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🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
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My #Lego stash was getting out of hand and taking over most of my office. So, enjoy some pictures of the build process.
Il est évident qu’aucune norme de sécurité n’a été respectée. C’était une piège mortelle. Clairement, aucun contrôle n’a jamais été effectué.
Est-ce que le drame de #CransMontana provoquera une réflexion sur le fonctionnement du système «Valais»?
Il est évident qu’aucune norme de sécurité n’a été respectée. C’était une piège mortelle. Clairement, aucun contrôle n’a jamais été effectué.
Est-ce que le drame de #CransMontana provoquera une réflexion sur le fonctionnement du système «Valais»?
Seeing Iran appoint new leaders and continue to fight is seeing the more literal kind of necropolitics in action, as a hierarchical system continues to function while replacing the expendable human parts that it lost. The system is of course changed and influenced (and ultimately was built) by humans, but it has become something undying, or at least almost as hard to kill as an idea, and it maintains a terrible inertia in it's destructive tendencies (e.g., "Morality Police" continue to patrol the streets).
Lest anyone think this somehow expresses approval of US actions, the same logic applies here too: what once had a (thin) verneer of democracy, a system which loudly proclaimed to be controlled by "the people" (but which never was nor was ever intended to be) has lost its paint job, exposing the inhuman machinations beneath. Trump is a symptom, not cause, of an institution built on blood and spoils, whose alignment with the Epstein class (and moreover, their institutions) is ever more apparent with each disregarded law and principle.
Stepping back for a moment, this systems/necropolitics perspective is just a perspective, with its own distortions and blind spots. To paraphrase LeGuin, any institution built by humans can also be changed or destroyed by them. But I think it's very useful to put on the systems goggles in this moment, especially when some are fond of preaching about the dangers of "overwhelmingly powerful systems unaccountable to humans which pursue destructive ends" without actually examining the plethora of existing systems that do just that.
P.S. yes, United Healthcare is another good example of this.
P.P.S. yes I bending the meaning of necropolitics here, but the two are related: these systems would not be so free to profit from human death and suffering if they were more vulnerable to the deaths of their constituent parts. Necropolitics of the standard variety is of course present as companies like Raytheon and Lockeed Martin profit from the carnage. The F-15 caught by friendly fire? Just as profitable for Beoing to replace as one downed by the enemy.
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My son has created a primitive pillow fort. My daughter, unable to break her way in, has wandered to the kitchen and is eating his half-
finished dinner while he screams "No! Mine!" from behind his walls. I could stop her, but I think it's important to let children learn important lessons like "When the enemy's fortifications are impregnable, pillage the countryside until starvation forces them out."
😵 Diesel exhaust particles disrupt the function of brain's immune cells, study shows
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Uppvärmning fungerar. Ju mer specifik den är desto mer effektiv brukar den bli.
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