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  • Beef and lamb get 580 times more in EU subsidies than legumes, study finds

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  • Not eating it is much easier than stealing it.

    Indeed. But also less effective.

    I consider vegans neutral. They neither help nor hinder the industry of animal products. I love this quote by Desmond Tutu:

    “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

  • Beef and lamb get 580 times more in EU subsidies than legumes, study finds

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  • Or, more controversally, stop paying for meat. I personally have no ethical problem with shoplifting meat. To buy meat is unethical because it supports the meat industry. To shoplift is to punish and deter those causing harm.

    The only thing that stops me from shoplifting meat is I cannot be bothered to study the art of it and then take on the risks of getting caught.

  • Beef and lamb get 580 times more in EU subsidies than legumes, study finds

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  • Guardian is paywalled for me.

  • Beef and lamb get 580 times more in EU subsidies than legumes, study finds

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  • Certainly that’s the case in the US. It would be suicide for US republicans adhere to their conservative values and drop subsidies, which would outrage all the farmers whose vote republicans rely on. (edit) So the survival of the republican party inherently forces them into hypocricy.

    But why don’t the dems nix meat subsidies? No farmers vote for dems, so no loss there. But I suppose there would be enough meat-eating dems who would abandon their own party. Just like in California a politician tried to push a fuel tax and got voted out by both parties.

  • Work/commuting backpack, ideally not a US company

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  • For the laptop, you will want to ensure that the bottom of the laptop compartment is not at the bottom of the bag. A good design puts a few cm air gap between the bottom of the bag and bottom of the laptop compartment so that when you set down the bag, no shock reaches the laptop.

    Maybe it’s common.. not sure.

  • Older Vegans Need 58 Percent Less Medication, Study Finds

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  • The article doesn’t say /when/ someone must become vegan to benefit. If someone eats meat regularly their whole life then goes vegan at 65, is that too late to make a notable difference?

    Also a bit interesting about the gut health. I would have expected meat eaters to be getting bigger doses of gut bacteria.

  • Twenty four US states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket.

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  • Of course I will need to be in a disposable income situation to get one of these.

    The prices I’ve seen for the simple plug-in PVs are terrible. I can only imagine it making sense on frequent road trips or camping, or perhaps in situations where you live in an apartment and have no rooftop real estate for proper panels.

  • JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley Are Pausing on Some US Renewable Deals

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  • JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley Are Pausing on Some US Renewable Deals

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  • How bad is our e-waste problem when $500 of RAM is getting tossed?

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  • I have 25 tabs open on Ungoogled Chromium w/the Sway window manager, without struggle, and a few other workspaces and browsers going. But Sway may be making the difference. I think things like Gnome and KDE can be a bit heavy.

  • How bad is our e-waste problem when $500 of RAM is getting tossed?

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  • 4gb is what I have. That’s plenty for linux.

  • How bad is our e-waste problem when $500 of RAM is getting tossed?

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  • I actually prefer 2008 chips (no spy chips / management engine). And yet my local charity rejects any laptop older than a Windows 7 sticker. So the hardware I prefer gets trashed before I can get to it because it’s presumed too old for anyone.

  • How bad is our e-waste problem when $500 of RAM is getting tossed?

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  • If you put it on freecycle.org with a pic of the stuff sitting on the curb, there is no calling dibs. It’s a competition between other takers and the rain which can inspire quick action.

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    ⛽🥩⛔ Amsterdam becomes 1st capital city to ban ads for meat and fossil fuels

    popularresistance.org /amsterdam-becomes-first-capital-city-to-ban-fossil-fuel-ads/
  • 🌱Climate Change🌡⛈ @slrpnk.net
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    ⛽🥩⛔ Amsterdam becomes 1st capital city to ban ads for meat and fossil fuels

    popularresistance.org /amsterdam-becomes-first-capital-city-to-ban-fossil-fuel-ads/

  • Billie Eilish, stolen land, and the climate cost of America’s dispossession

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  • The article goes down a deep rabbit hole on the idea of returning land to the original indigenous owners. It’s interesting, but then what? Eilish’s point was apparently missed as the article drifts. When the land is not returned (for whatever reason), there is a problem with bullying immigrants on the stolen land. Particularly when some of the “immigrants” are descendants of the original indigenous owners, which is the most perverse case the article neglects.

    My history knowledge on this is a bit spotty and sparse but IIRC California (or part of it) was originally part of Mexico. Perhaps Texas as well.

  • The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating unoptimizability as a habit | tiny personal victories over a broken capitalist system won't change society, but they can be very satisfying

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  • but depriving them of that in a disorganized way doesn’t actually cause them to change their methods.

