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DigitalTaoist

@DigitalTaoist@ieji.de

Birdsite refugee who wants to see #PR in the UK-so we have representative democracy in England and no longer the rigged sham that is first past the post. #Socialist #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy #NeuroDivergent #BDS #XR #Freecycle

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johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
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The CEO of Exxon just said "we've waited too long" to tackle climate change. He blames "society" and "activists".

Yes, Exxon. Yes, Exxon. Yes, Exxon: the corporation that for decades has been spending millions to slow progress on climate change, despite its own research showing the problem was urgent.

He said:

"We've waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions.... Frankly, society, and the activist โ€” the dominant voice in this discussion โ€” has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."

What is this โ€” some sort of dark, twisted joke?

The interview is here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240228015207/https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/29/exxon-ceo-to-world-climate-isnt-our-fault-now-pay-the-price/

DigitalTaoist,
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@RabBrucesSpider1 @johncarlosbaez
It's the worst kind of gaslighting, from the industry that paid for propaganda and 'alternative' climate science for the past forty odd years.

RichardJMurphy, to random
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Can we really claim to be a democracy when the government very clearly does not care if people can vote? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/03/25/can-we-really-claim-to-be-a-democracy-when-the-government-very-clearly-does-not-care-if-people-can-vote/. More than 7 million people in the UK are missing from electoral registers. The government does not seem to care and is undoubtedly making matters worse. Are we a democracy when electoral abuse on this scale is going on?

DigitalTaoist,
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@RichardJMurphy
"Can we really claim to be a democracy when the government very clearly does not care if people can vote?"
This suggests some kind of negligence in the rollout but I'd argue this is the desired effect. Just as in the US when Republicans are disenfranchising minorities and the disabled, since-if they do vote they're probably not going to vote for the right. Ideally they'll be prevented from voting at all due to not having the correct ID.

RickiTarr, to random
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If two restaurants were going to date, who would date each other?

DigitalTaoist,
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@RickiTarr
Sticking with the vein of vile fast food restaurants I'd say Long John Silver's and Arby's/Wimpy (though tbh you could include any ff 'restaurant' here, as in Kfc or Subway-with bread so sweet it is officially/legally 'cake') because birds of an imminent heart attack flock together?

P.S. Wimpy - the crappy British version of Micky D's ๐Ÿ˜‚, where the food is ironically even worse than Micky D's.

DigitalTaoist,
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@DemocracySpot @RickiTarr
Are you trying to 'realise' an ice cream burger or.. ? Because if so I'm with you all the way ๐Ÿ‘

DigitalTaoist,
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@Theorem_Poem @RickiTarr
Personally the baby of Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, that actually tastes really good...

Is it ok to want to eat the progeny of this dating experiment?

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Fucking fucking fucking fuck sake.
There it is.

DigitalTaoist,
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@fkamiah17
It's frankly outrageous that someone who claimed, at one point, to be a 'human rights' lawyer, has such contempt for human rights and the ECHR. for sure ๐Ÿ˜ก

DrALJONES, to random
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    DigitalTaoist,
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    @ZillaMon @DrALJONES
    No, there are a good many left wing Israelis who don't want this, and some of them were arrested at the recent protest-demanding the return of the hostages. Before that, with Netanyahu's power grab over the judiciary, Netanyahu's govt/police treated dissent with only brutality - it's in the background of that that the Hamas attack occurred (because many IDF were refusing to return to service/back the Net. dictatorship).

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/24/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-march-power-government-judiciary

    compost, to climate
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    Lately, I have read a lot of people complain that people did not care about .

    I believe this statement to be wrong, I think most people care but they do not see how their actions could make a difference.

    We have proven that we could reach out to people about the because people care.

    Now there is a question I would like to ask all of you: Do you remember what or who got you interested in composting? What made you care for it?

    DigitalTaoist,
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    @compost
    Part of it for me is the cost of fertiliser, both for the planet and money-wise. I don't grow much either as I don't have the space to grow much more than a few chilli plants and some herbs.

    DigitalTaoist, to random
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    https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/rafah_ceasefire_now_loc/?copy

    DigitalTaoist, to Tasmania
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    Does Tasmania,or indeed the world, really need Willy Wonka-Chocolate Factory in Tasmania? Is this guy a complete ****ing cretin or are there mitigating factors?

    Arguing against, personally, it seems to me like chocolate is already responsible for deforestation and people need to fly less frequently if we're intending to stop global heating; I hope very much that Tasmanian Trump loses the upcoming election.

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/10/pure-imagination-tasmanian-premier-vows-to-build-worlds-largest-chocolate-fountain-if-re-elected

    DigitalTaoist, to random
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    I wonder how many letters have gone in so far to the 1922 Committee? Graham Brady, among other Tory 'notables', make some noise about the plot to oust Sunak being 'madness', but I bet at least Mordaunt is secretly celebrating.

    She only needs 15% of the parliamentary party to submit letters...

    Chances of Sunak surviving a confidence vote, anyone?

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/16/conservatives-slam-bonkers-plot-to-topple-rishi-sunak-before-election

    DigitalTaoist, to random
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    I wonder what that protester-murdering big man, Kyle Rittenhouse, thinks about the Texas 'megachurch' mass(?) shooting... oh no, hang on - I couldn't care less what Rittenhouse thinks. No one needs a semi-automatic war weapon for hunting.

