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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

In South Africa, the law determines that if something's labeled "Product of South Africa" it can't have any imported ingredients (tho the packaging can be imported).

"Produced in South Africa" can have imported ingredients - and I've been boycotting almost all of that because of the omnicidal carbon footprint of importing things. It's easier in this country to live ethically tho because we can grow almost everything we need: from food to textiles; tho our energy production is some of the most unethical in the world.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago

"All it takes for evil to succeed, is good people to say, "it's just business."" - Janet Leahy, Michael Reisz

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If you value your time, then maybe only watch finished shows with excellent word-of-mouth/ratings? If it declines instead of ending while still good, then stopping where people suggest? Possibly also skip the initial seasons if it only gets good later.

If you want to talk around the water cooler about the most popular zeitgeist shows, then maybe make exceptions for those that are the buzz after their 1st few episodes like Game of thrones, tho you should be prepared to quit the show after a few consecutive poorer episodes indicating its almost certain decline. (PS: I'd recommend stopping before Game of thrones' 6th season).

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 days ago

Released in 2011. I'm not sure the USA will withdraw from NATO until just before Russia invades a NATO country, instead using their membership in it to sabotage Europe and to provide information to Russia.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

While the temperature forecast is for 33 ºC, the heat index in the capital yesterday was up to 41. Forecasts for the next 2 days, are up to 40 on the heat index in the capital. Yesterday the heat index was over 40 in several other areas, with a maximum of 45. https://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/weather/heat-index

If you don't want to be complicit in causing a mass extinction event by making the biosphere unlivable, then by far the most important thing to do is to not contribute to human overpopulation which is the biggest and root cause of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change as well as the biggest other atrocities.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"Aid organizations the world over scrambled to prove their work saved lives, seeking permission from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to continue operating."

Maybe those who proved they were doing good, were the ones then to get the axe. The cruelty is the point - especially I've found, by the kind of people who claim to be Christians. Maybe lying by saying ghosts and souls and gods and heaven are real, it inculcates lying into all aspects of a peoples' actions.

Rubio's lies, and these actions are helpful in getting Trump more support from the kind of people who voted for him. The deaths and cruelty is the point.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 80 points 4 days ago (5 children)

It'll be interesting to see a character following the teachings of Jesus Christ, like

  • Luke 16:13 "You cannot serve both God and money."
  • Mark 10:21 "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor"
  • Matthew 5:39 "If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also."
  • Matthew 5:44 "love your enemies"

So there's no chance the character will be a capitalist, troop-supporting, neo-Nazi. Right?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

"In November of 2019 Kennedy sent a letter to the prime minister, obtained by Scott Kennedy and shared with Vanity Fair, speculating that the measles outbreak might be attributed to the vaccine itself." https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/robert-kennedy-jr-shocking-history

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 21 points 6 days ago

"never will" "promise"

I do not think these words mean what you think they mean.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

These hemorrhagic-fever like outbreaks (like Ebola and Marburg) usually don't spread too far because of how dramatic the symptoms are and of how quickly they usually kill patients: here "death occurs within just 48 hours of the onset of symptoms".

"However, here, it is concerning that we have hundreds of cases and over 50 deaths, with hemorrhagic-fever like symptoms widely reported among those cases." - Michael Head. Current estimate of a "fatality rate of 12.3 percent" is of course a major problem locally, tho that % could be completely wrong.

If there are few or no asymptomatic carriers, and the incubation is period is short, then it's unlikely to be like COVID-19.

Bird flu is still big concern - and potentially the solution to omnicidal anthropogenic climate change.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because they blocked you? Maybe they don't want to see posts from people who don't summarize the articles in the subject/title?

(The current subject is from the source, "Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News".)

 

[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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