the world’s richest man also cut off Ukrainian access to starlink when Ukraine initiated a counter offensive against Russia. the oligarchs that form the US military industrial complex can, will, and have used their positions of leverage to influence geo-politics

thanks. i get these things mixed up some

so the other comment reply does nothing to explain, but there’s too much mis- and disinformation that people consume and too much prideful ignorance to just let a comment sit like this as the top of the “hot” algorithm to not give people an entry point to enlighten themselves.

dark matter is not named for its undetectibility within the visible light spectrum. you are correct that we cannot detect much matter within the universe based on the visible light spectrum. dark matter is named based on that we cannot detect it at all. dark matter is more the answer to a question we don’t yet know how to answer. there are a lot of behaviors out there in the cosmos that cannot be explained through the simple interactions between matter that we are able to observe, leading many scientists to theorize that much of the universe, around 70% of it, is made of a form of matter that interacts with the kind of matter we are by just kinda… pushing it away (not like anti matter which causes waveform collapses when interacting with the kind of matter we are).

a competing theory for why the cosmos acts the way it does is because space time itself is expanding as a result of our observable universe existing on the inside of a black hole. my estimation is probably that both explanations contain part of the truth and that the whole truth is that both dark matter exists and our universe is inside a blackhole. if you want a real mind trip, i suspect our universe is inside a blackhole inside our universe, and that every blackhole in the universe contains a universe. filled with blackholes with universes, including the very same universe that contains that blackhole

worth noting, Hyundai is also classified as a war profiteer in both Ukraine and Palestine. you will find me in another comment praising the Ioniq 5. This is in contrast to Tesla, bear in mind

noted!

that’s great news! it looks like they started fixing this in 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YW7x9U5TQ

here’s some context

Along with fellow humans giving CT drivers the bird and snarky notes under their one dumb windshield wiper, they’re also just… not very good vehicles. The steering is vague, the acceleration is ass because the vehicle is so heavy, and they get the gremlins if they get wet and they weren’t set to car wash mode. So some drivers are going to be quietly trying to trade them in for shame, and some are going to be perpetually in the shop getting fixes for problems they never should have been allowed to have in the first place

The only downside I know of with the Hyundai is that their single pedal driving controller interprets US law about braking strictly and does not turn on the brake lights unless you dump the pedal, engaging the brake rotors. So either just don’t use single pedal driving mode, or have faith that US drivers don’t drive distracted (this is an endorsement for not using Hyundai’s single pedal driving mode btw)

since no one’s mentioned them:

• Oolite
• Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Uncle Diogenes ass motherfucker

we need more bus access

i’m east coast bi west coast pan, because what the words mean are different on opposite sides of the US

credit to slrpnk.net instance admins for sharing this often:

Not at all. I’m from Central Appalachia in Virginia.

alright. my apologies for taking such an ungracious stance. it was just hard for me to fathom:

• someone not having any neighbors growing up with Juneteenth Jubilee cookouts
• not hearing about the decades long petition to the federal government starting in the nineteen sixties to recognize Juneteenth as a holiday
• not seeing any of the Juneteenth media coverage in 2021 when there was a full on blitz to introduce people to their newest holiday celebration
• seeing a calendar event on June Nineteeth named “Juneteenth” and immediately assuming it was a typo for an intentional calendar event named “June Nineteenth” and then correcting it

all the people i’ve met who don’t think Juneteenth should be a holiday come in one of two flavors:

1. (the more common one) think Black history is irrelevant and that the holiday is a modern recent construct
2. (the more radical one) think Juneteenth should be a holiday that is only implemented by the people it represents once they are adequately represented in whatever system of government replaces the one that refuses to pay reparations

i defaulted from past experience into assuming you fit into category 1, and for that i apologize. lord knows i’ve experienced things reaching my knowledge base later than others because information that truly matters spreads slow, and the internet has not been the accelerant to information spread we often delude ourselves into thinking it is.

i grew up being told, by Asian people, that “Asian” is a slur to them, and that it unfairly lumps them all into a single category. the term they asked me to use instead is considered by most Asians today to be outdated, and a slur.

again. i take ownership of that i jumped too fast to being unkind, and that this was ultimately unconstructive. i will work harder to do better in the future

user: “do the plugins break often?”

