mindlesscrollyparrot

@mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Not sustainable': The heavy price your 6c tea bag is exacting on others⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having checked, it seems that the Fairtrade standards now allow producers that are not cooperatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Not sustainable': The heavy price your 6c tea bag is exacting on others⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The article repeatedly lumps Rainforest Alliance and Fair Trade together, but they are not the same at all, and I didn’t see any examples of inspection failures for Fair Trade.

  To be certified for Fair Trade, the producers must be a cooperative. That is relatively easy to check and it means that there is no-one to impose harsh conditions on the workers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well thank goodness that Microsoft isn’t pushing AI on us as hard as it can, via every channel that it can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If puberty blockers are not reversible and if the person decides that they are not trans in later life, then the consequence would be that they are stuck in a body that doesn’t match their self-image.

  If that sounds bad to you, well …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A surprise solar boom reveals a fatal flaw in our climate change projections⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am unclear how people in Pakistan installing solar to power their factories and air conditioning instead of using fossil fuels is a fatal flaw. It seems to me that it is a very good kind of flaw to have in the model.

  Unless the model was assuming that Pakistan would simply have to do without air conditioning because they wouldn’t be allowed to run it on fossil fuels. In which case the model had an appalling flaw in it - in the moral sense as well as magnitude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands of UK farmers protest against inheritance tax hike⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be entirely unsurprised if the ones protesting are not rich, and they don’t realize that they won’t be affected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do commercial/industrial buildings not require power then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You aren’t wrong, but you are assuming that the grid is required. Solar panels can be installed at the point of use, and then the grid doesn’t come into it at all.