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  • I don’t know why the question was asked in the city. Go out to the forest women and ask them.

    In general, people and bears don’t want to hassle each other, doubly so for those in the woods. If you encounter either, you’re probably going to be fine. However, bears won’t stalk you, pretend to be friendly to gain your trust with the intention of harming you. Men won’t go into a blind rage because hibernation season is around the corner and you’re standing between them and a delicious tuna sandwich. Honestly if I’m alone in the woods I’d rather encounter an animal than a person because I was in the woods to be alone.

    If you are in the woods and encounter a man or mountain lion

    • make yourself look as big as possible
    • maintain eye contact
    • demonstrate you are a threat
    • don’t trust his lies

    If you encounter a bear

    • avoid getting between a mother and her cubs
    • take extra precautions to bearproof your food at your campsite
    • back away slowly while facing the bear (without maintaining eye contact)
    • under no circumstances should you fight a bear







  • No, you might be a primitivist, feudalist, syndicalist, or any of many other ways of organizing society. What you adopt will depend on your values and how you perceive the relationship between people and capital. Ultimately the labels are helpful up to a point, because the application of theory, or praxis, will manifest in ways to meet the need of your time.

    Just to get ahead of it, capitalist can mean both one who supports capitalism as a way to organize society, and one who owns capital. From context it’s clear we mean the former definition.


  • Sure! So, there’s this mechanism called “methylation” that can turn off which genes are expressed at different times/in different tissues. It occurs in almost all organisms, but we don’t fully understand the role it plays across different tissues in plants. However, the evidence suggests it may play a significant role in cells going from being stem cells (as in can become many kinds of cell, not literally part of the stem), to being the tissue they ultimately end up as. Better understanding this may help us figure out why some plants can easily be vegetatively propagated, while others are more picky about it.