I originally posted Tropic Thunder, as I watched it many years ago and recalled that it was quite funny, but as I began to re-watch it, I’d forgotten just how much they’d used the R word, and how it could come off as quite insensitive, which gave me second thoughts about posting it. I tried to delete it, but lemmy is apparently not able to properly federate that action, so it only deleted on my own instance. As a solution, I edited the post to a different movie, which does federate.

Unfortunately, Youtube Free w/ads movies are region locked, and the UK is not one of those included regions :( There’s so many good movies available on the Free w/ads thing, but I’m not sure if I should continue to post from that source at this point.

I did the same thing, but for an FX-6300 instead (eventually upgraded to an 8320). It was cool to see all those cores in my task manager, but I don’t think I ever took advantage of them :p

You might want to take a look at the About page, and their Disclaimer at the bottom:

Notice and disclaimer from the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art:

This digital commission is an artwork which has been supported by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) to link from this website, but remains the property and ultimate responsibility of the commissioned artists.

ACCA acknowledges the value of direct action and political activism. We note that this project is a speculative artwork and provocative intervention into the carbon offset economy. As an organisation, we do not promote illegal activities. ACCA does not make any guarantees, representations or warranties in respect to this artwork, including in relation to quality, operability or data security and has no responsibility or liability for any loss, damage, cost or expense you might incur if you interact with this project, including arising from any data breach, virus or other contamination.

That it looks like a real paper is part of the joke, it’s pointing out the absurdity of companies trying to continue to emit carbon as long as they can use carbon credits, which doesn’t address the root problem. The joke of the paper is essentially; what if a researcher who was paid by a mega corp to find a ‘solution’ (which the corp would want to be greenwashing), actually naively proposed a genuine solution using corporate friendly concepts and language.

I think you might be reading a bit too much into the joke, which is the idea of a scientific paper on giving carbon credits to people conducting actual industrial sabotage, a hilarious concept in itself.

But taking it more seriously, I suppose the argument could be made that delaying large amounts of carbon from being released means reducing X amount of time that carbon in the atmosphere has to contribute to warming and potential feedback cycles. Producing something in a different factory may take time, and while the same amount would potentially be emitted at the new factory, delaying it may not be entirely useless (at least, in my uneducated intuition!).

There are too many variables to know with absolute certainty if a particular sabotage action is overall carbon positive or negative based on how much extra carbon would be emitted to fix the sabotage (depends on the type of sabotage). But if the sabotage results in that production not occurring at all due to making the whole ordeal more costly, it would likely be overall a positive carbon action.

Honestly, I’d recommend just changing the title to something less inflammatory than Veritasium’s chosen title, like “How Approval Voting is the only type that encourages democracy” or whatever you can think of, because his title is just going to get people downvoting it by assuming it encourages not voting.

Ah! I figured it wasn’t appropriate since it wasn’t news or a discussion post, and I didn’t see anyone else posting videos. Thanks for letting me know, I’ll delete this one and re-post it there instead :)

She could’ve used fossilfreefunds.org to pick something that wasn’t invested in oil or prison slave labor.

Dried lentils are an incredibly versatile ingredient, keep forever, are cheap and healthy, and unlike dried beans, do not require overnight soaking to use in a meal.

If your state salts the roads in the winter, it’s strongly recommended to undercoat your vehicle with a coating to preserve it from rusting and shortening its useful life. Fluid Film is one of the better coatings, and is based on sheep lanolin, so it’s not toxic to the environment.

4wheel drive is nice, but tires are EVERYTHING. You absolutely cannot rely on all season tires, you MUST get proper Winter tires if your region snows heavily, or you will have a bad time.

There are now fabric snow ‘socks’ for cars that act like snow chains to get you out if a bind, which would be worth having in the trunk.

In the winter, ALWAYS bring winter rated clothing in the car along with water, a small amount of food, heavy duty blanket, and a small liquid paraffin candle for heat in the event you get stuck in a storm, or go off the road from ice.

There’s so many good options now: Eternity, Raccoon, Voyager, Jerboa, I’d give the competition a look and donate to the one you settle on.

Very cool! I like her retro aesthetic!

English translation for others:

Title: The success story of guerrilla photovoltaics as a solar punk narrative

Post Body: In recent years, photovoltaics have become widespread in Germany in a decentralized manner. The solar punk vision of a self-sufficient, more climate-friendly energy supply is getting a little closer. This is also a success story of social transformation, advanced by Do It Yourself and disobedience (both central characteristics of punk), through serious global crises, social role models and positive social contagion effects.

Alas, Simon Clark is a youtuber. If you don’t mind the lack of context, all the links to the different sources of climate news and science journals he uses are in the description.

In a way, or at least in spirit, it’s similar to the Whole Earth Catalog: Access To Tools, which is something NODE has mentioned enjoying before. So I suppose it is more of a catalog. It is unfortunate it’s reliant on having an internet connection to be used, but still, quite an impressive collection.

Not really sure what to critique, all I can say is it’s absolutely awesome! 😄

One version of the recipe was accidentally leaked a while back. It’s not the exact formulation they sell today, but apparently it’s damn close.

Also @JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world

I believe to ping someone, you need to put an @ symbol before their name instead of /u/. Depending on how you’re interacting with Lemmy (web or app) it should provide some means of auto completing the ping.

LPT for anyone who uses a traditional bank: Switching to a Credit Union that purposefully doesn’t invest in fossil fuels can reduce the climate impact of your money.

(Links courtesy of @silence7@slrpnk.net)

Because money. Almost anything that asks “why is the US” is because money :(

FreeTube is a client that runs on your own computer, it’s not a host I can link to like Invidious was, because google effectively killed that method.

Sorry to hear his humor wasn’t to your liking.