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dillekant

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  • Pay per shower: fully-funded aged care turns market-driven aged support - Michael West

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  • And here I thought the elderly didn't really believe in anything, but they sure do believe in capitalism...

  • Americans are afraid of transit crime. Part of the negative image around public transit comes from the idea that it is dangerous

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  • There was a parent who didn't correctly park her pram on a train platform, and sadly the pram went onto the train line, and one of the children and her husband died. This was a major news story, harrowing CCTV footage, a community in mourning. There was discussion on changing platforms to be safer, etc.

    Similar story with an SUV which reversed over a pram. No CCTV, the story was barely reported, largely local news. Similar scale of tragedy, and sadly the SUV story is probably more common, but the fact that it's common also makes it an invisible story.

  • Americans are afraid of transit crime. Part of the negative image around public transit comes from the idea that it is dangerous

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  • I do think part of the issue is that you might not see actual violence on a train, but you might see some behaviour which makes you feel uncomfortable. Because you're in a carriage with maybe 100 other people, then the likelihood is less that you're in any actual danger, and far more that you've witnessed an incident which makes you wary. Meanwhile, there are several car accidents daily, but it's witnessed by maybe 20 odd people, and most people only see a slowdown of the road.

  • Kia Is Giving Away 'Nostalgic' Motor Oil and Gasoline-Scented Car Freshener to EV Buyers

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  • mmmmm... mildly carcinogenic...

  • What if Humanity forgot how to make CPUs?

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  • This is about institutional memory. Like we know how to make a cassette tape player, but we can't actually do it.

  • Measuring cup that doesn't lose its printing?

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  • I don't know if there's a name for it, but an increasing number of recipe writers are using only weight based measurements. This is super handy because you just have a scale, add ingredients, and just tare as you need. The measurements are also more accurate because, eg, flour can be compacted, so "1 cup of flour" could vary by a lot depending on how you measure it.

  • Trump Administration Moves to Relax Rules on Climate Super Pollutants

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  • This is what happens when you believe dogma such as "deregulation is good" over what's right in front of your eyes of "companies will poison the earth".

  • The police have a "success" rate of about 2%

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  • Honestly I think as a "regular citizen", this is somewhat aligned with what I want the police to deal with? Like assault, robbery, murder, they're somewhat dealt with. The big problem is with Rape, but theft being the vast majority of crime with the vast minority of effort, that's totally fine.

  • What if Humanity forgot how to make CPUs?

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  • That's why it's solarpunk.

  • What if Humanity forgot how to make CPUs?

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  • The "forgetting" isn't individuals forgetting, it's about institutional memory. Individually, there might be plenty of folks who can build chips, but they might live too far apart, or there's no money in it, or whatever other mechanism which causes things to be built and the technology to continue. There's a massive bootstrapping issue.

  • What if Humanity forgot how to make CPUs?

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  • That's why it's solarpunk. Slower computers which need different software.

  • Why Hyundai Is Eating Toyota’s Lunch In America's Pure EV Market

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  • Imagine it's the year 2000, 25 years ago now (deargod). The idea back then was that you switch over to Blue hydrogen (still sourced from Fossil Fuels) and build out that market for Green Hydrogen. As a usability switchover, it's very close to Petrol as you can have petrol companies make and sell the hydrogen, so for the customers, everything is the same.

    But, everyone dragged their feet on this. The government was successfully convinced that CC wasn't real, companies (Toyota, Honda) had Hydrogen with their loser teams that didn't make money, no one wanted to invest. Now we're 25 years later, the whole world has changed, but Toyota couldn't really change strategy because they never invested in BEVs (they wanted Hydrogen), but because Hydrogen also failed (and the ship has sailed on that now. BEVs are literally more convenient now) they're stuck.

    To succeed now they need to admit they fucked up really bad, and that's going to kill their stock price, and that's going to basically end the company so they can't switch over to BEV investment this late in the game.

  • What if Humanity forgot how to make CPUs?

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  • Depends on if you believe that using biodegradable plastics on your chip packet is dystopia because ruffling it around sounds different.

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
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    What if Humanity forgot how to make CPUs?

  • i mean

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  • Lobbying, protest, etc. These are effective. Money matters less than you think*. Often organising gets the job done.

    • The US is a weird case there, but in general this holds.

  • i mean

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  • Yes, exactly this. The book by Andreas Malm had a review which read like "this book is less how to blow up a pipeline, and more why to blow up a pipeline", and the movie is working on a metaphorical level to argue the case. You're not meant to emulate it directly.

  • i mean

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  • USA.

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  • It's a good movie, but like others have noted, this is not how you do it. 90% of blowing up a pipeline is community building, being able to get the gear you need and carry it out with a lot of people knowing and being able to trust that they won't rat you out. But it turns out when you have a community like that, well, you don't need to blow up the pipeline, you can just lobby the government.

  • Polar 'geoengineering' projects won't protect environment against climate change, scientists warn

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  • Sadly, politicians just want the hot potato issue off their table so they can claim stability, and this is a way to do that without causing too much disruption.

  • Musicians v the climate crisis: ‘We’re trying to put on the greenest show in Australia’

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  • The band also provided venues with a “green rider”, requesting measures including eliminating single-use plastics

    Again, not saying they're perfect, but feels like they're trying.

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    "Tech that let me down" Special 3

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
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    Anyone else excited for / played Earthborne Rangers?

  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    SR talk | Prof. Steve Keen: "What economists don't know about climate science can kill us"

    tube.rebellion.global /w/gSVEZrkLs3bNWSLNdEHQiZ
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    What Astrophysicists Think About Aliens

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    How to Save a Drying City (BENGALURU)

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    How to blow up a pipeline: the movie

    www.imdb.com /title/tt21440780/
  • Permacomputing @slrpnk.net
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    Dune is not anti-tech… | technology under capitalism

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    15 Minute Cities: A DISASTER waiting to happen

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    On civil disobedience

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    RANT

    I'm sick of the ocean boiling in Solarpunk fiction

  • Permacomputing @slrpnk.net
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    Soo I pulled out my ageing laptop