    Nonsense. That’s not how business works. A disorganized boycott lacks an express list of demands. That does not mean the oppressor does not know what drives the boycott. If they know what the issue is, the business case wins.

    More importantly, as explained in detail, behavior modification is not the only goal. I have no demands for Microsoft. MS is unredeemable. There is nothing they can change to reverse my boycott. The boycott ensures that MS gains no revenue from me. MS loses the empowerment of the capital they would otherwise acquire from my patronage. I am free from serving as an enabler. I force other people to feed Microsoft’s competitors. If they want to talk to me, they cannot use outlook.com.

  • The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating unoptimizability as a habit | tiny personal victories over a broken capitalist system won't change society, but they can be very satisfying

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  • There is a causal link. Patronisation feeds money (or profitable data) to the oppressor. There is no reasonable question that patrons increase revenue. There is no reasonable question that revenue supports a company’s operations.

    You’re also missing the other point that I made. Reducing the adversary’s revenue is not the only effect. It’s a training exercise. Boycotting puts you into a disciplined lifestyle that enables you to study how the infra works without the oppressor. You see what patrons do not. You support alternative markets and competitors. It enables identification of problems with the alternate path, thus enabling corrective actions.

    By refusing to send email to a Microsoft recipient, I consequently support the postal service (which is under threat by email). Support for the postal service is more important than MS’s loss of my profitable data. If the recipient does not publish a physical address and it’s a gov agency, I make an open data demand to force them to publish it, ultimately to enable compeition with MS. The recipient is also burdened by having to deal with paper mail. That burden serves as pressure to use a less controversial email supplier.

  • The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating unoptimizability as a habit | tiny personal victories over a broken capitalist system won't change society, but they can be very satisfying

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  • anyone who reads this thread will know i’m right.

    You certainly did not convince me. I gave rationale. If you don’t like the rationale, it’s on you to counter it. Good luck trying to convince others.

  • The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating unoptimizability as a habit | tiny personal victories over a broken capitalist system won't change society, but they can be very satisfying

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  • The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating unoptimizability as a habit | tiny personal victories over a broken capitalist system won't change society, but they can be very satisfying

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  • Living in vans, cars, RVs, etc @lemmy.sdf.org
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    why not add !offgrid@slrpnk.net to the sidebar?

  • No Lawns @slrpnk.net
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    👮 Neighbor called the cops on me for having weeds 🌿 -- how to work the system in this situation

  • zerowaste @slrpnk.net
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    To fight back against chronic forced smartphone upgrades, we need a tool to track public access points that impose new phones

  • Enshittification @slrpnk.net
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    Decreasing visibility of physical addresses appearing on websites.. even public/government agencies and human rights NGOs

  • Enshittification @slrpnk.net
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    Enshitification attributed to the fall of FTP services

  • zerowaste @slrpnk.net
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    Looks like the EU somewhat wants to start to interfere with Amazon’s habit of trashing unsold goods. If you work in an Amazon EU warehouse, get your whistle ready.

  • PeerTube @lemmy.wtf
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    Locked

    Please consider removing *@lemmy.world from the sidebar

  • Enshittification @slrpnk.net
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    The deeper problem w/tech enshitification is conditioning of users to expect it and accept it -- parallels research on smokers’ conditioning to accept filth

  • Enshittification @slrpnk.net
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    The Flixbus chatbot claims nothing it says is legally binding (but a court found otherwise in Canada, ruling against an airline)

    webchat.flixbus.com
  • Right to Repair @discuss.tchncs.de
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    anti-repair tactic: h/w support s/w ships as a download manager instead of an actual app (Transcend HDDs)

  • Fediverse @hilariouschaos.com
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    Lemmyverse is not decentralised. It’s neutral at best.

  • Fediverse @hilariouschaos.com
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    There is a “Cathedral and Bazaar” within the fediverse that manifests as utilitarian users and deontological users, respectively

  • Fediverse @hilariouschaos.com
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    Wrote a script to find decentralised communities w/in the fedi. It selects nodes w/active users < avg+2σ. Is that a good approach? Check my math plz.

  • No Lawns @slrpnk.net
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    sheep mowers, not lawn mowers

    www.ucdavis.edu /curiosity/news/surprising-benefits-of-sheep-mowers
  • Is this Instance Down? @infosec.pub
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    linkage.ds8.zone has been “temporarily” down for days now

  • XMPP @slrpnk.net
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    Vcard 4-- Unable to include the /fingerprint/ of an OMEMO encryption key

  • degoogle @europe.pub
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    How can I send a GDPR request to Google if I am not a user/patron? How can Google ID me to process my request if I do not want them to have my name or mailing address?

  • zerowaste @slrpnk.net
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    How old TomTom and Garmin Satnavs could be useful, instead of e-waste (but OSMand and Organic Maps need to improve)