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hanrahan ,
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As another user mentioned, I'd suspect because gay is still a death scentence and/or a criminal charge in some places, those would insist anything gay must me filtered
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hanrahan ,
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Tha makes no sense unliss there was also a hetero tag for homosexuals to use.

Devout Christian Mike Johnson shows up to hush money trial to defend a guy accused of cheating on his wife with a porn star ( www.vanityfair.com )

House Speaker Mike Johnson describes himself as a Christian before anything else. He has said his “faith informs everything I do.” He has told people curious about his views to “pick up a Bible.” His wife reportedly runs a counseling service whose operating agreement, which he himself notarized, states, “We...

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I can see you haven't met many christians if you think this is hypocritical behavior.

Ghandi ? I like your Christ, you Christians are so unlike him.

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Or Australia and the recent church stabbings. NZ and the Christchurch thing, plenty of counties have shit banned beside China.

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I'll have to shit like a barbarian for that time.

I try and pre poop for this reason, if going to town and get caught out etc

Smearng shit around your asshole with paper might have appealed to 8yr old me but no longer is it the mischievous fun it was in the long ago.

It was also bemusing to see the great TP shortages of the Covid era and snicker

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Brexit has left the building. :(

That aside, i dont agree and this way lies stagnation.

The Russian Government has nothing in common with the goals of climate mitigation nor does the US government for that matter. The US and Russian government's for example are well aligned in the biospheres destruction.

If you're not closing airports, banning cars, rebuilding roads and car parks with cycling and small medium density well insulated with and shrubs and trees around s, solar on the roof, closing roads and buildong electrified trains, if you're not banning meat eating pet ownership, cruise ships, personal yachts, jet skis, power boats, banning advertising then you're going the wrong way.

All we get fron cooperation is slight incrementism that's then argued away.

My proof ? We're not even taking baby steps in the rihht dirction, if we were it would have at least paused CO2 emissions with a slight decline but April saw the single largest increase in CO2ppm ever recorded and people are jetting around the world to attend a Taylor Swift concert in response.

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I am not sure the author understands the word threat?

Chinese tax payers subsidising the world's transition to electric mass transit is a good thing.

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Genetic mods dont worry me, we do that now.

IP laws stupidity means its a dangerous step.

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I'd add and don't be butt hurt if the Mod does not agree.

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While there is more then a grain of truth to this, still seems to be time for distracted voters to watch Netflix, goto concerts, watch movies, goto sporting events. You're not going to get out from under any of this by substituting screeching about the need to pay bills, for activism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

Juvenal originally used it to decry the "selfishness" of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population's erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority

You can be distracted and not Vote GOP for example.

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Same thing happened to RFK Jr

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All the time, right now copying 400 MB onto one as an eBook Calibre library backup.

Next steps after the bear

As has been discussed already here in this community, the key takeaway from the bear hypothetical is that it is an opportunity to truly listen to the lived experiences of women under patriarchal systems. I encourage "first response" to the bear discussion to head back to this post, as I am looking for discussion kind of after...

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I said ok, her choice and moved into the next meme/story.

I must admit to not understanding the furore that then arose and don't know why men (am a man) were getting butt hurt. Why would I care if women prefer the company of bears in the woods.

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Just invade, they say they're neutral.

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White women are his majority

https://truthout.org/articles/yes-55-percent-of-white-women-voted-for-trump-no-im-not-surprised/

Whatever he's saying resonates with them

It’s time to stop coddling white women when they bolster white supremacy, and to push for concrete acts of solidarity

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https://truthout.org/articles/yes-55-percent-of-white-women-voted-for-trump-no-im-not-surprised/

Yes, 55 Percent of White Women Voted for Trump. No, I’m Not Surprised.

It’s time to stop coddling white women when they bolster white supremacy, and to push for concrete acts of solidarity

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They don't care. They are lazy cowards who will give up everyone's rights for a false sense of safety.

Thats how it is for most of humanity, from Hitler, through Putin, to Trump, same playbook to appeal to the 80%

“Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be moved in either direction” —Kurt Vonnegut

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What radicalized you?

Assuming you're an anarchist or otherwise leftist radical, what radicalized your position?

For me it was a combination of seeing the rampart corruption of the Greek state and the sloth and hypocrisy of the KKE in my own family. Then afterwards it was the alienation of my own wage-slavery.

Remember to care for your opsec when answering.

@anarchism

hanrahan ,
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Time, more and more bearing witness to deliberate economic and political cruelty by politcans enabled by voters.

Inequality ia the greatest toxicity.

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On the way home I'd think

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{Clicks the link anyway}

Goddamn it, you'd think the OP's name would give it away let alone you cautioning us. I assumed it was a rick roll

hanrahan ,
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And ? Why the hate on billy bong pothead?

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I don't believe you. What you're describing in regards the weather is most of Australia and it's even more car dependent then the US. If you were there, you'd drive.

It's snow bound northern Euro countries that are way more advanced in being car free then sunny warm countries. Have you seen Manila? Jakarta ?

Cycling in winter

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We can only hope!

I'm riding the Queen's Face :)

hanrahan ,
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He just followed Cleese in doing that.

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Butt hurt much?

