Deme

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[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 27 points 3 days ago (4 children)

One of the victims - all aged 16 or 17 - had a hand cut off and another had their skull split open.

All the wounded people were brought to hospital and none were in danger for their life, the source added.

That seems very lucky. Damn.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 week ago (7 children)

A person can be rich in many ways. A coral reef is rich in biodiversity etc.

The rich refers to the group of people who are financially rich to an obscene extent.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Not sure, but I think the last line is a suitable commonality to be called a template name.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Achchchually no I'm not in the Andromeda galaxy 2.5 million light-years from Earth.

 
[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wouldn't be so sure. There's quite a lot of idiosyncrasies in the text, and those match the text in the image behind the ufo post linked at the end of this one. Using a LLM for a schizopost implies lazines, and would a lazy person edit together a screenshot in paint like that, not to mention spam the same text into so many communities and then respond to comments as much as they have?

We may be looking at the real deal here. If not, then they're very committed to the bit.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Instead of spamming this same text everywhere, you should get a formal education in physics and/or engineering and then get back to this idea of yours to see if it's any good. Right now it just appears like schizophrenic rambling.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure how you managed to misunderstand, but by disruptions I was referring to precisely the kind of disruptions of the lives of ordinary people that - and I'm sure we can at least agree on this - they have quite successfully caused.

Our two parallel discussions are about the methods of protesting against the use of fossil fuels. Our discussions here exists because of JSO. It got you thinking about what should be done to get rid of the use of fossil fuels, even if this was just for the purposes of making counterarguments.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You do realize that you replied to a comment just now that raised the issue of fossil fuel subsidies, and the effect those have on the price and thus consumption of oil? Just ending those subsidies would already have a dramatic effect.

It's true that the discussion is currently centered on freedom of speech, most notably because of the most recent developments, but the issue that is being protested is constantly present in the background. I'm betting that after the criminalization of protests stops being news, that issue gets back into the limelight.

Direct action against fossil fuel infrastructure would be less in the public due to a less central location. Sitting on a street works because it's a nuisance to many, thus generating a lot of interest among the press and that way the message gets amplified. Gaining publicity via industrial sabotage would be difficult unless they did somehting very drastic, which would only turn them from a mere "nuicanse" into actual villains in the press. Especially so if some such drastic measure leads to the unintended death or injury of a worker at a refinery etc. This would also turn the fossil fuel companies from crooks into victims and I'm betting that they'd also try to frame it as sabotage hurting the blue collar workers they employ. All this while affecting the actual price of oil in a miniscule way at most and alienating the majority of their members who don't accept these acts. Nonviolence is held in high regard.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The process I described unfortunately does take longer than the initial lashing outs of the establisment. A couple of "martyrs" may not be the worst thing either.

YungOnions already provided you with some good articles about why and how nonviolent disruption works. I suggest you read them.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

You approach the whole issue as if it were just up to consumers to stop oil by changing their habits. It isn't. Switching to an EV isn't a solution when you're still paying taxes that go into subsidizing fossil fuels. (Switching to an EV for getting around in a city isn't a solution anyways, use public transit or get a bicycle). Consumers won't stop consuming oil until the full cost (including all externalities) of it is shown in the price tag. Action is needed at the political level, and that won't happen unless enough noise is made regarding the issue. That's what JSO is doing.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Disruptions cause outrage

Outrage sparks discusson

Discussion leads to political pressure

Political pressure leads to action that targets the oil industry

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mostly it's just people discussing whether flour should be measured by mass or volume. Jokes about using some mcburgers per football field -esque satirical units, some joke about using moles instead. Some comment about a funny misspelling in the meme. Nobody is flying into an incoherent rage.

 
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It's looking at the camera like that because we were engaged in dialogue (I whistled to it every time it sang)

 
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