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antanicus, 17 days ago to random Italian

"in cambio dei suoi favori, l’alto dirigente della Regione prendeva, secondo l’accusa, tangenti sotto forma di forniture di mozzarelle e altri formaggi, carni, lattine d’olio, vino"

Ridateci il PSI ve prego

https://roma.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/24_maggio_14/roma-il-dirigente-regionale-luciano-massimo-pagato-con-mozzarelle-vino-olio-per-natale-ti-preparo-l-abbacchio-abd59b8c-c6bc-4765-a7f9-81a012cdaxlk.shtml

Miro_Collas, 30 days ago to Palestine

The One Video Israel REALLY Doesn't Want You To See - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mxfnya3ZRc

Highly recommended!

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

What is a little white lie you were told as a child, that you believed for too long?

I was way too old when I figured out a human couldn't actually get sucked down a drain or flushed down a toliet. I used to cling to my little brothers, and pull them out of the bath any time my Mum would pull to plug.

Brendanjones, 3 months ago to Trains

In ‘news that should surprise nobody but it’s nice to have it quantified’: high speed rail is less carbon intensive than short-haul flights, even when you take into account the full life cycle (including construction).

In other words, we should be banning short-haul flights and investing in trains.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S136192092300384X?via%3Dihub #trains #climateChange #rail #transport

RickiTarr, 3 months ago to random

Every week I need to do several loads of laundry, and every week I'm somehow shocked by this despite wearing clothes most days.

kim_harding, 3 months ago to random

People Value a Single Human Life Over Entire Species, Survey Reveals https://www.sciencealert.com/people-value-a-single-human-life-over-entire-species-survey-reveals
What are we willing to lose?

Teri_Kanefield, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

I got hit with a wave of this:

💠 It's also the fault of the Democrats
💠People who think that we have time for slow progress are privileged
💠Voting doesn't help. We voted in 2020 and 2022 and the Democrats Did Nothing.

They seem to come out in election years, almost like a stealth campaign to elect Republicans.

I assume that there are people in that wave who are genuinely confused, but ignorance can also be dangerous.

It worked in 2000. Blaming the Dems helped elect George W.

I block them.

dominic, 4 months ago to climate

I have 10 years of #GoogleMaps data and have lived in the same house with the same job. #Covid cut my #Business_travel big time, whilst I consciously try to use #publictransport to reduce my #Carbon_footprint to help #ClimateChange . Here are the results... Happy New Year!

stfn, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to mastodon

Do you want to gloat how many Mastodon followers you have by showing that glorious number on a wall or a shelf? Look no further, I have a solution for you!

You can do it easily with a Raspberry Pi, a four digit display and 10 lines of Python. The instructions are in my newest blog post:

https://stfn.pl/blog/21-display-mastodon-followers/

#Mastodon #RaspberryPi #Python

dgar, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Thanks to anyone and everyone who followed along with my revolution/protest/stick-it-to-the-man themed #DgarRadio session this Friday night!
Remember that all songs I toot get added to playlists on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music, so subscribe to them if you like these weird and varied selections! Big continuing love to you all!
♥️💜💙💚💛

YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm4-vY6nKZv48UxmBAWyYlmEaiEdH1buB

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6aSzSl5CAK4jzyFZyWPmjp

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/au/playlist/dgarradio/pl.u-yR463CYZ6a90

kevinrothrock, 7 months ago to random

This new article from TIME about Zelensky’s struggle to maintain Western support and about Ukraine’s eroding military capacity is one of the most damning, depressing things I’ve read about the war for some time.

https://time.com/6329188/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-interview/

Some key points: Zelensky’s own aides say he’s “deluded” about the prospects for victory. His confidence “verges on messianic.” The public is still with him, but perhaps (this is my observation) that’s partly because he’s failed to prepare them for more realistic outcomes.

Meanwhile, some front-line commanders have started refusing direct presidential orders to advance — partly due to equipment shortages (ie, “the West is to blame”), but a personnel shortage has become even more dire. The average Ukrainian soldier is now 43 years old. Good Lord.

Corruption in the govt & military cripples the war effort and scares off Western aid (or gives allies an excuse to disengage, according to an increasingly resentful Zelensky). With these stakes, corruption isn’t declining at all. “People are stealing like there’s no tomorrow.”

To cap it all off, Israel’s invasion of Gaza only diverts Western attention further. The whole story paints a very, very grim picture of Ukraine’s prospects.

ZachWeinersmith, 7 months ago to random

Now and then I'm drawing my own words and it feels like a robot observing humans

dominic, 8 months ago to hungary

Hard hitting article about #democratic slide in #hungary and #poland and #eu 's inability to do anything about it
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/09/27/eu-hungary-poland-orban-democracy-measures-elections-migrants-media/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921

tantramar, 8 months ago to random

3 times today I’ve caught myself drafting long-winded rants in response to nonsense I’ve read here. (Such a Twitter thing to do, really.)

