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tom_andraszek

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A software developer believing in livable cities and livable planet. Not investing in fossil fuels. Vegetarian. No longer flying for pleasure or work. Solar panels, heat pump home. E-bike, bus, train, tram 💚
Gold Coast, Australia. My home's walk score is 4/100: car dependent. We own one small EV, which is used mainly by my wife for commuting to work, shopping, etc.
The time to use sunlight reflection methods (SRM) is now.

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nixCraft, to random
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PSA: Stop calling these: () brackets!

These () are parentheses

These [] are brackets

These {} are curly braces

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

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kravietz, to poland
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I watched last year’s truckers protests with great interest since early 2023. I followed arguments of both Poland and , even though the latter largely ignored the protests until November 2023 when they turned into blockade.

The truckers’ protest was suspended in January, but we now have a second iteration of farmers’ protest with ongoing border blockade. The first one actually preceded the truckers’ protest in 2023, but was noticed by even less parties than the truckers’ one.

One qualitative difference to the current protest I’ve noticed was that the truckers generally avoided anti-Ukrainian slurs and often highlighted that they don’t intend to disrupt Ukraine’s war effort and they’re forced to protest by dire economy.

Right now we have a full spectrum of vicious anti-Ukrainian slurs, hate speech and flood of very aggressive fakes alleging various forms of filth accompanying Ukrainian food products. This new wave emerged very quickly and is accompanied by massive bot campaigns on commercial social media.

While I believe the original farmers’ and truckers’ protests weren’t directly inspired by Moscow, I have a very strong feeling that this one actually is. Russia noted a divisive topic that emerged organically and this time decided to fully invest its highly efficient information warfare to capitalize on it 🤷

tom_andraszek,
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@kravietz - the videos on YouTube certainly get a lot of views and comments. Every time in a situation like this when we suspect a hostile power (Russia in this case) to manipulate public opinion by creating fake videos, fake comments and likes, I want the Internet to not be anonymous, I want to know if a person writing in Polish under a Polish lastname is not an employee of the successor to the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency.

stux, to Russia
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keeps playing with fire in

Would be nice if they had shot down the Russian missle flying in Polish airspace, a little less for Ukraine at least

Not sure if 39 seconds would be enough though

Putler sucks so hard

tom_andraszek,
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@stux - in making the decision to shoot it down, you also need to estimate where is it going to fall, and if you miss, where your missile is going to fall.
On TVP i9:30 they showed an interview with a visibly shaken woman who was woken up by the sound of the missile flying overhead.

kravietz, to poland
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government aid to amounted to $9 billion in the first two years of the war - minister of foreign affairs Radek Sikorski. The number is publicly disclosed for the first time and it does not include the support for Ukrainian refugees granted inside Poland.

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@kravietz - now, if this could make way to the Kiel's Institute stats which everyone uses and which show about 1/3 of this number, assuming we are comparing apples to apples...

kravietz, to Russia
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Story in three acts:

  1. troll coordination portals post jobs to spam and Telegram channels with incendiary and divisive news like “Polish protesters do X to Ukrainian passenger buses”
  2. First such stories, including Ukrainian-language memes conveniently provided by the above, start popping up on Ukrainian channels
  3. Ukrainian minister Oleksandr Kubrakov posts one such story on his Twitter providing, gaining hundreds of likes, shares, Ukrainian media pick up the story etc.^1

Polish police was shortly asked about it and sounded rather surprised, saying “no such things are happening on the border now”.^2

Two years into the war, in spite of numerous prior warnings that Russians are unrolling an active campaign of fakes targeted at sowing divisions between Poland and Ukraine, a minister of one of these countries shares the fake.

Meanwhile, some Ukrainian company posted a huge “Poland first to help” next to the main road from the border to Lviv.

"Poland First to Help" banner next to road in Ukraine

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@lindamarie @kravietz - during WW2 such "news" would not be published: the news agencies would know to check things first, but also even if they were true they would be censored to keep the focus on the real enemy. How many people know about the battle of Brisbane in 1942?

Meanwhile, the SocraticEthics account representing Ukraine is calling for boycott of all Polish agriculture, not serving Polish customers and suspension of rights of Poland in the EU (article 7).

tom_andraszek, to Ukraine
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- have a look at the hashtags of this account in posts related to Poland and the protests at the border: BoycottPolishGoods, BoycottPolishBusinesses, BurnPolishTractors, PolandIsNotAFriend, PunchAPolishFarmer etc. The person running it is doing everything they can to make the situation worse. The articles they link usually objectively report the facts, but they add inflammatory commentary including things that were not in the linked articles.

