hanrahan

@hanrahan@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Japan PM vows to take US ties to 'new heights' with Trump⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t have it both ways lady unless you want to take a play book from some middle eastern countries.

  Doesn’’t have anything to to do with anything like that, aside from being in power.

  Say dumb shit that apepals to dumb shits, get elected. Helps if you’re an idiot because you can seem sincere in your stupiditya dn as long as you’re crafty grifter, you can make bank It’s the literal populist playbook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mining giants must pay rent tax so Australians don’t miss out on critical minerals cash boom, MPs say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They could..

  OR

  they can spend a shit load less to convince people to keep votong LNP and ALP so noting changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia: In China's dangerous interceptions, see the breakdown of peaceful world order⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The message was clear: the defence relationship between the United States and Australia remains strong

  That’s unfortunate,

  Paraphrasing thay shit bag Kissinger, to be an enemy of the US is dangerous, to be a friend of the US is fatal

  I wonder what the US would say if we flewmoir miltary airfavt sonclose to IS airspace ? Why dont we tru it ip near Rissia ?

  The US is shooting randoms out of the ocean. Fuck those guys and tjwir war crimes… and we should be pulling back in every way possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you eat free range eggs, you're probably ingesting trace amounts of rooster cum⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tegridy Farm ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  in the telephone, which you could always just not answer.

  Indeed what feesh hell is this

  I mostly don’t answer my phone, i have a ringtone for my parter and that’s the onky one i DO answer.

• White elephant? Hardly – Snowy 2.0 will last 150 years and work with batteries to push out gastheconversation.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy using drugs and that will never change⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it hit me while masturbating in the shower,

  What hit u ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Adam Smith also pointed this out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France evacuates Madagascar president amid protests and army revolt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There was an interesting bit in Dave Graeber’s “Debt: The first 5000 years” that starts off with a bit about that atrocity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venezuela announces closure of embassies in Norway and Australia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That would jatve to be Obama surely?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia's baby recession deepens, new ABS data says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So you never actually read Malthus ?

  That aside, better with 20 billion ? 100 billion?
  Presumably you have a line where u think " mmmm maybe too many people " So what informs that number for you, assuming some number less than 100 billion ?

  My thoughts are we should let science inform us rather then them random feelings amd also allow other species to exist. But go right ahead, tell is why some random number is best ?

  EO Wilson oponed 250 Million was about all the
  planet could support with a resource intensive lifestyle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 70% of US adults would be deemed obese based on new definition, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well designed communities with active commuting would help, cycling to work or cycling to the trian station and then walking to work. No need for a car, save a fortune there. No nees to drive to a gym to walk on a treadmill.

  Along with active communities that encourage people to go outside when they are home eg walkable areas to parks, walkable to events etc.

  Maybe work but China is big on 996 exhausting work culture, not as obese

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukrainian strikes have hurt Russia's economy more than sanctions – Ukraine's Intelligence chief⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good, lets GO!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Security without sovereignty: Australia’s quiet slide into digital dependency⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a big bear of mine decades ago, I gave up trying to convince my local MP at the time it was an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia offers Europe, Japan, other allies to sell stakes in its Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve to counter China's control over supply chains⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And incredibly toxic to proceess.

  It’s why Lynas didnt even bother trying for a permit for its WA mine and istead pollutes the shit out of the Malaysian rainforest after transporting the ore there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all… perspective and relative ?

  The UK oversaw the slaughter of Kenyans in the Mau Mau rebellion.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366?wprov=sfla1

  The CIA helping Suharto slaughter Indonesians in a genocide

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366?wprov=sfla1

  Israel’s existence is becase the US and UK taking native lands

  The Kurds were supposed to be free but too much Oil and that was stopped.

  Around 80 years ago, Eric Blair (aka George Orwell) wrote this:

  All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment,’ demands that the robbery shall continue.

  Somewhat more recently, Wendell Berry, in an essay entitled “Word and Flesh”, wrote this:

  This statement of Orwell’s is clearly applicable to our situation now; all we need to do is change a few nouns. The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something they do not really wish to destroy. We all live by robbing nature, but our standard of living demands that the robbery shall continue. We must achieve the character and acquire the skills to live much poorer than we do. We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and each other. It is either that or continue merely to think and talk about changes that we are inviting catastrophe to make. The great obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. But that is the addict’s excuse, and we know that it will not do.

  The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialisation, ‘Western civilisation’ or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation.” ― John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts On Humans And Other Animals

  We pretend we’ve been anything other then fascist since …?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kremlin bans fuel exports until the end of the year as Russia’s supply is disrupted by Ukrainian drones⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not oil, its the Oil that China and India mostly take AFAIK (and refine themselves) , only hitting the refineries for gaoilone, kersone etal products. So there will likely be MORE oil available to export as their refinery capacity is reduced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK just took a harder stance on Banksy than genocide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  https://samilhistory.com/2018/12/07/debunking-the-myth-that-the-british-invented-the-concentration-camp/

  The actual term ‘concentration camp’ was invented by the Spanish (as campo de concentración or campo de reconcentración) in 1896 – three years before the 2nd Anglo-Boer War (1899 – 1904) started. It originated during The Cuban War of Independence (Guerra de Independencia cubana, 1895–98) was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain.

  A rebellion had broken out in Cuba, then a Spanish colony in 1895. The rebels, outnumbered by Spanish government troops, turned to guerrilla warfare (and here another myth which says the Boer’s invented ‘guerrilla warfare’ is debunked).

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the Dutch are moving right. Gert Wilders is a literal fascist.

  AfD in Germany then we have Norway, Italy, Finland, UK, France and on and on. They probably feel at home

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France | Teacher dies by suicide on the first day of school after years of anti-lesbian harassment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The irony of the French Government suing Kick for the.streaming of a suicide,.while this horrible situation was.occuring in France.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colombia coal exports plummet after ban on Israel sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Indiensia now supple Israel, the irony would be ....

  Or is it some slime ball countryside like Australia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Mockery of science': US experts blast Trump climate report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/09/climate-scientists-response-to-doe-report/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=climate-scientists-response-to-doe-report

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World’s Largest Solar Plant is Rising in Tibet. It's So Vast It's the Size of Chicago⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rain keeps solar panels clean. Output degrades over time naturally regarldess.

  I lived off grid with a 2kW system for a decade,. As a test we cleaned themmonce at about the 5 yr mark with soap, water and a broom. My measuring equipment wasn't sensitive enough to notice any difference.

  That said I have seen small robotic cleaners (like robotic window cleaners) used on vast solar arrays, possibly an array that vast and a small increase is worth it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grocery Chains Are Passing Trump Tariff Costs on to US Consumers With Higher Prices: Report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Shoot the bear molesting the girl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Boxing ,MMA.etc ?

  https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/45935560/two-japanese-boxers-die-brain-injuries-suffered-same-fight-card

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mississippi Age Verification Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends where you reside ?, if you are in the US and dont block a US state you can be prosecuted but what will the UK do ? See the current 4chan brouhaha with the UK for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says China has to give US magnets or face 200% tariff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Give them ? Wtf ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlike genocide, that situations fixable by voters, we just seem content with what we have.

  We could Vote Green, who have policies around higher taxes fo the wealthy and and corporations and dental into medicare, free universty etc

  hell, I dont vote Green to elect the Greens per se but to move the syatus quo off the orthodoxy and allow the Overton Window to shift.

  Nothing changes until voters do.