Just wondering, im not trying to be rude. Im scared to drive and i dont live near buses, nor do i want to pay someone to drive me? maybe i should save up for a bike? ...
Deliberately lived car free for 4 yeaes here in Australia, choose to live somewhere with better public transport and walking distance to shopping/services. Had a large shopping centre with doctors, dentist, chemist, groceries and a bazillion speciality shops across the road. Walking, PT, an e-scooter and bicycle were all we needed. I worked from home, my parter used her e-scooter for her 4km round trip to work. Busses really suck, they're what cities use when thy have run out of ideas, we used the light and heavy rail often.
I am following this guy for inspiration, jes cirrwntly rising on Thailand and heading to Malaysia and I hope to do some small amount of touring later this year in Cambodia. I do day trips only locally.
When I can't sleep, I turn around and sleep "upside down" - moving my pillows to where my feet were beforehand, and my feet to where my head was beforehand - and I stick with that for a week or so. It gives me a week or so without insomnia and then wears off, so I have to turn myself back around for the next 7-12 day period. ...
But the river has been overdrawn for more than a century. As demand continues to grow, rising temperatures and lower precipitation caused by the climate crisis are taking an increasingly larger share of declining supplies, a trend only expected to worsen as the world warms. ...
This has been buikding for years though, they get just enough water to ignore it all, then take it to the brink again and their strategy is, we got just enough last tine it was desperate that this will be ok.
Traffic collisions in the city of Los Angeles killed 290 people last year, and more than 150 fatal collisions involved pedestrians, according to Los Angeles Police Department data. It's also 60 more people than died by homicide last year. ...
. I hate cars but most car fatalities are accidental not intentional.
Is it ? Using that logic, a drunk driver killing somone is an accident.
The continued city design of enshrining cars as the primary mode of transport is intentional, people voting for politcans who are car brained is intentional, driving a car knowing there is a not insignificant risk of killing or hurting somone is intentional. Knowing this, a traffic death is really just manslaughter
Back in the 70s the Dutch rioted to remove cars from streets becase they were "accidentally" killing children, that's the appropriate response to deaths of chikdren.
So the takeaway here is we need to invade the US , batter them into submission before they'll become reflective and apologetic ? Similarly Russia, and Israel i guess
Against who ? The only country with the ability to attack us are the US and China, nothing we can do will stop either of them. Our defence force is mostly dick waving theatre.
We have zero strategic petroleum reserves and no electrified rail transport system to speak of for logistics. They don't need to attack us, just starve us of petroleum products for a couple weeks and we're fucked. We have a total of two muntions factories. We are closing or jabe closed the WW2 dry dock near Brisbane which seems stupid.
Joining the EU and then trying for NATO membership might be one possible way foward. Starting from scratch with some sort of mutual defence Asian pact might work, Japan, Canada etc but then if Canada is invaded by the US what then ?
The US is probably our greatest threat, China not so much.
Short version - there's too many elderly people in China and not enough working age so the economy is suffering
More children is never the answer becase all that does is kick the can down the road, in 30 years time they'd have 3 billion and a shit ton more elderly, so wjat then doibke down and make even more kids ?
We can already see if we empower women and let them choose they'll mostly have 0,1 or 2 kids. The only other solution is to force women to breed and have no choice (religious scum fuckery). Even the nordics with way better supoort for women and childbirth etc are still less then 2.1
We're better off learning lessons from xenophobic counties like Sth Korea and Japan and seeing what solutions work in regards poulation degrowth, becase every country will eventually face this issue
This contlstat framing of less people on the planet as a bad thing is ridiculous, should we have 1000 billion and all stand shoulder to shoulder ? How tobdecide ? there is some sort of sustainable level, why not let those expert in the area advise us ? if you do that, the number is less then a billion. Classical and neo liberal Econonics should play no part in the debate.
Taiwan has surpassed South Korea as the country least willing to have children, with an annual crude birthrate of 4.62 per 1,000 people, Ministry of the Interior data showed yesterday. ...
Kind of the opposite, it can be depressing recognising the lack of shits given.
Tesla is the most popular car purchase in Norway for eample and is extrmely popular here in Australia. People still use Reddit, X, iMessage, Facebook erc etc. My neighbour uses Stralink when we have a local 400/80 service available. 90% literally don't give a shit.
To give this some context, to be in the richest 1% for income, you need to earn about $80k USD equivalent per year or have a net wealth of about $1.2Million USD equivalent.
Our annual emissions per person for a sustainable emsiions budget is aboit 2-3t per year. Mostly were relying on the poor to do their bit eg the average Ethipoan emits aboit 0.2t per year. The average American about 15t.
Anyone who owns a large dog, or flys, or eats lots of beef, or drives a car is emitting morw then theiir share
We could start by banning all flying.