@kravietz

One of hashtags: boycott Polish businesses.
One of hashtags: boycott Poland.
Hashtag: Poland is not European.

tom_andraszek,
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@RealFinoxy @kravietz - that's a red flag with hammer and sickle - looks like the Soviet Union flag. Nobody in their right mind would show up with this flag in Poland. The text itself is pixelated in this article, because it is illegal in Poland to publicly call for violence, the Police is investigating:
https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/skandal-na-protescie-wywiesili-flage-zsrr-z-sierpem-i-mlotem-6997806608837600a

elCelio, to Ukraine Italian
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of the tracking aid to 🇺🇦

Allocations as a percentage of GDP (2021) and per capita.
(contributions by institutions is distributed among member states)

%GDP
1🇪🇪: 1,7%
2🇩🇰: 1,6%
3🇱🇹: 1,4%
4🇱🇻: 1,3%
5🇫🇮: 0,9%
6🇵🇱: 0,9%
7🇸🇰: 0,8%

€ per capita
1🇩🇰: 927€
2🇫🇮: 429€
3🇪🇪: 426€
4🇱🇺: 417€
5🇸🇪: 360€
6🇳🇱: 302€
7🇱🇹: 269€

tom_andraszek,
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@elCelio - take these with a grain of salt. The Kiel's number for military aid to Ukraine by Poland is 1/3 of the actual number based on the recent statement by Polish FM Sikorski. Similar situation may apply to other countries. We will know true numbers when the war ends.

Andy_Scollick, to random
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Global CO2 emissions for 2023 increased by only 0.1% relative to 2022. These 2023 emissions consumed 10–66.7% of the remaining carbon budget to limit warming to 1.5°C, suggesting permissible emissions could be depleted within 0.5–6 years (67% likelihood). https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-024-00532-2

tom_andraszek,
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@GreenFire @Andy_Scollick @dan613 - what?

tom_andraszek,
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@dan613 @GreenFire @Andy_Scollick - the good analogy to using sulfates in very low concentrations to save the climate is medicines. Take warfarin for example: we take in low concentrations to prevent blood clots (despite some people dying as a side effect), while high concentrations cause internal bleeding and death (warfarin is used as rat poison).

The chart that you attached goes only to 2020. James Hansen is arguing, based on more recent data, that the impact of aerosols was underestimated.

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@dan613 @GreenFire @Andy_Scollick - greenhouse gases are only one side of the temperature equation. The other side are sunlight reflecting aerosols, particularly sulphur dioxide. In this case lowering SO2 emissions lets more sunlight to reach the surface of the Earth and increase temperatures. We have lowered sulphur emissions significantly in the last decades.

https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2024/Hopium.MarchEmail.2024.03.29.pdf

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@Andy_Scollick @dan613 @GreenFire - thanks Andy. David Keith: 100 planes, 1% dimming, no crop failures: https://youtu.be/dZIfF0vwDTw

I think the analogy with medicines/vaccines is quite good: they have side effects, but we still use them because they help more than harm.

It takes about a year for aerosols to fall down, so if one nation stops, another can continue.

Those who destroy the climate don't ask for permission, why should those who want to repair it?

Mitigation alone is surrender/retreat.

tom_andraszek,
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@GreenFire @Andy_Scollick @dan613 - the video I linked by David Keith contradicts Andy's claims.

tom_andraszek,
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@GreenFire @dan613 @Andy_Scollick - for CO2 concentrations to start decreasing, we would need to stop emitting 37.4 Gt CO2 per year, or cut it by 50-75% - this assumes the continuing absorption by carbon sinks: oceans, soil, forests. The safe bet is 0 Gt. Once we do that, it will take hundreds or thousands of years for CO2 concentrations in the air to significantly decrease.
The temperatures will still be rising though, until Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) gets to 0.

mykhaylo, to poland
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Oh, cool. So it's ok if an enemy rocket is flying through airspace, as long as it's flying to . "We could have taken the rocket, but we decided not to, cause it was not threatening Poland". I thought the fact that an enemy rocket is flying through your airspace is enough reason to hit it, but no. Poland is ready to let use it to bomb us. As long as it's not Ukrainian grain coming into Poland — they're fine.

https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/rosyjska-rakieta-byla-nad-polska-kosiniak-kamysz-zabral-glos-7009352380488608a

tom_andraszek,
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@DrGeraintLLannfrancheta @mykhaylo - maybe they didn't want a repeat of the situation when Ukraine tried to shoot down a Russian missile with an S-300 and missed and killed two people in Poland?

capntransit, to random
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RT @BethO: When I worked at USDOT, I used to regularly have meetings with school districts that built their schools like this only to realize they couldn't possibly afford to bus their students to their new school.

tom_andraszek,
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@capntransit - to me bussing costs seem a secondary problem here... this looks like a terrible location for a school (or a shop, or even a prison), because of air pollution and road noise, on the account of being inside an off ramp...

