It’s also one of the many reasons power lines are typically aerial, and only underground at last mile locations when necessary. High electrical current experiences impedance due to the surrounding medium, and air offers the lowest impedance.

The biodigester is really cool. Helping neighbors pick grapes is praxis.

Defund the police.

However, overall, they said activists were “successful in their aim to cause significant disruption to trade.” They said “many lorry drivers were also supportive, honking and cheering us on.”

They added: “This was a coordinated act of solidarity by participants of all ages, from both the PUL and CNR communities and from a variety of ethnic, religious, economic and national backgrounds, all united in our steadfast rejection of the horrors unfolding in Palestine.”

Officers from the PSNI and Belfast Harbour Police were in attendance, with no arrests being made.

Most dock workers are union. They can handle a little disruption.

However, overall, they said activists were “successful in their aim to cause significant disruption to trade.” They said “many lorry drivers were also supportive, honking and cheering us on.”

They added: “This was a coordinated act of solidarity by participants of all ages, from both the PUL and CNR communities and from a variety of ethnic, religious, economic and national backgrounds, all united in our steadfast rejection of the horrors unfolding in Palestine.”

Officers from the PSNI and Belfast Harbour Police were in attendance, with no arrests being made.

Most dock workers are union. They can handle a little disruption.

They served him at his birthday party. The warrant officer even sang him happy birthday 😆

And their own alternative currency system with a distribution that dwarfs several internationally recognized nation-states.

Nice! What kind of soil are you using?

The title is auto-populated from the site’s meta information. The meta title is usually the same as the article title. In this case it’s not:

<meta property="og:title" content="New Caledonia riots: France declares state of emergency, bans TikTok"/>

There’s no conspiracy to report deceptive headlines; it’s probably just an alternate title in the website code that wasn’t changed with the other content after the article was already in print.

Also, where else has this been posted? I don’t see any cross-posts.

Nouvelle Algérie?

Associating that sack of shit with people who need wheelchairs is an insult to all people with a disability.

The KKK typically files the proper paperwork for their demonstrations and parades in advance. Under what circumstances do you envision them being denied permission to wear their hoods during a permitted demonstration without gifting a first amendment victory to the Klan?

Everyone in this thread has been leftists

I hope that’s not the case, cause that’s even worse.

@ShunkW says “I’m not seeing any sources” despite the Twitter handle where the receipts are available included in the image. They did no investigation, and they assume the pictured poster is making things up.

I update the post-text with a direct link to the twitter post, which includes a link to where the removed footage was, and has further documentation of how outrageous this is, link the bill, current bill text, and quote a relevant passage.

@ShunkW doubles down, pretends nothing has changed, and links an article that doesn’t validate anything they’ve claimed.

Even you agree that @ShunkW has terrible reading comprehension. Maybe you should give this a second look, rather than backing someone who has demonstrated an alarming lack of media literacy.

The text and changes to the bill is substantially outrageous, but the missing video implies there’s even more substance being buried.

The Billie Irish

I saw a report on a gym with the idea that the exercise equipment would power the gym. It wasn’t a good business model. They brought the reporter in and only turned on some of the lights - they had to be super stingy with electricity to get anywhere near net positive energy generation.

Martin Luther King Jr. cared about long-term moral issues and direct action rather than getting caught up in short-term electoral realpolitik. Lydon Johnson asked him to tone it down and wait until after the 1964 election against the much more racist candidate Barry Goldwater. LBJ promised him civil rights after the election, but MLK Jr. told him to suck it. He then refused to testify in congress in favor of LBJ’s civil rights bill because he was busy organizing marches in Selma.

If you think all people who attack Joe Biden for enabling genocide are pro-establishment, you must also believe Martin Luther King Jr. hated civil rights and loved racism. (Based on who you were replying to and your tone, I misread who you meant by the establishment. Oops.)

The majority of Solarpunks are similar to King, and we’re in the same position of not having the political clout to ignore the shallow understanding from people of good will he had to deal with in his day. “Why direct action, why sit-ins, marches, and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” and “our acts are untimely” are still questions we have to answer repeatedly. But excluding liberals from the SLRPNK server only shuts down lines of communication that can move us all forward.

That’s correct. We don’t expect or want SLRPNK to conquer the social media market, or even Lemmy. It wasn’t long ago that user engagement and active users was in decline across the Threadiverse since the all-time highs of the Reddit exodus. The numbers we’re seeing now suggest that SLRPNK, at least, has hit an inflection point, and we’ve been slowly growing over the last couple of months.

In my mind, this is the best possible scenario. Sudden, explosive growth puts intense stress on both the software and communities; there are still open software issues that have not been closed that were revealed the last time this happened. Continued decline suggests that at some point we will not be able to maintain critical mass, and the Threadiverse project will fail. Modest, incremental growth allows people time to improve and adapt the software, and develop the community management skills that are the reason people come here. I look forward to the day when the Fediverse unseats corporate media as the social media ecosystem of choice, but I don’t think this iteration of our section of the Fediverse is ready to do that yet.

It’s worth considering the rise of the Apache web server. It was significantly worse than the Microsoft web server that was the industry standard, in most ways but one - it was free and open source. Its name is a pun on the term patch-y, a description of the patchwork improvements and bug fixes that it received from coders across the world. It continued to grow in popularity with hobbyists and specialists, but that didn’t register on the market share surveys. But at some point, the collection of patches became undeniably better than the market leading software. That’s the point when the ‘takeoff’ became visible.

The features that made that possible are also true of the Threadiverse softwares. They’re free and open source. They are attracting new contributors who are adding life to the community and features to the software. The tools are improving with time, and we have a critical mass of members who find the existing infrastructure sufficient enough to spend their time here. I think that’s what is needed for one day the software and community quality to be undeniably better than anything that corporate media can muster.

My bad. I saw it in TIL, and when I reposted it, I used the article generated title. I’ll update the title.

Possibly. Starbucks, Workers United made ‘significant progress’ in last week’s contract talks.

I wouldn’t put it past them to under-report their earnings to get more leverage in unionization negotiations, engineering a temporary drop in share price.