People includes you.

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Filipinos included, oh and Turks.

Good ol’ ASD.

The US does not use a popular vote system, he got 312 v 226 electoral college votes, which is a huge win (in that system), and also took the senate.

Doesn’t seem like much (or enough) is happening, so basically, yeah.

That does make sense, although I’m not sure we can trust it to work like that.

And mass sharing of images/videos which has made it so much easier to connect people, specifically in one case I saw today of someone on Telegram sharing child porn. How do you even put the cat back in the box?

therefore I’ve always taken anyone who says,“I’m not antisemetic, I just think Israel shouldn’t exist (IE, anti-zionist)” is a closet antisemite at best.

At best? Do you think Israel is a monolith with no dissenting views over what it is and should be? Do you think settlers are the same as those who just want to leave in peace with a two-state solution?

What’s wrong with leaving me alone and not bothering me?

Was it? In Syria it seems pretty open.

I’ll stick to my preferred terminology, thanks.

Fuck off yea

It’s definitely a limited size; I feel like I have to juggle and satisfy both (ADD and ASD here, btw). Currently studying, then taking a break to focus (or not) on something else, in a different position, then I have work… if I don’t have these multiple stimuli I get very down/off.

I guess second-hand in that my dog was doing it.

Kinda like nasi lemak with fried rice instead.

Dogs do like butt stuff.

Sigh… and how would you like to quantify that when there are so many factors?

Obstructing traffic is not an effective means of protest. Target actual agents and entities associated with the oil industry, not the victims.

They are effective and bring about awareness among other things.

I am telling you when their trend started. Norway’s consumption has not increased, it is down on 2018, as I said. It had a slight decline in 2023 (the increase between 2020 and 2022 is when people stopped driving during COVID then came back to restart its downward trend).

Japan’s decline since then is commensurate with its population decline.

Actually no, if you know what commensurate means. The population has dropped around 4% since 2008, yet oil consumption has been decreasing since 1996.

Germany is similar in terms of consumption, Sweden likewise.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-consumption-by-country

If that is the only metric you are looking it, kind of. It slumped during COVID and has looked like it’s tailing off somewhat. Without tax breaks, subsidies and support for other forms of transport, say, we will not shake our dependence.

But, we can look at specific countries and see if those things have helped on a national scale, like Norway, for example, which has seen consumption decline since 2018. And Sweden. And Japan. And Germany. And…