Ok, ok thank you for your input. I will definately check this channel then!

It crossed my mind (after writting the comment), but how can you be sure of that? I mean, is it an assumption or you could share a link to back this claim?

I can’t manage to watch past his smiling midleage face announcing about being fired from a botanical garden for:

sleazing on young women [0:18]

It looks like the link is missing from this post, so I thought of adding it here for easy access:

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/a-10-year-whale-shark-satellite-study-helps-create-new-protected-area-in-indonesia/

I thought of adding the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) wiki page for easy access to pictures and some more general info

That sounds like an excellent idea, so on a similar note I could suggest to go to shops that sell clothes for kitchen professionals. I have owned plenty of those, mainly trousers. They are super comfy and they kinda last forever.

It seems to me you are missing the point. This is an article about a new scientific discovery. It is not an article about how capitalist industries implement science.

Thanks a mil, just fixed this

I thought of adding a relevant link from Declassified UK. It’s a list of UK MPs funded by the Israel Lobby. At the bottom of this list are the Israeli organisations that do the funding.

I am saying “isn’t earmarked for the federal government” and you come up with a fact check saying that it is not earmarked for military use. Which is the same thing.

No. “Isn’t earmarked for the federal government” is not the same as “isn’t earmarked for military use".

Any links to back what you say would be highly appreciated.

I’m really sorry that this is what you got from what I wrote. I definitely don’t think we should keep using fossil fuel. On the contrary, I am all in for phasing out extractions and usage.

Cuz the US strategic oil reserve isn’t earmarked for the federal government

According to a factcheck site it looks like the U.S. Oil Reserve Created for Supply Disruptions, Not Strictly Military Use. So maybe your statement is wrong? Otherwise could you share the source you got this from?

the share of the military energy usage in the federal energy usage is entirely meaningless tot the oil consumption of the US economy

I don’t understand what you are saying, could you please explain and/or share a relevant link? Btw maybe I should clarify that by talking about “consumption” I was not talking in economic terms, just in the sense of “utilizing”.

I have watched only a few minutes of this vid so far, as well as the timestamps and I must admit I don’t agree with this approach because of something I learned today.

He says around 2 m something like: the strategic US reserve of oil even tho the number of barrels sounds huge, they could sustain the US only a month of our current use. From the context my understanding is that he implies that this is due to casual, everyday-people consumption.

Well, it looks like the Department of Defense is the U.S. government’s largest fossil fuel consumer, accounting for between 77% and 80% of all federal government energy consumption since 2001. So why is this huge percentage missing from this long analysis?

Anyways, if he talks about the US military petroleum consumption, please let me know. Or if I got something wrong with this new info I got about the US military, let me know too.

I really hope you manage to find out the root cause(s) of your pain/discomfort. It was lovely talking to you :)

I tend to agree with you about pain-killers, they can be a tricky thing. Sure, if you have a terible hangover and you take a pil every now and then, it’s one thing. Taking them often is another.

If you don’t know why you feel the pain, it can be a totally different story, especially if the pain, discomfort, etc is reoccuring. Pain can be like an alert the body emmits to make you aware that something is wrong, and needs your attention. Shutting down the alert doesn’t fix the problem. On the contrary, pain-killers can make you ignore it until it’s too late for it to be fixed.

With herbal medicine you first need to discover why you feel the pain and then try a few things in relation to the cause, not the symptom. If something works great, if not the solution is to go to the doctor to get examined. When (should I say if?) the docs tell you that you have this condition you can see what herbal medicine you can use to complement the suggested medical treatment, after talking about it with them. At least this is how I see things with what I learned so far.

(I seldom write that much. it’s a topic that I find so fascinating and I haven’t thought about for a while, so thank you for reminding me. And now I stop, I promise! hahaha)

For teas, the only thing I can tell for sure is that when I drink chamomile, I just fall asleep. For others, I am not the best person to tell because I drink tea rarely.

Tinctures, I started making them just a few years back, so I’m a quite new, but I do use them all the time. So, tinctures can be used to eliminate a symptom (ex. take X tincture to break a fever). You can take tinctures to prevent stuff / balance your system, for me this is extremely important (ex. X tincture in lower dosage boosts immune system, so you take it during winter not to get a cold). If tincture X doesn’t work for you, maybe Y would or Z, so in a way the more you use them, the more you know about what works for you.

And lets remember that the base of pharmaceutical medicines come from all the collected knowledge of the effects of plants for millenia. Consequently, there is a tone of scientific research on plants and herbal therapy. For example, here are several scientific articles about herbal therapy and multiple sclerosis. In the same time the scientific research is not enough because pharmaceutical companies prefer creating elements in the lab instead of harvesting them from plants.

Personally, I use both western medicine and herbalism. I don’t trust herbalists who tell you not to go to the doctor and stuff like that. I don’t trust doctors blindly neither, because scientists can disagree on diagnoses, cures, approaches, etc. Appart from genuine disagreements, some love too much what the pharmaceuticals offer them. Herbalists have very different opinions, so if I dare say so, you have to formulate your own and allow it to evolve with time. There are a lot of amazing resources online for that. I use some resources relevant to where I live, and for more general info I like this site a lot: https://www.herbalreality.com/.

This podcast is about organising, solidarity, and ways that bring people together. Legal action part of their repertoir, but they don’t just do that.

Archived link of the article

Thanks for this, it’s the first time I hear about this and it certainly sounds very interesting. I’m gonna look more into this as soon as I find the time. In the meantime, if you know more about them and feel like sharing about your experience using them, or anything actually, I’ll be glad to have your input.

May I also suggest something? Perhaps add in the post title something like anti-marketplace or anything like that, so that it is a bit clearer what they are for those of us who don’t know. (English is not my first language and just woke up, but still silly me, by reading the title I thought they were currency exchange apps. And now my coffee is ready!)

Of course cultural appropriation of spiritual indigenous narratives from westerners is something that has been happening for decades. And I totally see the point of your analysis.

In a way, what I was trying to say is that even tho this kinds of appropriations need to be fought so they don’t take over the political discourse about ecology, by itself this doesn’t seem enough imo. In order to fight the power imbalance that colonisers have created throughout the centuries, I believe there is also a need to consciously take into consideration, as well as incorporate the suggestions and approaches of indigenous people in the relevant discourses in western politics, ecology, and their intersections. Certainly, without the element of appropriation, but as as equals.