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Please be advised: the company that cares about your privacy doesn’t.

Discussion of violence 

Honest question:

Why are works of (books, comic, animation, film) depicting or more offensive to more people and cause more calls to boycott or censorship than fiction depicting extreme or , when killing someone is universally regarded as worse than raping someone (morally worse) and criminal systems everywhere punish murderers more harshly than rapists (legally worse)?

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Humanity could have spent its days chasing butterflies and watching sunsets and loving each other and instead I have to download an app and make an account to access the office printer

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“$ISSUE is now much better than ever before, much progress has been made” is one of those non-arguments I don't accept when discussing improvements to $ISSUE

I'm getting rid of these three beauties, 😢 one of them by @rauschma. They are all good, but I bought them in Tokyo eight years ago, which means they were written nine or ten years ago, and this kind of don't age well, for obvious reasons. Farewell and may your pulp become other books!

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Since 2013, Signal has set the bar for private digital communications.

Signal provides real communications privacy, offering easy-to-use technology that refuses the surveillance business model on which the tech industry is built. Congrats Signal on your 2023 EFF Award!

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Happy #SoftwareFreedom Day!
We are celebrating it today in:

🇩🇪 Berlin
📍Meeting in Kieztreff Undine from 15h
wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/20

🇮🇹 Nembro
📚 Reading of 'Ada & Zangemann' in Italian (and with 🍧). From 14:45h
fsfe.org/news/2023/news-202309

I designed a simple PDF for the for the technique.

I have been using a similar template for a while, and it works well for me.

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Eisenhower matrix for the reMarkable: example of usage cf https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/16ibr7i/template_eisenhower_method_f...
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@tripu I agree. My understanding is that indeed reforestation should happen but it's no way near a solution.

This is up there with "carbon capture technology" as a distraction maneuver, deployed as part of greenwashing campaigns.

Is it me, or is there something very suspicious about claiming to fully offset emissions by planting trees?

I mean, if we magically had the resources, or the will, to plant as many as are necessary to offset all of our emissions, tomorrow, would the atmosphere behave exactly as if we committed collective suicide and stopped polluting altogether?

Trees take years to grow. Planting trees requires garden centres, watering, warehouses, transportation, machinery. Trees interact with the atmosphere and with their ecosystems in various ways. If a tree wasn't growing there in the first place, and the area isn't altered by humans, almost by definition there should be no tree there.

Besides all that, offsetting by planting trees seems a useful distraction and a heart-warming falsehood.

I'm not saying we should not reforest where we previously deforested, or even in new places if careful study advises to do so. But this image of new trees sprouting on the other side of the world to make up for all the pollution and the disruption we cause over here is a marketing scam.

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In case you thought the Web was run by and dominated by giant tech companies, you might be surprised to find that it is upheld by small companies run by people like you and me, in fact. You too can get involved in setting the direction of travel.

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