Notices by Antanicus (antanicus@puntarella.party), page 2

This is how it feels to watch world leaders achieve absolutely nothing at the COP28 while the world burns

“The need for communism transforms everything. Through the need for communism the need for non-work moves from the negative aspect (opposition to work) to the positive one: the individual’s complete availability to themselves, the possibility to express themselves absolutely freely, breaking away from all models, even those considered to be fundamental and indispensable such as those of production.”
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Alfredo Bonanno, Armed Joy

Does he?

"South African lawmakers voted on Tuesday in favour of closing down the Israeli embassy in Pretoria and suspending all diplomatic relations until a ceasefire is agreed in its war with Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza."

Achievement unlocked: out-apartheid the original apartheid state to the point it cuts ties with you.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/safrican-lawmakers-vote-suspend-diplomatic-ties-with-israel-shut-embassy-2023-11-21/

@Tappello I guess it's time to whip out *that* guardian article...

"They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity

"Backed with US weapons and munitions, Israel has dropped over ten thousand bombs in Gaza in just a week, twice as many as the US dropped in Afghanistan in a year and, according to UN sources, the equivalent to a quarter of a nuclear bomb."

A quarter of a nuclear bomb worth of explosives in one week. Let that sink in.

https://jacobin.com/2023/10/israel-gaza-bombing-air-strikes-civilians

#PSA ma anche #Porcoddio

"A bitcoin mine located at a waste coal power plant in Pennsylvania wants to add a new fuel to its power generation mix: scrap tires. Stronghold Digital Mining describes itself as an “environmentally beneficial” bitcoin miner. (...) but as the environmental organizations protesting Stronghold’s application point out, Panther Creek does not monitor releases of these pollutants."

Least deranged cryptobros

https://thebulletin.org/2023/08/scrap-solution-burning-tires-to-mine-bitcoin/

Any scientists here willing to pick this up?

@annika it's almost like westerners collectively lost their most basic survival instincts

Liberals: "we will survive climate change, the markets will adapt"

The markets as soon as climate change hits: "India has prohibited the export of non-basmati white rice with immediate effect, according to a government notice on Thursday, after a late start to seasonal monsoon rains hurt the crop and raised fears of a production shortfall."

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/why-indian-rice-export-ban-is-so-important-global-trade-2023-07-20/

"The study, which modelled the effect of narrowing the gaps in energy use between households within 27 European countries, found capping demand from the top fifth, even at a fairly high level, cut greenhouse gas pollution from energy consumption by 9.7%, while raising demand from people in the bottom fifth who also live in poverty to a fairly low level increases emissions by just 1.4%."

Almost like the overpopulation myth was devised by the rich to deflect the blame for climate change...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/17/europe-cap-luxury-energy-use-emissions-carbon-budget-targets-study

"(...) the global food system may not be far from its tipping point, for structural reasons similar to those that tanked the financial sector in 2008. As a system approaches a critical threshold, it’s impossible to say which external shock could push it over. Once a system has become fragile, and its resilience is not restored, it’s not a matter of if and how, but when."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/15/food-systems-collapse-plutocrats-life-on-earth-climate-breakdown

"It could scarcely be more screwed up. The effort to protect Earth systems and the human systems that depend on them is led by people working at the margins with tiny resources, while the richest and most powerful use every means at their disposal to stop them. Can you imagine, in decades to come, trying to explain this to your children?"

It sure would be nice if we helped migrant boats in the Mediterranean as much as we're trying to help 5 millionaires stuck in a can 4.000m underwater.

You want to know what a tipping point looks like?

This is what a tipping point looks like.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/26/accelerating-ocean-warming-earth-temperatures-climate-crisis