Isn’t that the goal for some people in meditation? Nothingness.

Should have them in the West Bank as well, ensuring Palestinians’ homes are safe, if the goal is long term stability and growth rather than the subjugating status quo.

Oil companies will default to doing anything that makes them money. Governments need to make climate forcing cost them more than their revenue.

The alternative is stop traveling such huge distances all the time.

Other than public transportation and filling up the cars with people, instead of having one vehicle per person.

Trees replace themselves. So yes, forests store carbon, rather than specific trees. Also, dead trees don’t just evaporate into the atmosphere. Other species eat them, etc. Over time, more and more carbon will be stored somewhere, if it’s left alone.

Trees are cheap and effective, but humans are destructive. If we just left nature alone, cut meat production to a level where we could pull everything back to older fields, it would recover relatively quickly.

Meaning we need to prosecute and take punitive actions against humans and corporations who just can’t cope with not being destructive. Any business that’s willingly involved needs to lose everything. Make it impossible to profit from, remove the incentives for farmers when the money disappears and loans can’t be given out because the banks stopped existing.

They’re doubling paid paternity leave, from 2 weeks to 4 weeks. Apparently paid maternal leave is 16 weeks.

So that’s two weeks better than before, but why not give the kids both their parents for 16 weeks?

There is, but coal is cheap, when you only look at what it costs before you set it on fire.

If someone believes in a god that implements eternal torture, they believe in a god everyone should despise, and should at least be honest about that part. Don’t call it love, call it fear and terror.

It’s called Christian Science.

Fair enough. It’s not like we need everyone to personally survey every landmark, especially with everyone sharing everything they do.

If anything, if you’re going there to take a picture of it, you shouldn’t be allowed in. Look at someone else’s, if that’s the important part.

A bit annoyed about defederations and community blocks. If an instance wants to be an island by itself, fine, but you shouldn’t have to stay up to date with random announcements from each instance to figure out all the places you need to have an account to access all the content you want to.

Waterfox most of the time, Vivaldi for when I can’t be bothered to whitelist individual scripts.

Using underpaid prison labor to deny people access to well-paying jobs, forcing more people into difficult situations.

Animal feed is a huge category, vs. almonds. Almonds registering on that scale is what’s so shocking about it.

Edit: Not that it isn’t wasteful, if you need extra feed besides grazing, you’re in trouble ecologically.