So, like Bill Gates did?

It’s reverse for me. I don’t have a car so I bring a backpack pretty much anywhere I go. And in that backpack, there’s also a reusable bag.

If stores want me to leave my backpack at the entrance, I turn around and go shopping where they don’t automatically consider you a thief for having a backpack.

Cycling on rail trails and long isolated bike paths. Getting from A to B without burning any fossil fuel. I live in an archipelago and pull my inflatable kayak to the river and the lakes nearby using a bike trailer.

He can do whatever he wants, but no, he won’t take Cuba. US mercenaries will. Or more precisely, US mercenaries will kill Cubans, for Trump.

Does Pete Hegseth’s army take women? Isn’t this DEI or something? Those are not very manly soldiers.

What’s even more disappointing is all the other people interviewed were entirely willing to pay more to “keep the country safe”. That woman at least have some self awareness even of it’s just about gas. The rest is all gone.

Not a federated platform but some of my friends are from the IRC era and they still come on my network. I did not have to convince them but we switched to The Lounge for the client a few years ago, so we can paste images and see url preview on the channel. Otherwise they would have insisted that I join Discord, but the small features of the “modern” IRC client was just enough to keep them coming back.

It’s also corporate culture to blame the customers for the littering. Tim Hortons produces a disposable cup, and people are simply returning it to those responsible for creating it.

Apparently Coca Cola is one of the biggest plastic polluter in the world and they lobby against deposit return systems because it’s cheaper for them to pass the responsibility to the consumers. If some countries are choking with littered plastic bottles, maybe the consumers are dropping them everywhere. But maybe the ones producing the bottles could also be seen as being responsible for not taking them back.

I’ve seen a theory that it’s one of the goals. They, and the advertisers, will know who is a human or not, while we won’t.

Mild guess. The dev(s) don’t know about navigation buttons. Gestures have been “standard” for a while now so maybe someone forgot about this as a possibility?

And let’s also require everyone using popular platforms to show us their ID and prove they are humans, and their age, to protect the children. Let’s also pour billions into this technology.

Could chem trails also be on that board?

Because I think they’re leaking to other countries. My brother in law doesn’t even speak English, is a Trump supporter saying the media blames him for everything, and says the government is poisoning us with chem trails.

I know everything uses fossil fuel. I know food prices will go even higher. I know it’s a shitty situation. But fuck the oil industry. I don’t have a car amd I’ll take this small victory. I’m so glad not to have to worry about buying this shit.

The world was warned decades ago that it should wean off fossil fuel and we just continue burning it anyway. It’s like cocaine. This shit is bad for the environment but it’s also bad for energetic independence and world peace. Oil is a geopolitical nightmare. Even within oil producing countries. This shit sucks.

And the worse part is, I don’t think something like this will change the habits of much people or businesses. We will all just demand cheap oil and gas to quench our thirst for energy. The rest is collateral damage.

The poop has won.

But think about the oil! Cheap oil! The world has been warned for decades that it should wean off fossil fuel, and every time there is a crisis they just find another supply for a bit more money and continue ignoring the geopolitical and environmental effects. If only gas prices could be cheaper, all would be well in the world!

Text is not ASCII only :)

If you want to be technical, IRC supports Unicode so it’s just not ASCII only. Convos is also supposed to support voice chats.

It’s much easier to code this way and it’s cross platform. There are some experimental programs like Srain based on GTK. I tried it and it’s promising but it’s unfortunately too experimental for me so far and it’s lacking some features like persistent chat, so one would still need a bouncer which is an additional layer to setup.

He mentioned IRC but skipped it, probably thinking it’s still text only. However there are now web clients that can display inline images, url preview, persistent chat and push notifications. To me it’s the most KISS solution, as it’s super easy to setup and self-host.

In order for this to work, one needs an IRC server and a place to host the web client’s server. That’s it. I use The Lounge but there are others like Convos or ObsidianIRC.

Beyond urban transit, I want public transit.

A new light rail transit network is being built in my region and it’s a public-private partnership; the REM in Montreal.The contract guarantees profits to the private investment firm, paid by the taxes collected for public transit, while forbidding public transit to compete with the private system. The core of the private system was built by taking the most popular and profitable line of a public commuter rail line, and giving it to the private investor.

This will slowly cannibalize the public side by having less and less money for big public projects, and by funneling a big chunk of it to the private company. The private can compete with the public, and take its money with royalties, but the public cannot compete with the private, and pays royalties.

It’s absolutely unfair and makes big transit projects only possible if there is profit in it for the private investors.

Foamers online are all fawning over the fucking REM, saying it’s a shame we didn’t build more; that one is needed in the East and another in Longueuil. But they don’t seem to realize this will only happen if the private investors can see some profit in these. It’s not about proving a needed service. No guaranteed profits, no transit.

It’s so disappointing to see YouTubers that I like say this is the best transit project of their life. Like, WTF. Now the public entity paying royalties to the REM can’t pay for commuter lines and is looking into reducing service even more, or closing some of them entirely.

What a wonderful system. A model for the world! /s

No need for bombing anybody for the US army to pollute.

The US military is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases of any institution on Earth, generating an estimated 636 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent (a standardised measure of greenhouse gas emissions) between 2010 and 2019.

If it were a country, this would make the US military rank 47th globally in emissions, ahead of nations like Sweden and Portugal.