ManualOverride

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Another banger from the Low Tech Magazine. This time : the trusty handcart.

[–] ManualOverride@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

Indeed. The CO~2~ isn't digested by humans, so it fizzes right back out of the drink or gurgles out from the drinker.


Then again, the headline is somewhat misleading as the product the article covers isn't for carbon sequestration. Instead, it's to provide consumers of CO~2~ like breweries with a reliable and supposedly low carbon alternative for their CO~2~ gas needs. Normally this CO~2~ would be a waste product from refineries, but these incur more inefficiencies due to transportation. Also, recently the refineries have been opting to sequester their CO~2~ instead of selling it (which is a good thing IMO).

I'm reporting all of this from the contents of the article; I haven't verified any of the claims.

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/34269256

This article served as a reminder, for me, that in the event of a disaster it's crucial to know about the needs of your neighbours. Therefore, it's important to connect with your neighbours before disaster, as a form of preparedness. I feel that it's a quite radical thing to do these days. Another upside is that it's fun to make new friends 😁

 

This article served as a reminder, for me, that in the event of a disaster it's crucial to know about the needs of your neighbours. Therefore, it's important to connect with your neighbours before disaster, as a form of preparedness. I feel that it's a quite radical thing to do these days. Another upside is that it's fun to make new friends 😁

[–] ManualOverride@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Here's the URL of the Web page for those who can't see it in the lemmy client: https://brewing.permacomputing.net/
The text seems vague in an AI-generated sort of way. Perhaps I'm being too paranoid; they have credited a bunch of authors, after all.

[–] ManualOverride@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The research article cited by Ajit Niranjan is worth consulting directly, because a concept brought up by Berland and Leroutier, the researchers, that hasn't been worked into the Guardian article is intersectionality.

Indeed climate change is a systemic issue which requires systemic solutions therefore focusing on what we as individuals can do is shortsighted. However, it's also important not to discount the part individuals play, collectively, in the systems that power the climate crisis. I believe observing the disparity whereby men consume more due to their consumption habits is fascinating! Why do men consume in ways that are more damaging to the environment? Perhaps the corporations producing the vast majority of carbon emissions are actually capitalizing off of the gender dynamics in our society by marketing meat and cars as manly. In doing so, they increase profits, and we all suffer the environmental and social consequences.

To paint an accurate picture of the mechanisms leading to humanities carbon emissions, it's important not to discount the role of power structures that are seemingly unrelated at first glance. More often than not, those power structures are used by the instigators of the climate crisis.

[–] ManualOverride@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

It'd be great to have a user setting deactivating it permanently. It keeps turning back on for me ...

 

To bring some activity to this community beyond the writing club, here's a guide on how to use dashes and hyphens. Do you use these in your own writing?

[–] ManualOverride@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll take [action for slim chance of success] over [inaction for guaranteed failure] every time.

[–] ManualOverride@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't get all these "geo-engineering" magic bullets. Capitalists are taking carbon out of the ground and putting it into the air and oceans. The carbon in the air leads to warming, and the carbon in the ocean leads to acidification. Both of these things are disastrous. We need to stop the capitalists. Leave the carbon in the ground, where it belongs. Simple as

[–] ManualOverride@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

Awesome! I wouldn't call this "releasing moisture" though which, to me, implies a physical change. It's straight up providing the activation energy for a chemical decomposition.

[–] ManualOverride@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder if any judge/jury is going to find the large oil conglomerates liable for trillions in damages.

Liable for destroying our world (and for what?)

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19147969

Rhiannon Firth touches on many aspects of how anarchism and disaster response are related. Seems like it'd be right up y'all's alley.

A transcription of the podcast has been published in the anarchist library this week: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rhiannon-firth-igdcast-mobilising-disaster-relief?v=1741035078 Thanks to whomever uploaded the transcription.

 

Rhiannon Firth touches on many aspects of how anarchism and disaster response are related. Seems like it'd be right up y'all's alley.

A transcription of the podcast has been published in the anarchist library this week: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rhiannon-firth-igdcast-mobilising-disaster-relief?v=1741035078 Thanks to whomever uploaded the transcription.

[–] ManualOverride@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago

I remain doubtful, however I hope this pitch will lead to spades in the ground.

 

As I'm sure most of my multi-lingual peers feel, I hate youtube's recent addition of automatic AI dubbing on certain videos. It's enabled for some videos that are in a language different from your youtube account's setting.

This also goes for the automatic title translation. Show me everything in its original language, PLEASE!

I understand more than one language, you don't need to translate everything to the single language setting I have. The auto-dubbing should be set to OFF BY DEFAULT. At least give me the option to opt out of it. There's nothing more annoying than having to wait for a video to load, only to have to restart it back in its original language as soon as I realize the dubbing is active.

[–] ManualOverride@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Consider checking out /c/writing , where aspiring and seasoned writers/solarpunks discuss their craft.

 

A radio? A knife? A lighter? A flashlight? How do the contents of your go-bag help you when your local disasters happen?

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