GNOME: “that depends… do you consider every single release to be often?”

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(I looked up this name and I don’t think I’m in community with enough Catholics to understand what this means)

Some products that are commonly used throughout the world that originate from Israel that you should boycott immediately:

• Babylon (digital dictionary)
• Unilever (does not originate from Israel but does manufacture many food products in Israel)
  • Amora
  • Amora
  • Aromat
  • Best Foods
  • Bovril
  • Brooke Bond
  • Colman’s
  • Continental
  • Hellmann’s
  • Knorr
  • Lady’s Coice
  • Maille
  • Marmite (As in Marmite branded Marmite)
  • Robertson’s
  • Salsa Lizano
  • Sir Kensington’s
  • Turun sinappi
  • Unox
  • Klik
  • Maizana
  • Pfanni
  • Pot Noodle
  • Pot Rice
  • Sealtest
  • Buavita
  • Horlicks
  • Jif (lemon and lime juice, not the peanut butter)
  • All laundry detergent (the brand, not literally all laundry detergent)
  • Breeze laundry detergent
  • Breeze
  • Cif
  • Comfort fabric softener
  • Dixan laundry detergent
  • Persil
  • Rin
  • Rinso
  • Skip laundry detergent
  • Snuggle fabric softener
  • Sunlight dish-washing detergent
  • Surf laundry detergent
  • Wheel detergent
  • Axe/Lynx products
  • Brylcreem
  • Camay
  • Clear beauty products
  • Close-up toothpaste
  • Dove soaps
  • Glow & Lovely
  • Lifebuoy rubbing alcohol
  • Liril
  • Linic
  • Lux
  • Mentadent
  • Noxzema
  • Pears transparent soap
  • Pepsodent
  • Pond’s
  • Radox
  • Rexona (AKA Degree, Sure, Shield, and Rexena) deodorant
  • Schmidt’s naturals deodorants and soaps (WHAT?! GODDAMMIT!! My wife will be displeased to learn of this)
  • Seventh Generation (My wife will be unshocked to learn of this)
  • Shea Moisture (WHAT!? GODDAMMIT!! I AM DISPLEASED TO LEARN OF THIS)
  • Signal toothpaste
  • Simple skin and body care
  • SR toothpaste
  • St Ives lotion
  • Suave
  • Sunsilk (AKA Sedal, Seda, and Elidor)
  • Toni & Guy
  • TRESemme
  • Vaseline (AKA Vasenol)
  • Vim (not the text editor)
  • VO5
  • White Beauty
  • Zendium
• Noblesse cigarettes
• Sabra
• SodaStream
• Pepsi (American, but heavily involved in Israeli politics)
• Coca Cola (American, but heavily involved in Israeli politics)
• IWI
• Uzi
• Desert Eagle
• Waze
• Google Maps (mostly through its relationship to Waze)
• Yokohama tires

okay. so. ecofascism ignores, or is ignorant of, the role that indigenous people played maintaining ecosystems and the overall climate of this world. they frame the tragedy of the commons as that a commonly shared resource will be overutilized by the community leading to the degredation and loss of that resource. given this, they believe that a top level force is required to protect that resource.

the flaw with this framing is that anthropologically, there is no evidence that the tragedy of the commons works this way. we have much more evidence of an ownership class overexploiting a resource than we do collaborative communities. the people, left to their own devices, will largely find solutions that will best fit all their needs, where as an ecofascist route will generally only allow the person commanding the economy to assess needs and they will do so with their set of biases and blindspots, leading to things like the famines of the 5 year plans and the great leap forward