#energy is the liberator

[man-and-atom]

Too often it is found that the housewife is a slave to the burdens of caring for or superintending the operation of the establishment. To make possible the conservation of her energies to the end that she may enjoy life to a fuller extent is a great problem. Electricity has been recognized as one of the most successful modern agents in the simplifying of household tasks. By its use that occupation which we have been pleased to term ‘housekeeping’ may be made an incidental rather than an all–absorbing task, leaving part, at least, of a woman’s time to be occupied in the cultivation of those things which make for a higher intellectual and artistic development.

T Vernette Morse, founder of Arts for America magazine and the Artcraft Institute, writing in Popular Electricity magazine, 1912 January

[man-and-atom]

Few people now really appreciate how the life of the household was revolutionized with the advent, first of gas and running water, and then of of electricity. Suddenly light, heat, and hot water were available at a moment’s notice, without wicks to be trimmed or soot to be cleaned up or ashes to be raked and hauled out, without requiring constant tending, and with very little danger of burning the place down. Before the electric blanket, before the red india-rubber hot water bottle, you were expected on cold winter nights to have a “warming pan” full of hot coals shoved into your bed!

Let’s go back in history a bit. Suppose you went to dinner at a wealthy home one hundred years ago. Possibly, your hostess might have recounted the number of servants’ rooms she has and the number of domestics she employs. If she was very wealthy, she might count an upstairs maid and a downstairs maid, and a cook and butler and a liveryman. But one hundred years ago, only the lucky few could have five servants. Yet today my own wife has thirty–five servants in our home, and I am fortunate when I pay the bills, since they are all electric servants. She has a toaster, a coffee maker, clocks, washers, dryers, ranges and cleaners. With their help, she is able to run our servantless house without undue burden. And the experts predict that by 1970, my wife — and your wives as well — will be able to call upon one hundred electric servants to help with the chores.

—United States Senator Clinton P Anderson, Chairman, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, speaking to the National Advertising Executives Association in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, 12 July 1955. Reprinted in Atoms for Peace Manual, subtitled “A Compilation of Official Materials on International Cooperation for Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy”, United States Senate, 84th Congress, First Session, document number 55. Presented by Alexander Wiley, senior Republican, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

It should be remembered that Senators were long considered to be at or near the top of what formal social hierarchy the USA has or had.

Not for nothing was the electric companies’ mascot “Reddy Kilowatt, the Silent Servant” (and the rural electric cooperatives had their own, “Willy Wiredhand”).

I don't know how strictly accurate this is, but one of the things I find shocking about watching historical dramas is how many people there are around all the time---according to Madame de... (1953) a well-off French household in the Belle Epoque maintains a workforce of at least 3, and the glittering opera has staff just to open doors. According to Shogun (2024) you can expect a deep bench just to mind your household, and again, people who exist to open doors.

Could people....not open doors in the past? Were doors tricky, before the standardization of hinges? Because otherwise, the wealthy used to pay a whole bunch of people to do it for them in multiple contexts, and I find myself baffled.

[isabeauwolf]

I miss them.

Dabi being the snarky but caring big brother for Toga. Toga being the hyper little sister.

[naxalite1967]

[man-and-atom]

The observation that increased consumption of energy per person in a society strongly correlates with improved living standards is often met with an admonition that modern life is too materialistic, and a hearkening back to “older, better ways” and “traditional values”. This shows that people living in wealthy societies amidst material abundance, have forgotten just what that term “standard of living” really implies.

“Traditional values” are the values of a society in which a child born alive had, at best, two chances in three of living to the age of five years.

Recent evolutionary adaptations to the environment in human populations, from Going global by adapting local: A review of recent human adaptation (Fan et al., 2016). The icons show the type of adaptation recorded in various parts of the world, and the acronyms besides (e.g. EDAR1) are the names of the involved genes. Also see Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations (Sabeti et al., 2009), Population Genomics of Human Adaptation (Lachance & Tishkoff, 2013).

Some examples are:

Lactase persistence in Europe, Near East, and East Africa, allowing the digestion of milk in adult age (by default, the lactase required to digset milk sugar would only be produced by infants; this was just a matter of removing a timed switch).

