#resource exploitation

[alwaysbewoke]

Congo💔🕊️

We really cannot be free until we all are free.

#Congo Genocide #Conflict Minerals #Cobalt Exploitation #Coltan Crisis #Resource Exploitation #Human Rights Abuse #Environmental Impact #Corporate Accountability #DRC #Mineral Supply Chain

[serialunaliver]

I can't stop thinking about that video of cobalt miners in the congo with little to no protective gear struggling to pull other miners out of a collapsing mine

The fact that they're working to death LITERALLY for billion dollar corporations ran by CEOs who get to relax in mansions and on yachts makes my blood boil

This is violence of capitalism and colonialism

#I had a document in resources on my old blog that was a report on exploitation of western corporations in Africa #If I find it online i'll share it again

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

*tries to organize my thoughts*

*remembers i'm not in school and therefore beholden to neither heaven nor hell nor any man's grading system*

*joyously shredding & tossing all my carefully arranged 3x5 mental notecards into the air like so much beige confetti. raising my arms in victory, cheering raucously until i accidentally inhale bits of homemade confetti*

(*coughing up itty bits of paper like a cat evicting a hairball with a firm understanding of tenants' rights*) wait wat happens next

#i marie kondoed my thoughts and *i* feel great. but now my stream-of-consciousness has escaped containment #so many innocent bystanders at stake #every time i try to organize my thoughts i run out of plastic bins and have to make a trip to the container store where i get even more dis #racted so. you can't just hand me THIS brain and NO catalogue OR library classification system #and expect me to single-handedly sort through all this nonsense? bad form but fucking form not in my job description #aNYways. formal education sure did a FUCKING NUMBER on us huh #(a number i measure not in gpa or dollars of student debt. #but in the number of therapy sessions & medical debt it will take to recover.) #seriously folks. our education systems are...innately traumatizing for a huge number of students. and we NEED to address this. #the fact that it is culturally common for adults to have anxiety nightmares about school/exams...even decades later? #that is not cute. it is Alarming. #no one--much less entire generations--should be spending their developmental years in an environment of chronic stress & pressure & strain #and yet that is the reality for millions and millions of pre-teen and teenage and young adult students #this isn't healthy and it serves and empowers NO ONE #...except of course the many exploitative educational & financial & debt-collecting institutions thriving from the current balance of power #and of course it's a nefarious and powerful way to sabotage/erase the middle class #which billionaires and the wealth-inequality creators they finance couldn't possibly have any noteworthy interest in whatsoever #it's not like there's an elite group of people with huge financial incentives to drain/steal resources from the masses... #anyways sorry for going all Conspiracy Theory on you. #obviously the billionaires who control the vast majority of our resources and news and political campaign funding #are not tied to every single itty bitty social issue and i'm a silly billy to imply it #please tell elon musk to ignore this tweet i am so subservient and acquiescent #mr musky u r so good at inheriting slavery-built mining fortunes & buying other people's companies #& building rocket ships & fancy cars that do NOT explode/catch fire & also NOT running billion dollar companies into the ground #mr musky u r so talented genius billionaire playboy with 10 kids and ex-wives who find you creepy af babe u r basically iron man

[buginacup]

Unity's behavior is embarrassingly greedy. Clearly trying to brute force their way into skimming revenue from every mobile game on the market -> pushing their adware onto every piece of software. It's been really disheartening to see every game development software company demand exponentially more profit the past few years. Especially since it comes at the expense of scaring away blossoming developers...

If you haven't learned to make games, but plan to - use something open source like GODOT, or at least an old version of RPG maker with a one-time purchase of a license.

If the owner of the IDE you're using would be legally within their rights to do what Unity is doing now you should assume that they will do it eventually too.

#text #unity #Amazing that years of cumulative tool development and resources can just be exploited #Unity is derided (somewhat justly) as a platform #but for many it's been a crucial step for learning at LEAST #gamedev

[mahoganygold213]

#congo #drc #signal boost #genocide #exploitation #theft #resources #child labor #crimes against humanity #modern day slavery #womens rights #black lives matter #black liberation #the cost of technology #cobalt mining #current events #colonialism #imperialism #red maat #tysir salih #Democratic Republic of the Congo #dr congo #congo kinshasa #the congo

[bombusbombus]

It is vitally, vitally important that Clark Kent is boring.

I don't mean 'boring' in an inherently bad way. A desk job is boring. Data analysis is boring. Due process is boring. All of these things are imperative for a functioning society but almost nobody will ever be praised for them.

