GhostOnTheHalfShell

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

#RightWingWatch

What's funny about this is the Speaker of the House will now make a B-line for IVF.

Under the watchful supervision of his son. 😂

https://youtu.be/3XNDhg-BVqo

CountBinface, 4 days ago to random

It’s meant to be.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 4 days ago to random

@dlakelan

IRRC you developed municipal maps of economically above or below water areas, based on COL, did you ever publish maps or data?

scottsantens, 4 days ago to random

Universal basic income is society as a whole saying to every individual member of society, "I have faith in you. Show me what you can do."

Anyone who has ever accomplished anything has first had someone in some way demonstrate their faith in them and their potential.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 4 days ago to random

@economics

Pillage economics, lovingly crafted by the most ardent anti-market anti prosperity advocates. This is the insanity of a school of economics that successfully conned people into suspending their rational faculties. They don’t need facts, they need an intervention.

15 min

https://youtu.be/ca36ChrdV6M

gerrymcgovern, 5 days ago to random

In the words of Ursula Le Guin “[the] power [of capitalism] seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings”.

"Growth and its attendant social structure has shaped the core of the modern Western subject, it has also become evident that a break away from this model will require not merely an economic shift, but the root-and-stem refashioning of our very selves—our practices, common senses, needs and values.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-05-21/life-after-growth-a-peek-into-values-needs-and-time-for-degrowth/

Leave the Growth Death Cult
Degrowth is the only hope

urlyman, 5 days ago to random

There’s a wider picture to this. Maintaining the drive for private vehicle ownership that’s replaced every few years props up economic growth that is egregiously unsustainable. A nation of cyclists would be a different nation. One that capital doesn’t want https://toot.bike/@pete/112479613454735835

ChrisMayLA6, 5 days ago to climate

So while you & I might think its necessary to speed up the Green Transition & enhance/accelerate measures to reduce emissions, Shell's shareholders disagree.

The firm has just sought & obtained agreement from investors to slow down its measures to mitigate its environmental impact & reduce progress towards its own (already weak) climate targets.

More reason(s) the fossil fuels sector cannot really be central to climate response(s).

We don't have the time to slow down!

#fossilfuels #climate

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 5 days ago to random

So Biden is going to push to sanction the ICC. Yessiree Bob, that’s going to look so good.

(paywall)
https://www.ft.com/content/6700a246-e0cd-49d8-b5ef-d2379e86290f

Gargron, 5 days ago to BelieveInFilm

Hopefully a slightly less common angle on a famous landmark. San Francisco.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.4 S.S.C.

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #SFBA

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 5 days ago to random

It’s never a good look to demonstrate vindictiveness. Israel is going after AP now.

The world will remember this. Always.

11 min

https://youtu.be/rcIU-B2iPR8

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 5 days ago to climate

#climatechange #ev #china

13 min

Sodium Ion battery

https://youtu.be/UmW2D_At1PY

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 5 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to Economics

@economics@a.gup.pe
@economics

#economics #uspol

May 21

7 min

https://youtu.be/eknE5NjNMQg

🧵

ChrisMayLA6, 5 days ago to random

As expected Lord Walney's report ('welcomed' by James Cleverly) represents an agenda to stifle and criminalise democratic protest.

This is a real and present danger, not so much from the Tories who will likely have too little time to get much of this near any legislative change, but from Labour whose instincts seems to have been becoming less & les permissive of protest over the last few years.

Democracy is in danger of being further constrained

#democracy #protests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/close-to-a-police-state-campaign-groups-condemn-uk-report-into-protests

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 5 days ago to Economics

@economics@a.gup.pe

#SteveKeen
#economics

If economists had all fallen into a hole and a couple physicists or engineers replaced them, the discipline would be different game.

https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/the-role-of-energy-in-production

ChrisMayLA6, 5 days ago to Economics

As Rachel Reeves stresses the link between international relations & economics... for those of us who've been (in my case) or still are International Political Economists, this is all very much what we've been talking about for decades.

So, for those of you wondering how that might work, one great book that brings a lot of the things Reeves is talking about together is:

Stopford & Strange's Rival States, Rival Firms.

or try the collection of Strange's work.

#economics #politicaleconomy

Book cover: Authority & Markets: Susan Strange's Writings on International Political Economy, edited by Roger Tooze & Christopher May

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 5 days ago to climate

IIRC, turbulence is another little hazard of a warmer climate. It might just reduce air flight.

https://youtu.be/uak-Zm4qhBk

#climatechange

gerrymcgovern, 5 days ago to random

Since 1970, there has been a:
49% decline in marine life
50% decline in insects
63% decline in Irish birds
66% decline in wildlife
69% decline in vertebrates
83% decline in freshwater species

Dams and mining key cause of freshwater fish collapse.

Dams?

Is that where we get our sustainable, clean, green energy from?

Mining?

Don't we have to mine those green metals?

The Green Transition: killing everything on earth so humans can keep consuming, sorry, devouring

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/21/living-planet-index-migratory-freshwater-fish-populations-decline-dams-weirs-mining-water-abstraction-pollution-threat-aoe

dlakelan, 5 days ago to random

I can't emphasis enough the point that exp(t)/(exp(t) + exp((1-epsilon)t)) ~ 1 for large t and any positive epsilon.

This may seem obscure but it's the problem with "capitalism" as we know it. Even in an infinite world where wealth grows exponentially forever, eventually the person with the epsilon larger growth rate than everyone else owns everything.

Add in political power and finite resources and it just happens faster.

georgelakoff, 5 days ago to random

Trump is telling us exactly what he plans to do if he gets another term. He is framing his return to power as an authoritarian effort, and he is overtly using Nazi language and symbolism to drive home the point.

This wasn't a mistake. It isn't a joke. American freedom and democracy are on the line in 2024. The main headline in Trump's ad asks: "What's Next for America?" Trump's answer: authoritarianism and fascism.

More at FrameLab: https://www.theframelab.org/unified-reich-trump-campaign-goes-full-nazi/

ChrisMayLA6, 6 days ago to random

How do you know you've been gaslighted?

when a Bank of England director tells you its 'possible' interest rates will be reduced over the summer....

Of course its possible they'll be reduced, but my guess is they'll just want to keep them high a little longer... just to make sure those pesky workers & their demands for a return to pst standards of living have been firmly dampened down.

Perhaps, by some strange co-incidence they'll fall the month before an Autumn election?

#cynicscorner

FantasticalEconomics, 13 days ago to Economics

We really need to rethink our capitalistic obsession of running things like a business. Cutting costs to increase profits obviously doesn't make sense in areas of education, healthcare, public utilities, and prisons, to name just a few.

Hell, Boeing is making a strong case that it doesn't even make sense for businesses to be run like a business, much less these public goods...

#economics