Similarly, greater production of amylase, which breaks down starch, is reported in Europe and Japan (diet based on staple grains) and among the Hadza of Tanzania (diet based on starchy tubers).

Improved conversion of saturated into unsaturated fatty acids in the Arctic Inuit peoples. This makes it easier to live on a diet of fish and marine mammals in an environment where plant food is scarce.

Smaller stature ("defined as an average height of <150 cm in adult males") in the "pygmy" peoples (Aka and Mbuti) of Central Africa, and other hunter-gatherer peoples in equatorial Asia and South America. This helps shed heat in a hot humid climate where sweat does not evaporate.

More efficient fat synthesis in the Samoa, helping with energy storage at the price of more risk of obesity or diabetes with a richer modern diet.

Improved resistence to malaria, sleeping sickness (trypanosome), and Lassa fever in Subsaharan Africa. Fighting off against parasites is especially difficult (since unlike the inorganic environment, parasites also evolve), so this resistence often comes at a cost, such as anhemia, but is still a great advantage on net. Some improved resistence to arsenic poisoning is noted in an Argentinian population.

Denser red blood cells in blood on the Andean, Ethiopian, and Tibetan highlands, to carry more oxygen which is scarcer at high altitude. I recall from elsewhere that this might increase the risk of thrombosis or strokes due to obstructed blood vessels.

Less melanin (which blocks UV light) and therefore lighter skin color in Eurasia. Melanin shields skin cells from damage due to UV radiations, but some UV light is necessary for the synthesis of vitamin D.

A change in the gene EDAR1, resulting in denser head hair, slightly different tooth shape, and fewer sweat glands (all skin annexes), appears strongly selected for in East Asia, but as far as I can find the advantage of this mutation is still unknown.

From another article (Ilardo et al., 2018): the Sama Bajau people of Indonesia, who have a long tradition of free-diving in apnea, seem to have developed larger spleen to store more oxygenated blood during dives.

[naivety]

So long as the political and economic system remains intact, voter enfranchisement, though perhaps resisted by overt white supremacists, is still welcomed so long as nothing about the overall political arrangement fundamentally changes. The facade of political equality can occur under violent occupation, but liberation cannot be found in the occupier’s ballot box. In the context of settler colonialism voting is the “civic duty” of maintaining our own oppression. It is intrinsically bound to a strategy of extinguishing our cultural identities and autonomy.

[...]

Since we cannot expect those selected to rule in this system to make decisions that benefit our lands and peoples, we have to do it ourselves. Direct action, or the unmediated expression of individual or collective desire, has always been the most effective means by which we change the conditions of our communities. What do we get out of voting that we cannot directly provide for ourselves and our people? What ways can we organize and make decisions that are in harmony with our diverse lifeways? What ways can the immense amount of material resources and energy focused on persuading people to vote be redirected into services and support that we actually need? What ways can we direct our energy, individually and collectively, into efforts that have immediate impact in our lives and the lives of those around us? This is not only a moral but a practical position and so we embrace our contradictions. We’re not rallying for a perfect prescription for “decolonization” or a multitude of Indigenous Nationalisms, but for a great undoing of the settler colonial project that comprises the United States of America so that we may restore healthy and just relations with Mother Earth and all her beings. Our tendency is towards autonomous anti-colonial struggles that intervene and attack the critical infrastructure that the U.S. and its institutions rest on. Interestingly enough, these are the areas of our homelands under greatest threat by resource colonialism. This is where the system is most prone to rupture, it’s the fragility of colonial power. Our enemies are only as powerful as the infrastructure that sustains them. The brutal result of forced assimilation is that we know our enemies better than they know themselves. What strategies and actions can we devise to make it impossible for this system to govern on stolen land? We aren’t advocating for a state-based solution, redwashed European politic, or some other colonial fantasy of “utopia.” In our rejection of the abstraction of settler colonialism, we don’t aim to seize colonial state power but to abolish it. We seek nothing but total liberation.

Voting Is Not Harm Reduction - An Indigenous Perspective

[fatphobiabusters]

Oh my gosh, the AI that was used to make this diet culture scam advertisement Tumblr showed me accidentally wrote "flat belly" instead of "fat belly." So this fatphobic weight loss advertisement is actually advertising weight gain without realizing it.

The irony. The comeuppance. The schadenfreude. This post has it all.

