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[–] solo@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The way I see things no nuclear facility should ever be bombed. Never.

 

Statement to the United Nations Security Council on the Situation in Iran by IAEA Director General, Rafael Mariano Grossi.

The level of radioactivity outside the Natanz site has remained unchanged and at normal levels indicating no external radiological impact to the population or the environment from this event.

However, due to the impacts, there is radiological and chemical contamination inside the facilities in Natanz. The type of radiation present inside the facility, primarily alpha particles, is manageable with appropriate radiation protection measures.

At present, the Iranian authorities are informing us of attacks on the other facilities, the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant; and Esfahan site,

All these developments are deeply concerning. I have repeatedly stated that nuclear facilities must never be attacked, regardless of the context or circumstances, as it could harm both people and the environment. Such attacks have serious implications for nuclear safety, security and safeguards, as well as regional and international peace and security.

“any armed attack on and threat against nuclear facilities devoted to peaceful purposes constitutes a violation of the principles of the United Nations Charter, international law and the Statute of the Agency”.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I also think that the Israeli attacks are related to Iran's nuclear program but I don't think they are related to this alleged leak. Here is a 25 min long al jazeera podcast for more on this:

Why is Israel attacking Iran now?

 

According to a 2024 investigation by Follow the Money, both firms allegedly sold environmental products (carbon credits, Guarantees of Origin, biofuel certificates) that might be a hoax. In one case, ACT was alleged to have bought thousands of carbon credits from a Zimbabwean forest project later revealed to be largely fictional. Over 60% of the credits were flawed. Their competitor STX followed similar trails, allegedly selling large volumes of near-worthless carbon credits despite warnings from market analysts.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Thank you for your input. Even tho I find this to be totally faisable, from what the cradle article provides, I cannot verify much:

  • fars looks like it's an Iranian outlet I personnaly don't know if I can trust or not, regardless of mbfc
  • the informed sources are not named
  • I didn't manage to find the documents mentionned*

Apart from that at some point it mentions that Grossi said in Times of Israel that “We have seen some reports in the press. We haven’t had any official communication about this.”, but it is about Iran stealing Israeli documents.

Anyways, if you or anyone has more on this, please share.

Edit: *I mean deducted, or something

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

For easy access, here is the text: The Black Flag Catalyst Revolt Guide

Edit: As mentionned in this video, there can be many local variations. Still, imo this guide has valuable inputs.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm a bit confused because the title claims that windfarms are habitats, and in the article itself it says:

“We’re trying to understand whether these animals are actually using the wind farms as habitat, or whether they’re being displaced by them,” says Annemiek Hermans, PhD candidate at Wageningen University & Research.

 

Statement on the Situation in Iran by IAEA Director General, Rafael Mariano Grossi.

We are currently in contact with the Iranian nuclear safety authorities to ascertain the status of relevant nuclear facilities and to assess any wider impacts on nuclear safety and security. At present, the competent Iranian authorities have confirmed that the Natanz enrichment site has been impacted and that there are no elevated radiation levels. They have also reported that at present the Esfahan and Fordow sites have not been impacted.

This development is deeply concerning. I have repeatedly stated that nuclear facilities must never be attacked, regardless of the context or circumstances, as it could harm both people and the environment. Such attacks have serious implications for nuclear safety, security and safeguards, as well as regional and international peace and security.

“any armed attack on and threat against nuclear facilities devoted to peaceful purposes constitutes a violation of the principles of the United Nations Charter, international law and the Statute of the Agency”.

 

Proving Zero Waste Works—even in Islands 08 June 2025 - Philippines - Island communities face extra challenges in waste management, but the success of

 

When a toxic waste disaster unfolded in the 1970s, a White housewife became the face of the movement. Down the street, Black mothers worked twice as hard to be heard.

 

To protect themselves, the curlews eavesdrop on the alarms coming from prairie dog colonies, according to research published Thursday in the journal Animal Behavior.

so far, scientists have documented only a few instances of birds eavesdropping on mammals.

