Jack

Pointless change… why?

I think it's to make you spend more time in the stores, see more products, and spend more money.

It probably works on most people, but there's such a small number of ethical products I buy, that it just reminds me how sociopathic these omnicidal capitalists are and that I should try to buy less things.

The two most effective legal things you can do to help with climate are eating vegan and not having children.

According to Wynes et al. 2017 PDF (graph), while it's true that not having children is by far the best thing to try to prevent the anthropogenic climate cascade, veganism is only the 6th most important thing.

Being:

• car-free,
• flight-free, and
• fossil-fuel free for energy,

are all more important than being vegan.

When not just looking at anthropogenic climate, but ethical living overall; then yes, veganism is the 2nd most important thing after being child-free, because animal husbandry and fishing result in the torturing to death of 2-6 trillion fish per year, and on factory farms the enslavement in torturous conditions of 1-3 trillion fish and billions of non-aquatic animals every year.

Isn't listing only the number of projects-donated-to pretty much useless; when the amount donated to 1, could be more than everything-else by everyone-else combined?

I knew about

• John Adams and
• Thomas Jefferson (both 1826), but didn't know about
• James Monroe (1831); or
• Hannibal Hamlin the 15th vice president of the United States (1891).

The "Great Seal of the United States" with the eagle is from 1782, it's been in use as the "Seal of the president of the United States" since at least 1877, tho I'm not sure about this version of the eagle with wide open wings.

The nazis started using their version of the Bundeswappen in 1935.

Murica is a very weird place where folk don’t seem to get punished electorally for being an asshole.

“Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and American universities - and they are elected by American citizens.

This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, […] you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.” – George Carlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrbXOmnW70

See how few vote for ethical people like Nader, the Greens, ...

~200

"551 titles" - 43 TV show seasons = 508 movies?

"Sony already pulled 314 StudioCanal titles from libraries in Germany and Austria in 2022. More recently, Sony deleted people’s Funimation digital libraries"

everyone would prefer the fancy ceiling

Some people think reliefs, Greek revival, Rococo, Baroque, etc. are ugly, polluting to make, more toxic and dangerous to clean, wasteful, and gaudy.

It’s biggest problem was the arguably not so good first season I think.

I thought the 1st season of The Expanse was good, but the 2nd season was so bad that I stopped watching in middle of episode 2. The difference was pretty stark, almost as bad as the difference between the great season 1 of Spooks/MI-5 vs its god-awful season 2.

I'd recommend the first 2 seasons of Okkupert, and Firefly.

While I think Chernobyl is a great fiction series, there's a huge amount of completely unnecessary lies in it, including the intro and outro about lies.

The Xfce file manager, Thunar (4.18 with en-US as language), also has "Create Folder..." under the File menu, and in some contexts in the right-click menu.

Under Preferences, Behavior, it has both "directory" and "folders".

man ls uses "directory" only tho, and of course mkdir.

• 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.

And Hudson Bay.

Anything else in the correct position?