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This morning onboard the Rainbow Warrior III, we commemorated the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior I and the death of our colleague and friend, photographer Fernando Pereira. Together with Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, we held a dawn ceremony to reflect on that moment, and to acknowledge the importance of the fight for a nuclear-free Pacific, which continues to this day. #nzpol
@Greenpeace Aotearoa Rainbow Warrior now that sounds like a concept. Inbetween butt-fucking an occasional sword fight or what? And you can't sink it? I bet Israel can and probably will.
Well, I suppose you can just say anyone waging war is a terrorist including leaders of countries. I wouldn't disagree with doing that except that it removes any distinction the term might have that would make it useful.
I think that his wife's hobby of neclacing did not help his reputation - "With our boxes of matches, and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country"
@Jarasy The worst case of targetting civilians was Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan had completely run out of fuel so could no longer defend itself in any way. You are constantly told that the bombs were needed to end the war but Russia had already started to take over Japan from the north and Japan had made it clear that they wished to surrender to the US rather than Russia but the sticking point was that they wished to retain their Emporer. The US chose two non military target because they wanted to have good examples of before and after photos whereas all the military targets were already destroyed and cities like Tokyo were already flattened. So two civilian targets (I do accept there were storage camps etc. but do not accept that they were significant military targets) were chosen for the worst two attrocities ever. Japan was then allowed to surrender and keep their Emporer. Dresden was similar in that it was also an experiment rather than an act of war but with incendaries. The ring of fire took the oxygen out of the center of the city. The city was fully working again in a couple of days but the entire population had been suffocated. Personally I do not see such acts as somehow better than Hamas or Mandella etc..
@Trocatintas Are you saying that you believe that makes it OK to become a violent oppressive terrorist? Mandella was blowing up the railway stations, working people going to work. Please explain how that is fighting the oppressive regime you speak of. Apartheid? The only member of Mandella's cell that was executed was the white guy. Given the problems in the UK with illegal immigration they will need Apartheid in the UK soon as well as most of Europe. If you listen to the speeches of Hamas you cannot tell them apart from the IDF, there is no difference. How people view the problem is normally down to which propaganda they listen to. If the power was given to Hamas the exact same situation would continue just the other war around as has happened in South Africa.
So, if I were a psychotic murderer and loved killing people all I have to do is move to a country like Israel and I can portray myself as a great guy? I can see huge holes in your logic. When, historically, were there no apartheid regimes and therefore when was the original apartheid regime that all blame derives from? From my perspective you are solely responsible for your wrong doing and you cannot blame your crime on someone else. If you murder, you murdered. Do you see the apartheid regime that preceded South Africa as responsible for South Africa's apartheid crimes? How can such crimes ever end if there is no responsibility. It does seem that you are simply being racist and wish to blame the white man yet not excuse the white man for the crimes committed against him. The only way to remain civilised is to retain ownership of ones own crimes. Nelson Mandella was an evil murderer. Most of his victims were black and had not oppressed him so he was an apartheid oppressor. Hamas do not murder those that oppressed them, they murdered many innocent women and children in exactly the same way that the IDF do. They are all exactly the same. If I were a kind person (I am not) I would say that you seem to be confused about the difference between guilt and mitigation. Nelson Mandella was guilty of terrorism but in his defence he claimed he was oppressed by Apartheid. The court heard that but as he spent most of his time abroad and travelled more than worked in SA they did not see that as true. He was arrested on his return to SA.
Nelson Mandella was an evil murderer. Most of his victims were black and had not oppressed him so he was an apartheid oppressor. Hamas do not murder those that oppressed them, they murdered many innocent women and children in exactly the same way that the IDF do.
@Trocatintas There is no such thing as "my truth" or "your truth". You seem confused again but this time between truth and opinion. The problem here is that the fact that Nelson Mandella was blowing up random people or that his wife necklaced children are facts that logically result in them being evil murderers. That he blew up railway stations where the poorer people went to work supports that. To conflate Nelson Mandella, Hamas, IDF - I would accept as opinion and you could counter that opinion but you failed to do so. You just seemed to make yet another erroneous statement in an attempt to defend some opinion without actually saying anything. You do not seem to have an opinion, you just seem to say I am wrong without being able to justify that. To say "That’s how Israel started… Nakba" is a completely empty statement. What do you mean by that and how do you believe that statement response to the debate?
@Jamie Yes. All of what you say about Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a story I repeat often to others. Part of using the A-bombs was to signal the Russians that we had them ready for practical use and were insane enough to do so.
Contrary to the public story about what ended the war, the bombs made no difference to Japan at that point. One of their generals famously said it made no difference if it was one bomb or a thousand bombs.
MacArthur and the US were insisting on unconditional surrender without giving in on that small point of saving the emporer. I had also thought that the US had finally agreed about the emporer but after reading more I believe that it was an unpublicized back door agreement so the US could claim it was unconditional while Japan got to save the emporer. I read that the actual process of returning him to his position was quietly handled by MacArthur himself some months later and billed as a spontaneous act of kindness.
I saw the links but one was opinion and the other Wikipedia. An opinion on Winnie's comment that ignored that the ANC as a whole enacted necklacing or that Nelson did not renounce her. Winnie Mandella did not actually touch 14 year old Stompie Moeketsi but she was in charge of the men there. It was even worse that the court only gave her 6 years of which she only served 2. If a white person had done that they would have been hung but that is apartheid for you.
As for the Wikipedia link. What did you expect me to reply to? If you would like some actual cited links that would be easy but it was hardly a revalation to me. There is so much worse going on today that the Nakba pales into insignificance. Wasn't Netanyahu a member of Irgun? A known terrorist organisation much like the ANC and look what happens when you give them power.