MAKS23, to poland Ukrainian
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⚡️ Officials from and will meet in Warsaw on March 28 to solve the problem of the blockade of the Polish-Ukrainian border, - Polish PM Donald Tusk

👀 "We must find a common solution to preserve the interests of Polish farmers," Tusk said.

🙃 March 28....

tom_andraszek,
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@MAKS23 - he said the technical talks are ongoing. He also said he is in constant contact with the Ukrainian PM. The 28 March is the planned date of the meeting of both governments - all ministers, not when the problem will be solved - the problem may be solved tomorrow. He also announced that the border crossings will be now treated as critical infrastructure legally, which I think will limit the right to protest.

He condemned pro-Putin and anti-Ukrainian elements.

https://www.youtube.com/live/2Ndyg97nZMk

peterdutoit, to climate
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    tom_andraszek,
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    @peterdutoit - that is a sound advice, except we don't have another 30 years for trying to lower our GHG emissions and the tipping points are being crossed now.

    Solar geoengineering sounds scary, but it's not. People would not notice it. This lecture goes in detail about what it involves:
    https://youtu.be/xWI2w2F1gMg

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    @peterdutoit - that's right, that I think was the biggest argument against solar geoengineering. The situation changed dramatically though. The Earth Energy Imbalance doubled recently, causing the ocean surface temperature to be much higher than expected. This was because we made the air cleaner in the last 10 years: we stopped emitting a lot of SO4 which was shielding us from solar radiation.

    tom_andraszek,
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    @peterdutoit - time to start solar geoengineering now?

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    @peterdutoit - I was not considering it either, until very recently when I learned that since 2015 the EEI doubled because of a solar geoengineering experiment in reverse: the reduction in SO4 emissions from ships. GHG emissions keep growing. I don't think we have any time left.

    tom_andraszek,
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    @peterdutoit - we've been doing it for 30 years (first COP was in 1995). The GHG emissions meanwhile have been following the "business as usual" path.

    Hypx, to TeslaMotors
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    Tesla, alongside most of the rest of the BEV industry, is headed for disaster. People simply don't want BEVs, and BEVs aren't a serious solution to climate change. The whole thing is an expensive distraction and reality is start to knock on the door.

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-teslas-car-deliveries-were-a-disaster-for-elon-musk.html

    tom_andraszek,
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    @Hypx - if you are buying a car, you should choose an EV over petrol/gas, because every litre of petrol burned produces 2.3 kg of CO2. Every kg of GHG not emitted is important.

    The best solution of course is to not drive at all. Use public transport, ride an e-bike. If you can.

    I live in a car-dependent place with a walk score of 4/100, but I don't drive, because I can get to work by bus+train. My wife needs a car, because for the places and hours she works, public transport is not available.

    tom_andraszek, to goldcoast
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    My morning Gold Coast train was cancelled. The next one in 30 minutes. Lots of high school students will be late for school today.
    No point taking the 725 bus as it takes 54 minutes to go from Coomera to Helensvale vs 5 minutes by train. The TX7 bus is more direct, but it doesn't run that early, and it still takes 47 minutes.

    The almost direct TX7 bus route.

    tom_andraszek,
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    @timrichards - it's a weird situation when the only rail line in a city pop. 640k, which could be the backbone of public transport in that city as it runs most of the length of the city, with speeds up to 140 km/h (easily beats cars on M1), is primarily used as a commute line to a city 66 km to the north. Meanwhile, public transport mode share in Gold Coast was under 5% the last time I checked.

    tom_andraszek,
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    @timrichards - from the Coomera station (north Gold Coast), it is 15 minutes, or better (there are a few extra trains here and there): towards Brisbane from 6am to 8am, and towards Gold Coast from about 4:30pm to 8pm. The timetable is designed for people going to Brisbane in the morning and coming back in the afternoon. Going in the other direction, or outside the peak = 30 minute frequency.

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