What a lovely and helpful project!

I’m a bit skeptical with the title talking about evidence of cannibalism. I believe the subtitle is more accurate, because the evidence point to:

traces of manipulation of human remains

Cannibalism is the theory of this article, not the evidence. The evidence are:

individuals were dissected immediately after death. Cut marks on skull fragments indicate that the muscle attachments and scalp were removed before the long bones were smashed to get to the bone marrow.

The question what for is a legit one, but the answers are just theories.

Just to be clear, I don’t deny cannibalism is a thing. Some of us grew up learning in kindergarden the lyrics of the popular cannibalistic children’s song Il était un petit navire / War einst ein kleines Segelschiffchen / Itan ena mikro karavi (wiki)

I read the article you linked but I don’t see how it backs your argument that degrowth could be compatible with some form of capitalism (as you mention in your first sentence). It seems to me this article does the opposite.

Personally, I can’t think of any kind of capitalism that is compatible with policies / goals / objectives related to:

Tax justice for social ecological justice

or

Redistribute land, labour, capital and resources within and between countries

or

Direct activism and sabotage For example - anti-capitalism malware program

or

Restrict platform capitalism (e.g. AirBnB); Promote decentralised platform cooperative models

etc

(found in the Appendix A. Thematic synthesis of degrowth policy proposals)

For me degrowth is potentially one way to get rid of capitalism.

Degrowth is absolutely not compatible to capitalism because as an economic system it has growth embedded in its model. One of the biggest problems is that this economic system has taken over the decision making processes of human societies all over the globe (ie representative democracy). Like models of the past they portrait themselves as invincible, like kings thought of their situation, slave owners etc. I believe we should first be able to imagine a world without capitalism in order to achieve this goal. Btw I don’t have the answers, we do.

So the way I see things degrowth is fully compatible with humans and human societies (sorry I can’t use the term “human nature” but I suppose that’s another topic), personal growth and societal prosperity because it is anti-capitalistic.

So I also thought of sharing a 15-min video from a few years back:

New Economies: How Degrowth Will Save the World with Jason Hickel

You can find some relevant book titles in this audiobook community and download them from Anna’s Archive

I loved Braiding Sweetgrass and now can’t wait to check out the Moss one.

I thought of linking a recent podcast from The Great Simplification:

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz: “Always Adding More: The Unpopular Reality about Energy Transitions”

You might be interested in taking a look at the following articles:

Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air | MIT, Nov 2024

Study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring about promised reductions.

Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels: Greenwashing | Global Investigative Journalism Network, Feb 2025

The fossil fuel industry promotes solutions such as carbon capture and storage, liquefied natural gas, hydrogen, and renewable natural gas, which critics argue are far more focused on preserving industry profits than significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The tactics they use include funding university research that skews public discourse and policymaking in the direction of their preferred solutions. They have hired management consultancies to conduct skewed analysis supporting those solutions and funded lobbyists, and advertising and public relations firms to promote them.

there is no chance that it is legal in any country that recognises and protects human rights.

It looks like there is No ban on conversion therapy in many states in the US, parts of Australia, Sweden and several places in Europe, according to the map on the wiki page Legality of conversion therapy.

To where? Where will they go? Who will take them?

(To) Hospitals

How will they even be let out?

According to the article : “Under this ceasefire agreement, there is supposed to be a mechanism in place for medical evacuations. We’ve still not seen that process spelled out,”

I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to explain all this.

The boiling thing sounds like a great tip

If you have a good link on how to do pickled vegetables or with tips, please share!

I suppose if you have some bureaucratic ties with an EU country, Ireland would be easier to go to. Or if you want easy access to other european countries in the long term. To my knowledge finding a place to stay there is very hard as well as expensive, especially in Dublin. I don’t really know how the squatting scene is but I guess you would need to know at least one local for this sort of info. Few years back, you find a job online (with a short contract usually), and accommodation would be provided, I don’t mean free. Currently, I’m not sure.

Without knowing much about current politics in Serbia (or having actual trust or hope in governmental politics in general) I wanted to ask you: is there any interesting opposing politicians/parties/coalitions to your knowledge?

Now that you mentioned the Luddites, last year I listened to a very informative podcast from Margaret Killjoy:

• Part One: All Hail King Ludd: How the Luddites Almost Saved Us

• Part Two: All Hail King Ludd: How the Luddites Almost Saved Us

as long as evidentiary screenshots are good to go

Interesting point and the way you put it, kinda helps me frame an answer. For me, the keyword you used was evidentiary

Practically, I can think of a couple of reasons for now (there could be more!) to use a screenshot, let’s say from twitter.

• As evidence of what a deleted tweet was saying. I have the impression that due to how things are there nowadays, we are far from that sort of discourse.

• Or as a reference to an actual tweet. In this case - imo - the screenshot is not necessarily enough as evidence, so a link is needed like we see in some articles. I suppose it also depends very much on the community itself. For example a white people twitter community is very different from one that is related to ocean conservation & tidalpunk, like this one.

For now, that’s more or less what I have in mind, and I’m open to discussion for sure.

I am not denying there is a historical reference to the use of this term. I just think it also makes sense - especially if we take into consideration the last 100 years or so - for this term to shift from its initial meaning. Or to put it differently, in other languages this shift has taken place for decades now.

I understand what you say and I agree. Still I would like to add something:

I have noticed that in the english speaking world when people talk about the left they often include anarchy in this term. For me, this is highly problematic too, since the left has hierarchical structures and anarchy has horizontal ones.

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