-Mod Worthy

[kazimirkharza]

People who think that replacing a wild ecosystem (left pic) with a solar plant (right pic) is "good for the environment" are seriously delusional. Solar panels require a global supply chain, (fossil fuel-based) mining and refining of rare-earth minerals, denuding of areas, and regular washing, all of which are extremely ecologically destructive. They also have a relatively short life and become problematic toxic waste afterwards. Humans have existed sustainably for hundreds of thousands of years prior to the advent of civilization and thrived - believe it or not - without any of these 'green' energy technologies. If we wish to survive and thrive again we must return to those ways.

[succulentsiren]

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[heronoegg]

we don't know how old Geten is so he's around Himiko age, they are the babys of the liberation front there is no debate Horikoshi came to my house and told me

[man-and-atom]

A so–called ‘Green Party’ now being organized wants to enter the election campaign and seeks to unite all those segments of the population that are dissatisfied with some aspect of our affluent society. They find it convenient to fly the banner of aversion and resistance to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

Karl Winnacker and Karl Wirtz, preface to “Nuclear Energy in Germany” (English–language edition of Das Unverstandene Wunder : Kernenergie in Deutschland, published by the American Nuclear Society), October 1978

Forty–five years later, the German Greens have gotten what they demanded. We feel entitled to wonder what is next for them. Signs up around Munich suggest they are trying to position themselves as the party of feminism ― the anti–nuclear crowd loves to claim to be on the side of women, minorities, marginalized groups in general, even though these are precisely the people who have benefitted the most by the development of our energy–using civilization.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Saskatchewan government has not been persuaded by Ottawa's renewed clean electricity regulations, which it's still rejecting as a federal overstep into provincial jurisdiction. Ottawa announced this week it will back away from its former goal of establishing a national net-zero electricity grid by 2035, a commitment that was made in the 2021 Liberal election platform but not firmly set in the clean energy draft regulations. It has now pushed that net-zero grid goal to 2050. The regulations have been signed into law but won't be enforced until 2035. Saskatchewan has opposed the regulations since they were first drafted in August 2023. Ontario and Alberta have also criticized the regulations.

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[thawragiya]

“Things will be worse for the palestinians now!” argument liberals are parroting like a mantra up until this point either mean that they genuinely haven't been paying attention, and so they don't know about the countless massacres and graphic images that have been coming out of Gaza daily for the past year. Or they do know. But they truly believe that palestinians should be able to take such events as long as they don't exceed that imaginary line in the sand that they've carved from the comfort of their homes, that Trump is definitely going to cross. And I really can't decide which is worse.

[femmefatalevibe]

Hi! I love your blog. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your tips and advice! 🥰 I want to change my persona into a more bold and passionate lady instead of they shy timid girl. Do you have any recommendations on resources that I can start with? I would also love to learn how to flirt seductively to attract men but also to flirt with friends just for fun. Can you pls point me to the right direction? Thank you so much!! ❤️💓💗

Hi love! Thank you so much for your kind words and support. These words mean a lot to me <3

Yes, gladly. Sharing some resources below:

How To Validate Yourself & Stop People Pleasing

How To Master Your Shadow Self & Embrace Your Dark Feminine Energy (Advice)

How To Reduce Social Anxiety To Boost Your Confidence, Make Friends, & Become Magnetic

How To Master Public Speaking Anxiety & Communicate Like A Boss

How To Master The Written Word & Communicate Like A Queen

How Flirt With Men, Hold Your Own, & Embrace The Art of Seduction

How To Rediscover Yourself, Set Boundaries, & Master Interpersonal Conflict

How To Build Unshakeable Self-Confidence

Ways To Appear More Mature & Embrace Your Sensual Side

How To Handle Rude People & Insulting Comments With Class

Questions To Ask When Evaluating Your Relationships

A Beginner's Guide To Embracing Your Sexuality

Simple Tips & Tricks To Seduce A Prospective Lover

How To Build Steamy Sexual Tension With Any (Potential) Lover

Femme Fatale Booklist: Decentering Men, Feminist Dating, & Childfree Living

Essential Feminist Texts Booklist

Empowering Affirmations To Unleash Your Dark Feminine Energy

Hope these help xx

[yunnshui]

licel get down