Our indignation is under control. You are told who to support, who to despise and even who to argue about. You do not doubt who is the bad guy in the Ukraine war and you are told to support Nelson Mandella in South Africa and do. We argue over Israel and Palestine for some reason although you have not given me anything to disagree with you about. The media tells us to fixate about such things. While we discuss such things entire populations like Nagorno-Karabakh cease to exist and no one notices. They are not a chose subject.
We're in an age where important video and audio online may be deleted without warning and without any ability to find it elsewhere. There's a very useful tool which lets you store an offline copy of video and audio called YT-DLP:
I don't normally like command line tools, but this is pretty easy to use. After you've installed it, you just type yt-dlp and then the URL of the video or audio, then it saves it as a DRM-free file on your computer.
It works with a variety of different video and audio platforms.
(This replaces an earlier tool called yt-dl which is no longer maintained.)
La pression européenne s'intensifie sur von der Leyen : le Parlement vote sa destitution, une première depuis dix ans. Survivra-t-elle à la guillotine politique ?
Last week, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca #Albanese made headlines across the world for exposing the dozens of companies that she says have profited from #Israel’s #genocide in #Gaza. Albanese’s UN report, ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide,’ goes beyond just the typical weapons-manufacturing culprits, and calls out financial institutions, educational institutions, and #BigTech companies, including #Alphabet Inc. ( #Google), #Amazon, #IBM, #Palantir, as well as many, many others.
In response, the #US Mission to the UN renewed its calls for the UN secretary-general to condemn Albanese and remove her as special rapporteur for human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Now, world-leading economists, including former Greek Finance Minister Yanis #Varoufakis, French economist Thomas #Piketty, and Lebanese-American statistician and essayist Nassim Nicholas #Taleb, are praising Albanese for her report.
Zeteo has obtained an exclusive English copy of the economists’ open letter on Albanese’s report, in which they accuse corporations of “maintaining the Apartheid regime and enabling the subsequent genocide.”
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, French economist Thomas Piketty, and others join open letter supporting Albanese amid US calls to remove her as the UN special rapporteur on Palestine.
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’
The Albanese's report: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide from the official page: un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-… From economy of occupation to economy of genocide – (A/HRC/59/23) Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance unedited version)
Should be available in different languages but right now I can't.
Foreign tourists are trickling back to China after the country loosened its visa policy to unprecedented levels. Citizens from 74 countries can now enter China for up to 30 days without a visa, a big jump from previous regulations.
rakstā teikts, ka "Sweden is the only other high-income European country that didn’t make the 30-day list. Ties with China have frayed since the ruling Chinese Communist Party sentenced a Swedish book seller, Gui Minhai, to prison for 10 years in 2020."
ātri pameklējot, tas pilsonis tika apsūdzēts spiegošanā un tika apcietināts, tad Zviedri viņam iedeva kaut kādu apbalvojumu uz kuru CN vēstnieks izteica kritiku, Zviedru mediji kritizēja pretī, un tad tur sākās kašķis pēc kašķa
Kimberly Guilfoyle, President Trump’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Greece, faced tough questions at her Senate confirmation hearing. Senators raised concer...
Respecto a las inundaciones de Texas, una historia que me ha causado una mezcla entre asco y risa.
No sé si habréis visto el vídeo de esta mujer sollozando y pidiendo ayuda tras que su comunidad haya perdido todo en la riada youtu.be/AIjARwKJexs?si=e8V9qg…
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Bueno, y si os cuento que esta mujer se llama Auburne Gallagher y ha estado estas pasadas semanas riéndose de la gente que va a acabar en el llamado Alligator Alcatraz/Auschwitz?? Y celebrando la entrada de la reforma que va a empobrecer aún más a los pobres? Y deseando que a algún inmigrante se lo coma un cocodrilo?? youtu.be/C28XXJdA-Jg?si=1_A-Mv…
My original vid: I can't stop thinking about the contrast in these 2 headlines and what it says about our govt.https://youtu.be/5d05i7OqsMsPlease follow me o...
El otro día puse por aquí una movida con un operario,mileurista de merda, que decía que hay que votar a Vocs porque alguien tiene que poner orden (movidas xenofobas,claro) y que se joda el resto. Claro Guapi, cuando te bajen el salario mínimo, te acaben de joder la SS (el tiene Sanitas y ya se cree Elon Musk) vas a flipar tu y tus hijas y el resto de tu familia. Esta gente se creen que a ellos no les afecta nada 🙄
περίμενα κάτι καλύτερο. Αυτό είναι επαίσχυντο. Δεν υπάρχει ούτε μία αναφορά στους λόγους που έχει επιβληθεί εμπάργκο στην Ερυθρά θάλασσα. Δεν υπάρχει ούτε μία αναφορά που να λέει ότι τα πλοία που ΔΕΝ κατευθύνονται στα λιμάνια της σιωνιστικής οντότητας δεν έχουν πρόβλημα διέλευσης. Δεν υπάρχει ούτε μία αναφορά στο ότι οι πλοιοκτήτριες εταιρείες αγνοούν το εμπάργκο και στέλνουν τα καράβια στη σιωνιστική οντότητα.
Diverses informacions asseguren que això s'està debatent en la reforma de l'Ordenança del Civisme però l'Ajuntament i els grups municipals ho neguen rotundament
Per cert, està estudiat que les notícies falses tenen milers i milions de cops més impacte que el desmentit i els fets reals.
