mindlesscrollyparrot

The scary thing here is that the pledges came out of shareholder activism. If the corporation will not do what the shareholders ask of it, then who is calling the shots?

We often hear that CEOs have no choice but to put profits ahead of morals because they are obliged to deliver profits to the shareholders. We can see here, that they're prepared to act against the wishes of the shareholders, so that excuse is clearly untrue.

Loving people is what makes it painful. It opens you up to constant worry and inevitable loss. Even so, I think it's a price worth paying.

Of course it's a lie. With his money, he could end it overnight.

If puberty blockers are not reversible and if the person decides that they are not trans in later life, then the consequence would be that they are stuck in a body that doesn't match their self-image.

If that sounds bad to you, well ...

This is true, but regular cars already produce far more microplastics pollution than is safe / sustainable, so staying on IC engines is not an option from that point of view.

However, as serious as the microplastics problem is, climate change is an existential threat. If people are going to drive cars, they should be electric.

A reply to the original post, from a lemmy.ml account. I blocked them, so I can't link you to it.

How about the comment further up - "daily dot world self-soothing thread" ?

I am unclear how people in Pakistan installing solar to power their factories and air conditioning instead of using fossil fuels is a fatal flaw. It seems to me that it is a very good kind of flaw to have in the model.

Unless the model was assuming that Pakistan would simply have to do without air conditioning because they wouldn't be allowed to run it on fossil fuels. In which case the model had an appalling flaw in it - in the moral sense as well as magnitude.

I made some panels like this this summer, to block the sun coming into our apartment, without blocking the light completely.

The canvas was more expensive than the wood, I must say. I just made squares, not divided panels, because I wasn't sure how we would arrange them. I used lap joints for the corners and I just wrapped the canvas over the frame and stapled it at the back. I put a couple of feet on each one so that the canvas wouldn't be touching the ground and get dirty.

So, nothing fancy at all, but they're actually very pleasing to look at - the sunlight coming through them, especially. I can really recommend this as a project!

I don't think you need to go that far. Abortions where the fetus is non-viable or already dead are healthcare and only healthcare.

It relies on the idea that, since the government can 'print money' to pay the interest on debts, it can borrow freely. What do you expect the lenders to do in response?

Maybe because of projects that aren't interested in the opinions of distro maintainers, let alone individual contributors.