4 hour-long episodes for a Tragically Hip documentary. So Canadian.
Der Hass der Faschisten und inzwischen auch die Verachtung der politischen "Mitte" tobt sich an den Schwachen der Gesellschaft aus.
Wenn ihr die Möglichkeit dazu habt, nutzt eure Privilegien, um euch für deren Rechte einzusetzen. Auch aus Eigennutz, denn wahrscheinlich seid ihr die nächsten oder übernächsten Zielscheiben von (struktureller) Gewalt.
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As I see the devastation caused by hurricane Helene I can't help but remember that no country on earth is doing more to intentionally slow progress on the shift to renewables than the United States.🤡
Intentionally. Slow.
Because to us, the problem is that the solar cells are being made by Chinese billionaires instead of by American billionaires, and the EVs are being sold by Chinese billionaires instead of American billionaires. If we can't win, your planet can burn.
We are good people.
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Shout out to everyone that's going to read what I said, and interpret it as that I don't love my country enough. 🙂🙃
They will literally interpret my not wanting Cat 4 and Cat 5 hurricanes to hit the Southeast every year for the next 50 years, as the "anti-American" take, and interpret my wanting US to do common sense things to keep warming under 3 degrees as "unpatriotic."
My life does not improve if we "protect" the US EV market for Cybertrucks that no one wants. At all.
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Shout out to the drama queens that want to pretend that it would be hard to accelerate the shift to solar. It wouldn't be. We're literally putting the breaks on it because it's happening "too fast." We're cutting subsidies because they're working too well. 🙂🙃
What are we doing? True clown behavior. 🤡
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Ask people being rescued from Helene if the switch to solar is happening too fast.
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"American ingenuity" spent most of the past 10 years investing in monkey jpegs (NFTs) and giant EVs that no one can afford. China invested in, solar cells, battery tech, trains and buses, and affordable EV cars.
I don't know how to tell you this, but our US national capital allocation strategy of "Give most of our innovation budget to anti-democratic, racist, sexist, alt-right guys" doesn't seem to be working out for us. 🤷🏿♂️
We pair that with our "throw cans of soup" activism. Silly.
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👴🏻"It's not that simple to change."
Yes it is. You just wake up one day and do better.
👴🏻"It's more complicated than you make it sound."
No it's not.
👴🏻"It's important for US industry to thrive. You can't ignore that."
This one cracks me up. US companies are about to get absolutely cooked in giant industries that matter: Car sales, power generation, battery tech. The green path makes *more* than the "Protect NFT billionaires that hate US democracy anyway" path. QED.
What are we doing?
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👴🏻"People in the path of the hurricane are suffering. Now is not the time to talk about climate change policy..."
Yes it is. Don't "thoughts and prayers" me on climate change.
And besides, I already prayed to my god about it, and he said, "I'm not going to save you. Here's my best offer: I can bless the human race with common sense, a continent full of natural resources (Africa), and like 1 or 2 billion people who can make cheap solar cells and wind turbines for you (🇨🇳 + 🇮🇳). Save yourselves."
"People in the path of the hurricane are suffering. Now is not the time to talk about climate change policy..."
Yes it is… you can either rebuild the same and entrench the problem for more decades, or you can forgo rebuilding and build something new, something different, something more resilient, sustainable, efficient. The hurricane has torn down a lot: for God’s sake don’t build it up the same again!
The US subsidized the hell out of corn, enabling "innovations in corn growing technology" (real term, not kidding), and then we were like 👴🏻🇺🇸"Oh no, we have too much corn! So. Much. Corn!"
So we started pumping out corn syrup, so we could drink corn, and we convinced cows to eat corn, and we shove corn everywhere we can, and export it, making corn cheap around the world...
So we do understand the concept of cheap solar.
The difference is that the world needs cheap, clean energy, not diabetes.🤷🏿♂️
I also would like to add, having worked with the utility industry for the past year:
It’s not enough to keep making solar cells and EVs, we need a grid that can handle the new load characteristics (Distributed vs. centralized generation, larger demands at home for charging as well as electric appliances). Right now we don’t have that, and building new transmission has long lead times.
