#Tennessee Republicans, spurred on by #chemtrail advocates, pass a bill that, on the face of it, appears to unintentionally ban all #CO2 emissions ("injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals into the air affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight")
Bluesky has announced that today they have started with federation, allowing anyone to host their own data on the #bluesky network.
In a blog post they announced that anyone can now host their own PDS, framing it as a way to control your own data, and also explaining how it differs from Mastodon.
Bluesky describes it as an 'early access of federation for self-hosters'.
For the last time, Jack did not invent Bluesky, he doesn't own it, he doesn't have control over it, he doesn't run it, and he's not even active over there, after finding out that most people there hate him.
It's NOSTR that's the pro-crypto network. The bluesky developers have been very adamant against incorporating web3/crypto.
Nothing was remotely "made in secret". ATProto has been open for a very long time
@Mabande 40% of Africa's children work. 12% of Africa's children work in dangerous jobs. Almost everything coming out of Africa is contaminated with child labour.
What annoys me to no end is that peopple only ever seem to care about this fact when they can use it to bash one or more companies or technologies that they don't like. But then go on happily consuming everything else that comes out of Africa that also was made with child labour.
The solution isn't PR gotchas, it's income equality.
So apparently it's perfectly fine for the #US to spike the price of #oil ahead of an #election when it's over whether or not #Venezuela's #elections are fair, but it's not okay for #Ukraine to do so via refinery attacks in order to stopping the invasion and ethnic cleansing of #Europe's eastern flank. :Þ
Seems to be two sites of overtopping of the berm, beyond where the fissure itself breached it one by the greenhouse, and one at the road closure (guess they didn't have time to close it high enough).
Third house on fire.
Still, most lava is following the berm path out west. It's helped.
Cue all the people portraying #Navalny as a liberal crusader for progressive values in 3, 2, 1...
(He's a far-right ultranationalist pro-imperialism activist and has only moderately softened his stances in recent years to attract more sympathy from the west)
The EU vs #Ukraine grain debate hosts one category of participants who are just as destructive as they are tragicomically detached from reality - I call them “big farm libertarians”. Here’s one example, Alex Lissitsa, head of the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club:
Protectionism won’t save the EU’s agricultural sector, Lissitsa said. “Polish farmers are too small to be real players in the global grain market, where they have to compete with countries like Ukraine, Brazil or Russia,” he said. They’d be better off specializing in the production of flowers, fruits or vegetables, he added. “Or even marijuana.”
Every his single statement quoted here displays not only an utter arrogance but also complete misunderstanding of EU Common Agricultural Policy goals and operation. Protectionism on the EU farming market is not an obstacle, it’s an entirely intentional mechanism that prevents dog-eat-dog competition between EU member states and, most importantly, keeps the farming industry in house, thus securing a critical supply chain - food - inside EU. And it’s not only EU who’s doing it - Switzerland has one of them most protectionist farming industries in the world and Russia has just laboriously rebuilt it farming industry over the last decade to remove the strategic dependence on imports… from EU.
@kravietz Ukraine isn't cheap because of pollution. It's not cheap because of exploitation. It's not cheap because of some government-subisidized attempt to undercut the national security of the EU. It's cheap because grain grows better there and the average Ukrainian farmer is less well off than the average Polish farmer. You get more grain per euro, and people who are less well off benefit the most (income equality). BOTH are very much Good Things(TM).
Got support not just from 77% of #Democrats, but also 69% of #Republicans. Final votes will be on Saturday and are considered almost certain, as is quick #Senate ratification and #WhiteHouse signing by #Biden.
The whole idea that EU/NATO forces downing Shahed drones and cruise missiles in the air in western Ukraine, would cause World War 3 is ridiculous in my opinion. Putin is never able to control western Ukraine anyway. Also little or no ground forces need to be involved. #geopolitics#ukraine@Geopolitics#russia#EU#NATO
@ErikJonker@Geopolitics I've been advocating for a NATO presence in western Ukraine since Day 1.
Pick a distance from the frontline well out of artillery and SHORAD range. Draw a line in Ukraine. Literally if you need to, even visible from space if one must. NATO mans the sky and ground behind the line, Ukraine in front of it. All of Ukraine's resources in the rear now go to the front, and Russia knows that even in the best case it can't advance very far in Ukraine.
