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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
  • 77 million voted for Trump in 2024.
  • 75 million voted for Harris.
  • 89 million didn't vote.

I think some of the 89 million didn't vote because being actively complicit in genocide is an ethical line they will never cross.

I think the big difference between those who are prepared to vote for evil, and those who will never vote for genocidal parties; is how far they think ahead. Those who only look at the next 4 years, will keep voting for the lesser evil and make the world more evil even if they win; while those who look at least at the next 7 generations, will never vote for such evil parties.

For the Democrats to get votes from the non-voters, they have to convince them that crossing the genocide-line is OK, and that causing a mass extinction event more than 4 years from now should be ignored.

For the Greens to get some of those non-voters, they have to convince them it's better to do the right thing and be on the losing side for a while, because there's a chance (like in first-past-the-post UK, where the 8th biggest party, the Greens, now regularly poll better than both of the duopoly parties (Tories and Labour]) that others will eventually vote for the ethical party if they see more people doing it.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

And Hudson Bay.

Anything else in the correct position?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The numbers listed here are quite low as a percentage of the 1-3 trillion fish slowly tortured to death every year by the fishing industry on purpose.

Scottish creel rope kills:

  • 6 humpback whales
  • 30 minke whales

UK-only vessels, annual bycatch killed estimates:

  • 120 tonnes of "protected" sharks, skates, and rays
  • 10 000 seabirds
  • 1 000+ endangered Atlantic salmon
  • 1 000 harbour porpoises and common dolphins
  • 500 seals

Globally

  • 400 000 seabird deaths from drowning due to gillnets

Orders of magnitude worse suffering is caused by factory farms where another 1-3 trillion fish are enslaved in continuous torturous conditions their entire lives.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 34 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"The reform does not mandate two rest days per week. [...] create the conditions under which a four-day working week becomes practically achievable for the first time for a significant portion of the Mexican workforce."

Mexico is one of the few countries with only a 1-day weekend, along with:

  • Colombia, Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea, Honduras, Hong Kong, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Uganda, and India (Sundays);
  • Djibouti (only 40h/w tho), Palestine, Iran, and Somalia (Fridays); and
  • Nepal (only 42h/w tho) (Saturdays).
[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I’ve never felt any better eating 3 meals a day. I did gain weight faster, though.

If you want to lose weight, eat more calories in the morning and less in the evening.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fast decarbonisation [...] shift away from overconsumption towards “sufficiency”. This would involve a sharp reduction in labour hours and the use of raw materials, along with big changes in consumption patterns, food habits, land use and forest cover.

Green parties (excluding the capitalist German and US Greens) have had this as the priorities on the platforms for decades. But the vast, vast majority of people choose to instead vote for the greedy, short-sighted, sociopathic parties that are instead increasing

  • CO2e emissions,
  • consumption,
  • hours of work for effectively less money,
  • factory animal farming and industrial fishing,
  • habitat destruction, ...
[–] Jack@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 week ago

The boss is the voters who keep choosing to vote for narcissistic sociopathic candidates.

I've only ever voted Green, I've never voted for any omnicidal capitalists.

It's not "propaganda" making more than 90% of people choose leaders who will continue pushing us towards a mass extinction event, more genocides, oligarchy, etc.. It's that almost all voters are as greedy, short-sighted, and sociopathic as the people they keep voting for.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

cost of life

Should we save about 1.4 to 3.7 billion wild birds a year, by ending the pet cat industry?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

Her name's Francesca, not Francesa.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"The magnetic field is vital to our continued existence. It helps keep the atmosphere we breathe in"

I knew about reducing how much cosmic radiation we receive, but not about protecting the atmosphere:

"Many scientists have argued that the magnetic field is crucial for protecting the atmosphere from erosion by energetic particles coming from the Sun." https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-oxygen-magnetic-field-linked/

Also, "the planetary magnetic field has followed similar rising and falling patterns as oxygen in the atmosphere for nearly a half billion years, dating back to the Cambrian explosion, when complex life on Earth emerged."

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

kids

Tonnes of CO2e, averages:

 1.60 a roundtrip transatlantic flight
 2.40 one year of car use
58.60 one year, per child you have (dwarfing everything combined in the 3rd graphic in the sidebar)

Wynes et al. 2017 PDF

Shown in the most important chart in human history, because human overpopulation is the biggest and root cause for not just catastrophic anthropogenic climate change, but also the biggest and root cause of factory farming, industrial fishing, unsustainable pollution, biosphere degradation, mass extinction, ...

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think so. Murder is illegal, while the vast majority of people choose to vote for non-Green parties, to make it legal and to incentivize the Anthropocene mass extinction event.

 

[Thanks morgunkorn for replying to show where it is: on our Profile pages, 4 lines beneath our usernames.]

How can I find a list of the Lemmy posts I've saved in my browser?

Saving posts are done by clicking on the star icon. Once saved the icon becomes orange.

Can't find them on my Profile page, or via the Search page, and searches seem to only answer it for apps.

 

Edit: copying the font to /usr/local/share/fonts/ fixed it. (I downloaded Debian Xfce a while ago because of how much I dislike Snap, so I'll soon replace Xubuntu with it.)

I recently installed the font “Atkinson Hyperlegible” on Xubuntu 22.04.3 (via right click, Fonts 41.0), and I use it as the Xfce UI font and the default in Mousepad and LibreOffice without any problems.

However in Firefox 120.0.1 (64-bit), Snap for Ubuntu, canonical-002 - 1.0; it’s not listed at Edit, Settings, Fonts; or Fonts, Advanced…

When I view an HTML page where the CSS’ body has font-family:"Atkinson Hyperlegible",sans-serif; it also doesn’t use the Atkinson font. That page also doesn’t use Atkinson in the (Epiphany GNOME) Web 45.1 browser.

Any ideas on how to get Firefox and Epiphany to see it?

 

Jeffrey Kaplan's lecture helped me better understand international relations, war, authoritarians, capitalists, etc. (reading guide (PDF)).

 

Did the Staten-Generaal supervise the Heeren XVII, was it the other way round, were they usually the same people, or did it not work like that?

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