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#predicament — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. We have created the #predicament we find ourselves in. How is that possible?
    If we #believe that we need more things, we encourage the excessive production of goods. If we believe that satisfying our senses makes us #happy, we create an environment that constantly directs us toward sensory gratification. If we expect our lives to entertain us and keep us from difficult #existential questions, we create a #world in which we are never alone, never #silent, and constantly communicating.

  2. CW: Lewd - humiliating orgasm in front of your colleagues (8/x)

    "You can take off those knickers now. They're not suitable work attire anymore...and anyway, I want them as a little momento of this disgraceful display."

    #predicament #humiliation #orgasm

  3. Reposted from @malcolmxpower “If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even begun to pull the knife out much less heal the wound. They won’t even admit that the knife is there.”
    #MalcolmX👑💯

    #predicament #solutions #humanrights #unity #organize #strategize

  4. Collapse Club

    "Do you feel alone and isolated with your knowledge of collapse? Do your family and friends not understand what you're seeing and feeling? In a Collapse Club meeting, you will join like-minded people in a safe, structured space to discuss your concerns about our world’s converging crises."

    collapseclub.com/

    #collapse #climatechange #predicament #community #wisdom #isolation #resilience #kindness

  5. Problem of #Misinformation in Era Without #Trust. #ElonMusk thinks #freemarket of ideas will self-correct. #Liberals want to #regulate it. Both R missing deeper #predicament. By reveling in chaos Musk has turned #X in2 an experiment in whether “the best source of truth” means anything w/out a foundation of trust to support it. Musk’s insistence that anything goes on his platform exposes some of deeper assumptions we often take for granted about how we know what we know nytimes.com/2023/12/31/books/r

  6. Known as #CanalVillage , it had been a #strategic #military position decades ago in northern #Jonglei state, with the city of #Malakal further along the #Nile . But its new residents discovered, to their dismay, that within its confines lay an old #minefield .
    Their #predicament #encapsulates the #impact of a #ClimateCrisis on a country which is yet to recover from a brutal five-year #CivilWar . A #peace #deal signed in 2018 has done little to stop #endemic #violence .

    bbc.com/news/world-africa-6403

  7. There exist things in a , or that almost certainly cause me to instantly the handle, or occasionally, the entire . Even so, I don't necessarily want to this because that wouldn't account for , , , etc.

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