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- British national, reportedly captured on Russian soil while fighting for Ukraine, remanded into custodymeduza.io ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Clean energy workers are desperately needed, but many don't know these jobs exist 2 months ago:
Clean energy infrastructure is desperately needed, but capitalists don’t want to pay labor a fair wage.
The stories I hear from tradespeople in clean energy work is that entry level positions are paying less, and the bonuses they were seeing when they started are drying up. Many are looking to move away from clean-energy specific labor and into electrical or construction where unions are better established.
Improperly installed solar panels short out and fail early, carelessly sealed roof mountings leak and damage the dwelling, and most importantly, pressured novice workers make often fatal mistakes while working with electricity or at significant heights. If you have the experience of prison labor as a baseline, the risks and rewards of this kind of labor may be attractive. But most tradespeople know these jobs exist, and choose not to take them.
Instead of support for labor, you see state, provincial, and national incentives to recruit new workers into these fields, as well as articles like this one touting the potential of employment in the clean energy economy. But noticeably absent from the article is any mention of labor organization or workers protections for the people doing this work. If the state was serious about building this infrastructure, they would make these fields union jobs. That’s the only way to get quality renewable energy infrastructure built at scale.
- Comment on [SciShow] How To Make Buildings Into Batteries 3 months ago:
The petro-billionaire people who brought you “The Line” are joining up with the badly conceived Octopus Crane Tower idea to bring you something that definitely will never be built and probably has deep conceptual flaws. The important thing to take away from this is that the people causing the climate crisis have a clever solution, and you can continue living your life as if things will eventually return to the pre-climate crisis status quo.
- Comment on Elements of Renewable Energy 3 months ago:
This distinction is important. I’ve seen a lot of greenwashing about hydrogen as a renewable energy source, but it is only a non-carbon producing form energy storage, and is almost entirely energy stored from processing fossil fuels.
- Submitted 3 months ago to globalnews@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on Threads Enables Fediverse Replies 3 months ago:
Fuck the Heritage Foundation.
- Comment on Threads Enables Fediverse Replies 3 months ago:
Threads.net federation status on major Lemmy instances:
- Blahaj.zone - Blocked
- DBZer0 - Blocked
- Eco.br - Blocked
- Feddit.org - Blocked
- Feddit.nl - Blocked
- Feddit.uk - Blocked
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- Lemmy.world - Linked
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 4 months ago:
I support opening up vote logs to moderators in their own communities. Voting records add useful context to the nature of the exchanges happening, eg. if two people are having a back and forth, but neither is downvoting the other, it contextualizes the disagreement as less hostile.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to give every new user the burden of using that information responsibly. A minority would use it to retaliate, stalk, and harass, and there would be too many of them to reasonably hold them accountable.
- Comment on Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring Palestinians 4 months ago:
Regardless of who it was targeted at, I’ve definitely experienced my share of similar accusations. Lemmy.world culture seems to favor low effort ‘bad faith’ accusations, and I wish that weren’t the case.
- Comment on Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring Palestinians 4 months ago:
Ask a socialist what’s wrong with Lemmy.world, they’ll give you a myriad of issues. Ask an capitalist what’s wrong with Lemmy.ml, they’ll describe Lemmy.world.
- Comment on Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring Palestinians 4 months ago:
A appreciate your work demonstrating The Cradle’s support for the Russian state. It’s the first time I can remember seeing The Cradle posted on here, and in between being subscribed to these communities and my contributions to LemmyWorldDefenseHQ, I have not seen The Cradle spam as a reported or observed problem.
I’ve read the article, and I find it valuable. I’m alarmed that the Lemmy World !politics and !news mods have failed to demonstrate the pressing need for the ham-fisted gatekeeping and censorship regime they’ve implemented.
Lemmy.World is the largest instance, and !politics and !news are flagship communities. I would like to see the Fediverse overtake corporate forums, and learning to approach the spectrum of journalistic credibility with nuance is an essential feature of a better version of social media.
- Comment on Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring Palestinians 4 months ago:
Maybe read the article and make those determinations for yourself?
I can’t for the life of me understand why this particular article is so threatening to LW !news mods. It provides valuable insight into how Facebook’s community guidelines are experienced by journalists outside of the political mainstream and has useful lessons for why we might do things differently in the Fediverse.
- Comment on Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring Palestinians 4 months ago:
Oh, so if he sincerely believes in genocide, it’s fine.
Regardless of our conflict, we can agree that Pepe Escobar is a shithead.
There’s an old joke that goes:
Two people, a Hexbear and a Solarpunk were arguing. One said,
“On my server I can reply to an admin and say “I don’t like how you’re running things on this instance!”
“I can do that too!”
“Really?”
"Yes! I can reply to an admin and say, “I don’t like how the SLRPNK admins are running things on their instance!”
My concern is that the criteria you are using to justify banning The Cradle would also ban most United States media as well. I value the principle of a free press, and what you’re proposing is inconsistent with those values. It’s easy to call for the ban of information that disagrees with us, but unless we develop a more nuanced approach to combating propaganda, we risk replicating the values of the authoritarian systems we oppose.
