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#ClimateDiary 2/2 I have been struggling in recent months with feeling really hope- and helpless regarding climate action (and much else). But now feel that there is also strength in this realisation, so much still that we can do for each other and the world even when the bigger picture is incredibly bleak. Then yesterday listened to @DarkOptimism talking about #DarkOptimism - and this term captures it perfectly. Thank you, Shaun!

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👤💬 Erik Haugen @ech ...

⭐ "...US giving them just enough weapons to keep fighting but in inadequate quantities or with too many restrictions to actually win seems like the worst possible thing we could be doing."

⭐ "Also Trump was right on in saying Europe should deal with this; they easily could if they had the resolve. Follow Poland's lead."

👤💬 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 @freemo ...

" You don't talk to your enemies out of a sense of trust..."

" A violated treaty gives you justification and a right to retaliation you wouldn't otherwise have. "

👤💬 holgerpatzelt @holgerpatzelt ....

" It is naive to believe that Putin would negotiate unless to his advantage "

" Let make it clear: there is a Nazi Party that won over 30 percent of the votes in the state around Berlin and two south of it.

Democracy is not a matter of course. "

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#AI #Tech -The distancing from people is eventually the whole problem... 

I understand why now... the distancing from people is eventually the whole problem... that is why I write sometimes about Tech,...

By giving and getting work without having chance to talk to the creator or people we are missing link that is important... while many don't want the attention or time-consumption, we must be aware the initial reasons and care in the creation also gets lost by distancing or treating people as disposable units...

So people can get replaced and we can become unsure why people are even there... because the passion and being of a person isn't easily seen through Capitalism or from distance and actually gets lost during these processes even if "top quality" and "maximum" is achieved as bad exchange or over-kill since we could still achieve a lot keeping the passionate builders in the frame a bit more...

SUPPORTING about but it is what people in Capitalism are doing anyway (just faster now)

" ...we’re able to get access to what colleagues are producing without needing to actually engage with them”. "

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OFF GRID COMMENTS / TIRED CITY PEOPLE 

OFF GRID PEOPLE

My husband and I are moving off grid in a couple of months here. I'm so sick of everyday life...to most people that sounds terrible but I just mean I want to have the work I do count. I want to have my husband feel good mentally and physically for the work he does and I want my children to not be self centered, ungrateful brats<<<that's tough when everything around them screams you need this, you need MORE

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@JessIcaMessika
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While my neighbours spend their time hunting for weed, removing moss from cracks, maniacally attempting the „perfect“ lawn, I go on creating hiding places, nesting places, drinking places, shadow places, wet places, warm places, feeding places and more for other life forms. I have discovered joy in fomenting #nature and #biodiversity even in a small area as where I live.

Nothing is done anymore in the garden without giving a thought about how others benefit or lose from it.

#gardening

SHOPPING STORIES & SWINDLES

"...raising prices and not posting them is now a profitable business practice."

- Boxcars ➡️ @boxcars

@freeschool

I feel like I am from a different planet. Hell is other people, except for an excellent few.

DAILY CHEATING OF PEOPLE

"...when simple age old human interaction becomes con-like, we have a moral obligation to make it straight. Otherwise, hell starts to break loose. Just make it straight."

- Boxcars :fediverse: @boxcars

So there has been a breakthrough in my retail price adventure.
This windy winter morning, with small flakes of snow tumbling sideways, I went for more on-sale apples at the local grocer chain. Bagged, presented, and accompanied with several yes pleases, I gently offered on-sale apples to the checkout, positioned myself at the display, facing away from the human operator. Wrong price I said aloud, and knew I only had less than a minute. Off she stormed, to the produce area to check the displayed price. I ran to keep up, asking her how I could help her solve this problem. Anger had flooded her face, I only had a few more seconds, 'maybe I could talk to a manager and get this fixed for all of us?' Then she was gone. I was sure that I had failed.
I returned to the customer chute.

She returned, lips pursed, said a few words to her colleague in groceryspeak. Without looking anywhere her fingers slammed the sequence of commands to cancel and correct. Then it happened, the other checkout turned to me and said softly, the senior manager watches Yelp closely, if you post a poor review there then we have a chance. Ok, maybe she didnt say we. Hooboy, I couldn't believe it. Yes, yes, I had a Yelp account, passed down to me by my naive-webself from twenty years ago. This could work, we could have displayed prices that match register prices.

My checkout was now smiling at me. And the store manager was approaching, I did my best ten second elevator speech about proper charges using the glowing blank register screen as a prop, unfolded my arms to virtually embrace all the people around me harmed by this careless process of putting food on sale and charging full price. A customer was staring at me. The store manager had a sort of monotone response, mumbling yes, and, I see. And away he went, the store manager, disappearing around the aisle of
beers, each with colorful, pleasant missives upon them. Later I posted my message in a Yelp bottle and threw it into the Internet sea. This might work.

US billionaires paid less tax than their secretaries in 2018 

Under pressure from corporate giants and the super-rich, our governments have cut taxes on the wealthiest corporations and individuals to record lows at a time of record wealth.

For the first time, in 2018, US billionaires paid less tax than their secretaries.

Reference: Saez, E. and Zucman, G., The Triumph of Injustice (W.W. Norton, 2019)

Source: taxjustice.net/take-back-contr

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