When my car got stolen a year ago, the guy who took it stole a bunch of other stuff too. I was sitting with a cop in a backroom of the campus police station for almost an hour while he was doing paperwork (to make sure everyone would get their stuff back), and at one point he looked up at me and he said, "sorry about this. It's not all shootouts and car chases like on TV."

And I almost said, "well, due process is sexy" (I didn't, for obvious reasons). But he looked surprised when I told him I thought due process was pretty cool. Like nobody is supposed to think due process is cool. Things are only cool if they're glamorous or flashy.

The guy who stole my car was horribly addicted to meth. The sheriff told me, "you should press charges so we can put him away for as long as possible."

The sheriff was lost in a world of heroes and villains. He was the "hero." The addict was the "villain." But the person who helped people was the guy at a desk, who went back over the mile long paper trail and returned every stolen item to its owner. The important stuff is when some guy in an office writes an algorithm to save endangered whales, or when the third double blind test finally shows sufficient evidence for the efficacy of a new cancer treatment. The goose that actually lays the golden egg almost never cackles.

This is why the 'Glasses' comic is so important, to me. We live in a world which glorifies exciting acts of heroism but not "boring" ones. We live in a world that thinks people like Clark Kent aren't important, when they're often doing the most important work, solving the systemic issues, saving people who aren't lost yet. Sometimes we need firefighters, but in a perfect world, we'd only need safety inspectors.

And sure, Superman is necessary within the story. There are disasters and villainy he can prevent. There are lives he can save. But being Superman is ultimately a terrible sacrifice, and if the heroism wasn't necessary he'd be Clark Kent all day. That's what makes him not a cop: he's not enjoying the car chases and shootouts. He avoids letting things get 'interesting' at all costs. He avoids glory.

The comic Strong Female Protagonist (by Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag, BRING IT BACK) has several fascinating pieces of philosophy on superheroes and society, but my favourite is this:

Kal-el, living solar battery, isn't just someone who contributes to society from the outside or the top. He plugs away at boring, everyday kindnesses just like other humans. (This can make for great contrasts with Lex Luthor, who is the epitome of a light bulb person and could never understand why Superman would want to be a battery.)

Clark Kent is boring. Clark Kent plays things by the book. Clark Kent is sexy in the same way that due process is sexy, and any character who thinks the Clark Kent side is 'less than' the Superman side, is textually a goddamn idiot. "No glory save honour" and he will always have both.

#I can't find that post about how Americans glorify short acts of heroism but not long term ones #god tier trope is when someone likes Clark better than Superman #It's interesting. I was just reading all star superman #and a parallel I noticed was that Lois doesn't like Clark as much as Superman because he's clumsy and weak #because she has that weird lightbulb-centric american attitude going on #whereas Luthor likes Clark MORE than Superman BECAUSE he's clumsy and weak #because Luthor associates 'battery people' with 'being an exploitable resource for ME' #and BOTH of them are WRONG #gnashing my teeth crying on the floor etc etc #superman #clark kent #dc #posting this WITHOUT EDITING ARE YOU READY BOYS #IT IS PAST MY BEDTIME #anyone else out there read sfp #is it ever coming back #they were so close to finishing it #that comic shaped my whole brain

[gender-trash]

texts you get from me when you support my patreon at the roommate level. anyway do you want to see the chinese website about lab mice that constituted the endpoint of my quest? yes you do

and this INCREDIBLY important banner ad

#thank u model animal resource imformation (sic) platform i owe u my life #the trashcan speaks #devil venerable also wants to exploit the memoir class for evil purposes

[hauntedmoors]

love how dune was like paul is following in his mother’s footsteps (achieving revenge by exploiting an entire people and subjecting the rest of the universe to unimaginable violence from grief) and chani is following in her mother’s footsteps (fighting for her people and the ecological health of her planet) and you know they’re so fucking doomed from the very beginning.

#some of the accessory details are so incredibly important to the story. the atreides have fanatical support from their military which is #later transposed onto the fremen. the atreides don’t come to arrakis with the intention to transform its ecology for the benefit of #its native people. they come to continue the cycle of resource exploitation and economic benefit albeit. they tolerate fremen because they #offer a strategic benefit. #text #dune #btw never assume any post about paul is also not about alia ^^

[not-poignant]

Im really sorry if this is too personal please ignore me if it is but i saw your post just at the right time and im just, im struggling in my twenties at the thought of possibly having did right now. And you say you "used to", can i ask how you healed?

A lot of therapy, anon.

It does tend to show up in someone's 20s, and I went the path of Internal Family Systems Therapy (also known as IFS or IFST) which is extremely useful alongside the three C's (Compassion, Communication, Co-Consciousness).

