Junkies and crackheads were the true pioneers of hustle culture

I do think it’s a bit crazy that people learn to drive manual cars on the road. It is a lot to manage when you have no experience. Learners should be given a few hours to just mess around on an airfield or car park so they can get a feel for the machine first of all.

IMO most driving sucks anus though, after a year or two and the novelty has worn off. Stressful, expensive, dangerous. I would rather take trains, get stuff delivered and have a day every year or so with a powerful car alone on a racetrack.

Into The Wild

I don’t think this winter fuel allowance cut is actually that bad but I think Labour are mega stupid to have announced it when they did and to have allowed it to dominate the news.

3.0 is gonna be so good 🦾

Awesome, was that his GIMP masterclass? I’m thinking of doing that one.

I don’t think many people realise what a disaster this is and what it shows us about how pervasive toxic substances are in our lives.

Nearly everything that is in this sludge is either something that has passed through the human body, or come into contact with it. After being reincorporated into the food chain through use as fertiliser it goes through this process once again, joining the intake of ‘virgin’ chemicals added during manufacturing, packaging and transport. It’s cumulative; much like dumping the old contents of your hoover back onto the floor each time you need to hoover it again. It’s debatable whether this constant recycling is better or worse than getting bioaccumulated in the body, like microplastics do in the brain for example, but either way it’s bad.

PFAS are just one group of harmful chemicals that we are currently aware of and are used in food packaging, toilet paper, cosmetics and clothing among other things. They are non-combustible, so forget about dealing with the problem by incinerating stuff. Dumping them into the sea isn’t going to get rid of them either as they are mobile in the water cycle, which is why you now find them in rain and groundwater.

Farmers need to put the fertility and water back into the land which was exported when their crop left the field. But so many pollutants and untested chemicals have been introduced into the system that it’s now impossible to do responsibly, even if you want to. Seriously, it’s a losing battle at the moment.

It’s not the first time that we’ve discovered that we’ve been unknowingly poisoning ourselves and it won’t be the last.

We need much more restriction on what chemicals and materials can be produced in the first place. It’s no good waiting for generations until someone finds a causality in the data, there is public outrage, a campaign, a national law passed and then an international agreement. And there’s no way to clean this stuff up once it’s out there.

If we’re going to use synthetic substances, they need to be proven safe before they are used on a global mass scale. Thats how it’s done in medicine. Yes, it will slow us down. But how much is it slowing us down diagnosing and treating the nearly 1 in 2 people in the UK who end up with cancer?

Er, what?

I love RFF. In fact I’ve enjoyed listening to it more than any other online source of music for a long time.

It’s a community internet radio station that plays music (and some spoken word) from artists on the Fediverse.

I love it, especially their ‘Comfy’ channel.

I think that the commission should remain at exactly the same percentage but that they should be required by law to do an amount of work that represents it. Like take home the 20k on Monday but then spend Tuesday to Sunday working full time in whichever brothel gets assigned to you by the buyer. Or participating in concurrent human medical experiments or somesuch.

I’m glad that they are at least aware of how upset we all are about pollution. I don’t think it’s enough to command cooperation in investigating spills after they’ve already happened though. Lots of things need to looked at and acted on, quickly.

There’s a good video here about the impact of poultry farming on the Wye for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TECnFi0NcEI

That sounds like a massive pain in the backside.

What was the justification for banning them in the first place? Seems a bit hardcore…

Time to pay VAT motherfuckers.

I assumed it was global… What do you use in the US?

Grapefruit from the supermarket must always taste of grapefruit.

Perhaps a new community is called for; something which encourages earnest thinking and open discussion but is not hardcore technical philosophy. I think it should be called ‘interestingthoughts’ or ‘thatsinteresting’ or maybe even just ‘thoughtful’. There is already ‘showerthoughts’ but that seems to be a bit more humour-based than what you’re talking about.

I would enjoy reading and replying to posts on it and posting to it myself too. I haven’t started a community on Lemmy before and I’ve got quite a bit on my plate at the moment, so I don’t think I could take it on as a mod alone but if you want we could try doing it together. Let me know what you think :)

I agree.