I'm personally bothered by the rise of #antinatalism, because I know I definitely want to have #kids.
I want to give them the #unconditional #love and #respect that I didn't get enough of #GrowingUp. I want to do my best to raise them with respect for #nature and their #community, and to be #critical but #compassionate and #OpenMinded. I know the #world is broken and it isn't on them to fix it, but I know that the last thing our world #needs is fewer #children in it.
Hey, the Little Shop of Cowbells will be opening very soon, right after this bit (20 min) of documentary. Join us at https://live.angoule.me/ #Music #Techno #Acid #More cowbell #owncast #Needs more cowbell #Mixxx #DJ Mix #Live #Electronica #Industrial
The little shop of cowbells has just opened, right here : https://live.angoule.me/ #Music #Techno #Acid #More cowbell #rpan-refugee #owncast #Needs more cowbell #Mixxx #DJ Mix #Live #Electronica #Industrial
I've lived in #Britain for 25 years. Sometimes I wonder about my adopted homeland, and if I belong here. And then something like this comes along, and everything is right with the world. 
Good morning. 
9 February 2025
For the past four days, a yard crew has been working on raking leaves, picking up fallen limbs, and collecting pinecones. Initially, a husband-and-wife team arrived without tools, borrowed a rake, and made limited progress. On the second day, more people came but had to leave due to a family emergency. The following two days saw better progress with the boss's wife leading the effort. Despite the initial instruction to move leaves to the edge of the property for easy mowing, the crew bagged the leaves instead. However, they lacked transportation to remove the approximately 20 bags of leaves. The husband/boss, who is working offshore until next week, will provide his truck to remove the debris upon his return.
“The true measure of a society’s greatness is how it treats its most vulnerable members and how it works towards fulfilling their basic needs.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Is it possible to create a custom "return" function in #RStats? My usecase would be to create something like `return_if_exists(file) ` that is a wrapper for `if (file.exists(file)) return(file)`.
EDIT: Found solution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42858804/push-return-to-parent-function
```
return_if_exists <- function(file) {
if (!file.exists(file)) {
return(invisible(FALSE))
}
call <- rlang::expr(return(!!file)) #needs library(rlang)
rlang::eval_bare(call, env = parent.frame())
}
```
"Heller subjects to criticism the “dictatorship over needs” that in her eyes the USSR and the countries of the Eastern Bloc constituted. (At the time she was writing, of course, these Soviet-style systems were still very much in place throughout Eastern Europe.) Within them, a caste of bureaucrats cut off from civil society decides which needs must be satisfied, thereby exercising a “dictatorship” over them. The “preferences” of individuals count for almost nothing in productive decisions.
In this framework, needs are defined and satisfied “from above.” This dictatorship proves to be increasingly dysfunctional over time, due to chronic mismatches between supply and demand. Its political legitimacy is almost zero, since citizens are not involved in the decisions that concern them.
Against this dictatorship, Heller develops the vision of an “individualist” Marxism. Marx’s goal, ultimately, is the full development of the person, namely their emancipation from both the dictatorship of the market and the Soviet-style “dictatorship over needs.”
Heller is certainly not an individualist in the sense of subscribing to liberalism. She does not maintain that individuals should be able to cultivate their needs outside of any collective constraints. She asserts that communism will consist of a free play of needs, where each person’s needs will be limited only by the needs of others."
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/agnes-heller-philosophy-marxism-needs
3 step guide to become a #socialist by recent scientific evidence!
1 - #Inequality is connected to social issues: https://equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-base/the-spirit-level-at-15/
2 - #capitalism is the cause of the rising inequality: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Century
3 - the #needs of everyone on Earth could be met with 30% of our current economic output: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493