"That doesn't necessarily mean it's rare in the wild," she said, "it just means we haven't studied it yet."

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Here is a very interesting story about baboons in less than 4 minutes.

Dr Robert Sapolsky and the Keekorok Baboon Troop

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

I have the impression that in order to find a satisfying debunking of the kind, maybe you should look into social darwinism and eugenics. In a way, it's through these pseudoscientific approaches that the stereotypes reguarding colonial hierarchies were established as 'scientific', and created the room for relevant assumptions to take hold of future societies. I say this because I don't believe there is something more to debunk about the 'alpha wolf': it doesn't even apply to wolfs.

Of course, one could look back further for relevant patriachical non-sense.

Anyways, just a few thoughts.

 

Gas Expansion Undermines Indigenous Cultural Rights, Right to a Healthy Environment

Last week, the Australian government announced it had given preliminary approval for the country’s biggest fossil fuel project, the North West Shelf Project, to continue operations until 2070. The extension has been opposed by Indigenous activists and climate and human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch.

 

Trócaire's latest report shows that emissions from just 25 oil and gas corporations between 1985 and 2018 caused more than $20 trillion in damages

 

Human-caused climate change added an extra 30 days of extreme heat for more than four billion people worldwide over the course of a year.

The report

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

I have noticed that The Conversation has articles that I consider to be great and others that I find to be the opposite. Unfortunately, for me, this one is in the later category.

In this one, mainly they talk about how the technologies will work, about money and the urgency to use this tech. The real urgency is to start phasing out fossil fuel globally. Also, they don't talk about the unintended consequences, the too many known unknowns, and let's keep in mind there are uncountable unknown unknowns in geoengineering.

More info:

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The following ideas are not exactly what you ask for, but maybe they are worth considering?

  1. I don't know what operating system you use, but for me old computers is how I got into linux. Linux Mint is very easy to install and to use, so it prolongs the life of perfectly good machines that are too old to be updated by proprietary software. Personally, I was doing most updates so that the laptop is as functional as possible for the longest time, and I was always doing the secuity ones. A few years back a friend gave me a 2006 laptop and it worked kind of ok with an old version of mint, it was just very slow. This one was given to another friend who didn't have any.

  2. Depending on where you live there could be a makerspace, or a relevant collective that could use them, or parts of them.

  3. If they are not working anymore, you can use the parts to do crafts: jewleries, pins, fridge magnets, keychains, light fixture, wall decoration, photo frame, book holder are a few possibilities.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

I find the following part to be very illuminating

Yet a million tonnes – or even the full 28 million tonnes that have been purchased to date – is negligible in terms of impact on the climate. At current emissions levels, removing a million tonnes is like undoing 13 minutes out of a full year of emissions,

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure what the point is.

It's pretty simple.

It's because Palestine was among former Ottoman territories placed under UK administration by the League of Nations in 1922. All of these territories eventually became fully independent States, except Palestine [source: UN 1917 – 1947: British mandate].

Israel at least has a reason to wage war, even if they've gone wildly overboard.

It is called a Genocide

Also, UN is the one who put Israel where it is.

Yes, and Palestine is recognized as a sovereign state by 147 of the 193 member states of the United Nations, or just over 75% of all UN members. So it makes sense for Palestine to have a full membership.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Coincidentaly, I also posted this article but after reading it a second time, I decided to delete it because I found it was very problematic since it says very contradictory things. If I misunderstood something, please point it out to me.

Examples of contradictions:

Over 99% of the almost 1.89m tCO2e estimated [...] is attributed to Israel’s aerial bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza.

[..] 50% [of CO2e emissions] were generated by the supply and use of weapons, tanks and other ordnance by the Israeli military (IDF), the study found.

  • And there is this graph claiming that most emissions by sector come from Gaza aid delivery (trucks).
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