@roelgrif@mstdn.social2025-11-06 19:46:58
Betaal jij meer of minder belasting dan Elon Musk?
https://maps.greenpeace.org/gpafrica/billionaire-taxometer/
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-11-06 10:42:43
Die neue Tech Won't Save Us episode ist @… Bait:
"Why We Need a War on Cars"
https://techwontsave.us/episod…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-05 08:58:00
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-07 18:15:38
Flooded disused coalmines could be a significant source of energy and provide cheap heat to thousands of homes, a new report argues.
Mine water geothermal heat (MWGH) systems use the water in flooded coalmines,
which is warmed by natural processes,
to supply low-carbon heat.
Heat exchangers and pumps recover the heat,
which is distributed via district heating networks to homes and buildings,
providing low-cost, long-term, stable energy.
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizza2026-01-05 19:19:28
For all the distro-hoppers out there TuxMate can be a useful tool. You select the apps and it creates the command to install them. It can save you some time.
#linux
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-07 12:52:49
Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-10-07 00:02:02
@Treppenwitz@sfba.social2025-11-07 04:25:41
Never forget what the world's richest person did to the world's poorest people. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 00:08:13
No one voted for another war.
Congress must stop Trump's lawless violence and hold the regime accountable.
Join tomorrow's emergency organizing call with Sen. Kaine,
Rep. Casar, Rep. Omar, and thousands of activists
to discuss how we can mobilize to stop more endless war
https://
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-01-06 15:17:12
Nach Aussagen von #ADAC-Verkehrspräsident Hillebrand zur CO₂-Bepreisung haben Tausende Mitglieder den Klub verlassen.
Er sprach sich für den #Emissionshandel im #Verkehr als Anreiz für klimas…
