miskatonic U’s Library restricted vault can’t harm me: I’m already crazy. Then thanks to Bush Administration efforts to consolidate power and persecute minorities, I went and studied the Holocaust, and the process within the German Reich that brought it forth.

And that figures into my current psychotic break, as of November 2024.

Shotgun is an America thing, coming from the stagecoach era. The shotgun in question has a shortened barrel for reduced storage footprint.

The BMW R12 has a sidecar mounted with an MG 42 light machine gun. But no-one calls sidecar gunner