JacobCoffinWrites

JacobCoffinWrites , 10 days ago to Anarchism and Social Ecology in Wash your own dishes!

Eat off frisbees

JacobCoffinWrites , 26 days ago to solarpunk memes in Cool hat

I'd never really thought about the fact that museums doing photogrammetry to preserve artifacts could link up with the folks who 3D print their own Warhammer figures, but here we are

JacobCoffinWrites , 29 days ago to Anarchism and Social Ecology in Has anyone ever had experience with 'precious plastic' or similar?

Kind of. I'll have to check out their shredder designs. I bought a filistruder for a local makerspace awhile back, because I wanted to be able to reuse my bad 3d prints and supports etc, but wanted it to be available to a wider community since I wouldn't use it enough to justify the cost. Unfortunately, at the time, solutions for shredding/granulating solid prints were few and far between (and expensive to make or buy). And if you can't get the plastic small enough, the extruder on its own isn't terribly useful. I'd very much like to find a decent solution so I can get this going again.

JacobCoffinWrites , 1 month ago to Self-hosting in Ideation - What to Run?

Just wanted to say I really like this idea, especially as mixed with local mesh networks. I agree with the point about storage, and mostly I'm just really looking forward to reading about some of these services, and seeing what this could look like in the future.

Good luck!

JacobCoffinWrites , 1 month ago to Anarchism and Social Ecology in Squatters take over Gordon Ramsay hotel and pub in London

Ten years is a long time but I appreciate their ambition

JacobCoffinWrites , 1 month ago to In Person Activism in The mailboxes in my building have a recycling box next to them which is always full

Good to know. I looked it up around when I asked and it looks like there's a couple websites in the US you can try to opt out on but one requires a SSN and a fee, so I'm skeptical.

JacobCoffinWrites , 1 month ago to In Person Activism in The mailboxes in my building have a recycling box next to them which is always full

Wait does this work in the US? I can make one right now if so!

JacobCoffinWrites , 2 months ago to In Person Activism in How to make sure drivers will give way

https://imgur.com/user/letscho/favorites/FNk9dOz

JacobCoffinWrites , 2 months ago to Cyberpunk in [Movie] Restore Point

This sounds great, I'll have to check it out!

JacobCoffinWrites , 2 months ago to solarpunk memes in how can something be so courageous and yet so true

I don't know how fancy that one is but I've pulled at least five working MacBooks from corporate ewaste. All were out of their absurdly-short OS support but Linux Mint (and I'm assuming a bunch of other distros) run great on them. I've handed all of them off since reinstalling but I liked the hardware enough to use one as a writing computer until someone needed it.

JacobCoffinWrites , 2 months ago to Cyberpunk in Help me make a new icon for this community!

I'll see if I can come up with something! And thanks for the heads-up for next week

JacobCoffinWrites , 2 months ago to Anarchism and Social Ecology in Murray Bookchin – The Next Revolution

So I sometimes see the argument that humans are part of nature so anything we do is inherently natural when someone's arguing that you should be able to do whatever you want and it's all equivalent as long as it makes you happy. Like clearcutting forests and building walmarts or storing leaking barrels of chemical waste on your land is a human instinct and we're helpless to do otherwise.

I'm not saying that's what you believe, but I think this might be a chance for me to understand this worldview better, and maybe get better at talking to those folks.

To me, the fact that humans are part of nature doesn't seem like a gotcha or an out. I think it's a kind of pointless distinction. We're part of nature, yes, but that doesn't mean that producing Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances is natural, and even if you can slap the label 'natural' on it, that still doesn't mean it's a good idea.

We have a capability for reason and an ability to predict outcomes based on past evidence, which reaches way further out than those of other species. Environmentalists have gotten it wrong plenty of times before, but arguing that their efforts are equivalent to drilling for oil in a coral reef because they're both human behaviors seems disingenuous to me.

Most of the time, what ecologists want is for society to stop changing the habitats that are already there. You say "they’re imposing their own vision of what they believe is natural" but I find it really hard to believe you think there's no way to know if keeping a native forest is more 'natural' than building a shopping mall.

On top of that, most of what we're doing as a species is incredibly new and we're changing so much at once, everywhere. We're completely erasing some habitats, rerouting rivers, introducing entirely new materials/chemicals, changing the weather - when beavers change their habitats, it's still a fairly small local change, and the rest of the biosphere has had thousands of years to adapt and even use it, there are lots of other species ready to move into that changed environment. Maybe someday all the remaining species will be adapted to living in the margins around humanity. But we're going to lose a ton of species (and likely a lot of humans to starvation) on the way there.

So I guess I have two questions: Do you believe other species (anything, plant, animals, insect etc) have any intrinsic value? Do other humans have intrinsic value?

If humans have intrinsic value and nonhumans don't, what's the difference?

JacobCoffinWrites , 2 months ago to Anarchism and Social Ecology in Murray Bookchin – The Next Revolution

So arguing that species of animals or plants have an intrinsic value and are worth preserving for their own sake is wrong? Or does it have to be couched in their value to humans, maintaining the biosphere that feeds us, air filtration, medicine, or aesthetic value or things like that? Does that apply to other people too? Intrinsic worth vs utility?

I don't think I can agree that we can't have any say about what is good for nature. A lot of people devote their whole lives to identifying systems and patterns in the species around us. They can track numbers, identify habitats, tell when something is thriving, declining, and, with some confidence, gone. Often they can identify why. All the fields of scientific study aside, it's pretty easy at least to identify things we do that are bad for other species. If I buy hundreds of gallons of herbicide and douse some land with it, I don't think the outcome to nature is going to be unknowable, and I think it'd be hard to argue it'll be beneficial. Seems like the inverse must be true - we can identify crucial habitats and protect them, identify the characteristics of good habitats and cultivate them on damaged lands to bring them back. This is testable stuff that's already being done in real life. People devote their lives to conserving habitats.

Sorry if I'm getting side tracked because this is something I'm somewhat involved in. Maybe this is a specific point about a nuance of philosophical discussions I don't know enough about, and not an argument that humans can do whatever they want to their surroundings because the consequences are somehow unknowable or unimportant.

JacobCoffinWrites , 3 months ago to Anarchism and Social Ecology in Murray Bookchin – The Next Revolution

Maybe I'm misunderstanding - we could wipe out species until there's nothing left but that bacteria that eats radiation and still reassure ourselves that 'nature' still exists. But I don't think it's what these folks are talking about when they talk about ecology. Is it fallacious to argue for a society that coexists with the biosphere that supports it?

JacobCoffinWrites , 3 months ago to Anarchism and Social Ecology in Murray Bookchin – The Next Revolution

I never really get this argument - like, yeah life that isn't humans will 100% persist in some form, but I'm kind of attached to the species and configuration of ecosystems we currently have.