    And the location? You'd be hard pressed to find a more 'right wing' venue for yet another example of horrific American gun violence.

    https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/crime/2024/02/11/477140/lakewood-church-houston-shooting-reported-sunday-joel-osteen-pastor/

    DigitalTaoist, to random
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    If there was a genuine safety or security threat from Chinese EV batteries, and not merely Republicans apparently point-scoring with the xenophobic base, then there might be a point to restricting EV consumption from China.

    I don't see how the battery technology alone would pose a security threat though (arguably not nearly as great a one as having cheap security cameras all over the place anyway).

    Show up late to the game and demand a level playing field much?

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/catl-chinese-battery-maker-evs-electric-vehicles

    DigitalTaoist, to random
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    Starmer and 'his' Labour front bench now speaking out against Israel's in Gaza? It must have finally dawned on them that they still need the left in order to actually win an election... because some special threshold has been reached or because Starmer's own seat is under threat from Andrew Feinstein?

    DigitalTaoist, to random
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    Is it Keir? Is it really that time? I could be mistaken but didn't this fraud spout some bollocks about unity and broad churches before? It was right before he started purging socialists from Labour, if memory serves...

    fkamiah17, to random
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    WEEK 30: Fucking hell. Snipers at Ohio University too. Is America really going to start shooting its own children?

    DigitalTaoist,
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    @fkamiah17
    Whilst arming the perpetrator of a genocide and various other war crimes (i.e. the $26 billion).

    Rage Against the Machine said, and I quote: "The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy". RATM was right.

    DigitalTaoist, to random
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    One has to wonder what the Tories genuinely believed Brexit would bring(?) Clearly they knew it wasn't going to be the great cake-fest they were promising everyone (fishermen, farmers, fans of the NHS), yet did they have any inkling of just how bad it would be?

    John Crace is on fine form here:

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/20/farmer-rish-woos-the-nfu-conference-in-full-on-panic-to-secure-rural-vote

    DigitalTaoist, to random
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    Seems like Sunak wants to pass the responsibility to councils to enforce his ridiculous anti-smoking ideas. So they first will need to issue enough fines to pay the salaries of the new officers-required to enforce this mess. Then it will simply send the vape market underground and make it more dangerous.

    What was needed was ban on marketing to children and vapes loaded with sugar, as well as requiring retailers to recycle.

    Sunak thinks he's being 'clever' ๐Ÿ™„

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/20/youngsters-who-break-new-smoking-ban-face-on-the-spot-fines

    DigitalTaoist,
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    "The government has also committed to ban the sale and supply of disposable vapes from April 2025 under separate environmental legislation."

    Why wait?

    DigitalTaoist, to random
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    Here's my explainer (uh in case anyone's interested ๐Ÿ˜… ). UK government are making up a registration scheme which will be particularly (I'd love to be wrong) user-friendly for their mates with multiple properties-which they regularly let for small fortunes on Airbnb. Or is it their hotelier mates they prefer, they can hardly win these poor-wealthy Tory bar stewards!

    DigitalTaoist, to random
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    I've got to react to this because it's just despicable. Why would anyone ever try to argue that Musk is a force for good? Presumably Putin pressured him into it but still...

    DigitalTaoist, to random
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    Counter protesters/Zionist zealots.

    https://skwawkbox.org/2024/04/22/evidence-eyewitnesses-challenge-falters-claims-he-was-stopped-for-just-crossing-road/

    DigitalTaoist, to humanrights
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    Well that IS amusing - and I can't say I'm surprised in the least. For Rwanda it's a win:win, get lots of cash and then announce that the Rwandan govt has too much respect for human rights to host the UK's asylum seekers...

    The Tories will, at that point, be huffing and puffing and vociferously demanding 'their' money be returned post-haste - but it will have been spent... ๐Ÿ˜‚

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/30/rwanda-uk-asylum-deal-opposition-leader-doubts

    DrALJONES, to Columbia
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    More false accusations of "anti-Semitism" about Columbia

    Report

    Judges boycott Columbia grads, calling the campus demonstrations "anti-Semitic".

    13 Trump-hired U.S. federal judges said they would not hire law students or undergraduates from Columbia University over so-called "anti-Semitism" at the university, calling the Manhattan campus an โ€œincubator of bigotryโ€.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/conservative-us-judges-boycott-columbia-grads-over-campus-gaza-protests-2024-05-06/#:~:text=May%206%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20A,handling%20of%20pro%2DPalestinian%20demonstrations.

    ..

    DigitalTaoist,
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    @DrALJONES
    All those first-amendment fanatics.. not at all bothered about the infringement of first amendment rights when it comes to genocide in Gaza.

    DigitalTaoist, to random
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    Oh no! We're gonna give up our sovereignty to the WHO now? And after we just got it back, finally, from the EU! ๐Ÿ˜…

    Fascistic grifters are gonna grift but the government really needs to start regulating harmful disinformation. It won't happen under Sunak's 'government' though, and I have little faith that Starmer would have the fortitude to address the problem either, especially if it would impact the Zionists...

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/16/who-accuses-nigel-farage-of-spreading-misinformation-about-pandemic-treaty

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