I feel you 😆

I tried to find the info you talk about in https://www.ecosia.org/ but for some reason I didn’t mange to do so. Could you share a link where they say these things?

The way I see things, we/humans are not the problem. The system that is currently dominant is. Meaning systems change and even tho those in power try to make us think otherwise.

For example, in the past many people believed that it’s impossible to have “proper” societies without a king. Time proved them wrong.

After reading some of the comments I thought of looking up if Graeber had actually said this quote. It looks like he did. In an interview in 2012: David Graeber: Beholden | Rebecca Solnit and David Graeber on anarchism as a problem-solving tool, the return of debtors’ prisons, and why communism is ingrained in capitalism. The full paragraph goes like that:

For example, the notion that anything that money touches, or that commerce touches, or that exchanges trade, is capitalism, and if you introduce any element of that into what might seem to be a non-capitalist situation, then suddenly that is part of capitalism. One of the things I discovered while writing this is that, to the contrary, markets and state power have always been deeply intertwined. And one of the facts that I discovered while researching, which I didn’t know at all before I started writing, is that free market ideology—does anyone know where it first comes from? It comes from medieval Islam, and specifically, Shari’a. Because Shari’a provided this commercial law that is independent from the state.

I wanted to ask you where did you find this stat? I have the impression I didn’t see something like that in the post.

That’s my understanding as well, that AccelerateEU has to do with other aspects.

For public transport, the closest thing to what you say and that I am aware of is the Urban Mobility Framework.

I like the vertically mounted bifacial panels.
Highly recommended for areas that get a lot of snow.

As for Ron being claimed to be the “right” one in the end, I can’t think of any other time his outlandish adherence to his “free market” beliefs was portrayed seriously.

It seems to me that towards the end of this vid, this is clarified. I haven’t seen this show so I don’t have an opinion, just saying.

Great of you to notice this, and that you went to the vet - you already know you saved Wirt’s life.

My understanding is that dry food is not really ideal for cats. In the wild, these small carnivores, eat small prey and get the liquids they need from their food. This is why where I live, people say that cats don’t drink water. The simple urinary dry food, makes them drink more, so by peeing more the crystals don’t get formed. The medicinal food for struvite, on top of that it has also has something that dilutes the crystals.

The water fountain you got sounds like a great idea. Since you have more than one cats and if you don’t live in a tiny studio apartment, please conciser having - if you have for example 2 cats:

• 2 sources for drinking water in different places. One can easily be a bowl with fresh water in the sense to change it daily.
• 2 litter boxes, with plenty of sand in them, cleaned on daily basis
• the litter box and water not be close to each other

Currently I have only one cat and he had the same issue twice during the summertime. Both times he had to do a procedure with full anesthesia. Since he can go out almost whenever he wants and during summer whenever he wants, and because we live in a neighborhood that we feed the strays, during summer he was also eating low quality dry food. This is -most probably- why he had the second, perhaps even the first incidents. Something that worked in our case was the following: during winter he eats the simple urinary and during summer the medicinal for struvite. Several years have passed since the last incident, but it’s true that during summer I am super alert.

Of course double-check what I say with your vet, and if you are told something different, please let me know!

the body cameras are definitely a good thing

I am not so sure about that tbh. Where I live (another continent) they are used by some sort of officers to patrol boarders. Whenever these officers do push-backs/kill immigrants/etc their cameras are never on.

Th following article is more relevant to the US

The history of police body cameras is more complex and troubling than we’ve been told

With body cameras, law enforcement agencies could expand their surveillance capacity, mitigate police brutality lawsuits, create “highly controllable evidence” against the largely poor, largely Black citizens of whom police often seek to capture footage, and quell social unrest by creating “comprehensive digital archives” of attendees at protests for social change.

Yes, and there’s guerrilla gardening too!

Class is just one of the hierarchical structures in societies. Dismantling all of them is the point. Well, imo.

Thank you for this much more accurate representation of philanthropy laundering

I suppse this is a fair point, but I do have a slight objection to your statement. It’s not possible that they have always been this way. They are creatures that evolve, just like all living beings.

(Now that I think about it, even non-living stuff change through time)

I like what she said:

She told the crowd: "I would never condemn the resistance of Palestinians because their resistance is due to the occupation.

"So, if you want to talk about violence, if you want to talk about atrocities, then point the finger to the state of Israel.

“I am sick of being told to condemn Hamas, when Hamas are fighting for freedom, Hamas are fighting for the people.”

She denied supporting Hamas and said she had been referring to them as “the most well-known representation of Palestinian resistance”.

“I don’t support Hamas, I support the liberation of the Palestinian people,” she told the jury.

Let’s also keep in mind what the IPCC warns us about, in relation to Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR):

CDR deployed at scale is unproven, and reliance on such technology is a major risk in the ability to limit warming to 1.5°C

It looks like the Cypriot government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said:

“Regarding statements and reports referring to the launching of missiles towards Cyprus, it is clarified that this is not true and there is no indication whatsoever that there was a threat to the country.”

An unsafe abortion is less safe than no abortion at all.

How can you know that? Giving birth can also be deadly.

Maybe so, maybe no. It depends on what we do. If we do nothing, sure. If we act towards solution, no.

Doomerism does not leave room for action, like if things are predetermined. So I cannot agree with your point of view.

Tbh I find the “net zero” approach problematic on so many levels that I hesitated posting this article. But due to the fact that this is an analysis of the press that had a span of almost 15 years of this topic, it seemed like worth posting.

Apart from that, personally I agree with you (if I got you right) that privatisation of the energy sector in the UK , or any sector I can think of actually, is to the detriment of all living beings and the environment as a whole. Still I don’t mind researches that talk about other relevant things, even if I consider them less important, for example. Meaning, looking at one thing, doesn’t mean not looking to another.