I wasn't aiming to eliminate any alters, and anyone who wanted to stay as a separate alter could, but I taught myself through the help of other/s to be self-compassionate, to open up opportunities and methods for communication (which also included art, writing, journalling, etc. in fact the very first tumblr that 'I' ever made was actually made by an alter, and was originally called artforartists - it's now renamed and run by 'me' because Dani has absorbed back into the system, but you can still go to the earliest entries and see her in them.

It took a few years and I didn't rush things. The main thing to know is that while it feels extreme, it usually comes about as a reasonable response to an unreasonable situation, and it usually becomes very manageable with self-compassion (to all yourselves), impartial judgement, open communication, compromise (i.e. if you have an alter that wants to play video games 24/7 to the point that you're losing weeks of memory, find out small areas of compromise where they can be given something in exchange for something), and sharing consciousness where possible (co-consciousness).

It's very scary at first but imho for me personally, it has been the 'easiest' of all of my diagnosed disorders to deal with. I still have severe treatment-resistant depression and I still have severe treatment-resistant PTSD/C-PTSD, but my DID went into remission after about 4 targeted years of therapy. It's now DDNOS (Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified) which means I don't have the symptoms enough to qualify for DID anymore, but I still have a system prone to dissociation / derealisation / depersonalisation and I have days where some alters are fronting a bit more than the central self, but I usually just use it as a sign that I'm really stressed and overwhelmed, rather than a sign that there's something wrong with me.

I'm extremely zen about it, tbh. And look, I didn't have the goal of 'absorbing' my alters (or them dying or w/e), I didn't set out with the idea of getting rid of it so much as learning how to live with different people who have different opinions about things in my head. But through the course of IFST and giving everyone a voice, that started to happen anyway. Healing doesn't always mean 'getting rid of alters' it mostly just means getting a handle on the memory loss (which is the most severe part of the disorder for me) and the polarisation so that it becomes regular dissonance and not so distressing it causes someone to switch. A person can be fully healed from DID and still have alters that front, if there's co-consciousness and communication for example. This was actually what I was aiming for, it just didn't end up being my outcome.

You may not be able to access therapy or IFST, and it can be hard to find DID-friendly therapists who know what they're doing, but you can actually look up and explore IFST on places like Instagram and in books like No Bad Parts and start doing the work gently already. (IFST isn't just or only for DID patients, but it is uniquely very well suited to them).

It can be very scary at first, anon, to think you might have this. Because it's a highly stigmatised and misunderstood disorder. At its root it can be understood as 'a child who didn't understand how to cope with something, at the time of personality formation, just developed a new personality to deal with it. But as a result of this, their brain got so good at developing new personalities that it became a maladapted coping strategy, and as an adult they can learn ways to cope that aren't splitting, switching, or losing memory with compassion and self-understanding.'

And honestly we all have a lot of maladapted coping mechanisms and the whole journey of life is learning to unpack them, and repack some healthier coping mechanisms into the lunchbox. And that's really about it. Still very scary and upsetting to go through, but also not a mysterious, "insane" thing. <3333 If you can reach out for help, please consider it, but otherwise do look into IFST. I started working on those strategies long before I found a suitable therapist and I honestly feel like just the mindset of radical self-acceptance and self-compromise and self-compassion was - while extremely hard to do often - the key for me, and some of those things will at the very least be helpful for you.

#asks and answers #personal #there's a lot more resources now for DID than their used to be #but there's also a lot more self-exploitation for likes and clout #just admitting you're worried something dissociative might be going on #is very brave and you're already on the path to healing anon #even though it doesn't feel like it yet

[irhabiya]

i honest to God think yemenis have every right to gut any saudi, emirati or usamerican if they so please

#hey btw #while the world was crying and sobbing and shitting themselves over barbaric russian imperialism #and scrambling to sanction russia and stop consuming their gas and oil #what the fuck were the french and americans doing in shabwa i wonder #hopefully not exploiting and exporting the natural resources of one of the poorest most dire countries in the world rn #fuck off all the way to hell death to every single one of you. fuck

[alwaysbewoke]

THERE'S ALSO A GENOCIDE HAPPENING IN THE CONGO!!!!! THERE'S ALSO A GENOCIDE HAPPENING IN THE CONGO!!!!! THERE'S ALSO A GENOCIDE HAPPENING IN THE CONGO!!!!!

#congo #genocide #horror #congo genocide #conflict minerals #cobalt exploitation #coltan crisis #resource exploitation #human rights abuse #environmental impact #corporate accountability #drc #mineral supply chain

[cryptids]

Yeah so as expected, it seems like first quantum minerals will be taking the panamanian government to an international court now (arbitration will apparently take place in florida).

