ToastedRavioli

The prophecy foretold of a time when they would finally be tired of all the winning

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It’s interesting that you quietly swap in “people” where history mostly shows industrial corporations dumping waste for profit.

I didnt realize corporations were sentient entities capable of acting on their own, rather than groups of people doing people things…

The 1899 act was legitimately created because everyday people were literally throwing their garbage into water as a form of waste management. So much so that it was difficult to navigate boats safely, ergo “Rivers and Harbors Act” as in the places that were affected by floating masses of garbage

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ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 2w ago

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or hierarchy

Why do you think sewage treatment plants exist in the first place? I’ll give you a hint, its not because people came together altruistically to build them (or even regulate that they need to exist).

The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 was signed because people, left to their own devices, self-destructively pollute their water supplies. That law mandated people couldnt dump shit in the water. It also was passed because state laws weren’t effective at stopping people from polluting the water

It wasnt enough, so there was the Water Pollution Control Act of 1948. And then the Water Quality Act of 1965. And then the Clean Water Act of 1972, which provided funding to create sewage treatment plants, and mandated that all wastewater be treated to a certain standard. And even that wasnt enough, which is why we later invented the entire EPA, an entity dedicated largely to that one issue (among similar things).

None of that would have occurred without centralized authority, nor would have been necessary if a plurality of people were not inherently self destructive when left to their own devices. Anarchism is opposed to any central authority. Thereby, under the most basic logic, sewage treatment plants would be virtually guaranteed not to exist in an anarchical non-society society.

Giving people at large the benefit of the doubt about an issue they have repeatedly shown to fuck up for centuries is silly. And sewage treatment plants require centralization to be built and maintained.

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ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 2w ago

I really detest these stories where people are like “oh how cute” without realizing how messed up it is. Its extremely likely that someone has been feeding that fox, even if this woman isnt the one doing it. Most likely she probably is feeding it

Foxes do not naturally behave this way. They should show an instinctive fear of people, not cuddle up with them. Foxes arent a domestic animal.

When people feed wild animals they do shit like this, and then 99% of the time its only a short while before they display aggressive behavior towards someone that doesnt feed them and end up getting killed for it.

The best thing you can do for an animal that displays this type of behavior is scare it away and try to nudge it back towards natural behavior. The more it views people as a friendly and a potential food source the more likely it is to get killed later.

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ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 2w ago

Theres a steep irony in someone doing government controlled work idealizing a system where the work they do would likely not exist. Who exactly would be mandating/funding the existence, operation, or regular testing of a sewage plant in an anarchist society?

Society is poorly designed in the general sense, sure. It could be vastly improved and people could have more liberty wrt a lot of things. But left to their own devices people on average would not choose to mandate water treatment. Even if they somehow did, providing no central system of oversight for making sure that it happens would all but guarantee it doesnt get accomplished.

Its ridiculous how many people take critical aspects of society for granted and assume they would continue to exist in a world where everyone does whatever the fuck they want without any central planning or control. In many places around the world people already dont have access to fresh/clean water for this exact reason…

Look at the libertarian experiments that have all failed spectacularly, like Grafton, NH. Mfs couldnt even agree to not feed the bears or dispose of their trash appropriately. And that doesnt require some massive infrastructure project to accomplish. The greater good often necessitates protecting people at large from their own stupidity, otherwise your liberties are quickly diminished by your neighbor’s negligence

ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 2w ago

And thus began the epoch of the tardigrades

ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 2w ago

Of 801 leaders at those US companies, 801 of them are balls deep in overinflated AI stocks. They realized they need to lie about the usefulness of AI or else their portfolios will tank

“Too big to fail” doesnt work when the tech doesnt work though. Fuck them all and let the market burn

ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 2w ago

Thank god Im over 27, I can comfortably resign to the inevitability of wage slavery for life

ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 2w ago

For two decades, spacefaring nations have operated under a simple rule: any satellite sent into orbit must have a less than one in 10,000 chance of injuring someone on the ground. The rule was written when a few dozen objects reentered the atmosphere each year. By early 2026, with more than 9,000 Starlink satellites in orbit and filings for constellations totaling over 70,000 spacecraft, that arithmetic no longer holds.

Researchers have now done the math that regulators have not. A study published in the journal Acta Astronautica calculated the collective probability that debris from eleven major megaconstellations will hit someone. The result was 40 percent. The figure represents a fundamental gap between how safety is assessed and how risk actually accumulates when tens of thousands of objects come down.

[The original] rules evaluate satellites individually. A constellation of 30,000 satellites, each with a one in 10,000 casualty risk, yields a collective probability of approximately 95 percent that some satellite will cause a casualty. No regulator currently computes or limits that cumulative probability.

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ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 2w ago

The Hawaiian diaspora is the most severe in the entire world when viewed per capita. More Hawaiians have been forced out of Hawai’i than any other group of people have been forced out of anywhere else

Plus the US quite literally holds massive amounts of Hawaiian lands that were seized when the US overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy, and could easily return that land to the Hawaiian people, it just chooses not to do it. Mostly by refusing to recognize any Hawaiian leadership and treating them on par with how other US native people are treated. If native Hawaiians had a recognized government the way indigenous peoples on the mainland do, the government would have to turn that land over. So they refuse to recognize

ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 2w ago

Millin

ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 2w ago

I havent seen this much ~~love~~ gayness in a room since Narcissus discovered himself

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ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 2w ago

You can allow the labor saving aspect of digital price tags without allowing the price-gouging bullshit of variable pricing.

Changing sku tags, doing markdowns and markups etc, are some of the more pain in the ass tasks in a big box store, or any store for that matter. Automating that wouldnt be such a bad thing, so long as it doesnt also allow variable pricing bs

ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 2w ago

but why??

Conservatives went feral after a black dude became president. Its not rocket science…

ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 2w ago

A fairly large number of people have different sized feet. When I sold shoes for a couple years, we always checked the sizes to make sure they were a match. 8/10 times there was a mismatch people would get visibly upset that we checked, or try to rush us and say its fine so we wouldnt check. Only like 2/10 times would people be like “oh Im so glad you checked, I only tried on one of them”. Honestly its common enough of a thing that Im surprised shoe manufacturers dont offer a way to order different sized shoes.

A lot of professional athletes also have custom made shoes, skates, etc that accommodate their different sized feet. The reality is that its very common, yet people act more uncomfortable about having different sized feet than I ever saw anyone act about missing toes or having some kind of legitimate deformity

ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 2w ago

Bow ties are obviously business whimsical