Cop31 is a chance to redefine ourselves from climate laggard to global leade

No it isn't, such foolish, ney stupid thinking.

The entire COP process has been co-opted by fossil fuel interests and is now irrelevant , we're a massive exporter of fossil fuels and have zero interest in moving foward to zero emissons, voters will never tolerate not being able to fly and told they can't drive cars, stop owing meat eating pets etc

If we wanted to be "leaders" we'd not be holding the Olympics in Australia, not be spending billions expanding Brisbane, Melbourne and Hobart airports, we'd have abandoned all new road projects and only be building PT and AT infrastructure and be closing coal mines and gas extraction and redoing society for low energy dependence, while starting managed abandonment of coastlines and Northern Australia.

Just stick to denial and useless tokenism with a few solar panels and ecars like other developed countries and stop with the hypocrisy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

Boyd said: “There’s no place in the climate negotiations for fossil-fuel companies. There is no place in the plastic negotiations for plastic manufacturers. It just absolutely boggles my mind that anybody thinks they have a legitimate seat at the table.

“It has driven me crazy in the past six years that governments are just oblivious to history. We know that the tobacco industry lied through their teeth for decades. The lead industry did the same. The asbestos industry did the same. The plastics industry has done the same. The pesticide industry has done the same.”

Still so much 2FA via SMS where I am in Aus.

I'd prefer to move everything over to something like Signal but I neeed a phone # to register for that but how do u tell the bank my Signal ID is @hanrhan.666

Guy yesyerday on Whirlpool saying he had to replace the tyres on his BMW i4, at 40,000km. He was shocked :)

The new like for like tyres were $2500 (in Australian banana dollars).

Tyre pollution is a real killer and made much worse with EVs :(

Which is widely know but surprisingly well supported by a vast number of voters.

Sure, thats why the police shouldn't be there, they only ever escalate, antognise and make it worse.

Good news! Fuck the Swiss.

Is there a how to for Linux?

Works for me

If I can't walk there, I don't go.

Is that a Tram in the background ?

Yeah, smart TV, never connect it to the 'net, get a used shield pro, ADB and side load F Launcher. No ads.

Shelds remote can control the TV volume and its connected via HDMI and the Shiekd Pro remote switches both off and on. I use Kodi, Prime, Smart Tube Next and a couple local TV apps.

Not what u want but that's where I am and it works well.

Be interested to see the responses

So jealous of the mushrooms, just not a thing really here in Australia, so can't even learn :(.

We do collect wild garlic and blackberries but we've got so much of our own now. (Thornless blackberries and wild garlic in pots)

So, his wife ?

Thats a dark road to tread.

An example,

no alchol consumption is safe, so using your line of thinking you'd need to argue that anyone who partakes of alcohol at any anytime would fall under that line of thinking

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health

Processed red meats simailary, especially those treated with nitrites, so those eating bacon, ham etc shouldn't be entitled to public heath care under your reasoning

https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/1in3cancers/lifestyle-choices-and-cancer/red-meat-processed-meat-and-cancer/

Or are those things ok becase you do them ?

On the upside, now you've excluded 95% of the population, public healthcare will be cheap :)

Contra to most peoples thinking, if you're concerned about public healthcare costs, you should "encourage" obesiety and smoking, they all die early, most health care coats are associated with healthy people in their old age. See here

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05iht-obese.1.9748884.html

Adults are stupid and greedy, we all are.

I use Webull for Aus shares and Charles Schwab for uS shares .

This is the most depressing thread I've read for some time.

It's horrific to read some of the posts twisting bad news and making out as though it's good news. It's like the posters are watching children in a sandpit playing, ignoring the monster flood thats about to wash them away but taking joy in their play. Wtf?

Professor Boyd is right https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

And after reading this thread, i am even more sure Rees is

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/14/opinion/science-civilization-collapse-environment-limits

Rees bluntly states, “the human enterprise is effectively subsuming the ecosphere” and “wide-spread societal collapse cannot be averted — collapse is not a problem to be solved, but rather the final stage of a cycle to be endured.”

You both use Signal, problem solved.

I've never even browed the local feed on the Masro server I'm on.

Just pick a non mainstream one that has been around for a bit ?

I use Fedilab, Megalodon and Rodent.

I haven't found out how but that would be a kewl feature as I have wanted to a couple times. e.g how to browse all the communities on aussie.zone from my instance on slrpnk.net ?

Neither firi trains.

We solved this a loooong time ago, put some wires up ffs.

Thanks for that I have been considering a foldable and the creaae doesn't worry me but how's the durability ?