As Professor Kevin Anderson has talked of often, if we had the richest 10% live like the average European we could cut emissions by 40%, not enough but a good start and could be easiely implemented in a month.
Everything ? I though MS Office woukd fail becase no one will want to close source their data files, i was using an Amiga at the time at home and the file format was standard and you chose the app to use
It started there and just progressed, Apple was a big one, people won't buy into their closed wall'd shenanigans. Wrong again.
Messaging, what a debacle that has turned into. I assumed the system would be standardised and the fight would be over the front end for interoperability, wrong again.
A small business owner who voted for Donald Trump recently posted a video on TikTok, pleading for help as crushing tariffs on China threatened to bankrupt his operation, which imports alloy wheels. His call for support, however, drew little sympathy from some fellow Americans. ...
The backlash prompted a second video from the man, in which he dropped several F-bombs while criticizing the apparent heartlessness of those celebrating his hardship..
They voted GOP to hurt others, then get upset they were caught in the cross fire and when looking for empathy are shunned
There a word for that /s
These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:
Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
Conflict around possible American seizure of Greenland island only intensifies further. However, this doesn't prevent issuing permits for selling Denmark weaponry, such as AGM-114R Hellfire II missiles and associated equipment for $45 million. ...
Yes and no, I was on Mastodon long ago, peaked into Lenmy, watched other Fediverse prokects with interest.
I'd not used Reddit for many years, before I actually made a Lemmy account, then when I saw Boost was available for Lemmy, I started using that.
I am odd though, old and have a differnt view of the internet based around it being a space for enthusiasts and tinkerers and corporate can and will only ever eventually enshitifiy whatever their fingers touch, so I dont use things like FB, Reddit, Apple products, Microsoft products, WhatsApp, Insta, Light room etc
The clear signal here is climate change: It’s worsening wildfires, causing heavier rainfall and flooding, and supercharging hurricanes. In the 1980s, billion-dollar disasters happened on average every 82 days, according to the analysis, but over the last decade that window has tightened to just 16 days. In 2025, Americans ...
US President Donald Trump’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3 has emboldened him to proceed with the annexation of Greenland, a Danish-owned, self-governed territory, spelling the effective end of NATO and furthering Russia’s war aims in Ukraine, experts tell Al Jazeera. ...
Not if its under the auspices of the state. They are after all the entity describing murder. When the armed forces kill somone for example (recently in Venezuela butnalos Nigera etal)
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime - Max Stirner
The European Commission has stopped short of condemning Donald Trump’s renewed claim to take over Greenland, even as international outrage mounts after the dramatic abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. ...
In Kentucky, People Blame Ford More Than Trump for Lost Factory Jobs ( www.nytimes.com )
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How do you guys get around/to places?
Just wondering, im not trying to be rude. Im scared to drive and i dont live near buses, nor do i want to pay someone to drive me? maybe i should save up for a bike? ...
Any word on slrpnk.net?
I have been unable to log in all morning. I have not seen anything about it. Support xmpp is unavailable too.
Poor manatee though
Where are you planning to go this year?
Bit of conversational question. I have 2 plans and still don't know which one I will choose, maybe you will help me decide. ...
What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?
When I can't sleep, I turn around and sleep "upside down" - moving my pillows to where my feet were beforehand, and my feet to where my head was beforehand - and I stick with that for a week or so. It gives me a week or so without insomnia and then wears off, so I have to turn myself back around for the next 7-12 day period. ...
Western US states fail to negotiate crucial Colorado River deal: ‘Mother nature isn’t going to bail us out’ ( www.theguardian.com )
But the river has been overdrawn for more than a century. As demand continues to grow, rising temperatures and lower precipitation caused by the climate crisis are taking an increasingly larger share of declining supplies, a trend only expected to worsen as the world warms. ...
Rising teenage pregnancy among young teens in Philippines ( www.dw.com )
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The United Kingdom will cut funding to fundamental astronomy and physics research by almost a third. ( www.ox.ac.uk )
Once again, more people were killed by cars on LA streets than by homicide last year ( laist.com )
Traffic collisions in the city of Los Angeles killed 290 people last year, and more than 150 fatal collisions involved pedestrians, according to Los Angeles Police Department data. It's also 60 more people than died by homicide last year. ...
Australian billionaires increased their wealth by almost $600,000 a day on average over last year, report shows ( www.theguardian.com )
Data collected by Oxfam shows 48 billionaires hold more wealth than bottom 40% of the population – 11 million people – combined
Nissan reveals the NX8 - a high-tech SUV with super fast charging ( www.arenaev.com )
SMS2Email: app that forwards SMS messages to SMTP Email server—has anyone tried this? ( github.com )
Are there any privacy or security issues here? Would be using this with Proton Mail, probably . . .
Breakfast Waffles
Australian here, made by my partner ...