Per dues raons:
1. Reconèixer que ens han enganyat sap mal. Preferim no assumir ni difondre el desmentit per no quedar com estúpids. Fins i tot dubtem de la realitat i ens aferrem a la falsedat.
2. Les notícies falses confirmen prejudicis, pors i odis generalitzats. Són molt satisfactòries, doncs alliberen la nostra ràbia. Ens fan sentir vius.
En serio, si creéis que el antirracismo es aplaudir a quien, cayendo en una constante de la izquierda, "defiende" la migración porque "hacen curros que nadie quiere" y "sostienen la economia del país"... es utilitarismo.
Iba a hablar de un error de la izquierda, pero no lo es cuando ya se ha dicho por activa y por pasiva que reducir a personas a su capacidad productiva no es ni antirracista ni tampoco anticapitalista.
No considerar al antirracismo interlocutor valido es otra forma de racismo.
Usuarios e usuarias denunciaron tanto as malas palabras contra o empresario libanés como o intento por socavar a boa sona do restaurante a través de recensións falaces.
i'm getting results for at least five monkeys who died in the American space program, all of whom where named albert. a sixth albert died two hours after recovery, after which they stoped naming their monkeys that.
#USA has imposed 50% tariffs on #EU imports, and #Brussels has cancelled a $43 billion contract with #Boeing, rerouted its supply chains through #Canada, and shifted over $2 trillion worth of trade away from #Washington.
What we are seeing is the collapse of #US-EU economic relations. The total economic collapse of the West. This is a tectonic shift in global power, and the West can watch the next economic order take shape without a seat at the table.
At the same time, Trump is imposing 25% tariffs on #Japan and #SamsungRepublic, which are expected to take effect on August 1. With dozens of nations facing similar threats, this strategy will weaken Western partnerships rather than strengthen #US influence.
The #isolationism that will destroy the Evil "empire" is here to stay.
Για να μη σας δουλεύει ο γκωμμουνας @IAmSpartacus EΛΛΗΝΟΚΤΗΤΟ ΚΑΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΟΨΥΧΟ ΚΑΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΟΚΑΤΟΙΚΗΜΕΝΟ ΤΟ ΕΤΕΡΝΙΤΙ!
Δεν ξερω ακριβως πως φαίνεται πως απ' ολους τους επιβαίνοντες γλιτωσε μονο ο Ελλην ΦΡΟΥΡΟΣ του πλοιου αλλα οκ, κομμουνιστική προπαγανδα ειναι αυτα δεν τα πιανουμε.
Katie talks to Human Rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation massacres, open genocide, and how the BBC is whitewashing Israel’s c...
#US Medical Cartel Sues #RFK Jr. for Pulling #COVID Shot Recommendation for #Kids and #Pregnant Women Despite overwhelming evidence of harm, the #AAP, #ACP, #APHA, and #IDSA are fighting to keep poisoning children, pregnant women, and their unborn babies.
Ακούω ότι οι Σιωνιστές έχουν υπερδιπλασιάσει τα ναύλα για τη Χάιφα, και κάθε τυχοδιώκτης Έλληναρας εφοπλιστής κάνει ουρά για να πάρει συμβόλαιο. Ετσι και αλλιώς, η ασφάλεια θα δώσει περισσότερα από όσο κοστίζουν τα σαπακια τους.
Cod used to be giants. With their impressive size—over a meter in length and weighing up to 40 kilograms—and abundance, they, alongside herring, were the backbone of the Baltic fishery. Today, a fully grown cod would fit neatly on a dinner plate.
Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 07/10/25: Hegseth and Netanyahu Celebrate Iran War at the Pentagon, Israel Kills Over 100 in Gaza, and More youtube.com/watch?v=Um_9LO0A9R…
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Australian Police Assault Green Party Candidate Hannah Thomas During Pro-Palestine Protest
Hannah Thomas, a lawyer and recent Green Party candidate who ran against Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the federal seat of Grayndler, has reportedly been violently assaulted by Australian police during a protest. The demonstration took place outside a company accused by protesters of cooperating with #Israel. According to reports, #Thomas sustained serious injuries to one of her eyes during her arrest and was rushed to hospital. Doctors fear she may lose her vision as a result.
When I was in Congress, the least popular, least respected members were the biggest publicity seekers – the ones who were the first and quickest to run to the cameras. They were not regarded as serious legislators.
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I didn’t know I was a “Jew-hater” until I suggested in a comment that giving Bibi Netanyahu everything he wants (and then some) might not be the same as serving the national interests and sec…
Der Berufsverband Deutscher Psychologinnen und Psychologen ( #BDP ) warnt eindringlich vor einer #Stigmatisierung von #Menschen mit #psychischen #Erkrankungen durch Gesetzesänderungen, die einen verbesserten Informationsaustausch...
Glenn #Diesen #Norway is becoming an authoritarian country. Our government, the US government, and the CIA-cutout National Endowment for Democracy ( #NED) finance "non-governmental organisations" (NGOs) such as the Norwegian Helsinki Committee to smear, intimidate, censor, and cancel dissent.
There is plenty of literature on how governments finance "NGOs" to hijack civil society and use human rights to promote regime change and wars. Besides leaving a trail of disasters behind them abroad, they also punish dissent at home.
I have been at the receiving end of endless articles and weekly smears online from this so-called human rights "NGO" for more than four years, which continues to go after my university even after I had to withdraw from all national media. Their other activities include cancelling my speaking events and doxxing me.
Now, this "NGO" is being banned in Russia, and they blame me for it. Why? Twenty professors and academics signed a letter criticizing this "NGO" for harassing me, and now the "NGO" speculates that it attracted the attention of the FSB. This is the actual story they are going with, but it is good enough for the people we generously refer to as journalists.