Why didnt they barricade the car lane off and use that to install the bike barrier lane protectors from ? Use stop / go personell so cars can use the other lane.

They've blocked the entire cycle lane with what looks like a compressor up ahead as well (presumably to supply a pneumatic drill for the bolts)

Or here's an idea, install concrete barricades from the back of a truck with a crane that actually project cyclists from being murdered.

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Boost and Jerboa, the latter via F-Droid.

What are the most private social media platforms?

I've been feeling uneasy about the privacy implications of using Lemmy and similar platforms. The ability for anyone to view your entire posting history feels to me like publicly sharing my browser history. In contrast, most other social media platforms allow you to limit your feed visibility to just friends or followers....

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A perfectly private social media service could be constructed but it likely won't because there is no profit motive.

And here it is, that thing you said most likely won't be..

https://gadgeteer.co.za/gotosocial-is-a-new-activitypub-social-network-server-for-the-fediverse/

Even if it were, how many people would truly use it.

To be social, 3 people, maybe 5 is all you'd need.

As to proft motive, maybe you're not aware of FOSS?

Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says ( www.cbsnews.com )

Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....

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Economists don't rrally think we need food.

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/29/william-nordhaus-climate-economics/

Ignorance of systems has its way of plowing forward, juggernaut-like. Nordhaus has opined that agriculture is “the part of the economy that is sensitive to climate change,” but because it accounts for just 3 percent of national output, climate disruption of food production cannot produce a “very large effect on the U.S. economy.” It is unfortunate for his calculations that agriculture is the foundation on which the other 97 percent of GDP depends. Without food — strange that one needs to reiterate this — there is no economy, no society, no civilization. Yet Nordhaus treats agriculture as indifferently fungible.

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Nokia ? I have an XR20. Doubles as a GPS etc on the front of my bicycle, its great, has a headphone jack and SD expansion.

I am not that familair with their lineup though there is an XR21 I think? And a bunch of other models.

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The problem is human, it's us and we're not taking anything seriously. How much more ? April was the single largest increase in monthly ppm ever recorded

The climates not the problem, we have any number of solutions. Lots of really easy stuff we're not doing, like not flying and cycling and not driving cars, not replacing meat eating pets when they pass. Alll too inconvenient ? Yes ? Well that just makes my point. We assume our entitlment can continue with a few tweaks, well, we can fool ourselves and each other but nature cannot be fooled.

Ask a behavioral expert not a climate scientiest. Can't even get people to stop flying to a Taylor Swift concert or a football match what hope ?

Fuck hope, Plan for the worst.

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Not having outdoor lighting, seriously. I've been workibg on using less for years, trying to drill down between needs and wants.

We can't buy our way out of this using more resources, the only thing truly renewable is organic.

Less is more.

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Yes, imagine, its controlled by Google..and Apple, thay woukd be a backward step

Fuck RCS, just install Signal

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Yeah, I had that with Sony, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung.

A couple years ago, I decided not to cut my nose off to spite my face and evaluate the products and hope some shenanigans root kit doesn't happen after i've purchased it

I think im paraphrasing the author Iain Banks here, I feel like a piece of sweet corn in a turd, technically I'm intact but I'm still surrounded by shit.

On the plus side it pushed me to Linux as my desktop OS.

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My Nokia XR20 has all three (and NFC), that and it being a "tough phone" were the attraction at the time, as it double times as the GPS on my bicycle and track logging hikes etc

I am not sure if the newer XR21 kept them?.

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Yes I'm on it, and don't post much, I guess to dip my toe to check it out but while I take photos for myself I don't look at the photos of others. I was never on IG at all so ...

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A little IG like

hanrahan ,
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Americans treat politics more like football rather then then evaluate politics to see what best for themselves, their community and their country. It's like relegion and is more an indoctrination thing. They're not alone in that of courses, its just seems more pronounced and tribal there.

I am not American and don't live there but used to years ago.

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Why ? I am sure there are lots of good architects that can't lay a row of bricks for shit and won't take feedback from builders and tradespeople either.

Maybe an excellent developer will read it, agree and have a go ? Or they'll collaborate with somone.

‘Ranting, rambling, and paranoid’: Federal appeals court suspends 96-year-old judge until she passes mental exam ( lawandcrime.com )

Judge Newman has threatened to have staff arrested, forcibly removed from the building, and fired. She accused staff of trickery, deceit, acting as her adversary, stealing her computer, stealing her files, and depriving her of secretarial support. Staff have described Judge Newman in their interactions with her as “aggressive,...

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Why do they not want to ? Ego and or indoctrination mainly. (Work itself has worth for being work, power over others, you're an attention whore and fear obscurity, or some combination ). There's also a stigma with being retired.

I retired at 35 and am now 58. My only regret was not stopping earlier.

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I quit at 35 and am now 58. My only regret was being too afraid to do it earlier.

How ? I long ago was able to to differentiate needs from wants.

I do own my own small house. Each year I have excess funds, some is rolled over and reinvested, some is donated to charity, because the small investments I do have earn way more then my needs.

I'd consider euthanasia if I had to return to work because of some unforseen reason, after deaades of freedom Arbeit macht frei is prison.

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