ProdigalFrog

God dang it libraries kick ass. Cheers for mentioning Hoopla! :D

It used to be an actual right-wing community, but thankfully new moderatorship turned it into a satire community.

The Slate and Aptera are promising smaller and affordable North American EVs.

The first 3 episodes are available on youtube, highly recommend giving it a view!

Unfortunately, I think it was just a lack of awareness that the petition in existed in certain countries where Ross just didn't have enough reach, possibly due to language barriers. A big push from native speakers of those countries with large audiences, like streamers, could've pushed it over the edge.

I dearly wish we had better public transport as well.

But in the event that it does not improve, either due to lack of political will or other reasons, that'd pretty much leave us with making collective personal choices as the only viable option again, whether or not internal combustion vehicles are banned.

then others holding wooden spears or just sticks … then lastly the prehistoric human holding a rock in his hand ready to strike … OOOGA BOOGA!!

According to David Wengrow and David Graeber's book, Dawn of Everything, archeological evidences shows that human societies were extremely egalitarian for most of their existence (hundreds of thousands of years), and only fairly recently in human history did we start to become coercive and authoritarian.

The current dominating forms of society are an aberration from the norm, but it appears our natural state is cooperation and mutual aid, and there's nothing suggesting we can't structure our societies to let us return to that state of being, which is essentially what Anarchists have been attempting to achieve for the last couple hundred years, nearly succeeding a couple times.

That could've been an option if action was taken against big polluters decades ago, but we're now at the point that we need collective action to prevent our world from becoming an awful place to live in, and death for those living in more vulnerable areas.

The vast majority of pollution comes from corporations. Stop punishing everyday people for being a raindrop in the ocean.

It's not a raindrop, unfortunately.

Transportation is responsible for roughly 24% of global emissions, of which 18% is made up of personal cars and trucking.

Reducing car usage on a mass scale would be a massive help in stemming climate change, and the only way to do that is by each of us collectively using more efficient means of transport, whether that's public transport, ebikes, or electric cars if necessary.

Maybe it might be helpful if we start thinking about climate change as a war, and like in some wars past, it will require war rationing to win it. The corporations will never stop polluting as long as it's profitable, and many if not most governments around the world are now corporate captured, meaning we have few effective means of muzzling their emissions.

That leaves it up to us, as individuals, to make the hard choices for the sake of the planet. Reducing our usage of polluting cars, meat consumption (the alternative meats like Impossible are incredible replacements), and purchasing of non-essential high-emission luxury goods is one of the more powerful weapons we have in this war. It'd be a travesty not to use it.

Yes, but you now will have to convince your friends to switch to Linux, otherwise they are a liability.

I've also considered that it's now a liability to talk to people using Windows with Recall enabled, as it essentially will be recording every text conversation had, and keep record of every call.

Forgotten Weapons put out an interesting theory of Stacked Tolerances being the culprit.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3iWVs2uD1XY

From the book Social Anarchism and Organization:

Social movements should not be linked to politicians or to any sector of the state because we know that when they come wanting to help, in the vast majority of cases they are looking for a “base” for their party-political interests, or seeking to calm movements, establishing their dialogues with institutions of the state. Knowing well the authoritarian conception of parties we know that their interest is always to harness social movements, be they reformist or revolutionary parties. Firstly, they participate in elections and see social movements as a source of votes. Secondly, they seek a “mass movement” that serves as a base for the vanguard that they wish to be. In this case, political parties want to lead and direct the social movements, thinking themselves superior to them and judging [themselves] to be the enlightened that will bring consciousness to the exploited classes. Often their members are intellectuals that want to know, better than the people themselves, what is best for them. Other organisations that seek to control, such as churches and bureaucratic unions also do not help social movements.

All these people should be removed from social movements because they do not defend the interests of the social movements, but their own interests. The social movement does not need bosses, leaders or people who want to use it. The social movement needs people who want to support it and struggle with it, but not struggle for it, in its place. It is a place that is legitimised by the need for survival and by the dignity that causes that promote true solidarity possess.