@AOC Well this aged really well. Hope you're happy AOC. Spent more time attacking the green party than holding the Democratic Party accountable. Now Trump is prez again, with no one to blame but the Democratic Party itself. Congrats.
In a few hours, I leave Cuba after two weeks in a land that seems to hover above time.
Cuba is anachronistic in both directions — towards both past and future. It exists in the past, because it has inherited the burden of underdevelopment. Like much of the world, it is haunted by the many shadows of colonial domination. Its cars are old. Its roads need mending. Its concessions to the world it inhabits tug at its people from different directions. Its northern neighbor — even in its advanced state of rot — refuses to lift its knee from Cuba’s neck. The longest-standing sanctions regime in human history is now compounded by the crippling and absurd designation of Cuba, a state-sponsor of hope, as a state-sponsor of terror.
It exists in the future, because it has built a project that, for most of us, remains in the realm of imagination. The 1959 Cuban Revolution overthrew the shackles of colonialism and, from the devastation it inherited, eliminated illiteracy; guaranteed free healthcare, housing and food for all; transformed the structure of land ownership; and built the most prosperous society in one of the world’s most overexploited regions.
Cuba has more hospitals than banks. It has more doctors than policemen — and has dispatched them to help as many nations as the United States has sanctioned. Cuba supported liberation movements from Angola to Bolivia, and played a major role in ending apartheid in South Africa. Today, it stands firmly with the Palestinian resistance against the Zionist genocide. For six decades, the Cuban people have held the aspirations of the Third World on their shoulders. They are, to paraphrase a poem, exiles from the future, cast into an old world unprepared for their fellowship.
That old world has tried to expel Cuba as if it were a cancer. But it has failed, because the old world is the cancer; Cuba is the cure. The world of the colonizer and imperialist is the parasite that feeds on the body of humanity to sustain its grim futurelessness. The so-called Western world is the aberration — an anomaly so far past its due date, so deeply panicked, that it is prepared to kill children.
The genocide in Gaza and the blockade of Cuba represent violence different in form but identical in intent: to eradicate the very dream of defiance. They are warnings, commanding us to lower our chins and turn our eyes to the ground lest we catch a glimpse of the future from which the struggles for liberation visit us. But take a walk along the streets of Havana or Ramallah and you will see that the people of Cuba, like the people of Palestine, hold their heads up high. They are people who, to quote the Soviet soldier and poet Nikolai Mayorov, “rendered the word ‘humanity’ into flesh”.
Because they have not surrendered, we keep fighting.
@GlenOsterhout@ToshiAkima@xuchuanmei@NjbBari3@JAMANetworkOpen I think you're right. Several years ago I wore the 9205+ doing construction. The bands often snapped after 1 or 2 doffings. I have used the 9210+ recently and no such problems. As far as I know I have never contracted COVID and reuse 9210 regularly (40 hrs/mask)
@open_erv Interested. I live in NYC in an old tenement building. I currently use a window fan set to exhaust in my kitchen which helps bring Co2 levels down to the 900 range. In the summer I stuck a corsi box in one of the bedroom windows as well to provide more fresh air. Best I can do.
@MagdaRomanska@OgbeniDemola Original posters point is probably that the USSR has a track record of assisting anticolonial movements in Africa, which is true.
3. Note: kitchen doesn't have a range hood and with all windows in the apartment closed, CO2 levels in the apartment rise above 1000.
Note: I live in a pre ww2 tenement building in NYC. I don't have the option of installing a more sophisticated mechanical ventilation system.
@joeyfox85 I have a window fan in my kitchen set to exhaust. My air quality monitor shows that with this window exhaust fan running, PM2.5 and PM10 levels are elevated as compared to when windows are closed, even with multiple air purifiers running throughout my apartment.
2. Is there a way to mitigate the PM levels further without closing the window and removing the window fan? I.e. would placing merv13/14 filters in the openings of other windows provide a supply of filtered air that would further mitigate PM levels?
@sri_srikrishna @DMHerinya I used the same 3m filtrete filters that was specified in your tutorial. It's been through a few days of Canadian wildfire smoke. Went from light gray to dark gray almost overnight
@sri_srikrishna @DMHerinya Hi @sri_srikrishna , when would you recommend replacing the filters on these units? I built a few of these for my home and my son's school in Sept. 2022. the ones in my home i pretty much run 24/7. I'm guessing its a good time to change them now?