VanillaOS. Perhaps not quite ready for prime time, but in a sea of distros where the only difference is a slightly different default config, VanillaOS is doing something distinct and different.
VanillaOS. Perhaps not quite ready for prime time, but in a sea of distros where the only difference is a slightly different default config, VanillaOS is doing something distinct and different.
Nope. Global action is more than sum of individual action. It is meta action that only the collective humanity can do, and not just the time when everyone is doing the same thing, as if that was possible.
And no, you should not behave as if you can solve the climate crisis yourself, because you cannot. Time, money, attention, willpower and empathy are limited resources in people. Of you spend all your personal resources just mitigating your own impact, you will convince yourself that you’ve done enough when the job is not to curb your personal impact, but to drive cultural and political change that results in global policy that solves the problem. Changing one politicians mind to support pro-climate legislation is far more valuable and impactful than any amount recycling you could ever do.
Further than that, there are emissions done on your behalf that you have no say in; emissions spent on building and maintaining the government that provides services (whether you use them or want them or not), infrastructure that you cannot help but utilise to live your life or military that “protects” (or destroys brown people’s homes, it’s really a toss up).
Big business has been telling us to recycle for approximately 40 years, and recycling is at an all time low as proportion of total waste produced. Advocating away from meaningful legislation and towards individual action is the ultimate weapon of big business. Recycling, and individual action more broadly, are effectively the same as being stabbed in the abdomen and bleeding to death, and then confidentially pulling out a band aid and putting it onto the gaping wound. I mean, yeah, sure, put it on, it’ll absorb some blood, but you, and our planet, are still dying. More decisive collective action, such as calling the ambulance and seeing a team of trauma surgeons asap is necessary.
Individual action cannot be a solution for the climate crisis. The whole idea of individual responsibility for climate impact is the divide and conquer strategy of big business as ultimate form of the collective action problem.
It’s because interest rates went up and the free VC money tap was turned off so all these companies have to actually turn a profit, so they’re squeezing us with every lever they control.
Even FSF says that charging money for free software is fine.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
Or Seppos.
It’s already possible to block those with Sponsorblock.
How well does plex debrid work? Been meaning to install it for a while.
She’s off-brand Bawksy.
Woman, Life, Freedom
I love Dubioza Kolektiv. They have few more bangers. I like:
Take my Job Away
Space Song
And of course, the classic (but in Bosnian):
Kažu
Basically all major countries have Good Samaritan laws on the books. The only exception I am aware of is China, where people regularly get sued for rendering first aid.
Anna’s archive is god tier for ebooks.
I have a gigabit connection, and default qBittorrent max out my connection (assuming the torrent is popular). Idk why you’d need to change anything.
Australia has pretty brutal anti-defamation laws. Just look at what YouTuber Jordan Shanks aka FriendlyJordies went though. A politician basically admitted to corruption, Jordan essentially quoted him in the video, but then Jordan was found to be guilty of defamation because what the politician said was covered by parliamentary privilege. So, basically, even an absolute truth is not always a defence.
That being said, the dude in question is long dead, so I’m not sure who exactly could claim to have been damaged by the assertion that the dude in question was a traitor.
As an Australian, I think this is all just performative. The body would be consultative only, meaning no real power. Meanwhile, the right wing Liberal government have let virtually all the closing the gap objectives go unaddressed. If I remember correctly, only 2 out of 7 objectives are on track.
I know this is not what you’re asking for, but another really good resource is this: https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html