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Does Big #Oil Deserve A Seat At #COP28?
https://handbuiltcity.org/2023/11/29/does-big-oil-deserve-a-seat-at-cop28-in-dubai-uae/
Does Big Oil Deserve A Seat At COP28? - The Handbuilt City
COP28 kicks off tomorrow in Dubai, the crown jewel of Middle East oil wealth and global capitalist excess. Are we surprised? Well, no.Nat M. Zorach (The Handbuilt City)
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Avoid the Washington Post on December 7, 2023.
“A letter to our dedicated readers:
On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.”
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@adamantichrist Ugh. I did not know he owned it.
I wonder how many catch and kill articles he's responsible for?
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I find it odd that the Feds are concerned the Jetblue/Spirit deal would reduce competition but are absolutely fine with Musk owning 80% of GLOBAL satellite launches and controlling the only satellite communication service available to countries highly depending on it to survive.
Weird.
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I don't know what to make of this
https://spacenews.com/spacex-providing-starlink-services-to-dod-under-unique-terms-and-conditions/
SpaceX providing Starlink services to DoD under ‘unique terms and conditions’ - SpaceNews
SpaceX providing Starlink services to DoD under ‘unique terms and conditions’Sandra Erwin (SpaceNews)
Frank Kendall is obviously not on the board concerned about 2 sh!t airlines merging
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#UK #government has ‘#blacklist’ of 50 #countries and #US #States that let people #transition ‘too easily’.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Tories #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia #TERFIsland
UK government has ‘blacklist’ of countries that let people transition ‘too easily’
The UK government has drawn up a blacklist of countries they say let people transition 'too easily' in its latest attack on queer migrants.Chantelle Billson (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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Sometimes I've sat next to that in real life.
You know that feeling when you see a kid try to do something in a way which catastrophically does not work?
Like, good intentions, but the poor thing will only achieve confusion?
It's like that, but they're grown-ups.
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out into homeschool; and every time i got lonely and tried to go back into school i just got debilitating panic attacks and had to give up. I was mostly isolated from everyone my own age for 10 years during a critical stage in development; which i have come to call being “feral”- no socialisation. and since whenever i am weird it’s impossible to know whether it’s that I am feral, trans, undiagnosed autism or undiagnosed ADHD i can’t exactly pick apart what “male socialisation” means for me
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for a time, after I left school, i decided to grow my hair long. What I told everyone at the time was i wanted to be like my metal head big brother. but remembering back i can’t really be sure whether that was just an excuse I was using. once my hair was long, on the rare occasions i left the house, people solidly assumed I was a girl. from this point forward my brain seems to contain two sets of parallel memories about how I felt: my initial reaction and the performative lies i gave to help me feel safe.
So when people at family reunions were all “who’s that girl”, i deflected. I felt like i was getting away with something. when boys assumed it, i acted angry at them for making such a mistake.
like basically, “don’t wanna be a guy but looks like I am stuck with this so I may as well try to learn to like it” - spirit broken. very contrast to early transitioners narratives where it’s so unbearable they make a big noise, run away, self harm, etc unless affirming parents (which i did not have)
gosh
hearing those stories made me feel like I didn’t fight hard enough
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also the good old rural area wisdom: 'we have no gay people here'.
then they go beat up someone who failed their gender proving pissing match and oh look at that: no one in their right mind won't come out there. they'll just move the hell away and live in a city instead.
like me.
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@TerryHancock I don't think it's fine, especially not if you're independently wealthy. Why should poor kids have to worry about paying exorbitant college tuition *AND* pay some multinational corporation for the privilege of doing their shittiest jobs?
Holy exploitation, Batman!
The guy who posted that remark was clearly coming from a VERY privileged position (If it's the same one I remember, he was talking about assisting Steve Jobs, IIRC).
Which says to me that this was not a starving student with rent to pay! So if you're in his position, I guess that's fine, but it does not work for the rest of us.
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I haven't seen anybody mention TERFery from the Guardian in some time.
Is it because they stopped, or did people stop reporting them?
(Asking because I've read several interesting articles from them in the past year and I kinda feel like I should pay something, but I won't if they're still mates with JKR and the rest)
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If you are looking for a news source that is only good stories about good people .
then either you will only read echo chamber bubbles like rawstory or counterpunch, or you won't read any news at all
Still, they do run occasional good articles that I would like to support, but not if that leads to more TERFy articles.