I guess there's nothing panama can do at this point but just present our case and hope they don't win, but honestly it's making me angry. I can't even tell you guys how shady this company is.... They did so much illegal shit and covered it up, but bc they have so much money and power/influence nearly every news outlet in other countries is like "well the company denied those allegations" and leaves it at that.

I also want to add that they did something really similar in the congo, where the DRC government revoked a contract and forced FQM out bc they had breached it's terms SO many times. They also left the congo completely in ruins with massive amounts of pollution and damage to the land (which is exactly what they want to do to us here, and would have if we hadn't fought against it and managed to win), and contributed massively to the situation going on in the congo right now too. Not to mention how much damage they were ALREADY doing here in panama, like the locals have been getting sick for years and the water supply is already poisoned in the region where their mine is.

And it still seems like barely anybody in canada has a clue this is all going on??? It sucks knowing I don't have a big enough platform to bring more international awareness to all this myself, but I also am not good at writing and putting things into words lmao.

But anyway... now that they can't tell photographers to go away, we have more pictures of the mine itself (as it is right now) and it really is enormous already. Like knowing how much more it was going to expand is insane, and right in the middle of a rainforest literally full of endangered animals. It's still such a relief to know this was stopped for good even though its pissing me off how they won't even leave without trying to suck as much money as possible out this country and hurt us as much as possible in the process.

(Here's some of those pictures before I end up ranting more though lmao)

#I had to stop reading articles about it from US news outlets bc it was making me so angry how many of them are on FQM's side too #and there's this really prevalent attitude thats like #subtly implying our entire population of 4 million people are somehow all too stupid to understand a good business deal #and sabotaged our own future by not wanting to host what would be one of the biggest mines in the world + endless other mining operations #like yeah ok. sure. #it was a bad decision to not want most of the country to become a toxic wasteland like the other places they exploited for resources #while having even more money stolen from us at the same time.....😐 #but sorry this post is so long jsdgfgjsdgs I just had to vent #long post #🐊

[darrylcalmandstrong09]

New Vocal Article. Silent Genocide in the Heart of Africa: The Congo

“As we express our solidarity with the Palestinian people, let us also lend our voices in support of the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo.” - @bello___a, via authentic_african, Instagram

To find out more about the history of the Congo and its silent genocide, click here: https://rb.gy/2xq477

Images: Repost @moyoafrika, via Instagram

#congo #genocide #africa #coltan #drc #war #killing #electronics #gold #diamonds #zinc #resources #wealth #support #people #inhumane #hazardous #exploitation #violence #impoverished #mulnutrition #famine #abuse #children #humanity #solidarity #heart #kongo #empire #kings

[igottatho]

Image 1: Israel’s economy suffers a nearly 19.4% decline, reports @GlobalEyeNews via Twitter. I am unable to locate an article for this post, but you can find it here.

ETA: here’s one source from Quartz, a global economic publication.

And another here, from CNN.

Did you know off the coast of Gaza there is a multibillion dollar oil reserve? You can learn more about this at www.workers.org, here is the specific information.

Image 2: a Twitter Advertisement for @ Zion Oil, Zion Oil & Gas Inc, which reads “Join Zion Oil & Gas in MJ-01 Project… Empower Israel's Energy Independence! Learn & Invest Today. # EnergyRevolution # InvestIn|srael” There is a vector image of the Zionist flag, with an oil rig in front of the Blue Star. On either side, it reads “UNIT PROGRAM UNTIL FEBRUARY 29 2024”

May the whole world see you for what you are Zionists, and turn their back on you. May the label Zionist, and the word Israel become something you are ashamed of and may you become pariahs.

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #boycott #bds palestine #bds movement #zionism #zionistterror #israel lies #israel crimes #economy #palestine resources #resource theft #colonialism #fuck colonialism #fuck Zionism #fuck Israel #direct action works #exploitation #ethnic cleansing #Gaza’s oil

[mjhartwork]

I made this big ink/watercolor painting in class!

#the sword is sorta (sworda) a symbol for exploitation of oil resources and the ecological devastation that follows #stabbing the land. setting it aflame. poisoning rivers with the spillage of blood. #and it's a greek xiphos like the one Theseus wielded to kill the minotaur. bcuz bison are bovines like bulls kinda #i tried to take inspiration from asian scroll paintings and apply it to a new mexican landscape #ink art #traditional art #artists on tumblr

[mahoganygold213]

#free palestine #sudan #colonialism #signal boost #democratic republic of the congo #afganistan #imperialism #greed #resources #wealth #haiti #palestine #drc #west papua #capitalism #racism #oppression #exploitation #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #palestine genocide #genocide