A few weeks ago, a journalist applied and was granted full access to all my documents at the university, which includes everything from the job application to my professorship promotion application. Why? To go through everything and look for anything that can be presented as academic dishonesty. This is how you get academics fired.
The useful idiots of this "NGO" even produced an absurd Wikipedia profile on me, where my occupation was not "Professor" but "Russian propagandist." Returning to my home country after 20 years abroad was truly the greatest mistake of my life. I do not recognize this country anymore, and I wear the absurd personal attacks by these government-financed trolls as a badge of honour. Absolutely pathetic and unworthy of an open society
Frau #VonderLeyen annonce (ici en Französisch) la création d’un bunker panoptique assurant la #surveillance de l’ #information pour lutter contre les "manipulations", les "ingérences étrangères", et l’application de "sanctions". ACHTUNG! Il n’y a qu’UNE seule et UNIQUE information diffusée par Big Sister et Big Brother, et ce bunker y veillera partout où une liberté de pensée et d’opinion ose s’exercer, notamment dans les #médias alternatifs et sur les horribles réseaux sociaux. Si #UVdL n’est pas une petite-fille de nazi (ce serait une fake new) en matière de #censure et de "paquets de #sanctions", elle ne laisse pas sa part à l’infâme #Mertz. Pas seulement contre la #Russie envers laquelle elle a une haine totale (la raclée infligée par l’Armée Rouge à Hitler reste en travers de la gorge de certains Allemands), mais aussi contre tous les citoyens européens qu’elle compte bien mener à la badine cloutée. Et vu les claques qu’elle ramasse sur X à chacune de ses apparitions, elle veillera à ce que la Gedankenpolizei soit particulièrement inflexible sur le réseau social de ce libertaire de Musk.
Frau #VonderLeyen kündigt (hier auf Deutsch) die Einrichtung eines Panoptikum-Bunkers zur #Überwachung der #Informationen an, um „Manipulationen“ und „ausländische Einmischung“ zu bekämpfen und „Sanktionen“ zu verhängen. ACHTUNG! Es gibt nur EINE und EINE Information, die von Big Sister und Big Brother verbreitet wird, und dieser Bunker wird dafür sorgen, dass dies überall dort geschieht, wo Gedanken- und Meinungsfreiheit herrscht, insbesondere in den alternativen #Medien und den schrecklichen sozialen Netzwerken. Wenn #UVdL keine Nazi-Enkelin ist (das wäre eine Fake News), wenn es um #Zensur und "#Sanktionspakete" geht, überlässt sie ihren Anteil nicht dem berüchtigten #Mertz. Nicht nur gegen #Russland, gegen das sie einen totalen Hass hegt (die Prügel, die die Rote Armee Hitler zugefügt hat, steckt manchen Deutschen noch in den Knochen), sondern auch gegen alle europäischen Bürger, die sie mit der Nagelpeitsche zu führen gedenkt. Und angesichts der Ohrfeigen, die sie bei jedem ihrer Auftritte auf X kassiert, wird sie dafür sorgen, dass die Gedankenpolizei im sozialen Netzwerk dieses libertären Musk besonders unnachgiebig ist.
Was für ein schönes Fest! Beim 60. Jubiläum der diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇱 durfte Minister #Dobrindt sprechen - ein bedeutender Moment für zwei Länder, die heute mehr verbindet als ihre Geschichte: gemeinsame Werte, echte Freundschaft und starke Zusammenarbeit.
»#Hamas und die menschlichen Schutzschilde: Das tödlichste Märchen des Nahen Ostens.« »Versteckt sich die Hamas feige hinter Zivilisten? Kaum eine israelische Propaganda-Erzählung wird so oft von deutschen Medien verbreitet. Berichterstattung über den gut dokumentieren Missbrauch palästinensischer Zivilisten durch Israels Armee gibt es hingegen kaum« #humanshield #Israel #Gaza #medienversagen schantall-und-scharia.de/hamas…
Wer keine Lust hat sich den langen Text durchzulesen: Die Behauptung ist eine alte Behauptung aus der israelischen Militär-PR, die immer dann gebracht wird wenn viele Zivilisten sterben. Es wäre also wenig sinnvoll im Krieg gegen Israel auf diese Taktik zu setzen.
In der Berichterstattung in Deutschland sieht's indirekt proportional aus. Je weniger Belege, umso häufiger spricht man in deutschen Medien darüber, je mehr Belege über den Einsatz von 'human shields' um so weniger wird berichtet.
It’s amusing that the little sock puppet serving as the figurehead for the Kiev regime actually thinks his opinion matters.
#Ukraine must be involved in any #negotiations for a peace deal with #Russia, President #VolodymyrZelensky insisted on Sunday. The Ukrainian leader says that he won’t accept any deals made between U.S. President #DonaldTrump and Russian President #VladimirPutin if he and his team are not also invited to the table.
‘I will never accept any decisions between the #UnitedStates and #Russia about Ukraine – never,’ Zelesnky told NBC Meet the Press host Kristen Welker. ‘And our people, never. And our adults, and children, and everybody, it can’t be so.’
Nobody asked him and nobody cares. Not only can it be so, it will be so. There are precisely two choices: 1. The USA negotiates a peace settlement with Russia. 2. Russia dictates an unconditional surrender.
That’s it. That’s the entire list. And it was obvious from the very start back in February 2022. Notice that nowhere on it appears anything about #Zelensky, the #Kiev #regime, the #UN, the #TerranConfederation, #Starfleet, or the #EuropeanUnion. All of those entities are #irrelevant to the outcome.
