The bicycle is one of best inventions of our species.
No gods, no masters.
The bicycle is one of best inventions of our species.
There are people working on foods for cats which aren’t based on cruelty. There already exist options, though some are sold as special diets.
Example: https://sustainablepetfood.info/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0284132 it’s already happening.
The work in “lab meat” products is actually going to contribute to this too.
Note: cats don’t eat cows or pigs or even adult chickens in “nature”.
Here, the permalink: https://sarahcandersen.com/post/754633959852392448
It’s the API’s job to validate it either way. As it does that job, it may as well parse the string as an integer.
When German Liberals Teamed Up With the Far Right
Since 1945, Germany’s parliamentary parties have refused all alliances with the far right. That changed yesterday in Thuringia, when liberals and Christian Democrats teamed up with neofascists to throw the Left out of office.
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Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party never managed to win a majority in a national election; instead, it was helped into office by conservatives who were more terrified of real socialism than they were of Hitler’s “national socialism.” Surely none of them could have anticipated the depths of cruelty to which the Nazis would eventually stoop, but they had little problem with curtailing democracy and repressing the Left if it guaranteed their hold on economic power.
Historical analogies are necessarily oversimplified, and the AfD in 2020 is light-years away from the Nazi Party in 1930. Nevertheless, with Germany’s parties of the Left declining in the polls and the AfD currently doing an excellent job portraying itself as the true party of the opposition, yesterday marked a worrying omen of what could become the new normal in Germany in the years to come.
only if there are ads
I’m not a solipsist.
That’s true, the Amazonians do need air raid sirens due to the chemical air attacks from entrepreneurial colonialists.
polyculture intensifies
I fucking hate timezones. Whatever it is, I’d rather read the current clock as 4 a.m. even if it’s noon than have timezones.
The sound would make for a great emergency alarm system in case of natural disasters or air raids.
When’s the last time you donated to Lemmy.world?
Thanks to social media, youth unemployment, an uptick in asylum seekers, ballooning energy prices and oodles of nationalist right-wing cash, Macron is no longer the only politician with the regal ability to play Jupiter on TV. There are now a record 4,005 candidates running in the first round, with many fabled divinities to choose from.
There’s your problem. Defund the rich.
I invite all cheese lovers to try Adipocere.
The tragedy of the commons is when too many people use a public resource in a way that is unsustainable.
Close, but not.
The “overuse” is an aspect of mismanagement of the commons, it’s not simply about overuse, it’s about the management. The understanding that “someone just used up all that nice stuff” is poor, even in accordance with the author of this theory.
The tragedy is that the its so mismanaged that it allows an asshole to ruin it for everyone. That’s not some default, that’s what happens when you have poor management. Plenty of commons have good management and it’s a known field and theory. If you want to go by this view, you can read Ostrom who actually researched the issue of management:
https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false-and-dangerous-myth
https://tn.boell.org/en/2023/04/19/5-elinor-ostrom-et-les-huit-principes-de-gestion-des-communs (look for YouTube lectures too).
In practice, however, what you describe as the asshole greedily and selfishly taking from the commons is literally the act of privatization. Which is why the usual capitalist “solution” to this problem - official privatization - is a failure.
Here’s also a humorous podcast explaining what’s wrong with it: https://player.fm/series/srsly-wrong/ep-235-the-imaginary-tragedy-of-the-hypothetical-commons in case you like to listen.
It’s a combination of fools and fool-proof fascist propaganda. What liberals did was, as usual, to tolerate fascists and their propaganda (and refused to reduce the power of capitalists).