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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13929793 > >"This should be the final nail in the coffin for the false narrative that LNG was somehow a climate solution”

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>"This should be the final nail in the coffin for the false narrative that LNG was somehow a climate solution”

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>Andrew King, a lecturer in climate science at the University of Melbourne, said there was "evidence to suggest climate change is intensifying those kind of extreme rain events". >"With larger cities and larger urban areas, we'd expect to see more incidents like these floods affecting more people," he said.

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13929272 > So, what's the take away here ? make it so expensive to live people choose cycling and we get better cities ?

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So, what's the take away here ? make it so expensive to live people choose cycling and we get better cities ?

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Mouse with USB-C and replaceable battery?
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    Might be tricky to find, so if you want user replaceable batteries in a Mouse, maybe get a USB AA/AAA battery charger and use any of the many mice with AA (Or AAA) batteries. Recharge the batteries by plugging in the USB charger when they get low ?

    My Logitech MX Master 3S is USB c rechargabke but not user replaceable batteries

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  • Before the floods, Asheville was called a ‘climate haven.’ Is anywhere safe? | As climate change leads to more severe hurricanes, mountain communities like Asheville, N.C., face growing flood danger.
  • hanrahan hanrahan Now 100%

    Anywhere "completely safe"? No! Are some places safer then others, of course. Off flood plains, not near rivers, (if you live behind a levee you will be flooded, eventually) protected from bushfires, away from SLR, out of the tropical zone, not hot, not dry.

    It's why I moved to Tasmania, on a small hill, 250m ASL on good soil, in a wet area, with zero bush fire risk.

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  • PayPal opted in users to share their data.
  • hanrahan hanrahan Now 100%

    What instructions? All I get is "this is for paid members only"

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  • Offsetting into oblivion with George Monbiot
  • hanrahan hanrahan Now 100%

    I don't feel George Monbiot put his case well. If we take Australia as the example, without the incremental changes we've individually already made its hard to believe that the bigger things we are actually doing now would be as uncontroversial as they are.

    I don't agree, your argument is there "is bigger things we're doing now". I don't agree with that premises at all, we're not doing bigger things... at all. What were doing is green washing within the orthodox neo liberal order. Which I think is George's point.

    Aa an example , aircraft bookings have increased some 20% from last year, we need aircraft bookings to be zero. We need private cars being banned, we'll need the removal of national boundaries or suffer the rise in violence and subsequent enviomental damage that's caused as billions flee the tropical zone. They will flee becase they must.

    Another example, The Olympics should be banned and yet we're inviting 10s of thousands of people to Australia in 2034. What we're doing it banning straws at the events and putting a recycle logo on a cup instead.

    We're expanding Melbourne, Hobart & Brisbane aiports and have built a new one in Sydney, they should all be closed. A new football stadium in Hobart is a laughable mockery in the face of a climate emergency.

    Solutions to Climate Change and the enviomental crisis require a complete change to the social, political and economic way we live upon the Earth, what we're doing is rearranging the deck chairs.

    We need to ban cars and flying but what we're doing is banning plastic bags and chopping down forests to make paper bags.

    All too much to expect ? Well, that's the point and why we're not doing anything, beside incremental tokeism and why it will only get worse.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

    Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

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  • What are your favorite Firefox extensions?
  • hanrahan hanrahan Now 100%

    The ones that spring to mind

    Ublock origin Bitwarden Bypass Paywalls Clean - Via github Privacy Badger Notes

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  • Can you disable firefox forced updates?
  • hanrahan hanrahan Now 100%

    If you mean tabs then there's a setting to keep tabs are a restart

    That's never worked for me. If I close FF and reopen its starts fresh with.noting open. If I close the OS, and restart only then does FF reopen all the tabs.

    I am currently on LMDE but the same process happened when I was on Windows 10 and Linux Mint . I have the setting selected to restore previous open tabs but it's just never worked across many years, many updates and multiple OS's.

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    >Evidence is mounting that modern medicines present a growing threat to ecosystems around the world. The chemicals humans ingest to stay healthy are harming fish and other animals.

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    >Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis. >Australians are the worst offenders per person due to our excessive resource use.

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    cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13842896 > >Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis.

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    >Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis.

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    >Government data shows that just one of the smaller “flagship” projects was completed this year, while the rest have languished in their preparatory stages since at least 2018. >The DPWH also reported that 70 percent of Metro Manila’s “antiquated drainage system” was clogged with rubbish and silt, hampering flood management. It also reported that the country lacks a national flood control master plan, with only 18 scattered plans for major river basins which are “still being currently updated”.

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    Australia is a mess. Cop31 is a chance to redefine ourselves from climate laggard to global leader | Anna Cerneaz
  • hanrahan hanrahan Now 100%

    Cop31 is a chance to redefine ourselves from climate laggard to global leade

    No it isn't, such foolish, ney stupid thinking.