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The modern gamified #workplace enables #control beyond Taylor’s wildest dreams. #Games are sets of #rules prescribing both actions and outcomes. A gamified workplace sets not just goals for #workers but precisely how those goals can be achieved. Managers don’t need to follow workers with stopwatches. They can use smartphones or apps. It’s #micromanagement with unprecedented granularity.
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While this whip was cracking, the workers sped up. ‘We saw a higher incidence of injuries,’ Topete said. ‘Several people were injured on the #job.’ The formerly collegial environment degenerated into a #race. The laundry workers competed with each other, and got upset when coworkers couldn’t keep up. People started skipping bathroom breaks. Pregnant workers fell behind. ‘The #scoreboard incentivises competition,’ said Topete. ‘Our human competitiveness, whatever makes us like games, whatever keeps us wanting to win, it’s a similar thing that was happening. Even if you didn’t want to.’
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And I am fully ageeing with that but the point of this is one more that we should start covering car lots first before we put up endless rows in fields
Both is a great option but start with the crappy one first I guess 😉
But I understand that here in Louisiana, it's impossible. You see, if we covered our car parks then the cars we're forced to use wouldn't get steaming hot under the summer sun.
Sorry, it's very important that we make everyone extremely miserable for no reason. It's extremely important that we don't provide any shade to parked cars here in hot miserable Louisiana.
We also got rid of window awnings. That was very important also.
As panels are getting cheap, the support structure becomes a serious part of the cost (and even of the embedded energy). You need a lot more steel and foundations for such elevated panels.
Not sure about now, but not too long ago parking lots were money-losing PR projects(look us being green), while the field ones were serious.
Once we have enough PV to saturate summer peaks, every next panel produces less useful power. So lower cost is critical
(there are some plants that, in some parts of the world, have been shown to grow better in the partial shade provided by solar panels than they would in the full sun)
(I suspect that they would be a bit higher up than they seem to be in the first image)
meh. Fields of monoculture crops have very little biodiversity and certainly aren't natural. While wild grassland under solar is pretty good. And if the field was growing corn or similar for a biofuel, then the solar covered field will create about 6 times more energy in the same area. Alternatively, there are quite a lot of crops that do very well when partially shared. Yields of strawberry under PV is better than conventional practices.
Rooftop solar, on just HALF of the world's roofs, would produce MORE electricity than is used today from ALL sources. And would uplift all people, strengthen all people, and drive a permanent economic boom.
Let every Neighbourhood become Saudi Arabia, but free.
In California, where it's often quite dry, we are putting solar farms over some fields to conserve water. In some cases, crops are being planted alongside solar panels. There are many benefits from this dual use, and many applications. Of course we are a massive state "... the size of the Netherlands, Belgium, Slovenia, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, Kosovo and Czech Republic combined.” I imagine that in smaller countries it would be unpleasant to see solar farms everywhere you look.
All the nations have transmission lines. Running across acres and acres, across manufacturing zones, beside residential areas, from powerplant to city to harbour.
Often VERY cheap because govt already owns land.
Put solar UNDER ALL THE LINES, mile after mile after mile.
Put the solar cells at eight feet, feed goats on the brush beneath the solar arrays, and tomatoes.
We need them on more parking structures, I agree. There are too many plants that like that kind of light for the fields to be the ones complaining about this though.
Pollinators—such as bees, butterflies, and other insects—are critical to the success of about 35 percent of global food crop production. Learn about the benefits of establishing pollinator-friendly plants under and around ground-mounted solar arrays.
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Galaxy brain: large enough parking lots for a solar farm shouldn’t exist in cities and we should abolish car dependence and build walabke cities to be green.
Also infra for over solar covering car ports is 100x more expensive than some cheap panels in an field.
However there are agrovoltaic systems where spread out panels are elevated above certain crops. They protect fruit yields from excess sun leading to needing excessive watering according to studies.
But yes the urban areas are seeeeriously missed. Did you know you can install them on walls and fencing. They cool better.
Uhm cover both the fields and the car parks. Covering the fields is good for the plants (including the crops! higher yield!), insects and small animals on the fields.
Sometimes placing solar panels on farms actually helps. You may need less irrigation and the optimal amount of sunlight is different for various crops. This may, of course, depend on your climate: it is not "one size fits all."
here in California we have giant fires going on where they just put in controversial grass field solar, which is another point for car parks/parking lots getting solar first. It's closer to where people are, requiring less transmission distance and less vulnerable to wildland cycles of fire & flood.
I've actually read somewhere that covering fields with solar panels instead of mono-cultured farm land actually helps nature, especially animals that can use it to live under and find food (that would potentially not grow on farm land or be polluted with pesticides)
Also seeing as we need to focus on getting rid of cars first I kinda feel like it's a waste of resources to try to make parking cars feel better by adding shadow. 👀
Just get rid of the car parks, put down plants and the solar panels on top. Maybe even some nice parks and sitting areas under it.
Although there is something to be said for putting solar on already-used land if there is a requirement for power there, that car park is probably half the problem - people really need to think about alternative means of travel, and if they need to travel in the first place. Would much prefer it if every public building had solar panels on their rooves.
I like the idea of solar paving slabs durable enough to walk on and even cover roads.
I'm surprised governments aren't scrambling to invest in these. Instead the UK wants nuclear power stations that'll cost magnitudes more, and take decades to build and integrate with the grid. Madness...
Farmers have been willing to lease their land to solar companies because it’s guaranteed income and they don’t have to wrestle with year to year weather struggles, yields, labor, etc. It’s guaranteed income and usually higher income than from their traditional farming efforts.
some crops benefit from the shade actually. Some farmers who aren't yet bought out by big corpos need the extra dosh from hosting solar to stay independent too.
