joostjakob

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[–] joostjakob 4 points 8 months ago

If you want to spend billions on encouraging cars over any other form of transport, sure. But with that kind of money, you can make some real change to public transport and cyclability

[–] joostjakob 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Third parties make little sense as long as you have a first passed the post system. Change to proportional representation and you'll get more choice automatically.

[–] joostjakob 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I get the reasoning, but not a single country has ever been kicked out of the UN for having crazy/terrorist/genocidal leaders. So why should having a palatable government be a criterium to join? And anyway, I thought Hamas only controls Gaza. The West Bank is larger, and has a slightly larger population, and it is controlled by Fatah (AFAIK). So the seat would likely end up under Fatah control, no?

[–] joostjakob 1 points 8 months ago

Both Dutch and French speakers use this word too

[–] joostjakob 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't know, there's lots of things I would risk doing at home that I wouldn't try on a spaceship. It's also a metaphore that can hopefully speak to the kind of people who think a fresh planet would be the solution.

[–] joostjakob 33 points 8 months ago (4 children)

No matter how much we fuck it up, this rock will always be more liveable than anything we can realistically find elsewhere. This planet is our spaceship, we better start treating it like one.

[–] joostjakob 1 points 9 months ago

So the hiding function in Connect should work for you, without having to do all the blocking.

[–] joostjakob 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Connect can just blur or not show any NSFW post, if that helps

[–] joostjakob 2 points 9 months ago

Amazing things are being created at some workplaces as well

[–] joostjakob 3 points 9 months ago

I tip my hat to you

[–] joostjakob 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As pointed out above, if you hate plants, you should eat as much meat as possible. Every kilo of meat represents at least ten kilos of plants eaten by the animal.

[–] joostjakob 5 points 10 months ago

China is the only one reducing carbon? That's a pretty weird statement. This is a little put of date, but... https://cdn.climatechangenews.com/files/2017/03/238eb46742db30303bcd33fe9ce65f3d-1.png almost the opposite of what you're saying. Recently, China does seem to be reducing a bit, but it has shot up by such a huge amount that pointing to them as the best example is pretty weird.

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