At this point what they learn in business schools is the full bestiary of legal and illegal tricks and scams you can use to extract money from us cattle and contribute as little as possible to the upkeep :(

Haha, was it the endless cliff next to the gun island? Been there lmao

Subnautica…when I was so immersed that I went too deep…didn’t have enough time to return to the surface to breathe…and then looked up in anguish and saw that dreaded refraction “circle” hundreds of meters above you… THE DEEP HAS YOU, THERE IS NO ESCAPE

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It’s about return on energy. Fossil fuels return 20x what you invest it’s essentially free energy.

(edit: roughly, this translates to how many people are free to do things with the work of one, if every person lives alone, it’s 1, if each person has a personal slave/robot, it’s around 2, we want to stay well above 2. Modern society has 19 people doing all sorts of non-survival things for each one farming and collecting resources because fossil is so “cheap”)

Renewables can reach 5-10 at best, which is not so bad (medieval was around 1.3, pre-industrial with slavery was around 1.8), so you can do it, but it will have to reshape society, which will be fine, if we know what we’re doing or can at least imagine what we are aiming for to avoid disappointment. It’s hard to be utopian going backwards.

This whole debate started with carbon footprints and carbon pricong, because I believe that creating a market can help the less virtuous among us to use their greed to help solve the problem of public consent in a consumerist society without devolving into a dictatorship.

But yea, let’s aim for that energy return of say… 7 and try to imagine what such a society would look like. A return to slower shipping by sail again…more solar boilers for all hot water…solar desalination…peak-solar hydrogen for fertilizers and airplanes…more compact cities with mass transit and bikes, lots of working from home, more fixing things DIY…a return from cities to the countryside and decentralisation would help, but only if those communities were more self-sustained and local, with 2x more power to farming, mining and wind/solar communities (meaning potentially smaller countries)…now I could describe all the potential setbacks of all of those points, but I won’t, because this is solarpunk and we need more imagining of what things are going to be like when we succeed…not so much the year 500 :)

No, they mean the Haber process that requires energy-intensive (can mass-solar do it?) hydrogen to convert nitrogen back into ammonia.

Heya fellow raccoon, raccoon Bible is much better than the one compiled by Roman bishops in 325AD in Nicea e.g. “let there be trash for all” and “give to racoons what belongs to the raccoons” :D

To my own discredit, I still lurk the reddit NCD without an account and they’re all over this back there :)

NCD is so noncredible that it overflowed back to prophetic: https://old.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/zp6b78/hamas_paragliders/ lol

maybe it needs a little curation, but once you’ve blocked the instances, communities and users that are personally annoying to you, it’s a fun and engaging place with the usual share of human noise. Maybe some people are happy to have reddit choosing what deserves to reach your eyes, I like to do it myself :)

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After clicking some links, I confirmed that there was also a storm called Daniel and that the two dams didn’t just burst by themselves, they burst because of the flood from that storm

PS: apparently it’s not just the storm, there were previous warnings.

A 2022 report in an academic journal had warned that if a flood equivalent to one in 1959 was repeated, it would be “likely to cause one of the two dams to collapse, making the residents of the valley and the city of Derna vulnerable due to a high risk of flooding”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/12/libya-floods-death-toll-dams-burst

Akshualy, America is a continent :)

Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia…they are all Americans ;)

Ya need a better slogan.

Fun fact: Lincoln was Marx’s penpal and Marx influenced Lincoln’s opposition to slavery :)

Lol, that’s a hell of a “leak”, good enough for r/conspiracy! Just after a fresh joint military exercise https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-us-garuda-shield-military-exercise-73159bc1badec145b176319404304151

Indonesia is already a democracy, it’s already giving the US most of what it wants and Indonesia relies on the US to defend its minor interests in the South China sea, but thanks for the heads up, if there is a revolution, I’ll know either China, russia or Iran are behind it.

It was the [email protected] but I’m not sure where it is because lemmy.ml does not seem to exist.

Added context: the removed comment is from a hexbear, which I find even more ironic, because it was one of the more level-headed ones :)

One of the advantages of lemmy is the transparent modlog, where I see a) lots of thankless work mods perform I assume for free b) 99.99% bullshit that is not constructive in a public forum. I’m adjusting my expectations about the false positive removal rate considering how much useless comments get through.

yep, your slavery increases somebody else’s freedom from work, but they are not the same thing, that “is” is doing some heavy lifting there.

The point by George Orwell is that when you accept propaganda soundbites unthinkingly, you become somebody’s tool.

That’s just a modern abusive interpretation of the Koran in some societies anyway. E.g. https://www.abdullahyahya.com/2019/09/proof-muslim-women-dont-have-to-cover-their-hair/

Of course once your family has inculcated in you that body privacy is a duty, you may begin to see it as your right in France where institutions are secular, which creates these integration problems.

If there is a pair of kids in a school who doesn’t want to wear what their parents force on them, to me that is still worth protecting at the expense of Muslim conservative students’ right to wear a traditional dress.