!Resist

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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024
  • Nougat@fedia.iotoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Devils Panties 02/28/2025
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    2 minutes ago

    People are going to feel more fatigued and defeated when marching on their capitol daily doesn’t produce results in days or weeks.

    Of course some people are going to check out at some point. People have their own lives to attend to. That’s okay. They can check back in later when they’re able.

    You think that this particular action is counterproductive. No one is forcing you to participate. I think that opposing participation in general is counterproductive.

  • Nougat@fedia.iotoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Devils Panties 02/28/2025
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    16 minutes ago

    Those are all great ideas for people who have the latitude to perform them.

    Are you marching on your capitol daily, refusing to perform work, and if you are, how long before you run out of money to pay your bills?

    Some of the people who are moved enough from “being frustrated and not knowing what to do” into “joining a one-day purchasing freeze” are going to ask themselves, “What’s next?” And they might march next time. They might switch to a credit union. Then ask “What’s next?” Some are going to become connected into networks that provide them with new opportunities and ideas.

    Everyone has to start somewhere. Everyone is not you, or me. Gatekeeping is divisive.

  • Nougat@fedia.iotoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Devils Panties 02/28/2025
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    35 minutes ago

    These people are going to think “but I’ve already been trying and nothing is working!”, …

    Might just inspire some people to try something different, take on more risk. Maybe “don’t gatekeep resistance” and “this is going to take a long time and a lot of effort by a lot of people in all kinds of ways before any results are seen” are mindsets which end up being necessary to effect real, lasting change. Time will tell.

    … when in reality it is not the lack of effort that is the error but the misplaced effort.

    That you have only criticism and not ideas speaks volumes.

  • Nougat@fedia.iotoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Devils Panties 02/28/2025
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    6 hours ago

    Ideas come from people. The larger the pool of people who are engaged, the greater the likelihood that a “new way” will be invented. And that new way will need support in all kinds of ways from all kinds of directions, by all kinds of people. At some point, it’s a numbers game.

    As long as we’re all pulling in generally the same direction, that’s a good thing. I don’t 100% agree with everyone who’s pulling generally in the direction away from fascism, and I know that some of those same people have various disagreements with me. That’s okay.

    We don’t have to be in perfect lockstep to be pulling on the same rope.

  • Nougat@fedia.iotoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Devils Panties 02/28/2025
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    7 hours ago

    Open letter to everyone who pooh-poohs this:

    Participation is never useless. If you’re looking at this through the lens of “will this fix everything,” well of course it won’t. That’s because small efforts by themselves are not impactful.

    But lots of small efforts, cumulative, over time, can be, and you have to start somewhere. Everyone who resists does so by taking on some amount of personal risk. Yes, this boycott is a very small personal risk. That’s fine. It will get people involved who were previously not involved. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

    We need those people. We need their support, in whatever ways they are able to offer it. If your message is “don’t bother, it won’t work,” you are telling people not to be involved. If your aims are, for example, “armed revolution,” and you’re only considering the people who have the weapons and use them, you are completely ignoring all other aspects of conflict. In war, the people who pull the triggers are a minority of the opposing forces.

    You have to produce equipment, food, clothing, shelter. You have to deliver those things where they are needed. You have to know where those things are needed. You need to plan and organize and communicate. You need to provide medical services.

    And you have to do all those things not only for the “front line troops,” but for everyone.

    Today’s boycotter can become tomorrow’s marcher, next week’s smuggler, next month’s partisan. Or medic. Or kitchen. Or driver.

    All efforts, great and small. !Resist@fedia.io

  • Nougat@fedia.iotoSpace@lemmy.world•The ISS is 'too clean', and it could be making astronauts sick
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    8 hours ago

    [H]umans simply are not built for space.

    Well … duh. In order for humans to be “in space,” we have to send them inside little bubbles of “earth.”

    A good deal of the point of sending people to space is discovering how people respond to being in space, figuring out which stresses are acceptable and which must be compensated for.

    I wish we could divert all of human space flight budget to automating probes. … Once we have space-based automated manufacturing, then it will be the time to bring in the humans.

    And if we did that, we would still have to do the things we’re doing right now to figure out how to maintain human beings in spacecraft for long periods of time. There’s nothing wrong with doing both at once.

    The fact also remains that it is much easier to operate a manned spacecraft than it is to operate an autonomous/remote one, at the scales of complexity that manned craft and their experiments employ.

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