Why not just get rid of car parks entirely and make public transit freely accessible?
Solar panels plus farming? Agrivoltaics explained. Could combining solar panels plus farming be a viable solution to the growing demand for food production a...
@michaelrowe01 I don't understand why this is not a thing. It's absurd to cover perfectly good land with solar panels when they can be used on the roofs of parking lots, office buildings, homes, and more.🙄
You've seen drivers right? And what they do to the bollards and barriers in parking lots? If I'm the power company, I'm not putting expensive generating infrastructure where people are going to be constantly parking their cars right next to the pillars holding it up.
At the risk of being contrarian to the admin of my instance (😬):
Intelligent use of solar panels *can* actually enhance the productivity of agricultural land. Turns out a lot of plants and animals evolved in environments that are occasionally shaded. Who knew? 🤷♀️
And car parks large enough to support a solar farm shouldn't exist to begin with. Put housing and mixed-use buildings there with panels on the roof, instead of panels over an endless plane of tarmac.
Actually, there have been experiments with elevated solar panels over the fields and some crops grow better with partial sun than with full sun full time. It also shields the crop from some things, including helping to shield the crop from extreme wind events and some kinds of bird damage. I would rather see the solar panels on buildings and car parks and bridges and protecting rivers from excessive operation, but that doesn't mean you can't use them over your fields as well when there's an advantage in that.
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Selon un calendrier progressif étalé du 1^er juillet 2026 au 1^er juillet 2028, les parcs de stationnement existants de plus de 1 500 m² devront comporter des ombrières sur la moitié de leur superficie.
Some advice for (white, cis, etc.) folks not directly targeted by fascism at present: identify the levers that will be used to make you collaborate, and dismantle them.
If you have a mortgage you know you won't be able to afford without keeping a job that's going to insist you collaborate, DOWNGRADE NOW not later. Sell and buy something you can actually afford.
A recent report prepared by Garb Yaakov, a Professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, and published on The President & Fellows of Harvard C
It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get Vivaldi browser for desktop or Android!
have you seen some of the latest research? Consumers are actively suspicious of products that try to jam the barf bots in there. I really think Vivaldi can position itself as the best option not doing that! 😆
Amnesty International condemns US sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory
The #US government is accused of undermining international law and protecting #Israel from accountability at the expense of #Palestinian rights. The statement calls on other governments to reject the sanctions and support Albanese's work, characterizing them as an attack on the principles of international justice .
Biden’s Doctor Fuels Cover-Up Claims With Extraordinary Move
His decision to invoke the Fifth and not answer questions about the president’s health has further fueled GOP accusations the president was not altogether with it at the end of his presidency and his staff engaged in a cover-up, with someone else pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Quoting Sergey Brin: "The use of the term genocide in the context of Gaza is very offensive to Jews, I would not rely on an anti-Semitic organization like the UN."
One might argue that companies profiting from genocide may react defensively... #ProjectNimbus is a $1.2 billion cloud and #AI contract between #Google, #Amazon, and #Israel that has been criticized internationally for enabling Israel's war on #Gaza, including surveillance and AI-driven tactics that contribute to the ongoing #genocide.
#IBM’s punch card technology facilitated German atrocities during the #Holocaust, enabling precise targeting, logistical coordination, and detailed record-keeping of victims. Historian Edwin Black asserts, "without IBM’s machinery, continuing upkeep and service, as well as the supply of punch cards," the scale of the genocide would have been impossible.
They block people's accounts without further notice or appeal && they NEVER broadcast the countless times the resistance sends a shortcut for zionist soldiers to go meet the promised land... meanwhile somebody else is SAYING zionists (in the ONLY language they seem to understand) Palestine is NOT alone!After Ansarallah sinks two Israel-bound ships over Gaza, global operators fall in line palestinewillbefree.substack.c… @palestine @israel @oatmeal
I wonder what #Google's Sergey Brin, who's of Jewish heritage, calls Israel intention to build a concentration camp in Gaza... might ring a bell? kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1148…
Quoting Rogel Alpher on Israel’s plans to establish a “humanitarian city” in Gaza:
[…] They say – don’t say Nazis, don’t make comparisons. It’s no longer shocking. It’s clear to me that from my current position on the margins of Israeli society, I can only be shocked, not shock others. Most Israelis don’t see a connection between obsessive education about concentration camps from the Holocaust era and establishing a concentration camp for another people under brutal Israeli military control. What can even be done in the face of this tragic pathology?
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced plans to establish what he termed a “humanitarian city” in Gaza to house the entire population of over 2 million people. Katz clarified that there would be no exit from the camp while promising an “emigration program” would be implemented.
Alpher acknowledges this is actually a concentration camp - a fenced compound of tents where the only way out would be through emigration from Gaza entirely - a moral horror that facilitates forced displacement and ethnic cleansing, noting the tragic irony that Israelis who were educated about #Holocaust now support creating concentration camps for another people under Israeli military control.
From 2020 to 2024, private weapons manufacturers got $2.4 trillion in Pentagon contracts, roughly 54% of its discretionary budget
During those 5 years, the U.S. government invested over twice as much money in five weapons companies as in diplomacy and international assistance. $771 billion went to just 5 firms: Lockheed Martin ($313 billion), RTX (formerly Raytheon, $145 billion), Boeing ($115 billion), General Dynamics ($116 billion), and Northrop Grumman ($81 billion). The total diplomacy, development, and humanitarian aid budget, excluding military aid, was $356 billion.
