Danterious

Imagine there is someone that cares about everything an equal amount.

Meaning that they care about every person, animal, plant, microbe, rock, etc. equally. They take all of their values at equal consideration (including their own).

How would they react to one thing harming/oppressing another (like a parasite harming its host or invasive species crowding out native species)?

How would they help one thing if they knew it would harm/oppress another thing?

Also let's say for the sake of argument they don't

• Sacrifice themselves to help something else out
• Kill themselves due to analysis paralysis

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/32714263

Statement: Most governments/companies have a lot of control over people.

Flipped Statement: Most governments/companies have little control over people.

Terms:

• Western bloc - US, EU, Canada, Australia, Japan, etc.
• Eastern bloc - Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, etc.
• Periphery - Non-aligned countries

The USA transfers power to Donald Trump and he starts to isolate the economy, restructure administrative agencies to be more favorable towards executive control theory, and hinders regulation in many industries.

The isolation of the US economy encourages other Western and Eastern countries to decrease economic dependence on the US and create more economic ties with other Periphery countries and become more self-reliant as well.

The restructuring of administrative agencies encourages other countries that were self-regulating due to threat of US retaliation to take action because of decreased effectiveness of the US to mount an effective resistance since the new agencies could be inexperienced/incompetent/uncoordinated.

The relaxed regulation in many industries allows for businesses to continue exploiting more from workers and consumers with them having less recourse to address negative consequences. This earns them more profit and causes citizens to trust common services less.

Periphery countries become more unstable due to more frequent attempts at power grabs fueled by the increased attention from Western and Eastern countries trying to diversify their economies.

This causes the global economy to become volatile as resources fluctuate in price. These fluctuations are somewhat predictable so companies profit off of the volatility and use it as an excuse to raise prices.

With Western and Eastern countries now diversifying their economy in Periphery countries and focusing on stabilizing internal economies, there are less resources used to support specific leaders that offered Western and Eastern countries favorable deals. Instead they rely on economic competition between Periphery countries for good deals.

Reduced outside support for established institutions and weaker direct interference in Periphery countries allows for local communities to flourish in Periphery countries.

All flavors of political communities arise (authoritarian, anarchist, socialist, etc.) depending on previous institutions, current activist groups, and social norms that exist in that area. Global media focuses on what is the most frightening and feeds that to people living in Western and Eastern countries.

At the same time governments in Western and Eastern countries are spending more effort to co-opt or create groups that organize people in rival countries to overthrow that government to replace it with one similar to their own and organize people in their own country to help maintain/strengthen status quo structure (probably whilst advertising it as revolutionary/beneficial change). This helps spread organizing techniques to more citizens than before.

Governments are also increasing use of hybrid warfare on systems that help rival countries sustain their large scale society (internet cables, communication towers, electricity grid, filtration and disposal systems, etc.) which cause people to gradually rely more on local mutual aid networks for their needs.

Businesses that rely on these systems to run their business either move to places where these attacks aren't effective/happening, pivot their offering, scale down their services/products, or go bust.

More people have the cultural knowledge to organize due to the government influence campaigns which helps increase the effectiveness of the mutual aid networks.

~Anti~ ~Commercial-AI~ ~license~ ~(CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0)~

Statement: Most governments/companies have a lot of control over people.

Flipped Statement: Most governments/companies have little control over people.

Terms:

• Western bloc - US, EU, Canada, Australia, Japan, etc.
• Eastern bloc - Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, etc.
• Periphery - Non-aligned countries

The USA transfers power to Donald Trump and he starts to isolate the economy, restructure administrative agencies to be more favorable towards executive control theory, and hinders regulation in many industries.

The isolation of the US economy encourages other Western and Eastern countries to decrease economic dependence on the US and create more economic ties with other Periphery countries and become more self-reliant as well.

The restructuring of administrative agencies encourages other countries that were self-regulating due to threat of US retaliation to take action because of decreased effectiveness of the US to mount an effective resistance since the new agencies could be inexperienced/incompetent/uncoordinated.

The relaxed regulation in many industries allows for businesses to continue exploiting more from workers and consumers with them having less recourse to address negative consequences. This earns them more profit and causes citizens to trust common services less.

Periphery countries become more unstable due to more frequent attempts at power grabs fueled by the increased attention from Western and Eastern countries trying to diversify their economies.