    The entire COP process has been co-opted by fossil fuel interests and is now irrelevant , we're a massive exporter of fossil fuels and have zero interest in moving foward to zero emissons, voters will never tolerate not being able to fly and told they can't drive cars, stop owing meat eating pets etc

    If we wanted to be "leaders" we'd not be holding the Olympics in Australia, not be spending billions expanding Brisbane, Melbourne and Hobart airports, we'd have abandoned all new road projects and only be building PT and AT infrastructure and be closing coal mines and gas extraction and redoing society for low energy dependence, while starting managed abandonment of coastlines and Northern Australia.

    Just stick to denial and useless tokenism with a few solar panels and ecars like other developed countries and stop with the hypocrisy.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

    Boyd said: “There’s no place in the climate negotiations for fossil-fuel companies. There is no place in the plastic negotiations for plastic manufacturers. It just absolutely boggles my mind that anybody thinks they have a legitimate seat at the table.

    “It has driven me crazy in the past six years that governments are just oblivious to history. We know that the tobacco industry lied through their teeth for decades. The lead industry did the same. The asbestos industry did the same. The plastics industry has done the same. The pesticide industry has done the same.”

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  • Dropping Cellular for VoIP? Daily Phone use.
  • hanrahan hanrahan Now 100%

    Still so much 2FA via SMS where I am in Aus.

    I'd prefer to move everything over to something like Signal but I neeed a phone # to register for that but how do u tell the bank my Signal ID is @hanrhan.666

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  • phys.org

    >The Philippines, which has thousands of islands, dumps the most plastic into the sea. Its Pasig River, which flows into Manila Bay, is "the most (plastic) polluted" in the world.

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    Tesla Cybertruck Owners Shocked That Tires Are Barely Lasting 6,000 Miles
  • hanrahan hanrahan Now 100%

    Guy yesyerday on Whirlpool saying he had to replace the tyres on his BMW i4, at 40,000km. He was shocked :)

    The new like for like tyres were $2500 (in Australian banana dollars).

    Tyre pollution is a real killer and made much worse with EVs :(

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  • Large crowd of protesters gather at Land Forces defence expo in Melbourne's CBD
  • hanrahan hanrahan Now 33%

    Sure, thats why the police shouldn't be there, they only ever escalate, antognise and make it worse.

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  • hanrahan hanrahan Now 100%

    Is there a how to for Linux?

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  • Sydney's car-brained candidate for Mayor
  • hanrahan hanrahan Now 100%

    Is that a Tram in the background ?

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    >Earth will only remain able to provide even a basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared Seems like we're doing the opposite with wider support by voters for the orthdoxy of destruction. Even then I remain sceptical.

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    Which TV has a (mostly) ad-free OS and works with a few regular apps?
  • hanrahan hanrahan Now 100%

    Yeah, smart TV, never connect it to the 'net, get a used shield pro, ADB and side load F Launcher. No ads.

    Shelds remote can control the TV volume and its connected via HDMI and the Shiekd Pro remote switches both off and on. I use Kodi, Prime, Smart Tube Next and a couple local TV apps.

    Not what u want but that's where I am and it works well.

    Be interested to see the responses

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  • The abundance of the north woods in August is fantastic!
  • hanrahan hanrahan Now 100%

    So jealous of the mushrooms, just not a thing really here in Australia, so can't even learn :(.

    We do collect wild garlic and blackberries but we've got so much of our own now. (Thornless blackberries and wild garlic in pots)

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  • hanrahan hanrahan Now 100%

    Thats a dark road to tread.

    An example,

    no alchol consumption is safe, so using your line of thinking you'd need to argue that anyone who partakes of alcohol at any anytime would fall under that line of thinking

    https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health

    Processed red meats simailary, especially those treated with nitrites, so those eating bacon, ham etc shouldn't be entitled to public heath care under your reasoning

    https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/1in3cancers/lifestyle-choices-and-cancer/red-meat-processed-meat-and-cancer/

    Or are those things ok becase you do them ?

    On the upside, now you've excluded 95% of the population, public healthcare will be cheap :)

    Contra to most peoples thinking, if you're concerned about public healthcare costs, you should "encourage" obesiety and smoking, they all die early, most health care coats are associated with healthy people in their old age. See here

    https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05iht-obese.1.9748884.html

    Adults are stupid and greedy, we all are.

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    >It found about 70 per cent of existing homes have building quality problems, while more than two-thirds of homes have an energy rating of three stars or lower. >Australia really just doesn't have the policy instruments or policies in place that one might expect for building performance and housing quality and condition," Dr Daniel said. >So all of these homes were almost effectively reducing their useful life, because it's almost as soon as they're built, they're not up to what we might consider a standard that's fit for purpose," she said. >"In the future, we can imagine that people living in those homes are going to be much more exposed to fluctuations in energy prices because they're over-reliant on heating and cooling. What a cluster fuck

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