I keep on thinking about the #Postoffice #Horizon scandal (for those of you not based in UK: About 1,000 post office operators were wrongfully prosecuted and convicted by the Post Office between 1999 and 2015, because of faulty Horizon accounting software that suggested they had committed fraud).
It is absolutely terrible how all this unfolded (so much racism in it, too, no doubt) and the devastating impact this had on so many families.
Large Language Models have made the relationship between software efficiency
and environmentalism click for many people in the technology
field. The cost of computing matters.
🎵 Everything counts in large amounts🎵 ーDepeche Mode, "Everything Counts"
When I was young, and naive, I thought that the end goal was to take "bloated" code (even if it were some binary generated by a ghastly [to me at the time, horrifically inefficient boiler plate code visible from a simple hex editor] C compiler) and hand optimize it, I don't think I was alone.
In more recent years, the XlogicX blog "Assembly is too high level" (e.g. xlogicx.net/Assembly_Is_Too_Hi…) gave me hope that perhaps some kept that goal alive!
The demo scene and "code golf" and "size coding" certainly still seem to care.
I attended the 20th anniversary of REcon last month and I am not sure if I met many birds of a feather who shared similar sentiments? At least one I think. That one was well worth the trip if nothing else.
Alas, it seems in 2025, there are far too few of us low level optimize minded sorts left, relative to all the slop being generated, "at scale".
The depressing reality is, SO MUCH good would come of simply re-writing egregiously inefficient interpreted language programs implemented in Python or Ruby or Perl etc. in something such as C, I don't even know where to begin.
Here's just one example, which took some janky Python OpenAI speech to text (which seemed to completely ignore prior art such as julius) that required GPUs and re-implemented it in not even the most elegant or most portable C, but still significantly better than the Python jank: github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cp…
Voila! No more GPUs required! Lamentably, still uses the training models that were probably created completely unethically (unlike the prior art of julius). But still, take the wins where you can get them?
In the article you linked, "In my day job we operate a number of web properties receiving billions of requests per month"
I guess that's a good starting point to consider efficiencies?
I am old enough that 1MHz CPUs were still considered luxuries that I needed to access at labs, not something I had at home. I had been coding for years, before my parents eventually got what was an IMHO insanely overpriced and shitty microcomputer and worse: wasteful with its 7MHz 16bit CPU, running an obscenely bad OS that couldn't even task swap, let alone multi-task.
To quote someone from another blog comment about 1980s DSP designs: "One day I, as a fresh college grad, expressed my amazement at the mathematical processing power of those DSPs, which was impressive back in 1989. His response? 'That just means you can make 20 million mistakes per second.'"
Still, it used to be a prerequisite for some, to have considered the perils of MFLOPs levels of bugs, before they were granted much in the way of a system with an uplink capable of "srs" bandwidth (SGI workstations for example, had 10Gigabit interconnects, in the 1990s; while most home users with modems were still struggling to contend with a reliable 56K connection. My first college as an undergrad had a 56K uplink for their entire campus, and my personal modem could devour approximately one quarter of that bandwidth!).
By around 2013 I helped with a patch a bug in BIND (CVE-2013-4854) that was being actively exploited. It's estimated that there are around a billion DNS packets on the Internet, an hour.
I've known folks who have patched bugs in TCP/IP stacks, so I am not at their levels, yet. Maybe someday? Doesn't feel like it, but you never know. Bugs are friggin everywhere.
Regardless, improving the low hanging fruit where and whenever possible, is a win! Rust isn't my first choice, but there are way worse choices in 2025; unfortunately, some of those worse choices are much more popular.
It is with some chagrin that in recent years, most of my code "contributions" openly, have been to a system implemented in TCL; which is so much slower than even Python and Ruby and Perl (let's say, conservatively, those three languages are on average around 60x slower than C; TCL? On average: 200x slower! Meanwhile, in the 1980s I was already optimizing asm and machine code on systems with nanosecond level timing considerations; contrast that with golang's "halt the world" best in class garbage collector which was measured in milliseconds last I checked? Many don't even seem to pay attention to such orders of magnitude of inefficiencies intrinsic to their language choices! To me, that is unconscionable.). I seem to be at the opposite end of where I once was in some regards, yet the impact to potential users is not insignificant; which is why I keep contributing to such things despite the inefficient implementation choices.
I still think refactoring/rewriting/re-implementing in lower level more efficient languages would be a huge win in terms of efficiency, and worthwhile. But maybe some of that can be automated to a degree?
It's dumbfounding to me that in the 21st century there are still so many companies that rely on what I would consider "time sharing" paradigms and pay for compute and bandwidth in ways that would have been obscenely expensive to the point of having bankrupted some past employers if they were not smarter about self hosting hardware and IXPs and peering (instead of relying on things such as AWS as alluded to in that writing or GCP or Azure and other, as bad, yet popular, alternatives in a day and age where economical libre/free open source hardware with CPUs measured in GHz exist in plurality and RAM in ranges of 8GB or more are being sold for mere hundreds of dollars, if that.).
But I guess, because it is profitable and easy for some to rely on centralized systems, rather than cultivate their own in house expertise? Such avarice and inefficiencies will continue to persist until more wise up?
Similarly, I am guessing it was very strategic that Micro$oft hired Guido van Rossum. It's not that Python is good. However, from a sophomoric perspective, there are a lot of fools, writing a lot of Python and a mint is being made to the detriment of the planet and all living beings who are cursed to be alive right now on it, in the process.
