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econads

@econads@chaos.social

Software, plants/environment, privacy, leftie, Brit(ish) in Germany.

Profile pic is a still from the game discworld 2, depicting DEATH on his white horse, Binky.

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futurebird, to random
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I've been reading some history books about Europe in the middle ages. The matter of the education of kings is incredibly interesting. It seemed nearly universally recognized that an excellent education is essential to a family holding on to power. And even in the controversies of the day (such as religion) children of the ruling class were exposed to a surprisingly wide range of ideas. Including those treated as heresy for the general population.

econads,
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@futurebird
Because uneducated followers are easier to manipulate and ask fewer questions. Fascism wants obedience not independent thought from its followers. The power should be only with the leaders, it's an ideology of massive power inequality.

stefan, to accessibility
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I honestly enjoy writing good, descriptive alt text. Once you get used to it, it's no longer a chore, rather a fun exercise.

It gives you an opportunity to focus on the image you're sharing, sometimes revealing details you might miss.

It's a great writing challenge as well.

And it's just the right thing to do to help folks who rely on it.

econads,
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@botvolution @stefan
As long as it's also descriptive. I saw someone with # altTextIsAnArtForm in their bio, and their alt texts were just jokes which relied on you already being able to see the image. I felt bad for anyone who actually needed them.

Pappy, to socialism
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I've had this exact conversation,

econads,
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@taoeffect @Pappy verging on antisemitism dude.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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A recent post on Twitter by Govanhill Go! reminded me of the concept of desire lines. These are unofficial paths, like the one on the right in this photo, worn into the landscape by people who would rather use them than the official routes (like the one on the left). They're generally short-cuts and often indicate a failure by urban planners to properly understand and account for people's desires as they move through their environment.

Cont./

econads,
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@thisismyglasgow
Our local park paved them over. I think the city actually waited for them to form before putting any paths in the interior, so they would know along which routes they should put paths.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Again for people (racists), complaining about falling birth rates:

The birth rate for women over 40 is not falling. The birth rate for women over 30 is not falling.

What's happening, is girls 15 to 17 are having fewer babies. Kids are having fewer kids.

Also, this is an interesting way of saying that "Teen pregnancy is down, due to sex education and contraception."

In 1991 25% of 15 year olds gave birth before they turned 21. That's bad. Now it's 6%. That's better.

https://npr.org/2023/01/08/1147737247/teen-pregnancy-rates-have-declined-significantly

econads,
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@mekkaokereke @tfardet
So I can't argue back at "environmentalists" saying we need to get the population down (I read that as "people on a dollar a day need to have less kids", which doesn't have that much effect) by saying rising standards of living will take care of that? Well bum.

blogdiva, to random
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i want to see Google burn. fuck them for destroying so many small businesses; including many of us early bloggers, who they used as guinea pigs for Google Ads.

some of us went from making enough to pay rent for years to literally making less than $10 a month. just like that and without warning.

fuck Sergey Brin. fuck Larry Page. fuck every one complicit in their violence.

may the new emerging labor movement do to them what they have done to everybody.

UNIONIZE
COLLECTIVIZE
SMASH THE FASH

econads,
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@Npars01 @blogdiva
I thought it was common for companies to donate to all parties as a matter of course

pinskal, (edited ) to Artist
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Streetart: “David VS Goliath” by Case Maclaim @ Paris, France.

econads,
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@pinskal
Painted in the side of a highrise, 6 stories high, street art of a black kid shading his eyes from the sun with a raised hand, palm outwards. It looks a little like a salute, but his hand is away from his face. He is topless with blue cargo trousers and bare feet. He holds a catapult hanging from his left hand down by his side. He has a serious expression and is looking into the distance to the centre left.

dgar, to random
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“This is your captain speaking.”

“THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SHOUTING!”

econads,
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@madjo @dgar
I thought HE didn't do contractions. Yeah I'm going to be one of those people, and now probably proved wrong.

econads,
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@dumpsterlid @ProdigalFrog
Bikes, and I think electric bikes, make an appearance in Kim Stanley Robinson's 3rd California novel as part of a utopia.

cjpaloma, to random
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No, I do not think it outlandish that at Bohemian Grove (and/or related) -some- folks had convos like this:

"Geeeez, this <insert any healthier way of life> movement is a threat us. How can we stop it?" and then spent considerable time and effort developing -numerous- ways to thwart collective engagement in forward thinking, truly democratizing endeavors.

I mean after all, US "intelligence" certainly did this in far off smaller countries. And at home by destroying social justice movements.

econads,
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@cjpaloma passing actual laws to criminalise direct action like that used by extinction rebellion / just stop oil (UK)

onepict, (edited ) to random
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I remember when my father left Facebook when they started having the requirements for phone numbers and real names.

He left several years before me.

But then my father is wiser than I am. He has other means to contact us.

