I left Reddit much too late. I guess some habits can be hard to break.
My main account is here. For now, I am also using solo@fedia.io for some local news.
Btw I’m a non-binary trans person [they/she/he].
You might be interested in taking a look at the following articles:
Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air | MIT, Nov 2024
Study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring about promised reductions.
The fossil fuel industry promotes solutions such as carbon capture and storage, liquefied natural gas, hydrogen, and renewable natural gas, which critics argue are far more focused on preserving industry profits than significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The tactics they use include funding university research that skews public discourse and policymaking in the direction of their preferred solutions. They have hired management consultancies to conduct skewed analysis supporting those solutions and funded lobbyists, and advertising and public relations firms to promote them.
there is no chance that it is legal in any country that recognises and protects human rights.
It looks like there is No ban on conversion therapy in many states in the US, parts of Australia, Sweden and several places in Europe, according to the map on the wiki page Legality of conversion therapy.
To where? Where will they go? Who will take them?
(To) Hospitals
How will they even be let out?
According to the article : “Under this ceasefire agreement, there is supposed to be a mechanism in place for medical evacuations. We’ve still not seen that process spelled out,”
I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to explain all this.
The boiling thing sounds like a great tip
If you have a good link on how to do pickled vegetables or with tips, please share!
I suppose if you have some bureaucratic ties with an EU country, Ireland would be easier to go to. Or if you want easy access to other european countries in the long term. To my knowledge finding a place to stay there is very hard as well as expensive, especially in Dublin. I don’t really know how the squatting scene is but I guess you would need to know at least one local for this sort of info. Few years back, you find a job online (with a short contract usually), and accommodation would be provided, I don’t mean free. Currently, I’m not sure.
Without knowing much about current politics in Serbia (or having actual trust or hope in governmental politics in general) I wanted to ask you: is there any interesting opposing politicians/parties/coalitions to your knowledge?
Now that you mentioned the Luddites, last year I listened to a very informative podcast from Margaret Killjoy:
as long as evidentiary screenshots are good to go
Interesting point and the way you put it, kinda helps me frame an answer. For me, the keyword you used was evidentiary
Practically, I can think of a couple of reasons for now (there could be more!) to use a screenshot, let’s say from twitter.
As evidence of what a deleted tweet was saying. I have the impression that due to how things are there nowadays, we are far from that sort of discourse.
Or as a reference to an actual tweet. In this case - imo - the screenshot is not necessarily enough as evidence, so a link is needed like we see in some articles. I suppose it also depends very much on the community itself. For example a white people twitter community is very different from one that is related to ocean conservation & tidalpunk, like this one.
For now, that’s more or less what I have in mind, and I’m open to discussion for sure.
I am not denying there is a historical reference to the use of this term. I just think it also makes sense - especially if we take into consideration the last 100 years or so - for this term to shift from its initial meaning. Or to put it differently, in other languages this shift has taken place for decades now.
I understand what you say and I agree. Still I would like to add something:
I have noticed that in the english speaking world when people talk about the left they often include anarchy in this term. For me, this is highly problematic too, since the left has hierarchical structures and anarchy has horizontal ones.
I thought of sharing this relevant 9 minute video:
I think depending on where one lives, their local conditions may be very different. So I don’t consider personal experience to be necessarily the best reference on the topic.
I thought of sharing this video because it is from a climate scientist and in just a few minutes many things are clarified imo.
I was under the impression that:
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the US accounted for 69% of Israel’s imports of major conventional arms between 2019 and 2023.
And that:
In May 2024, the US confirmed it had paused a single consignment of 2,000lb and 500lb bombs over concerns Israel was going ahead with a major ground operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. But Biden immediately faced a backlash from Republicans in Washington and from Netanyahu who appeared to compare it to an “arms embargo”. Biden has since partially lifted the suspension and not repeated it.
From Biden plans to send $8bn arms shipment to Israel - BBC - 4 January 2025
I was not aware of the existence of Shut the System and I like their approach, so I find it’s great you included their link to your post @silence7@slrpnk.net
Edit: Did a sort of repost to In Person Activism@slrpnk.net
Thank you very much for your insight!
Once more then. In the picture you see Sasol petrochemical plant.
I thought of linking a recent podcast from The Great Simplification:
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz: “Always Adding More: The Unpopular Reality about Energy Transitions”