Then I deleted my own nonsense, permanently muted the offender (mostly to save myself the future risk of responding to THEIR nonsense ever again — a block would’ve been deployed, but they’d never interacted with me, so that wasn’t necessary), and moved on with my day.

Felt good. 5 out of 5 stars.

jon, 8 months ago to random

Errr, this is a peculiar one

Chinese workers have been withdrawn from the rebuilding of the Budapest - Belgrade railway line, and the project is on hold... because the Chinese apparently don't know how to fit the ETCS signalling system

That Chinese money was being used for this was an odd geopolitical decision anyway, but why was the signalling not subcontracted to a firm that actually knows how to do that?

Link via @wrzlbrnft
https://orf.at/stories/3332138/

BlackAzizAnansi, 8 months ago to random

This is what the bosses think of us.

a speech by CEO, Tim Gurner.

shoq, 8 months ago to android

#ANYONE know of a [fairly priced] #android smartwatch that can handle random typical alarm apps and Google calendar notifies?

Related: can someone explain why most Google apps can have billions of users, but still suck worse than a cold slice of day-old 7/11 pizza?

tzimmer_history, 8 months ago to random

The Triumph of Weaponized Nostalgia

Past eras of stable white Christian patriarchal dominance are widely sanitized and mythologized in our political discourse.

A thread, outlining the key arguments of my new piece: 1/

kevinrothrock, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

Really enjoyed these remarks from @timfrye, an eminently reasonable commentator on a heated subject, in response to Navalny’s recent denunciation of Russia’s pre-Putin, post-Soviet era.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/08/30/who-is-to-blame-and-what-s-to-be-done

KimPerales, 9 months ago to random

GHG emissions' #polluters: Emissions generated based on Income data from 1990 -2019 -incl. income tied to emissions re to the op. of a bus +income, such as from investments -supported services or products from those IDUs -found those in the top 10%: resp. for 40% of the US' GHS emissions -top 1%: 15-17%, with investment holdings making up 38-42%.
Super-emitters are the top 0.1%, ~15 days of emissions = to a lifetime of emissions for someone in the poorest 10% in America. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/17/greenhouse-emissions-income-inequality/

breadandcircuses, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to climate

Considering the escalating dangers of the climate crisis caused by the continual burning of fossil fuels, wouldn't it be great if we had a global organization that could gather representatives from countries around the world to discuss this problem?

Oh wait, we do. It's called the United Nations. And they hold a climate conference every year to make decisions and take action. In fact, they've been doing this annually since the 1990s.

Whew, good, that makes me feel a lot better. So I guess they have everything under control, right?

Well, not exactly...

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The United Arab Emirates, which will run the crucial Cop28 UN climate summit in December, has failed to report its emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane to the UN for almost a decade.

Its state oil company, Adnoc, whose chief executive, Sultan Al Jaber, will preside over the climate summit, has also set itself a methane leak target far higher than the level it claims it has already reached.

Al Jaber is tasked with leading countries at Cop28 to deliver the climate action desperately needed, with extreme weather damaging lives across the world. He has previously been backed by the US and EU but has also faced calls to step down.

Critics say these revelations, and the UAE’s huge planned expansion of oil and gas production against scientific advice, show the “opposite of leadership” and undermine Al Jaber’s credibility.

David Tong, of Oil Change International, said: “It seems unlikely that an oil executive could persuade countries to phase down oil and gas when his own company is busy scaling up oil and gas production. The best way for the UAE to confront its crisis in credibility is to ensure that Cop28 adopts a comprehensive energy transformation package – which requires a full, fast, fair, fossil fuel phase out.”

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FULL STORY -- https://archive.li/Ubg1j#selection-1273.0-1311.99

Hmm... 🤔 I wonder who put that guy in charge? It's almost like the fossil fuel industry is running the show, as if they control the UN and our governments and everything else.

But, no, I'd better not say that. I might be accused of being too negative, or worse, of being a conspiracy theorist.

So, never mind. It's all sunshine and roses!

#COP28 #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #CO2 #Emissions

gerrymcgovern, 9 months ago to random

Degrowth is the only hope

"Many economists criticising the developing degrowth movement fail to appreciate this critical point of Earth’s biophysical limits. Ecologists on the other hand see the human economy as a subset of the biosphere. Their perspective highlights the urgency with which we need to reduce our demands on the biosphere to avoid a disastrous ecological collapse, with consequences for us and all other species."

https://theconversation.com/critics-of-degrowth-economics-say-its-unworkable-but-from-an-ecologists-perspective-its-inevitable-211496

Richard_Littler, 9 months ago to random

When you read #Trump-related news threads and see #MAGA responses, many respondents' bios claim to be religious (typically hardline US evangelical) patriots. Of course they also support Trump; they're pre-conditioned to believe things for which there is insufficient evidence. Religion for obvious reasons, but patriotism is also an ideology often built on national myths.
The too-widespread culture of rejecting reason and critical thinking is one of the greatest threats facing us as a species.