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jerry , 4 days ago to random

Am I a) getting ready for a wild night, or b) getting ready for the morning medication routine for my elderly pets?

jerry , 22 days ago to random

My dog likes to walk in our neighborhood forested park in the evenings, mostly so she can eat her favorite weed. Normally, the mosquitos drive me crazy there, but today it was gnats. I made the mistake of carelessly taking a deep breath through my nose while walking uphill. And I inhaled approximately 9000 gnats.

This is Spider-Man’s back story, right? Gnat-man doesn’t seem to have the same ring to it.

jerry , 29 days ago to random

There were some wild Chinooks over the beach this afternoon.

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jerry , 30 days ago to random

I’m sitting here in my beach chair and down the way, the song “it’s 5 o’clock somewhere” is playing. And I’m marveling at how the lyrics to that song have no bearing on many people in IT jobs.

I wonder what an IT version might be…. “It’s someone else’s on call rotation somewhere”

joriki , 1 month ago to random

I can't post images on either the official #mastodon android app or on android Firefox/pwa 🤬

breadandcircuses , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Kate Raworth asks us to consider a new meaning of progress...

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Instead of pursuing endless growth, it is time to pursue well-being for all people as part of a thriving world, with policymaking that is designed in the service of this goal. This results in a very different conception of progress: in the place of endless growth we seek a dynamic balance, one that aims to meet the essential needs of every person while protecting the life-supporting systems of our planetary home.

When we turn away from growth as the goal, we can focus directly on asking what it would take to deliver social and ecological well-being, through an economy that is regenerative and distributive by design. There are many possibilities – such as driving a low-carbon, zero-waste industrial transformation, with a green jobs guarantee, alongside free public transport, personal carbon allowances, and progressive wealth taxes.

Policies like these were, only a decade ago, considered too radical to be realistic. Today they look nothing less than essential.

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FULL ESSAY -- https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/13/what-does-progress-look-like-on-a-planet-at-its-limit

#Economics #Politics #Degrowth

joriki , 1 month ago to random

@jerry

hmmmmmm.....

breadandcircuses , 1 month ago to random

This is from a recent essay titled "Five Reasons for Environmentalists to Stop Blaming 'Doom & Gloom' Narratives"...

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⓵ There is significant evidence that gloomy visions can lead people to take action. A 2023 study found that anger was linked to activism seven times more powerfully than hope, and abundant research finds that fear-based messages have the potential to create the sense of urgency needed for effective action.

⓶ Optimistic messages can feel good, but they can also create complacency and thus prevent us from making the required sacrifices, political choices, and lifestyle changes. Positive narratives can deprive us of the awareness we need in order to respond appropriately to the severity of our crisis.

⓷ The opposition of “success narratives” to “doom and gloom” is a gross oversimplification. A difficult truth can be presented in a positive light; a hopeful story can be told in an offensive manner. It’s not just the content of one’s message that matters; it’s also the way it’s shared, and by whom, and when, and to whom.

⓸ The claim that “doom and gloom” doesn’t lead to action is pedantic and infantilizing. It treats people like consumers of information rather than engaged and ethical citizens.

⓹ Pushing away gloomy visions is a form of what “doomster philosopher” Jem Bendell calls “moodsplaining” in which we are told how to feel about the world. That sort of rhetoric harms the social and political dialogue we need to overcome crises together, and it violates the number one rule of any relationship: honesty.

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FULL ESSAY -- https://felixderosen.substack.com/p/5-reasons-to-stop-blaming-doom-and

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

joriki , 3 months ago to random

everything you need to know about #capitalism:

a small fraction of the population is renting the earth to the rest of us

#anticapitalism

joriki , 4 months ago to random

icymi, from a couple months ago

"All of the companies reviewed — Bloomberg, The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Politico, Reuters, and The Washington Post — top lists of most-trusted news outlets in both the U.S. and Europe. Each has an internal brand studio that creates advertising content for fossil fuel majors that range from podcasts to newsletters, videos, and advertorials, and some allow fossil fuel companies to sponsor their events. Reuters goes a step further, with marketing staff creating custom industry conferences explicitly designed to remove the “pain points” holding back faster production of oil and gas."

#climatecrisis #media

https://www.desmog.com/2023/12/05/reuters-new-york-times-top-list-of-fossil-fuel-industrys-media-enablers/

rbreich , 4 months ago to random

Republicans are lying when they say slashing IRS funds will lower the deficit. For each extra $1 the IRS spends auditing rich tax cheats, it can collect $12. Defunding the IRS will INCREASE the deficit.They want to help their rich donors cheat, while the rest of us pay for it.