»If Mordechai Anielewicz were alive today, he'd have died. The leader of the Jewish Combat Organization during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising would have died of shame and disgrace at hearing the defense minister's plans – with the full backing of the prime minister – to erect a "humanitarian city" in the southern Gaza Strip. Anielewicz would never have believed that anyone would dare conceive of such a diabolical plan 80 years after the Holocaust.«
»When hearing this plan was envisioned by the government of the Jewish state, established on the sacrifices of his ghetto, he would have been devastated. After becoming clear to him that Israel Katz, the man who brought forward this idea, was the son of Holocaust survivors Meir Katz and Malcha (Nira) née Deutsch from Romania's Maramures region, who lost most of their family in the extermination camps, he would never have believed it. What would they have to say to their son?«
»When Anielewicz became aware of the apathy and inaction the plan provoked in Israel and to some extent in the world, including in Europe, even in Germany, he would have died a second time, this time from a broken heart.
The Jewish state is erecting a ghetto. What a horrifying sentence. «
»It's bad enough the plan was presented as if it could be in any way legitimate – who is for a concentration camp and who is against it? – but from there the path may be shortened to an even more horrific idea: someone might suggest next an extermination camp for those who do not get through the screening process at the ghetto's entrance. «
»Israel is killing Gaza's residents en masse anyway, so why not streamline the process and spare the lives of our precious soldiers? Someone might also suggest a compact crematorium on the ruins of Khan Yunis, to which admittance, like the nearby ghetto in Rafah, will be purely voluntary. Of course, voluntary, like in the "humanitarian city." Only leaving the two camps will no longer be voluntary. That is what the minister proposed.«
»The nature of genocide is that they are not born overnight. One does not wake up one morning and go from democracy to Auschwitz, from civil administration to the Gestapo. The process is gradual. After the dehumanization phase – which the Jews of Germany, and the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank both underwent each in their own time – they move on to demonization, as both nations have also experienced.«
»Then comes the fear phase – there are no innocents in Gaza, Oct7 as an existential threat that could occur again at any moment. After which come the calls to evacuate the population before anyone raises the idea of extermination. We are now in that latter phase, the last phase before genocide. Germany transferred its Jews to the east; the Armenian genocide also began with deportation, which back then was called an "evacuation." Today, we are talking about an evacuation to the south of Gaza.«
Israels Verteidigungsminister Israel Katz kündigte an, für die ausgehungerten Palästinenser, die noch leben und laufen können, eine »humanitäre Stadt« im südlichen Gazastreifen zu bauen, auf den Trümmern von Rafah. Die Vorstufe zur Vertreibung, schreibt unser Redakteur Cyrus Salimi-Asl. 👉 nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192461.…
Israels Verteidigungsminister Katz will für Palästinenser ohne Obdach eine »Humanitäre Stadt« erbauen lassen. Dort soll es keine Hamas mehr geben. Ziel ist aber auch die »freiwillige« Massenauswanderung.
Donald #Trump a trois petits-enfants juifs, qui ont grandi dans des milieux rabbiniques orthodoxes. Sa fille Ivanka Trump s'est convertie au judaïsme pour épouser Jared #Kushner, un entrepreneur juif sioniste, membre actif du Chabad #Lubavitch, étroitement lié à #Netanyahu, #Israël et le #Mossad. Beaucoup le voient comme l'anti-système, mais la vérité est différente. Trump a été sauvé deux fois de l'effondrement financier : - 1984 : Sa détention coule et il est sauvé par des banques juives liées au Rockefeller (via Chase Manhattan). - 1996 : casinos et propriétés d'Atlantic City s'effondrent, sauvés par des investisseurs juifs liés à Goldman Sachs et à l'environnement israélien. Pendant sa présidence : - Déplacer l'ambassade américaine à Jérusalem (2018) Reconnaissance totale de la domination israélienne. - Signez les accords d'Abraham : Normalisation avec les pays arabes sous domination sioniste, fonds milliardaires à Israël même pendant la crise économique aux #États-Unis, protection totale du Mossad dans les opérations en #Syrie, #Iran, #Palestine. - En 2016, Trump Tower a accueilli une réunion avec des spécialistes israéliens de PsyGroup pour la manipulation de l'électorat : un logiciel dérivé de #CambridgeAnalytica avec le soutien des renseignements israéliens. Chabad Lubavitch n'est pas seulement une secte religieuse, c'est le lien caché entre le pouvoir spirituel, l'argent et la géopolitique. Jared Kushner, Ivanka et les trois petits-enfants sont liés à ce monde. Un monde qui rêve du troisième temple à #Jérusalem, centre du nouvel ordre mondial théocratique. Trump n'est pas l'ennemi de l'élite, c'est le majordome de l'élite. Il a été acheté, lié, lié et protégé par ceux qui font semblant de combattre le système aujourd'hui. Le peuple applaudit, mais il ne voit pas les chaînes. Son vrai dieu n'est pas le peuple américain. Son trône est à Jérusalem. Quand le système vous sauve, il vous possède. Ce n'est plus une dette : c'est du chantage. #apritegliocchi
Für diese klare, unmissverständliche Antwort auf Beatrix von Storch Frage: **Können Sie es mit Ihrem Gewissen vereinbaren, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, eine linksradikale Juristin ins Bundesverfassungsgericht zu wählen, die einem 9-Monate alten Baby eine Minute vor der Geburt die Menschenwürde abspricht? ** Und das wohlwissend, dass genau diese Frau schon bald über das Thema Lebensschutz im Verfassungsgericht entscheiden wird.
Seine Antwort ist: "Ja!"
Wenn es dagegen in der #CDU / #CSU jetzt keinen Aufstand gibt, ist die Partei moralisch erledigt und sollte nun endgültig das C aus dem Namen streichen.
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