if you post through Tor how can I send the Cheka to hug you on your birthday, comrade? 😔

you will never be able to outcompete the 1% because the only way to do that is to exploit workers more than they do. liberal propaganda may talk a lot about how growth without harm is possible, but it’s all just that, propaganda.

what I and a lot of anti-authoritarians propose is starting co-ops whose aim is to fight against competition, and to abolish the profit motive as much as possible. also organizing into neighborhood councils that function based on consensus democracy to autonomously govern the neighborhood against the wishes of oppressors like the state, the cops, landlords and the owning class.

the only way to escape late-stage capitalism is to go against this cancer cell ideology called infinite growth by adopting this thing called degrowth.

the Argentinian example is extremely inspiring for workplace self-management:

if you prefer podcasts, here’s an episode on Fabricas Ocupadas (occupied factories).

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarcho-argentina-one-year-on

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jose-antonio-gutierrez-d-workers-without-bosses#fn10

oh no, it’s libs reinventing free market capitalism again

it’s called not being a fucking creep

cite me a single feminist thinker that isn’t a bigot that believes that

concern-trolling is boring

you’re silly because you’re getting offended by mean words. we have to worry whether we’ll make it home alive. idk, maybe unshove your own head out of your own ass?

you can’t be sexist against the people who invented sexism, that’s just silly

that’s totally valid. I don’t really use peertube and so my question is, since the program doesn’t have that many users anyways, how many creators are relying on getting views from their own instance? I thought they just advertise their channel to outside platforms

totally, but nothing is stopping you from moving to another one while still having access to the protocol. or if you can afford it, starting your own

yeah this is a bit like musicians or authors complaining that nobody buys their CDs and hardcovers anymore.

YouTube can kick you to the curb just for saying fuck and demonetizing you

this lead me to discover that there’s a Reddit-like client for Bluesky. That’s genuinely a great feature that they are open enough for that

I just made up the genocide Spain committed in the Americas? lol ok buddy

which part don’t you understand? maybe I can explain

I didn’t say they did. Spanish versions from Latin America are still marginalized though because the indigenous peoples heavily influenced the language and the vocabulary, etc. that’s why Spaniards get judgemental when they “correct” Latine people because they view their language as inferior and grammatically incorrect

the short answer is colonization. the US school system admires the Castilian language more because they have a shared history with the Spanish empire of using European languages to commit cultural genocide against the indigenous peoples of America

it’s more complicated than that as it involves fucking with someone’s cognitive state without their consent, it’s not as simplistic as “blowing someone’s high”. if you look in Juno’s playlist they have a video mentioning that sending someone into withdrawal can sometimes be more dangerous than an overdose.

also, why risk sending them into withdrawal when you can do your due diligence instead?

I wonder how an article in a medical journal “Treating overdose without blowing a patient’s sweet high” would go.

you’re right, it would probably go horribly because most medics are fucking ghouls when it comes to substance users. they treat them like subhumans. and that’s exactly the reason why they’re lagging behind compared to street medics and harm reduction professionals. that’s what leads to doctors administering naloxone to punish patients even when they’re not ODing, just because they enjoy seeing them suffer.

that’s why you sometimes see people bragging about how they administered 2 doses at once instead of waiting because they’re more concerned with making the victim sober than keeping them safe.

it boils down to whether you respect substance users’ autonomy or you’re just doing it to be seen as a savior. ask around the people that have been woken up with nasal sprays versus IM and they’ll tell you why they fucking hate it

I would argue just like Juno did that the naloxone dose being too high has nothing to do with ease of administration as that’s already ensured by the spray being so easy to use. it looks more like severe negligence and ableism from the pharma companies to me.

as far as I understand, accounting for the nasal route only having 50% bioavailability, shouldn’t a nasal spray have a maximum of 0.8 mg of naloxone? Juno said that there are people working on putting lower doses on the market for general distribution.

they also mention that it’s possible to stop the overdose without ruining someone’s high but that probably requires more educated training than most harm reduction resources offer. sounds to me like people are shifting blame from themselves forcing someone into withdrawal to the substance user being “violent” (this is extremely rare and mostly a rumor started by copaganda and ableist healthcare workers).

I recommend watching Juno’s entire playlist on naloxone harm reduction. they’re a harm reduction educator and substance user and they have more intimate knowledge than the sterile pamphlets that medical institutions put out.

people often get agitated because you’re forcing them into acute opioid withdrawal by administering too much naloxone. the nasal type that most civilians have access to contains 4 mg vs the 0.4 mg intramuscular that EMS workers administer. this comes out to a 5 times higher dose than strictly necessary. source:

Based on a relative bioavailability of 50%, an initial 2 mg Naloxone Hydrochloride Nasal Spray dose would be considered equivalent to 1 mg IM dose and a 4 mg Naloxone Hydrochloride Nasal Spray dose would be equivalent to 2 mg IM dose, which corresponds with the maximum recommended initial dose in adult clinical guidelines.

I can’t say there’s an easy alternative but anyone who’s able should contact harm reduction orgs to get trained in administering intramuscular naloxone. nasal works too, but be mindful that the person you’re “helping” is gonna have probably the worst day of their life.

people should also be aware there’s a lot of seemingly helpful information out there influenced by copaganda warning civilians that substance users are dangerous/violent and to stay away/call the cops. this is a fucked up way to do harm reduction and really dehumanizing to substance users.

edit: replaced precipitated withdrawal with acute opioid withdrawal.

you could probably use a fit-tested elastomeric respirator to filter out those particles!

I think a P100 filter should be able to take care of your problem, as I’ve heard many people use them for allergies.

there’s also the added bonus of COVID/insert pathogen protection since airports and airplanes are a leading cause of super-spreaders