It's literally why it's there, they can now point to their work on the envronmwnt in a 30 second newsbite to appease the fluffy heads who vote for them. Similarly their emsisons policy.

I am all for banning pokies and casinos though, on balance, they add misery to the world.

If it was banned it would not stop gambling, just have to look to places like China, where offshore gambling is massive.

"The standard human condition is greed and stupidity" - Charlie Munger

And work for them , like Ms Higgins ?

Southern Hemisphere is a big place, I'm at 10C here in Tasmania where I live , in the middle of the day, a long way from scorching.

It would be nice if they used more specific language then "southern hemisphere", which includes Antarctica.

Indeed looks good and while it's reasonable to experiment with different designs becase of changes in propulsion, most emotorbikes are wtf kinda weird is that.

Also we need a way to discern between emotorbikes and ebicycles, they seem to both use the ebike label.

Alas that's not the case anywhere in the world.

Most of the growing US population centres are in places that are at the forefront of unsustainablity and climate change danger.

For the vast majorty, there's just a complete lack of giving a fuck & zero real interest but just assuming things will be alright, no matter the evidence.

Another example, water issues and heat issues and it's the second fastest growing place in the US. On another note, creating wealth is a proxy for destroying the biosphere and making an unlivable planet.

https://archive.md/1Z5pU

KYLE, Texas—People and businesses have flooded into Kyle, Texas, since the pandemic, making it the second-fastest-growing city in the U.S. The influx is creating wealth but also contributing to a big problem: Kyle is getting hotter and running low on water

But climate change can make living here brutal. Underground, the aquifer that Kyle relied on is shrinking. The city for three years now has had to buy water rights from nearby San Marcos to satisfy its growing population. Temperatures hit nearly 100 degrees before this summer even started, and drought conditions persist. People wear neck fans, limit outdoor time to early morning and nighttime, and keep their children inside.

And here

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/west/hawaii-wildfires/maui-wildfire-survivors-las-vegas/

No sane person would choose to move to Vegas. The heat and lack of water are ridiculous and it's nothing but a giant monument to human stupidity and hubris... Yet here we are.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

True enough, easier to pull over a black guy and shoot them instead. Mich less blow back as well.

Well most voters are entitled asshole that think a few solar panels and ecars is as much as can be expected and another bunch who think it's all bullshit anyway.

That's the vast majority. They Vote for the politcans who reflect that and its also why the Greens dont get enough votes to make substantive policy changes.

I'm 58, child free and have many such interaction multiple times.

Perhaps the other way around you don't but other people with kids sometimes do.

Thanks is for taking the time to bother. I'm Gen X, Vote Green and am a cyclist albeit I don't live there anymore I do have family who all think cyclists are a fair game amd cycling should be banned along with The Greens .

I was a cyclist like before I started voting Green. Who else would I support after the toxicity from the likes of Ryan?

Whike you have a point, when a bastard runs into a crazy guy, mayhem ensues, this is the result.

Weird way to defend your own ignorance ?

I've been riding motorcycles on roads for 40 years, as long as I have many other riders have referred to car drivers as cagers, and cars as cages. I don't use the terms but to infer its some new set of elite words becase you haven't heard it before is bizzare.

Open a dictionary, there will be many 1000s of words that are new to you.

Non car users are punching up, the world and its peoples are being destroyed and dominated by inappropriate car use.

This is a flase equivalence. The "terror" element is a distraction and a poor argument

It would be like Russia coming in and taking Donbas and saying "this is ours", and the world being outraged if Ukrainians fight back and if Ukrainians are still fighting back in 50 years people saying Ukrainians are terrible people look at the terror with zero context and worse still for people to be arguing for Russia, what a skap in the face that would be.

Would people still be outraged at the "terrorism" being wrought by Ukrainians because Russia says its terrorism ? Surely Israel's existence is a travesty, it does exist but obviously there is no dealing with this any other way until Israel stops. This never ends.

Israel just keeps taking more and more and being more and more provocative. What of Indonesia in West Papua? Or more recently Indonesia in Timor ?

This never ends, this is just another phase.

As a Geeen voter, I can't even think of what sort of Green voter would Vote Teal instead, they're night and day apart?

This doesn't pass the sniff test, you don't need to vote "tactically" in Australia, we have preferential voting, so a Green Vote might preference a Teal and see their vote flow that way of the green candidate doesn't hwt wnogh if the primary vote but thats a a different thing then Voting 1 Teal.

I always preference any Independent over the toxic shit stain that is the ALP and LNP.

MAGA

Burn it.

What about catch and release fishing ? Or is that just animal torture ?

Not sure but Berlusconi in Italy maybe ??