you are the best kind of correct: technically correct.

But we have been told for decades that unlicensed remixes are copyright infringement just as well as straight up distributing unlicensed copies.

I think all of this is bullcrap, but at least here I can point to very clear example of hypocrisy.

when they ask "are you a member" I just answer "no, and I always skip that", works in most cases here in Sweden at least.

but then again, a swedish employer can't force you to insist on selling a membership. the rules change when your life depends on your job.

As someone who works at a grocery store and worked at the register for some time, let me give you some insight.

1. Ask the cashier if they can use the store's membership card. We will typically honor those polite requests. Pretend that you forgot your membership details if you have to, we tend to be sympathetic and offer the store card if you seem nice enough. Though, me and my coworkers did get a note at our timeclock some time ago telling us not to use the store card so frequently, so keep that in mind.

2. Whether it be a phone number or email address, create and maintain one, and tell your friends, family and even strangers the phone number or email address so they can punch it in at the register. That way, everyone can get those membership discounts and not have their identity tied to their purchasing habits. Also, encourage others to do the same for their group of people to keep this system in clusters so that it makes it harder for companies to cut off those accounts.

Looks like if we even just recommended a non-ruminant-based meat diet would be doing a lot better.

Weird how running billions of tiny methane factories all over the world is creating greenhouse gasses.

This is why we are doomed.

Greed/ignorance/politics/normalcy bias

for anyone who’s interested, the book “Regenesis” by George Monbiot examines many different ways to produce food and many diets touted to be better for the environment and reports how feasible they all are.

Food production and climate change can be polarised topics. So here’s a gentle reminder to be wary of who you’re getting your information from and what their motives are.

The New Scientist sums up “Regenesis” nicely: newscientist.com/article/mg254…

Regenesis review: Farming is killing the planet but we can stop it

George Monbiot's terrifying new book tells us that farming is the most destructive human activity there has ever been. Luckily, it also offers radical solutions

^{Rowan Hooper (New Scientist)}

@xris
These top GHG emitters are rather fascinating.
Chocolate emissions are not limited to the dairy piece, Land Use Change is a huge part of its outsized impact.

“global warming potential [of chocolates] are very sensitive to land-use change associated with cocoa production, increasing the impact of chocolate products by a three to four times if LUC is involved.”

pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/files…

Of course, pastures have been cleared for millennia, too. Need to dig in to LULC literature.

It’s infuriating.

#climate #vegan #plantBased #greed #ClimateChange

If this data is regarded as correct, then our systems of government should be directing us away from beef consumption. But these systems seem incapable of such social movement. It's time for a new way.

#tiereddemocraticgovernance

#Coffee is also a lot more than expected. Maybe I should ask my employer to give us #wine instead. Should be interesting...

Jokes aside, this is another example of the awful cynicism that seems to rule most of the world.