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- Comment on YSK that the tax data of Warren Buffet, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos was leaked 6 days ago:
While all getting richer on massive government contracts paid for by other people’s tax.
(Actually I don’t know about Buffett. Musk’s wealth being built on government money is well known. Amazon staff on food stamps constitutes government welfare on a massive scale, never mind the inducements Amazon get for placing distribution centres in whichever district etc etc etc.)
- Comment on Deserved honestly 1 week ago:
Where was this work? The prison kitchen or something?
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 1 week ago:
Presumably the risk of getting caught. There must be quite a few people aware of what is and isn’t in that evidence, some of whom might whistleblow.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 1 week ago:
Police are not the brightest in any society.
So I guess somebody needs to tell them that they need to focus their efforts a little better if ‘anyone with a Google Pixel is a drug dealer’.
Can I suggest they start with the people with drugs, rather than the people with the – not uncommon - google phones in their search for drug dealers?
- Comment on The World Has a Serious Coal Problem 1 week ago:
Earth system scientists put the kind of society complex enough for hospitals and higher education require an energy returned on energy invested in the teens. ‘Renewables’ (let’s call them low carbon, there isn’t anything very renewable about the blade of a wind turbine) barely touch that and often don’t get near.
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The picture is so varied that one can find statistics to counter this ‘barely touches the teens’ claim. Look at the totality of the picture and draw your own conclusions. I am just presenting some reasoning to justify a claim that we are heading towards a much lower energy future, maybe next century or something (which doesn’t have to be bad, provided everybody isn’t slaving for a class of energy-obese billionaires protected by a fascist police state).
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I looked into this a lot about 15 years ago, when it seemed that we were still in the last chance saloon on avoiding catastrophic climate change. The science might have moved on. I don’t have current sources anybody interested in the concept of eroei and the complexity it creates will have to look themselves.
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- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 2 weeks ago:
These replies are silly.
It is you all who will continually wonder why the world isn’t working out the way you want it to and the way your ideology told you it should, and I am happy to agree to disagree, so block it is from here on out.
Your failure to deal with the reality poor, former working class people face has and will lead to the rise of the far right. Well done. Continue being right.
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 2 weeks ago:
You are simply not dealing with reality and we will all suffer because of it.
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 2 weeks ago:
There is not one thing indoctrinated of racist about my post. Your failure to accept reality suggests indoctrination.
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely not. It is you that is missing the point and we will all be worse off because of it.Deal with reality.
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately for you, and all of us, there is an increasing tranche of poor people who are directly suffering because of immigration.
We ignore these people at our peril because they will vote for the Trumpists if nobody else is representing their interests.
The middle classes enjoyed the benefits of cheap labour, in particular, but those who had their pay and conditions destroyed are not going to vote to be turkeys at somebody else’s christmas party.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 2 weeks ago:
Presumably he had to give 35 presents too.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
Have children. Flying. Driving. Buying a whole range of carbon intense products blah blah blah.
Vegans just are not credible.
- Comment on Moving away from physical currency has been very detrimental to the homeless industry 2 weeks ago:
Yeah the industry has been in the shit since credit and debit cards. A homeless guy with a chip and pin device to get donations is completely off-message for the brand
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 weeks ago:
I’ll vote for people who support genocide if they will pass a little bit less publicly owned infrastructure into the hands of private capital is a pathetic position to take.
It absolutely is not worthy of respect.
- Comment on ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 3 weeks ago:
Clearly this premise, upon which your further exchanges is based, is complete bullshit.
You are a troll, presumably one for whom any response is a win. It gives you a little dopamine hit.
What a pathetic place to get to - there are a million ways to get a dopamine hit less pathetic than this, including all of the major addictive drugs.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 3 weeks ago:
I just meant the breadth of media coverage in the UK spans billionaire/Murdoch owned media on one side to the voice-piece of the British establishment itself, which is now little more than a proxy for the interests of capital, on the other.
- Comment on US debt is now $37trn – should we be worried? 3 weeks ago:
‘He’ (the US) owe it in large part to the world, who were forced to buy us debt in order to buy oil. China is the biggest holder of US debt iirc.
The US’s voluntary withdrawal from the post ww2 economic order (from which it profited greatly) has absolutely hastened and cemented this process.
This debt is coming due, the strength of the dollar has already dropped greatly, US interest rates will rise. The US dollar will be cheap enough to compete with India and China to be the world’s factory (a major part of Trump’s election campaign and success).
It won’t happen all at once as the world will look to manage America’s decline while trying to maintain as stable a transition as possible.
But please be aware, this debt is going to come due and it has absolutely been hastened by Americans voting for Trump a second time. Fore warned is forearmed. Good luck.
- Comment on Rate my one year old homelab. 3 weeks ago:
I’ll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system
I bunged mine in the fridge, just drill a hole out of the side for the cables then use rubber sealant.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 3 weeks ago:
Yes let’s see. I imagine the media - billionaire owned on one hand, bbc on the other - will do the kind of job on him they did when he was leader of the labour party.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 3 weeks ago:
It has been red tory v. blue tory since Blair took leadership in '93/'94.
It is more of less the same as the US (where it was red v blue republicans for a few decades and is now Republicans calling themselves ‘Democrats’ v. Christian Nationalist Fascists).
It is the natural continuation of Reaganite/Thatcherite neo-liberal capitalist ideology.
The outcome for the UK will be a lurch right as the poor vote for parties (Reform) who have used the immigration that has caused serious legitimate problems for poor communities that simply can’t afford to support them, and other cultural issues of various import they have been coerced into finding important, as wedge issues.