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J'ai des bons souvenirs de nager du cassoulet froid, sous les tentes des canons sur le mont Igman. Durant le service, entre les filets et les rasquettes, il n'y avait pas photo.
Je suis fasciné par la chaine de production.
Rations de combat : l’excellence Š la française (#JDEF)

Front yard garden as we head into Australian summer. Those beans on the right are 4 metres tall. Tromboncino battling it out with grapes for the pagola that shades all the east side of the house - green air conditioning for the summer. Tomatoes, capsicums, eggplants ripening, cucumbers to give away, snake beans coming on, carrots & fennel flowering to feed nectar to the ladybugs & make seed, so many geen beans I'm leaving some to mature. Onions & garlic nearly ready. Still p…

Snow storm coming on Sunday. Left the house at 8:20a today and immediately see a couple coming from Trader Joe’s with four bags of groceries! Makes me feel my shopping of pita, parsley, and tomatoes is not nearly enough!

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.QA. https://arxiv.org/list/math.QA/new
[1/1]:
- Canonical differential calculi via functorial geometrization
Keegan J. Flood, Gabriele Lobbia, Giacomo Tendas

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

Wanna know what's so special about the soon-to-be released Fallout Pip-Boy 3000 - Fallout 3/New Vegas edition - coming from the Wand Company?
(i.e. What makes it different from the Fallout TV series release?)
https://www.thewandcompany.com/wp-cont…

Wanna know what's so special about the soon-to-be released Fallout Pip-Boy 3000 - Fallout 3/New Vegas edition - coming from the Wand Company?
(i.e. What makes it different from the Fallout TV series release?)
https://www.thewandcompany.com/wp-cont…

The Massive Praise Pete Carroll Has for Raiders' Maxx Crosby https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-massive-praise-pete-carroll-has-for-maxx-crosby

Taking notes from the successes and failures of the Russian revolution, a group of anarchists (including Nestor Makhno, a Ukrainian anarchist militant who was critical in defeating the Tzar's army and who later also fought the Red Army) wrote a document titled the "Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists." This document came to be known as "The Platform." It remains one of the most important first-hand revolutionary documents, outlining a clear revolutionary plan.
I've taken this, the Viable System Model from cybernetics, and my own organizing experience, to describe an organization to confront the current set of crises.
This continues to build on the stuff I have been writing, but it's a lot less high level theory and a lot more specific.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-microservices
As always, editing notes (typos, grammar, spelling, etc) are always welcome, as are any questions. My ADHD brain tends to go a lot faster than anything else, so I have a tendency to drop words and have a lot of trouble catching them later. Between my ADHD and mild dyslexia, it can be pretty hard for me to catch when autocorrect gives me the wrong word.
A lot of folks have already been super helpful in offering their editing support, and I'm really grateful. Writing this has felt collaborative, and it should. On the one hand this comes from my own experience and research, but on the other I'm also voicing things that have come from conversations here. This has all been a bit of my voice and a bit of the federated world, and I'm really appreciating that.

Wanna know what's so special about the soon-to-be released Fallout Pip-Boy 3000 - Fallout 3/New Vegas edition - coming from the Wand Company?
(i.e. What makes it different from the Fallout TV series release?)
https://www.thewandcompany.com/wp-cont…