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>the USA didn't respond properly to COVID-19

What does this mean exactly? I keep seeing statements like this, but I can't figure out what people are referring to.

Look at the photos in the article. See how it is mostly men but they focus on the one woman in the big group of men? You have to be very suggestible to buy such an obviously conjured narrative.

>I am pretty sure that everyone knows that Amish eat healthier

By what definition? According to mainstream health organizations and even still government guidelines, they eat very poorly. Their diet is very high in saturated fat, which although healthy in reality, is not healthy according to the government. They also eat plenty of sugar, the other common scapegoat for dietary problems.

>don't drink or smoke,

They drink and smoke at lower rates, but they absolutely do drink and smoke.

Canada has single payer and rising administrative overhead is a major problem here too. Looking at spending on medical staff vs spending on administrative staff, the former has barely gone up at all while the later has gone up over 500%. Plus we deal with the serious problems of lack of care. I know several people who have waited over 2 years for important surgeries like hip replacements. My mother died because they didn't want to keep her alive, and we get no say in the matter. Single payer doesn't magically make health care work well.

>indigenous: they're Purepecha

Some of them. Most of the community is mestizo. And their ethnicity has literally nothing to do with it at all. It isn't an indigenous movement, it is a community protecting itself. Do you think the non-Purepecha residents don't count? That they were not part of this action?

>all the news coverage points out that the initial uprising was initiated by women.

No, plenty of news coverage is factual. You're just looking at the "news" that is trying to use it as a feminism story.

>anti-colonial: outsiders of a different ethnic background

The outsiders have the same mix of ethnic backgrounds the community does.

>Before the government didn't take us [women] into account

Notice how the word that is necessary to make that sentence mean what you want was inserted by the "journalist", not said by the person being quoted? "Before the government didn't take us [the people] into account..."

>It doesn't "suddenly occur", it was always there

It has never been there. There are actually several anthropology texts on the Purepecha, they were never matriarchal or anything remotely resembling it. Nor were the Spanish, although there's not much in anthropological studies on them.

It doesn't need to contain the words. It clearly and repeatedly portrays this as some kind of women's movement, when it is not.

>Radical, indigenous, feminist, anti-colonial, self-organising.

According to the BBC's laughable propaganda. Not according to any of the people actually involved. Even then there's nothing colonial about Mexican cartels stealing from Mexicans.

>The actual situation of control will turn out to be a set of family relationships embedded in the matriarchy running the town

What a bizarre notion. Why and how would that suddenly occur?

I find just the opposite, myself. It is not satisfying to clean a gunked up carb or change a dirty filter or spark plug. To me it feels like irritating drudgery I am forced to undertake because of the physical limitations of reality that cause these problems. Abstract "machines" and systems built from them like factories in factorio or software do not degrade, they do not get dirty, they do not wear. I can focus entirely on creating solutions to problems rather than constantly going back and doing boring routine maintenance on something I already had working.

Luckily there isn't really any advice there, it is just a bunch of narcissistic rambling.

It is more deadly still, but lets pretend it is the same as the flu. Have you noticed that due to the efforts to prevent the spread of the Chinese virus, we've also lowered the number of people dying from the flu dramatically? We've designed our societies so that we needlessly kill tens of thousands of people every year from common communicable diseases. Maybe going "back to normal" isn't the right idea.

99%+ of software people use is in ports. And for the <1% that isn't, it takes 5 minutes to make one. Like I said in the post you replied to without bothering to read.

>Good for you, but you can do exactly the same on Linux,

Nobody suggested otherwise. Read what you reply to.

Not if the producers believe that this is temporary and will go back to 50/50 again soon. It isn't worth the cost of making big changes just to have to change back again in a month.

Again, you're just ignoring what I said. I've managed tens of thousands of BSD systems for 25 years. I've never had anything installed that wasn't registered in the package database so all its files were uninstalled correctly. Yes, you literally do stick entirely to ports, creating a port when needed. Having a complex build system doesn't mess up your filesystem, it makes it take longer to create the port.

You're simply ignoring what I said and talking past it.

I have no idea what you are trying to convey.

>My definition of freedom is akin to your freedom ends where mine starts

That's everyone else's definition too. The disagreement comes from you having the underlying assumption that producing non-GPL software is causing harm, while other people do not share that assumption.

Everyone agrees that your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins, because everyone agrees that punching me is causing harm. But a lot of people do not consider writing software to be causing harm, so they do not see a valid reason to prohibit people from writing software.