Trump Says Civil Rights Led to White People Being ‘Very Badly Treated’ ( archive.is )
Powell put out a statement about fed independence and presidential pressure amongst DOJ indictment ( www.federalreserve.gov )
This is pretty insane. It feels like US institutions are crumbling
Best way to run Adobe products on Linux? Specifically lightroom.
I am not looking for software alternatives. Is the best method still to dual boot?
What popular person do you get your opinions from?
Pigs are just 4 legged humans that are shorter. Since most of their organs are similar to ours. Heck! Human meat tastes like pork
Summer festival-goers continue to abandon truckloads of camping gear ( www.abc.net.au )
I was so shocked to see how many people left their belongings, but it was even more shocking that it was normal for everyone online," she said. ...
Russia’s war in Ukraine carries a warning for Australia: prepare for possible conflict in the Asia-Pacific ( www.theguardian.com )
... ...
Why is Mamdani not banning the sale of stolen Palestinian land in New York?
The long shadow of the one-child policy: China pays for its biggest social experiment with a demographic crisis ( english.elpais.com )
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Good. Fuck them.
Taiwan | Fertility rate falls to lowest globally ( www.taipeitimes.com )
Taiwan has surpassed South Korea as the country least willing to have children, with an annual crude birthrate of 4.62 per 1,000 people, Ministry of the Interior data showed yesterday. ...
'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail ( 6abc.com )
Melissa Sims said her nightmare began after she called police during an argument with her boyfriend, when she said he allegedly ransacked her home.
TIL that the longest possible train journey goes from Lagos, Portugal to Singapore ( bigthink.com )
This journey goes across 13 countries, and is 11,654 miles or 18,755 kilometres and takes 14 days assuming no connections are missed.
One of the most detrimental things to a productive society is when people think their actions don't make a difference
Bears love oral
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24899532/
World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam ( www.theguardian.com )
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World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam ( www.theguardian.com )
The world’s richest 1% have used up their fair share of carbon emissions just 10 days into 2026, analysis has found. ...
What are your technology mispredictions?
I think that it's interesting to look back at calls that were wrong to try to help improve future ones. ...
we need more users
I've been one of the people saying "we don't need more users. we need quality over quantity" and i was wrong. ...
“This is what I voted for?”: Trump supporter loses farm and income to tariffs, only to be mocked online ( wtfdetective.blog )
A small business owner who voted for Donald Trump recently posted a video on TikTok, pleading for help as crushing tariffs on China threatened to bankrupt his operation, which imports alloy wheels. His call for support, however, drew little sympathy from some fellow Americans. ...
Wildfire Smoke Is Killing Tens of Thousands of Americans Every Year ( www.motherjones.com )
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Wildfire Smoke Is Killing Tens of Thousands of Americans Every Year ( www.motherjones.com )
Tens of Thousands of Americans Every Year ...
U.S. Approves $45M Hellfire Missile Sale to Denmark Despite Active Threats to Seize Greenland | Defense Express ( en.defence-ua.com )
Conflict around possible American seizure of Greenland island only intensifies further. However, this doesn't prevent issuing permits for selling Denmark weaponry, such as AGM-114R Hellfire II missiles and associated equipment for $45 million. ...
Trump says US needs to own Greenland to deter Russia, China ( www.reuters.com )
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Anyone else on here a "Reddit refugee"?
Basically what I mean is, did you also come here from reddit? ...
Kawasaki’s Wild Next-Gen Off-Road Vehicle Will Trade Wheels for Legs | Gear Patrol ( www.gearpatrol.com )
Is there anyway I can screw around with ICE? I need a new hobby I come from a long line of immigrants. If i send my home address and phone number will they actually come and deport me to choose a cntr
In 2025, the US suffered a billion-dollar disaster every 10 days ( grist.org )
The clear signal here is climate change: It’s worsening wildfires, causing heavier rainfall and flooding, and supercharging hurricanes. In the 1980s, billion-dollar disasters happened on average every 82 days, according to the analysis, but over the last decade that window has tightened to just 16 days. In 2025, Americans ...
Europe should prepare for Greenland’s annexation and end of NATO: Experts ( www.aljazeera.com )
US President Donald Trump’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3 has emboldened him to proceed with the annexation of Greenland, a Danish-owned, self-governed territory, spelling the effective end of NATO and furthering Russia’s war aims in Ukraine, experts tell Al Jazeera. ...
Protests continue after ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis ( www.cbc.ca )
In relation to this, thinking about a new community for Political Activism. Calls to action, that kind of thing. ...
When/how frequently do you replace your phone with a new one?
Asking because... On one hand I do see smartphones being released left-and-right, and they are rather integral to modern life ...
EU shies away from condemning Trump's renewed threats on Greenland ( euobserver.com )
The European Commission has stopped short of condemning Donald Trump’s renewed claim to take over Greenland, even as international outrage mounts after the dramatic abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. ...