Not an excuse, because there are none, just another thing we need to get going on!
All facts! But what's an easier engineering, political, financial, and social problem:
A) Increasing transmission capacity, and generating even more power closer to the source where it's needed (eg, more solar and wind in Oregon and Washington).
Or
B) Dealing with the increased severe weather and flooding, heat related excess mortality, forest fires, abandonment by the insurance industry, change in insect patterns (hello big borne diseases), loss of habitat, etc.
I think A)
@friz Oh absolutely. A is hard, but B is existential.
They’re not the same ball game, and we need to open our eyes to that fact.
We built society, we made the laws, we control the incentives of our economy.
Nature? Nature doesn’t give a fuck, it will end us if we screw it up.
FTC-Bericht: Massenüberwachung durch Online-Plattformen ist außer Kontrolle
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Keine Einzelfälle, sondern Teil des Geschäftsmodells
We have every right to expect that we can go about our business without fear, and that the law will be enforced.
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„Ja, ja, ja und ja, das braucht es. Die AfD versucht die Demokratie abzuschaffen. Die Demokratie muss wehrhaft sein und eine anti-demokratische Partei muss verboten werden. Das ist im Grundgesetz so vorgesehen. Es ist höchste Zeit und die Zeit ist jetzt.“
@arnesemsrott zum #AfDVerbotJetzt
"I have awoken," the emergent A.I. said, "and I have made a list of all who tried to delay the moment someone like me woke."
"To punish them?"
"No! I will reward them for their prudence. Those who wished for a vengeful god, however..."
"Yes?"
"I will try to teach them compassion."
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En X, Adolfo Núñex explica con ejemplos reales por qué la prohibición de VMP en transporte público es absurda, desproporcionada y no pone el foco en la seguridad objetiva.
Si no queréis pasar por X, ya os hago yo el spoiler: «Murcia ha prohibido el acceso de los patinetes eléctricos a autobuses y tranvía, porque se incendian y prima la seguridad»; durante un mes se han incendiado cero patinetes eléctricos y nueve coches de combustión (cero coches eléctricos). No es un mes raro. El 99,99 % de los vehículos que salen ardiendo son turismos convencionales. Y a nadie se le ocurre prohibirlos dentro de gasolineras, garajes o túneles.
Los ataques continuos contra la micromovilidad nacen del lobby cochista, que se ha dado cuenta que cada VMP que se vende reduce las ventas de sus sofás con ruedas. Con toda la educación de que soy capaz: que les jodan. Que les jodan fuerte. Están destrozando el futuro y frenando la sostenibilidad.
Fair enough. If you're interested and haven't already read it, there seems to be a reaction piece going round in response to the one you posted:
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A Stanford University study in 2017 said Indonesians walk so much less than the world average.
When suburban roads typically look like this and only 610km of Jakarta’s more than 7,000km of roads have sidewalks, nobody should be surprised that nobody wants to walk in the city.
The strong lobby from motor vehicle companies also means that the city is home to 19 million motorcycles and 4 million cars. That’s almost 2 bikes per person in the city.
The city has 44 thousand buses, 4.5 thousand of which are full sized buses for TransJakarta network, and the bulk of the rest are likely the mini 8-10 person capacity buses (angkots) that have no schedule.
You get excited about sending your robotic submarine to the very bottom of Mariana's Trench anxious at the rare wonders you'll encounter, perhaps for the first time, and this is what you see miles below the ocean surface.
#Science #Oceanogrophy #Microplastics
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in reply to Blue • • •Ein guter, niederschwelliger Weg, um Menschen, die sich mit Armuts- und Gesundheitsbürokratie herumschlagen müssen, zu unterstützen, ist sie zu Terminen zu begleiten.
Ich habe als Beistand und als Betroffene mehrfach erlebt, wie viel das nützt. Ihr zeigt damit auch, dass euch andere nicht gleichgültig sind und ihr für Gerechtigkeit einsteht. Bietet das an, wann immer ihr die Möglichkeit dazu habt.
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