BBBruce @Didaho@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Nov 2022
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@w7voa this month’s scheduled russian scaremongering. Modernized Icbm’s and nuke subs are more than enough to anihilate a continent with an iron dome
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Google, Environmental Defense Fund will track methane emissions from space
Satellite data + Google Maps + AI should help figure out where methane is leaking.
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@nadiaalbelushi I disagree with your notion of demonizing. The ethnicities don’t matter. If occupying government occupies land they didn’t originally own they should expect resistance and nobody could blame someone for “being radicalized” under such circumstances.
However, that doesn’t excuse the actions. Did Hamas bomb a military base? A government building? Literally anything at all related to the occupying government? No. It was innocent people. This logic applies across all borders, all ethnicities.
And same to the occupiers. Did Israel storm in and take over government buildings? No, they beat children and took homes.
It’s not about “demonizing” anyone. It’s about understanding the difference between resisting a government and beating children or blowing up a concert full of random people.
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@vertana @cowardlylionel The question is, who's the bigger asshole? The one who pushed the other side into doing this due to his illegal occupation, or the other side that was so brutalized by decades of occupation that it ended up becoming radicalized? That's my point. My whole point is one side is clearly a bigger asshole than the other, and it's not Hamas or the Palestinians. It's Israel. And yet, White libs in America paper over Israel's genocide, and refer to only one side as terrorists.
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"“U.S. President Joe Biden issued a memorandum on Thursday requiring allies who receive military aid from the U.S. to provide ‘credible and reliable written assurances’ of their adherence to international law including international human rights law,” the Times of Israel reported. Israel will need to supply written assurances within 45 days or risk loss of aid."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/13/biden-israel-aid/
#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #War #HumanRights #Biden #USA #News #WorldNews
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Half of migratory species face extinction due to human activities
Since the 1970s, global biodiversity has plummeted by 70 percent.
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The #australia govt is paying consultants to do another climate risk assessment. It’s likely to be a shocker. The worst thing about the terms of reference for the National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) is that they assume +1.5-+2C by 2050 - a wildly overly optimistic projection. #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #auspol
Here’s David Spratt’s commentary:
https://johnmenadue.com/as-warming-accelerates-and-1-5c-is-breached-faster-than-forecast-australia-needs-to-re-think-climate-risks-and-policy/
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"Bits and pieces of experience and memory can accumulate into a shift in what people believe is possible and our own perceptions of our power to impact the world. Exposing the public to sights and sounds and ideas that help them make connections and have realizations they may have not otherwise have had is important. Making instruments and avenues for direct action and liberatory practices accessible is important. All attempts, large and small, at nurturing liberation can transform and expand people’s capacities for creative resistance, dreaming, and action."
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“History will not look kindly on House Republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games.” - Statement from President Biden on impeachment of DHS Secretary Mayorkas https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/13/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-house-gops-baseless-impeachment-of-secretary-mayorkas/
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"Libs of TikTok and Elon Musk rushed to spread the misinformation as part of the far right’s desperate push to make “trans terrorism” a thing."
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Thousands out in the streets right now in #SanFrancisco in support of #Palestine.
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Australian Greens member Jo Clay MLA has sought to table legislation to ban fossil fuel advertising in the Australian Capital Territory https://greens.org.au/act/news/media-release/you-dont-make-friends-fossil-fuel-sponsorships #greenwashing #advertising #promotion #sponsorship #auslaw #auspol
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Catastrophic is the word I would use here.
https://www.sciencealert.com/its-confirmed-a-major-atlantic-ocean-current-is-verging-on-collapse
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Today at 12:30 on ABC, tax coal and gas on export, oil and diesel on entering #australia & economists show Australia BY ITSELF could reduce GLOBAL emissions by 6-9% AND become a super power while compensating every household! Doesn’t say anything about cooling, but it’s a step forward. Working for this is really important. Globally. And
Ross Garnaut doesn’t do things by halves, right?
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #fossilfuels #tax #auspol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-14/economists-call-for-carbon-levy/103461496?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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Australian fossil fuel tax could raise $100bn in first year alone, Rod Sims and Ross Garnaut say
Note that, for whatever their reasons, the Guardian goes on to say "veteran Australian economists", no slur there at all.
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Barnaby’s Bench has its own pin on Google Maps and the reviews are truly delicious
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"Climate Scientist Michael Mann Wins $1 Million Defamation Case Against Right-Wing Climate Deniers" | My segment this morning on Democracy Now @democracynow
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/13/climate_scientist_michael_mann_defamation_lawsuit
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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox
Memo details layoffs, "strategic corrections," and a desire for "trustworthy" AI.
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Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
"A few things spring to mind.
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clump-fuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God… what… have… I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
Joined Nov 2022
