you right they’re not meaningless.
In the hands of the right demagogue they can be powerful tools for creating and extending stimgatisation and division - and undermining society and weakening the grown-up methods of resolving social stresses.
Daryl Davis arguably did try to get along with the kkk.
There might not be many like him and it might be a drop in the ocean, but at least it isn’t no-one who wants to try to do the difficult thing.
Trees breed by putting their babies into extremely resilient, heat and cold protected stasis pods that can go centuries without care and attention in the right conditions - like suviving an ice age or forest fire.
Human babies are wimps by comparison - most of them would die after only a few days left outside at 0 degrees C.
Humans probably will survive too - but how many?
Elon + all this 3 mates.
here’s a tune for you
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=Rn9Dkg_vRJc
I’d imagine the same scenario for most of August for the festival too.
Is there a souce for that?
It doesnt seem consistent with this one
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-transport
but this is limited to CO2 emissins, so i’m wondering what type of emissions are being counted is there any data on that.
I had a quick look at the “all GHG” data in EDGAR and that also seems to shows road transport quite a lot larger than shipping.
But I’d need to spend a bit longer looking at the data to figure out if i’m using it correctly.
Could it be based on Particulate matter emissions??
PM emissions don’t do much if anything to directly intensify climate change - not like GHGs
thanks, that might actually explain it.
I always thought those fees were tiny vs the price of the os.
But i guess they’re probably only charging dell a small amount on a pre install.
They could still put a codec pack in the store though and have the user pay a few quid for it - or whatever.
Sorry i wasn’t clear about my point - I’m pretty sure I could get windows to play a dvd if i really wanted to.
But all i needed to do was prove that the dvd drive wasnt broken, and a live linux mint usb did that in 3 extremely “complicated” minutes.
My actual question was more like:
" how come - if windows is so simple and so much easier to use and set up for normal users - she couldn’t do something she’d been accustomed to doing for years."
The windows software centre or whatever it is was not keen to offer VLC, didn’t seem to mention it, but it was very keen to tell her she could buy the film from MS store or something affilliated.
anyway, it’s ok, i think the next dude has given some interesting info.
Can you explain to my sister why she can’t play DVDs on her brand new laptop that she paid a fortune for that came with windows.
She’s not a complete idiot. probably average maybe slightly above-average.
She was on the verge of RMA-ing her perfectly functional DVD drive though.
FYI - Focus are actually from Netherlands.
Don’t worry about it though the Dutch are pretty cool with being confused for the Deutsch. (/s)
But yeah just them arsing about on the sleeve for the first version - I think its credited properly on the actual disc label and on reissues.
I’m just really wondering if there’s any relationship between Foucuses “Akkerman” and Vandals “Ackerman”.
There’s basically no info online about them.
FYI - Focus are still around - playing the odd gig in Europe - still with Thijs van Leer - he’s slightly less vivacious than some of the old youtube videos. No Jan Akkerman these days though.
Samuel L Jackson was actually played by Alec Guinness in blackface(+CGI).
And as for Carl Fisher . . .
Jan Nils Ackerman?
Jan Akkerman?
These cannot be the same mother focus.
Turns out this was actually a burt bacarach song. . .
https://www.discogs.com/release/2538675-The-Vandals-When-In-Rome-Do-As-The-Vandals
billionaires lives are made near unliveable by the evil tax system that exploits all their hard work to benefit the lazy
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i think a lot of people get misled by all the pictures.
The aurora tends to look very grey and washed out to the naked eye.
Unless they’re moving fast enough they’re easily mistaken for thin hazy grey cloud.
Most of the pictures you’ll see are with long exposure settings to get the colours to show much more vivid than they actually appear.
I guess this might be different with these strong aurora - I didn’t look last night but I’m right in a city anyway.
A lot of trickle down economics fans in this thread.
Fought over since before most “commodities” existed , and maybe most religions -at many scales from the world, to countries, to a sopt by the river bank, or the comfy chair in the living room - including by various human and non-human species.
Pursuit of economic and political power though control/acquisition of land just has so much glorious and colourful heritage; it’s no mere pleb of a commodity .
Something most everyone could use just a little bit more of.
Not everyone could use more cars and tangerines.
cars and tangerines have a generally more competetive market of sustitutes.
Land doesn’t really have substitues.
If i could build a house/farm out of tangerines without any land needed, i’d get your point,