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i will now complain about how backwards google photos backup is now that they made photos and videos count towards your account's storage limit
there's also no way to just remove media from the cloud without also removing it from devices with backup turned on so uh... get welded
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i really should just get an apple silicon mac mini or something and run a nextcloud instance
(i'd put data on external storage, i'm not a moron)
@timthelion not specifically apple hardware, choosing apple silicon macs because i want an affordable and performant ARM computer to use as a server
who knows, maybe nextcloud on apple silicon could take advantage of the neural engine to provide OCR or something
Yeah I went haywire on my google photos and account, deleting everything. Turns out creating an "album" on your phone means they can just take your photos. Also even without backup on they display a "gb of photos" amount for the unbacked-up photos.
I need to use my phone to take medically-sensitive/necessary photos of a family member. I do not want to just hand that off to google/anyone who hacks my account.
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The 4 horsemen of the Trumpocalypse:
1.). The President can not be prosecuted for any crime while in office.
2.) A President can pardon himself. Giving up power temporarily to be pardoned by the Vice President counts.
3.) The Kissinger Rule - no official of the US government will ever be turned over to international courts for prosecution.
4.) Non US citizens have zero US rights, inside or outside of the US, and their torture can be legally authorized.
!! CHANGE THESE NOW, while you can !!
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Texas GOP leaders reject ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers
Some members of the committee said such a ban, proposed two months after a prominent conservative activist was caught meeting with a famous white supremacist, might be a “slippery slope” or too vague.Robert Downen (The Texas Tribune)
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AIPAC's support for Republicans continues to mystify.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/18/pro-israel-lobby-group-aipac-midterms-election-deniers-and-extremist-republicans
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/project-2025-liberal-donors/
GOP megadonor gives $1m to AIPAC SuperPAC, likely to fuel friction with Democrats
Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus’ donation to AIPAC’s United Democracy Project means the super PAC has $8.7 million 15 months ahead of Election Day.Ben Samuels (Haaretz)
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High time to univite the fossil fuel industries to future #COP29. Their goals will always be to stay in business with their old profitable schemes. They refuse to change.
It was and is still an outrage to put a powerful manager of the fossil industry at the helm of #COP28
#fossilfuel tried to hijack the conferences and succeeded.
Now it's time for us to act accordingly: Throw them out, together with it's fossil president.
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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4329893-biden-un-climate-conference-cop28-snub-symbolic-weight/amp/
Biden’s first-ever UN climate summit snub carries symbolic weight
President Biden is reportedly skipping a global climate change summit for the first time in his presidency. Not attending the conference, which is set to begin later this week, would mark a signifi…Rachel Frazin (The Hill)
@MaryAliciaZiff I guess many other still did have some hope to get #fossilfuel on their side.
#COP28 is proof that it doesn't work - cannot work: their interests are directly opponent to the interests of people who care about life on this planet.
Their only drive is profit & greed & keeping it up - they do not even see how inevitable change is. #ClimateCatastrophies will have to trigger change in that industry.
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I was mentioning this to my offline friend...
Of all the residential clients (meaning their home, not their business), Puzzle Piece homes - meaning places with Autism Speaks shit on display - are always the most over lit, overstimulating, sensory hell homes I encounter.
I dunno, maybe your autistic kid is "so difficult" because they're constantly overstimulated and overwhelmed. 🤷♀️
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Me: How the fuck do you block someone on YouTube
*looks it up
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/144jpk9/youtube_isnt_letting_me_block_people/
So I guess YouTube just removed the block capability about six months ago…?
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the only sane way to use youtube these days, I wish people would move to other sites but at least with this you can watch the people who haven't moved yet without driving yourself insane.
FreeTube - The Private YouTube Client
FreeTube is a feature-rich and user-friendly YouTube client with a focus on privacy.freetubeapp.io
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my partner shared this with me with some excitement because he grew up in Pittsburg which has a pretty whack bus system, and he didn't have reliable transpo to and from BART for all the years he needed to commute into SF for work and school
but looking at the cost and what the service is supposed to accomplish, this just makes me think they could probably significantly expand the bus system and provide people with local, union jobs to get the same level of service for a much lower price tag
https://abc7news.com/contra-costa-county-micro-transit-system-glydcars-autonomous-vehicles/14125023/
Contra Costa Co. to install 28-mile micro-transit system with autonomous vehicles
The roadway to the future is coming to Contra Costa County with autonomous vehicles, known as Glydcars.ABC7 San Francisco
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