Not all families are on Facebook.

econads,
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@onepict managed to keep my parents off it altogether, although it wasn't that hard.

jbond, to random
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Brexit Article 50 Day

7 Years ago on 29-Mar-2017, Theresa May invoked Article 50, which formally began the process of the UK leaving the EU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_invocation_of_Article_50_of_the_Treaty_on_European_Union

It's a difficult sell, but I believe Theresa May was the worst of the lot. Cameron, Clegg, Osborne, Hammond, Johnson, Truss, Kwarteng, Sunak, Hunt and all the rest have done immense and irreparable damage to the UK. But mostly through incompetence. With Theresa May it looks more like deliberate malice.

econads,
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@simon_brooke @jbond Cameron had way more options, and thought he could use the hard right - never ends well. He gave them power which May then had to deal with. Home secretaries always seem to be or end up xenophobes, I've noticed.

Afaik they were genuine policies and she shouldn't have been in power (like any of them), but she was incompetent in her own way as the others were. If you want malice, look at bojos letterbox etc comments. She just wasn't as charismatic.

econads,
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@simon_brooke @jbond
He was just a very privileged man with the unthinking arrogance that comes with that. He probably never had to face real consequences for anything he ever did in his life, so he didn't think anything really bad would come of anything he did. And in fact he should have faced way more consequences for what he did.
IMO he's the worst of any of them. I've been so lucky getting off light with the brexit stuff, but stripping 80 million people of their rights makes me mad.

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?

econads,
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@compost I can't remember, but I'm sure it came around about the same time I started reading about permaculture, shortly after I started to (try to) grow pot plants, so around 7 years ago. It appeals to my thrifty side more.

jon, to random
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The central problem on a bunch of international routes is not the cost of tickets - the demand is there. Trains are full

The problem is an absence of capacity - both track, and a lack of trains. Explained here https://jonworth.eu/make-international-rail-cheaper-capacity-on-a-route-is-the-crucial-issue/

Generally if you make taking the train cheaper currently you will transport different passengers, rather than more passengers

econads,
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@trimethylpentan @jon considering DB just got a 25% budget cut I'm guessing they'll be holding on to their rolling stock for a while...

dgar, to random
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econads,
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@dgar that's got a bit "get off my lawn" vibes

SFRuminations, to scifi
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John Schoenherr's cover art for Frank Herbert's Dune World (serialized title for Dune) in Analog (December 1963)

econads,
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@SFRuminations bit phallic...

helenczerski, to climate
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In the same way that you wouldn’t want someone to operate on your kidneys without a good general medical education covering blood, bones & the rest of the human system, I don’t think we want climate interventions trialed by people who don’t understand how Earth works & only consider the local problem and not the whole system it is an integral part of.

econads,
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@helenczerski for example?

onepict, to random
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Argh yet another spam doing "one last attempt for the sake of professional persistence"

I do not like this trend. I am not impressed by the idea of professional persistence.

Block

econads, (edited )
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@onepict talking about recruiters on linked in, it's when they get faintly whiny about not getting a reply "it seems like you missed my last message" no, I ignored your last message because the offer wasn't remotely for suitable me, and I'm not going to reply to tell you to read my profile and get lost...
.. especially when I'm not looking for a job at the moment anyway.

ChrisMayLA6, to Economics
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Q. how much economic advantage does UK get by speaking english.

Other countries gain economic developmental advantage from the range of people with english proficiency.

So turning that around: does the UK's 'natural' speaking of English mask or reduce (some) economic deficiencies that would otherwise be problems?.

Thought experiment: if the UK did no speak the globe's second language what would be the implication for its economic development?


https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/Images/539681-perspectives-english-for-development.pdf

econads,
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@TonyJWells @christineburns @alexproe @ChrisMayLA6 @Wen we don't give things back. Ask the British museum.

econads,
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@HereToChewGum
Quite! German, now there's a language you can read out comprehensibly even if you've never encountered the words before.

@alexproe @christineburns @ChrisMayLA6 @Wen

econads,
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@HereToChewGum
I think our "*cester" s are nasty for a lot of foreigners. I have "fun" asking people who've never seen it before how it's spelt, most nationalities I've met have problems with that.

@alexproe @christineburns @ChrisMayLA6 @Wen

econads, to random
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Hello @compost,
Question, if you have time: my dad has a load of wood chips he's made, he thinks too much carbon will "draw all the nitrogen out of the soil" if he uses it as mulch. Is that right? Is it best straight in the compost, or can he mulch with it?

econads,
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@phil_stevens @compost
What do you mean exactly by deep mulch? Just a thick layer?

econads,
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@phil_stevens @compost
@MrInappropriate

So, me again. He has a follow-up question for "my people" (that's who yas are now) :D. He has quite a lot of Leylandii wood, but it takes a long time to rot down. Does this make it more or less suitable for mulch? Are there any other factors to consider here?

I greatly appreciate all your help, he was quite convinced before :-)

econads,
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@compost @phil_stevens
So put it in the compost bin and use it when it comes out you think?

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