Didn’t go out much and did lots of outdoor activities… When I first started work it was allowed in work vehicles, that stopped after about 2 years.
Stillnallowed in lunch rooms etc.so I ate outside or at my desk. Did not go to restaurants etc becase of the smoking, flew on an Air France flight once from Miami to Paria and it had smoking, no escape, fuck that was bad, still remember it decades later :)
My Dad said it was shocking when he was working (he’s long dead and would have been about 85 if we was still living, he was a non smoker)
Maybe, just maybe it shouldn’t cost close to 10k to even TRY to have a kid through IVF? More like 15k out of pocket costs till the Medicare rebate anyway....
As climate change results in more bushfires and we continue to clear-fell old habitat trees, the fate of the laughing kookaburra – our icon of the ages – could be sealed. That once-ubiquitous call will be heard no more.
Did we ? Some species managed millions of years, we’re at what 100k-150k or so, seems a very shitty run really.
Jokes aside, I suppose we’re not witnessing the end of humanity, just the end of this civilisarion. Pity we’re taking so many other species down and leaving the place in a fucking mess.
Why is Session always mentioned ? It’s an Australian company, in a land with zero constitutional oversight I’d be more inclined to think its a honeypot then a privavy focused chat app. Anom springs to mind as an example.
Astronomers have used the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to confirm one of the most troubling conundrums in all of physics — that the universe appears to be expanding at bafflingly different speeds depending on where we look....
After dithering with dual boot for years I jumped ship to Linux only (LMDE) with their incessant reminders about moving to W11 from W10 popped up. Missing a few apps but fuk’ em.
Ward said the impact of bleaching had been extensive across 16 sites that she visited in the reef’s southern section, affecting coral species that had usually been resistant to bleaching. Some coral had started to die, a process that usually takes weeks or months after bleaching occurs....
As do I Dr. Ward, with ever election result reinforcing the deveststation of the orthodoxy and the disregard my fellow citizens have for a livable biosphere.
This is a fight we will win, eventually, and we should never give up or back down because that would delay our eventual victory. The primary enemy is idiots who don’t even believe climate change is real but as the world crumbles around them they’ll eventually acknowledge that mistake (it will be easier, by the way, for them to acknowledge their mistake if we try to be welcoming rather than ostracising those people).
We also don’t need everyone on our side. Just half of the population, and we’re pretty close to that number.
Can we win every battle? No. There will be losses and the reef could be one of them. But we have to win the war. There’s no other option.
The primary enemy is idiots who don’t even believe climate change is real but as the world crumbles around them they’ll eventually acknowledge that mistake
I doubt they’ll acknowledge anything like that, quite the opposite , we’re drifting further right becase of it and nonsense like nuclear energy is coming to the fore, not as a solution but as a banner to rally fellow conservatives to blame The Greens instead of self reflection on their own stupidity.
More rhetoric around refugees and more expenditures on stupid defence policies rather then managed abandonment and infrastruxtre to lower emsisions like electrified rail etc etc.
I’d suggest we’ll see more vitriol, more hate and more nonsense all while the biosphere gets less habitable.
We aren’t even yet discussing the actual problem, all we’re doing is trying to defy the laws of physics and buy our way out of this stupidity with nonsense like ecars and distract with nonsense like nuclear subs.
The challenge is way beyond anything we’re prepared to countenance as yet, both in terms of mitigation and in terms of adaptation
This is something everyone should be worried about, and everyone should be angry about, frankly,” NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch coordinator Derek Manzello said.
Obviously this man was an important anarchist thinker, but I think this is particularly relevant to anarchism right now in a US election year where this conversation will come up ad nauseum....
‘Tapped out’ property investors use super when banks say no (archive.md)
the fuck did I just read (archived article from the AFR) :(...
‘Wake-up call’: pipeline leak exposes carbon capture safety gaps, advocates say | Estimated 2,548 barrels of carbon dioxide leaked from Exxon pipeline in Louisiana on 3 April (www.theguardian.com)
Non-smokers in the 1970s and 1980s, how the hell did you survive the second hand smoke?
There's a baby drought in Australia. Maybe we should fund IVF? (www.abc.net.au)
Maybe, just maybe it shouldn’t cost close to 10k to even TRY to have a kid through IVF? More like 15k out of pocket costs till the Medicare rebate anyway....
Why the kookaburra’s iconic laugh is at risk of being silenced (theconversation.com)
As climate change results in more bushfires and we continue to clear-fell old habitat trees, the fate of the laughing kookaburra – our icon of the ages – could be sealed. That once-ubiquitous call will be heard no more.
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffers worst bleaching on record | Environment News | Al Jazeera (www.aljazeera.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8702279...
Greens senator threatens Woolworths CEO with six months in prison for contempt of Senate (www.abc.net.au)
Global coral bleaching event called by US climate agency for the fourth time in history after year of extreme ocean heat (www.abc.net.au)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8674599...
Sydney church stabbing: Bishop stabbed during sermon - reports (www.bbc.com)
A bishop and several other people have been stabbed during a sermon in Sydney that was being streamed online, local media report....
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Jail for holding a placard? Protest over the climate crisis is being brutally suppressed (www.theguardian.com)
Downsides of Signal alternatives compared to Signal?
I’m thinking of the things listed on the Privacy Guides real-time communication section...
James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe (www.livescience.com)
Astronomers have used the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to confirm one of the most troubling conundrums in all of physics — that the universe appears to be expanding at bafflingly different speeds depending on where we look....
Less than a day before first criminal trial begins, Trump attacks judge—again (www.motherjones.com)
It looks like we'll soon be welcoming a lot of new Linux users here (www.theverge.com)
snek id (mander.xyz)
Who to vote for?
Hi people and bots,...
Molly the magpie is homeward bound, but carers barred from using bird for commercial gain (www.abc.net.au)
In short? Authorities say Molly the magpie will be returned to its original carers on the condition they make no commercial gain from the bird....
Great Barrier Reef suffering ‘most severe’ coral bleaching on record as footage shows damage 18 metres down (www.theguardian.com)
Ward said the impact of bleaching had been extensive across 16 sites that she visited in the reef’s southern section, affecting coral species that had usually been resistant to bleaching. Some coral had started to die, a process that usually takes weeks or months after bleaching occurs....
Dutton accuses Wong of 'most reckless act' in decades over Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution calls (www.abc.net.au)
Dean Winter elected as new leader of Tasmanian Labor Party (pulsetasmania.com.au)
Dean is part of Labor’s right faction. Might mean he’s more likely to work with the Liberals. Our native forests may not survive this.
Honey, I shrunk my life - Taking “degrowth” seriously (www.adbusters.org)
David Graeber on the Extreme 'Centre' (youtu.be)
Obviously this man was an important anarchist thinker, but I think this is particularly relevant to anarchism right now in a US election year where this conversation will come up ad nauseum....