This causes the global economy to become volatile as resources fluctuate in price. These fluctuations are somewhat predictable so companies profit off of the volatility and use it as an excuse to raise prices.

With Western and Eastern countries now diversifying their economy in Periphery countries and focusing on stabilizing internal economies, there are less resources used to support specific leaders that offered Western and Eastern countries favorable deals. Instead they rely on economic competition between Periphery countries for good deals.

Reduced outside support for established institutions and weaker direct interference in Periphery countries allows for local communities to flourish in Periphery countries.

All flavors of political communities arise (authoritarian, anarchist, socialist, etc.) depending on previous institutions, current activist groups, and social norms that exist in that area. Global media focuses on what is the most frightening and feeds that to people living in Western and Eastern countries.

At the same time governments in Western and Eastern countries are spending more effort to co-opt or create groups that organize people in rival countries to overthrow that government to replace it with one similar to their own and organize people in their own country to help maintain/strengthen status quo structure (probably whilst advertising it as revolutionary/beneficial change). This helps spread organizing techniques to more citizens than before.

Governments are also increasing use of hybrid warfare on systems that help rival countries sustain their large scale society (internet cables, communication towers, electricity grid, filtration and disposal systems, etc.) which cause people to gradually rely more on local mutual aid networks for their needs.

Businesses that rely on these systems to run their business either move to places where these attacks aren't effective/happening, pivot their offering, scale down their services/products, or go bust.

More people have the cultural knowledge to organize due to the government influence campaigns which helps increase the effectiveness of the mutual aid networks.

~Anti~ ~Commercial-AI~ ~license~ ~(CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0)~

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30006359

I've been looking into anthotypes recently and thought they were pretty interesting.

Then I started to wonder if it was possible to make an anthotype that could display multiple colors (like a colored photograph).

I came across this post and thought it was like the reverse of a regular anthotype.

Which made me wonder if you could use the same process to create a colored picture?

I was thinking if you took plants that produce pigments across the color spectrum and mixed them together it could make the coating black.

Then when the light hits the paper it removes the pigments from the other colors on the spectrum only leaving the color that was hit in that space eventually creating a colored picture.

I haven't had the chance to try this yet and I am not really knowledgeable about photography, but would this work?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30006359

I've been looking into anthotypes recently and thought they were pretty interesting.

Then I started to wonder if it was possible to make an anthotype that could display multiple colors (like a colored photograph).

I came across this post and thought it was like the reverse of a regular anthotype.

Which made me wonder if you could use the same process to create a colored picture?

I was thinking if you took plants that produce pigments across the color spectrum and mixed them together it could make the coating black.

Then when the light hits the paper it removes the pigments from the other colors on the spectrum only leaving the color that was hit in that space eventually creating a colored picture.

I haven't had the chance to try this yet and I am not really knowledgeable about photography, but would this work?

I've been looking into anthotypes recently and thought they were pretty interesting.

Then I started to wonder if it was possible to make an anthotype that could display multiple colors (like a colored photograph).

I came across this post and thought it was like the reverse of a regular anthotype.

Which made me wonder if you could use the same process to create a colored picture?

I was thinking if you took plants that produce pigments across the color spectrum and mixed them together it could make the coating black.

Then when the light hits the paper it removes the pigments from the other colors on the spectrum only leaving the color that was hit in that space eventually creating a colored picture.

I haven't had the chance to try this yet and I am not really knowledgeable about photography, but would this work?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27579423

This is my first try at creating a map of lemmy. I based it on the overlap of commentors that visited certain communities.

I only used communities that were on the top 35 active instances for the past month and limited the comments to go back to a maximum of August 1 2024 (sometimes shorter if I got an invalid response.)

I scaled it so it was based on percentage of comments made by a commentor in that community.

Here is the code for the crawler and data that was used to make the map:

https://codeberg.org/danterious/Lemmy_map

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27579423

This is my first try at creating a map of lemmy. I based it on the overlap of commentors that visited certain communities.

I only used communities that were on the top 35 active instances for the past month and limited the comments to go back to a maximum of August 1 2024 (sometimes shorter if I got an invalid response.)

I scaled it so it was based on percentage of comments made by a commentor in that community.

Here is the code for the crawler and data that was used to make the map:

https://codeberg.org/danterious/Lemmy_map