Is it fair? Probably, yeah. But I don’t think it’s an effective way of framing or addressing the problem.

The challenge is always getting enough people to do enough of an action that it makes an impact. It is certainly more effective, in terms of reducing emissions, to target policy interventions at leverage points - like forcing energy companies to adopt renewables by law and banning further fossil fuel extraction.

Personal action can be useful to live in alignment with your values and to provide examples to others for ways to get involved in the climate movement, but we can’t consume our way out of this.

I use Proton and really like it, but I don’t know how to go about using my own domain (though I am interested in it). How difficult is it for someone without webdev and self hosting experience to get set up?

What do you typically use your computer for? That’s going to have a major impact. If it’s pretty basic stuff (web browsing, text editing, etc) you shouldn’t have any issue. If it’s something that’s more complicated or unusual, then sometimes it’s easy to do and sometimes not, depending on what you want to do. In general, a little bit of comfort searching the web and working in the command line helps a lot with troubleshooting Linux

I think you missed the point of the post.

Do you think I don’t know that life can be hard? I’ve had bad things happen to me for no reason. I know what crippling depression feels like.

I’m also committed to finding joy and beauty in life, because it’s always there, if you know where and how to look.

Good point. Most vegetarians and vegans I’ve met have had relatively favorable views of hunting for food, compared to animal agriculture, since it’s such a more sustainable and ethical way to acquire meat

[-] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’m not a power user, so I’m often frustrated by Excel trying to do things I don’t want it to and by its abundance of features that I’ll never use.

And at least at my workplace, a lot of work processes use poorly-designed Excel spreadsheets for critical tasks, because it’s such a simple way to manipulate data.

I also find that when I need to do more complicated data analysis, Excel starts to become limited, and I find Python to be a more powerful and flexible tool.

[-] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago

Yep! It’s a good way to get over the fear of a blank page, but I don’t trust it for more than outlines or summaries

[-] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago

“Allow the transition to happen” isn’t exactly what I remember him doing on Jan 6…

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I was a student for many years (5 years of undergrad, 2.5 years of grad school), and I became very comfortable with always being able to look at the syllabus and my grade and know what I needed to do and how well I was performing. Work isn’t like that. Like I think is normal, I get a performance review once a year. I find this unsettling, because even though I come in and do decent work, I still often feel like I’m doing something “wrong” and worry that I’m secretly on the cusp of being fired. Folks who have maybe been working for longer than I have, how do you feel and stay confident in your work?

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[-] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 7 months ago

Electrical substations are really necessary for the clean energy we need. We don’t want everyone off the grid, we need to clean the energy production going into the grid and invest in resilience measures, like energy storage and undergrounding wires, especially in vulnerable and energy insecure communities

[-] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 7 months ago

Stonetoss is a Nazi

[-] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Greenwald used to be a respected journalist. Now he’s a right wing hack

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