- Comment on Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring Palestinians 4 months ago:
If you’d like to see it discussed elsewhere, you’re welcome to cross-post it.
This is part of culture clash between old social media culture and Fediverse norms. If moderators choose to censor this discussion as well, it’s only going to get bigger.
- Comment on Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring Palestinians 4 months ago:
How do you distinguish between opinion and propaganda? Its entirely credible that Pepe Escobar sincerely believes the positions he holds.
Should the corpus of every news source that includes opinion pieces that serve the interests of a war criminal state be banned?
- Comment on Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring Palestinians 4 months ago:
I disagree, and that’s part of the reason I’m so strongly opposed to Lemmy.World’s use of Dave Van Zandt’s site in their bot. Fact-checking is an essential tool in fighting the waves of fake news polluting the public discourse. But if that fact-checking is partisan, then it only acerbates the problem of people divided on the basics of a shared reality.
This is why a consortium of fact-checking institutions have joined together to form the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), and laid out a code of principles. You can find a list of signatories as well as vetted organizations on their website.
MBFC is not a signatory to the IFCN code of principles. As a partisan organization, it violates the standards that journalists have recognized as essential to restoring trust in the veracity of the news. Partisan fact-checking sites are worse than no fact-checking at all. Just like how the proliferation of fake news undermines the authority of journalism, the growing popularity of a fact-checking site by a political hack like Dave M. Van Zandt undermines the authority of non-partisan fact-checking institutions in the public consciousness.
- Comment on Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring Palestinians 4 months ago:
Yeah, that’s not great, but it’s not outside the bounds of what you’d typically find in the uncritical reporting of Western politicians in periodicals like Reuters.
The issue isn’t that The Cradle is biased, all journalism is biased. The issue is that they’re being treated with the tools that should only be used for conspiracy mills and AI fake news farms. I find that alarming.
- Comment on Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring Palestinians 4 months ago:
I agree, Pepe Escobar’s take in that opinion piece is complete garbage. It should be noted that it is and opinion piece with the sub text “The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of The Cradle.”
Shutting down the entire journal because one columnist is a Putin apologist isn’t what the concept of a free press is about. I’d be less alarmed by mods shutting down a post of that columnist for genocide apology. It looks like it’s only one featured columnist out of five occasionally posting garbage like that, and the bulk of their focus is on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Alan Dershowitz, famous for his shit takes, has apologized for torture and genocide and continues to be frequently featured in The Boston Globe, Haaretz, and The Wall Street Journal. Since those sources are posted freely, it would be inconsistent to ban The Cradle over Pepe Escobar.
- Comment on Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring Palestinians 4 months ago:
I support Ukrainians against colonization by Russia, but I’m not threatened by journalists who cover the facts from a different perspective from mine.
Can you demonstrate your claim? I did a perfunctory search, and the stories I found involving Russia seem informative and fact-based.
- Comment on Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring Palestinians 4 months ago:
Where besides Dave’s assessment are you sourcing your information? Isn’t it one-sided to only listen to Dave M. Van Zandt’s opinion without doing additional investigation?
- Submitted 4 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 65 comments
- Submitted 5 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says 5 months ago:
Use this one weird trick to get free energy from your old smoke detectors!
- Comment on Rage my setup 5 months ago:
That’s outside my wheelhouse, but I’ve brought it to poVoq’s attention. Thanks for the ping.
- Comment on Capturing CO2 With Copper, Scientists Generate 'Green Methane' 5 months ago:
That’s correct. Electro-chemical storage is not limited by the Carnot efficiency limit like combustion engines are. Conversion losses should be a huge factor in choosing energy storage.
The fertilizer that’s propping up our unsustainable factory farming is created using the Faber process that turns methane and nitrogen into ammonia. Food prices are lower because methane is cheap as a byproduct of oil refining. It might be cool to instead take carbon out of the atmosphere and then convert it into fertilizer to grow plants that remove even more carbon from the air.
- Comment on Miliband overrules officials with immediate North Sea oil ban 5 months ago:
From the article:
The decision followed crisis meetings yesterday between Mr Miliband and his aides after The Telegraph asked for updates on outstanding drilling licence applications.
Just days earlier the British Government announced they were committing to ending all new licences and consents for fossil fuel exploration and extraction, thanks in part to advocacy by radical climate activism by Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, and GreenPeace UK.
If you read between the lines - France made this snap decision at least partially based on anti-British chauvinism. They didn’t want to be outdone by Britain in signalling their commitment to fighting climate change. Which isn’t the greatest reason, but we’ll take a win where-ever we can.
But it also highlights how change locally can spread globally. Three cheers for radicals!
- Comment on The US just greenlit the offshore wind farm Trump vowed to kill 5 months ago:
I think you’re comparing us to HexBear? The mix of ideologies here is very different, with a stronger emphasis on anarchist tendencies. We value good faith arguments over bad faith trolling here. I’m glad you agree with most of the content hosted here.
- Submitted 6 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Beef Days - John Green 6 months ago:
Great find!
- Submitted 6 months ago to food@slrpnk.net | 2 comments