>unless you maintained a 100% strict policy of only installing using Ports (yeah right)

What do you mean "yeah right"? That's precisely how everyone I know has always managed our BSD fleets. If something isn't in ports (yeah right), you just make a port out of it. It takes 5 minutes unless the software has some crazy messed up build system.

Does anyone have more recent experience with pine64 hardware quality? I bought three devices a few years back and all three stopped working within a few months, and support was non-existent. I'd be interested in this, but not if it breaks after two months and the only support is "ask the forum".

It isn't my definition, it is the definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillage

I'm not sure what you mean about ideals vs business opportunities. It isn't a question of making money or of practicality vs ideals or something, he simply isn't doing any of the three things you listed. As far as I can tell, he has never mentioned any of the three things you listed. His "farm" is even named after a tillage implement which he promotes constantly and is possibly most well-known for. He's a conventional organic gardener, he has no soil, he has captured no carbon, he has no plan for building soil or capturing carbon, so there's nothing regenerative about it. He imports all his fertilizer, so it isn't permaculture. He plows, broadforks and then harrows multiple times a year, so he's not even minimal tillage much less no-till.

>If you're touchy about people gently correcting accidental unintended sexism

The point was that there is no sexism, unintended or otherwise, in the post you are "correcting". Projecting your touchiness onto others isn't very polite or constructive.

>The book “The Market Gardener” by Jean-Martin Fortier is a good resource about those topics.

It is? He doesn't do no-till, doesn't do regenerative ag or permaculture. He just grows lettuce conventionally and sells it at high prices to a couple of hipster restaurants in Montreal. I never read the book, but it seems weird he would advocate stuff he won't actually do himself.

The amish don't make any particular effort or have any particular desire to live a 19th century lifestyle. They simply avoid technology that they consider to have more downsides than upsides.

>What massive environmental impact?

The one you describe in the rest of your post. Billions of tons of CO2 emissions and the outcome is a negative burden on society rather than a benefit.

>It's the fault of the farmer that is using diesel tractors, fertilizing his plants with artificial fertilizer, shipping his food with diesel trucks.

None of those things are the farmer's fault. They are the inevitable and mandatory cost of urbanization. Were you planning to just starve while making ads?

>All of these pollution sources will have to switch to renewable energy one day

That is physically impossible. What will have to happen is techno-industrial society will collapse as we exit the tiny blip in history of abundant energy.

Why on earth was this downvoted? This crazy avoidance of masks in so many western countries is disastrous. We've killed thousands of people, and for the life of me I can not figure out why. Just cutting up old shirts and tying them to our faces would prevent thousands of deaths, why are we still being told "don't wear masks"?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/28/masks-all-...

That's still less than 1/5th of an acre even if you waste all that space for no reason. Keep in mind, Jeavons is trying to sell books and speaking engagements for his gimmick, not trying to be efficient. I grow much more than 4000 square feet of crops and I use zero square feet for storage and less than 1/10th of the growing space in paths.

>The normal estimate is that it takes 1 acre of land to feed a person for the full year

That is not an estimate, it is a meme.

>The climate impact of individuals living in the city vs those living in the suburbs is considerable.

Yes, but in the opposite direction of what you imply.

>More people living away from the city increases deforestation

Why would that be the case? Almost all deforestation is for land for farming, not for houses. How much oil is burned growing food and shipping it and storing it and lighting and cooling stores to sell it?

>is a net negative as far as lifestyle is concerned.

Not everyone values the same materialistic things you do.

>I work in the commercial arts world

That's a make-work industry that doesn't need to exist. Consider the massive environmental impact of your industry, and how it adds absolutely no value to society at all. Yet you want to stop people from living further away from massive disease spreading urban centers and growing their own food at a cost of zero burned oil?

>It takes minimum 1 acre of land to feed an adult

No it doesn't. Potatoes are 15 million calories an acre at the low end of yields. That's enough to feed 20 people. At the high end you get twice that. How much land it takes to feed a person is entirely dependant on what that person wants to eat. I grow a balanced diet of meat, dairy, eggs, grains, potatoes, fruits and vegetables for five people on two acres, and I'm not using all that space and I choose to grow low efficiency things like berries because we like them.

A garden provides as much food as you want it to. 500 square feet of potatoes provides 25% of a person's caloric needs for a year. That is a trivial amount of land and work, and a substantial amount of food.