Brainsploosh @ Brainsploosh @lemmy.world

Posts

3

Comments

209

Joined

2 yr. ago

Preparation time. The easy ones came first, the ones that require thought, planning, care and/or legal proceedings come as part of the ramp-up

They will respond faster to heavy regulations/taxation, national policy shifts towards renewable energies, fossil fuel bans and nationalisation/forced liquidation.

No individual is their primary customer, and doesn't have the negotiating power to affect them, they are effectively Mega corps, and immune even to certain national laws.

Vote for a government that will affect them, the other meaningful option (for individuals) is sabotage/Eco-terrorism, which isn't really a long-term solution.

There are other things you can do individually as well, like try using the car and AC less, and generally live more frugally.

But remember that 100 companies make up 71% of all human made carbon emissions. It's good to act locally, but we need global action to stop these companies and their supporters, that means voting for competent government.

Atlantis levels of rain

They both look to be enjoying themselves so much!

And oh, lordy lord, the one with B.B. King is fantastic blues

Thank you for sharing your find!

Biggest reason for written exams is bulk processing.

There are many better ways to show competency, ask any engineering or medical school, but few as cheap.

The future will never be about drone vs drone, as no one cares about the drones. They have to hit where it hurts, which is human life.

Best case scenario, wars will be fought over drone command centres. Much more probably drones will be used to increase civilian suffering to end the wars.

I'll add my voice to the consensus, ignore the part where it's connected to the books. It's a superficially similar story, but it has neither the purpose, storytelling or even plot points of the books.

What I find the hardest is that despite having a solid plot and concept to follow, the series has very weak story telling. It might be that I'm getting old, but I find the focus is more on eye candy and cool situations than on progressing the story and characters.

It has the feel of filler content to generate ad opportunity, or an illustrated podcast about someone who once read the books but has too much ADHD to be able to retell what they read.

That is also the vibe of much other content on AppleTV, so might be a conscious choice of which I'm not a target demographic. I'll be shouting at clouds about it though, maybe it'll slow climate change while I'm at it.

You should try more loose leaf teas.

The bag itself will limit the leaf length, and both bagging, transport and storage in the bag degrades teas at a very accelerated rate.

See if you can find a tea with at least 4 cm (half a finger length, or about 1.5") leaf length and compare, preferably with an enthusiast brewing it to get the most flavor out of it. A popular variant is Silver needles.

That's where you'll start getting complex and changing flavor profiles from the tea itself, it's not for everyone, but well worth a try.

Of course, all the economic rationeles are valid.

They are also not very compelling. If slaver Europe fucked over Africa for a century, should we compensate them only for stolen labor? How about stolen resources? Caused suffering? Lost progress? Lost standing? Lost lives?

How about all the exploitation that has happened since, due to slaver Europe having the upper hand? African labor and resources are still valued lower than in richer countries as local working conditions are still poor and exploitative.

Also, could paying reparations as a lump sum ever measure up to the slow development of infrastructure, knowledge, culture and national pride/trust/stability that comes with building your own wealth?

We have plenty of experience with aid getting stolen by warlords, and grants commonly get lost to corruption, cronies and other misappropriation, even without the warlords.

For the fiscal compensation to make sense, we're talking orders of magnitude larger sums, and they would have to be given together with labor, knowledge, supportive relations, etc. over decades. And also with much fewer strings than our current economic system allows.

I find that there is no satisfying way to fiscally compensate for a century of exploitation, suffering and oppression, and have found that the sums and arguments are more compelling as an absolution. It's about the slavers wanting to clear their conscience more than making it right.

It's not the most noble reason for it, but it seems do do more for that than for the exploited people. Either change what we're talking about, or face that your reasons are about you, not them.

This is fantastic. I want to lick your brain (in an appreciative and consensual way).

I found I disagreed strongly, but that was for standing tables, for dining tables I agree without reservation. Well phrased!

Why not organise some politically challenging demonstrations and raise the terror threat level?

That usually dampens tourism and housing market for a while, especially if there's an actual attack.