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  • i mean

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  • The beauty of it is -- the people you go with don't have to be 'like-minded.' You can enjoy Oceans Eleven without endorsing theft, you can enjoy HTBUAP without endorsing sabotage. If your friends feel it crosses a line, that's a very interesting post-film discussion: Why isn't it disturbing for people to root against the 'house' in Oceans? Is it okay to break the law to get rich, but not to do it for justice?

  • i mean

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  • Even the right-wing reviewers who hate the premise admit it's a well written film in the vein of heist thrillers.

    It's a really good movie. Not particularly useful if you actually want to destroy something - they were careful to get a consultant to make sure they didn't break any laws or create liability for themselves or the studio. If you didn't see it in theatre, you missed out! I'm really glad the feds are wringing their hooves over it, it deserved much better marketing. It is destined to become a cult classic.

  • Nepali copypasta (received today but.already outdated!)

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  • Nepal is a mountainous landlocked country that acts as a buffer state between Chinese-occupied Tibet and India. I wonder if either state will use this unrest as a pretext to seize power.

  • Am I crazy for thinking this is power-tripping?

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  • The primary reason we decided you weren't a good fit for SLRPNK wasn't your ideas, but your chronic pattern of toxic behavior in advocating them. Bad moderation is not the only method of censorship; online bullying can make people disengage from a conversation in spite of arguing good points. I suspect you feel your actions are justified, and people have definitely been toxic to you.

    The demographic we value most is people who use de-escalation in conflict and good faith discussion as tools to create a better world. As an anarchist, I know firsthand that these tools become more difficult to wield the father you stand from the rightward-sliding political median. We didn't enjoy reversing your membership, especially since you were transparent about your identity in your application, which I respect and appreciate. I also feel you used non-SLRPNK alts for most of your fights, which is still inappropriate, but kind of a compliment. I'm happy you've found a home where you feel you belong.

  • Freedom of Speech

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  • You can say whatever you like, but someone can also sue you for any reason at all. Even a completely baseless lawsuit can ruin someone who doesn't already have millions of dollars to fight it in court.

    Usually a news organization will guarantee that their lawyers will defend the people they interview in court to encourage them to speak. The large news organizations made millions from increased viewership because they gave Trump hundreds of hours of free screen time beginning from before his first election. Now they aren't interested in putting any of that money to work to get out the truth.

  • Abolish Parliament! Update on the Wave of Rebellion in Indonesia

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  • 'Perhimpunan Merdeka' roughly translates into 'Independence Rally' and 'Perserikatan Sosialis' means 'Socialst Union' correct?

  • H1 2025: China installs more solar than rest of the world combined

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  • Are you claiming they’re building solar power stations and not plugging them to the grid?

    That's a reasonable assumption based on data from the Chinese Communist Party-controlled National Bureau of Statistics.

    That doesn’t make much sense.

    It doesn't make much sense to overbuild housing capacity, only to demolish empty or nearly finished buildings either, but that's also something that China is famous for.

    Some possible explanations for a metropolis sized garden of dark solar panels are:

    • Tibet is the dumping ground for panels that don't meet export quality controls
    • Panels are cheap enough that using them as shade for desert agriculture makes fiscal sense
    • A make-work project to justify the migration of ethnic Chinese laborers to colonized Tibet
    • A scheme to artificially inflate GDP
    • An authoritarian green-washing propaganda project

    These explanations are not mutually exclusive.

  • Frog man, Art by me

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  • The eyes, wet hairstyle, and webbed fingers show nice attention to detail. Using a harpoon as a tool is a clever addition too.

  • H1 2025: China installs more solar than rest of the world combined

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    1. This is solar 'capacity' not actually used solar energy, because
    2. It's being installed in Tibet, far away from the industrial zones of China on the coast, which all run on coal power which
    3. China is the largest consumer of in the world, making up more than 50% of their energy use by kW, while renewables + nuclear make up less than 30%.

    China has no intention of switching to renewable energy infrastructure, they are building more coal fired plants and have instituted quotas to ensure that dirtier and more expensive coal is still their primary source of power.

    If you want a green world, you can't wait for a politburo to give it to you.

  • No Rules, No Rulers: A Response to the Idea That Anarchy is When We Have Rules But No Rulers

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  • If anarchists like ziq did not exist, capitalists would need to invent them.

