Sort of related here in Australia

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/greens-to-call-news-corp-execs-to-greenwashing-inquiry-over-gas-ads-20241204-p5kvrc.html

The Greens will call News Corp Australia executives to appear before a Senate inquiry into greenwashing over a series of front pages promoting gas without clearly disclosing a commercial relationship with gas companies.

Actually, the US has cut emissions already.

Only via dodgy accounting, Defence arent counted, international flights, international shipping etc aren’t counted at all. Then there is the entire issue that outsourced emsision are ignored, they will go up again if onshoring occurs. Outsourced emissons are worse becase of shipping which isn’t counted at all.

The dodgy accounting is deliberate as Deiter Helm explains.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/forget_kyoto_putting_a_tax_on_carbon_consumption

We’re doing noting to reduce emissions except LARPing. This isnt a tech problem, it’s a behavioural one. Closing aiports, banning private cars, banning cruise ships, cutting the military in 1/2 are solutions ebwryhibg eise is just posturing.

Bit I’ve had this debate with you a decade ago on Reddit and since then the Keeling curve keeps rising an rising.

We’re not idiots.

Hnmm, I’d argue we are.

No, we let then in, they’ve already won, they even have war bases here that Australian federal politcans are not allowed to visit.

Personally I’d rather China took over, at least we’d get decent railways.

Have you seen the Governembt NZ elected and what they’re doing to the Treaty ?

While as an Aussie who mostly agrees Australia is a conservative ass backwards shit hole, it would appear NZ is now aspirationaly Australia.

Heliboard, sourced from F Droid with the clipboard enabled.

I used to use Openbaord fom F Droid

As an Australian social media isn’t the problem, like the internet isnt the problem, its commersialisation thats the problem. The need to grow the custoner base sees outrageous behaviours from corporations like Meta, Google, Apple etal but that’s what they’re incentivised to do, so that’s what happens.

This legilisation won’t solve shit. The government and the polotical class forcing citizens to use Facebook or Twitter to get information, they could start there.

One if a purely intellectual practice, the other is connected to our souls and will damage us inside.

True enough, selling your soul to Google to pay the bills might make.you reasses your life and becone a sex worker.

My snark aside, your assertion is the most ridlcious ludicrous thing I’ve read this year and theres not much left to the year. Its that weird perspective that makes it different to what ? fisting a cow as a vetenerian or jacking off a horse to collect it’s semen ?

A contra view that I think is a more sensible and sane look at this is … no, nothing can, see here

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/07/metastatic-modernity-launch/

You think non-tech people are gonna understand that?

Yes becase they’re not looking to understand the protocol behind federarion anymore then you dowbt understand the protocol behind email, so they will grok better then you how it works bybusibg the email allegory, sending from gmail to outlook works for them.

I also use the phone network as another allegory if their eyes do glaze over, i can be with one phone company and phone somone on another companies plan. They have little idead of the prorogation of radiowaves etc that makes that all work.

Indeed, I’d like to see my country, Australia, join the EU and trade the pacific peso in for the Euro. What a grand experiment!

True enough, as is the visit it before it’s gone. Yes, the Great Barrier Reef is dying from emissions and the resultant rising temp but fuck it, fly across the planet.

Get away from assholes ?

I’d like the age raised fron 16 to 75, I’m 58.

Interesting to read the comments, I was unaware anyone gave mich if a shit about posts, let alone how others might vote on them. I mean I don’t actually know anyone here.

I do hit the upvote occasioanly if a post was helpfu/usefull… to me. Conditioning is the only real explanation I have for that behaviour though.

But It is, the only thing it’s not above is the constituion and our constitution is particulalry weak on any rights of citizens.

The shittiest one is the back dated legislation we introduce when it found they breached the law, happens way to often.

Quitting a job cold is one of the dumbest things you can do when you do not have any safety nets.

I quit work at 35 and now 58. My only regret in life is not quitting earlier. I get mo pensions or welfare or inheritance, I’m just mindful of spending and ever since I was 19 I invested small amounts of surplus income in stocks and shares that ballooned over the decades to large amounts.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.” – Cicero

And the signs at aiports saying joking about bombs is illegal ? I can ignore them and crack on with my comedy bomb routine ?

This is not new though, Orwell pointed out in 1939 that demcroacies inevitability turn Fascist when times get harder.

Climate change will see that get even worse still.