  • The World’s Largest Solar Plant is Rising in Tibet. It's So Vast It's the Size of Chicago

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  • This has more to do with their goal to cement their control over Tibet than any plan to save the environment.

    Of all of the solar capacity China has installed, they actually use only a fraction of it. So it sits dark and good for nothing but being the subject of environmental puff pieces and authoritarian greenwashing. All of their industrialization is at the coast, and it is all powered by coal. Solar is installed in unindustrialized areas, and they haven't bothered to modify their electricity network to transport the energy to where it would actually reduce carbon emissions.

    I think the plan is to use localized inexpensive solar energy to power the industrialization of China's interior, while continuing to accelerate their use of petrochemicals on the coasts. They've built economic protections for their coal industry and are building several more coal fired power plants as we speak. But if the politburo can entice more ethnic Chinese to move to Tibet, then suppressing independence movements will require less government resources. Meanwhile, China's contribution to the carbon debt will accelerate.

  • Regret.

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  • Solution? Sewing DIY bags from old clothing.

    More reusable and personal than a factory bag, and you already know how to mend it to keep it going. Uses less raw resources than a plastic bag, as it was going to the trash anyways. It's a great beginner sewing project.

  • A week of Trump stopping visas for Palestinian children, the national guard being deployed to DC, and Rwanda accepting people being trafficked from the US

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  • Link to article still works ¯(ツ)_/¯

  • Make Fun Of Them

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  • Exhibit A of the meritocracy of capitalism.

  • China’s Decarbonization Is So Fast Even New Coal Plants Aren’t Stopping It

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  • Behind those numbers is a rapidly changing energy landscape that could lead to a much less carbon-intensive future.

    The word could is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. On paper, China has already built enough PV to power half the country, but uses less than half of their built power. China is building new coal plants, which should be widely reported, but that's half the story. The other half is acres and acres of dark PV.

    Always look at these propagandistic graphs and check if they're a report of energy used or things like 'installed' and 'capacity' -- because they're certainly not using it. China chooses to continue to fuel its industrialization with coal.

    The coal for 'local control' angle sounds new and curious. What does it say about their TWs of potential 'solar capacity' when they still have blackouts when local private coal plant operators skimp on their coal deliveries? Are they building solar projects in regions where it isn't needed and leaving regions where it is needed under-supplied due to government incompetence? Are they installing potemkin solar farms that are built with panels that didn't meet standards for export and will never be reliable? Are they trying to get as much coal out of the ground as they can before other countries force them to stop? I'd be impressed if a journalist could find the answer to these questions.

    Electric vehicle and train increases would be much more inspiring if the former wasn't the case. It's much better for the respiratory health of people in city centers, but for the purposes of carbonization, they're effectively machines that run on coal.

  • ICE Hunts Down Immigrants by Spying on Their Wire Transfers

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  • Why organize a labor union to keep the tyrants from paying you poverty wages when you could just submit the name of the tyrant to the assassination market and let somebody take care of it?

    The more unpopular you are as a human being, the shorter your expected lifespan, because the reward for you not existing would increase proportionally to how much of an asshole you were.

    What are some ways that you can think of where a scheme like this could have undesirable results?

  • ICE Hunts Down Immigrants by Spying on Their Wire Transfers

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  • How big would a country need to be before it is too big, and what mechanism or entity would effectively enforce it from reaching or exceeding that size?

  • ICE Hunts Down Immigrants by Spying on Their Wire Transfers

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  • Bitcoin = Monero in your mind. They aren’t the same, not even close.

    LOL. I understand they are very different entities.

    One of the hilarious details I discovered while researching this is that according to the US Government Accountability Office report "Use of Online Marketplaces and Virtual Currencies in Drug and Human Trafficking" in 2022,

    Representatives of two analytics firms and one exchange also noted that illicit actors use privacy coins less frequently, as they are more difficult to obtain and are supported by fewer exchanges compared to Bitcoin, making it difficult to convert funds to government-issued currency.

    So whatever benefits Monero claims to have in protecting the privacy of illicit activities, the people who could face real time in jail don't consider the benefits worth how extremely annoying it is to use.

  • ICE Hunts Down Immigrants by Spying on Their Wire Transfers

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