i remember seeing the smog clear in some cities during the lockdowns. because everybody stopped driving.... it was.....interesting....

as a person who happily rides their bike everywhere, and who hunts once or twice a year for meat, who fishes, and grows their own vegetables, bakes their own bread. i seem to be dodging most of this oil shortage inflation and price gouging.

now, if EVERYONE started doing the same, and sharing with each other what they have, and trading for what they dont have.

well, dang wouldnt that be just absolutely INSANE to think about? we wouldnt have to rely on a centralized logistics chain that drains us of all our wealth, with prices that dont reflect true value of the labours that brought them to us in the first place?

wouldnt it be fucking NUTS if we all just decided to pool our labour and resources together and build a system for ourselves where our labours are rewarded equal to their measure for all involved?

fuck that would be mind boggling, the devil probably fuels my whimsy on the matter. i shall self flagellate for such a SINFUL idea.

Paris has to remove the low emission zone so old polluting cars are back in the city. Parliament just approved that.

After much thought and googling, really that's before and after dieselgate.

NO2 is a notorious byproduct of diesel engines at 10x the rate of gasoline cars. Dieselgate cars emitted 40x the legal amount. You can't quite do this, but roughly that means a dieselgate vehicle emitted 400x the NO2 of a gasoline car. Aka a single dieselgate vehicle was equivalent of 400 gasoline cars.

Now let's get the absolute number of cars. France had 984,064 dieselgate affected vehicles. Paris has about 19% of France's population. Assuming equal ownership that's 186,972 dieselgate affected cars in paris. At 400x the emissions of gasoline cars that's the equivalent of a whopping 74,788,800 gasoline cars.

So replacing the dieselgate affected cars with gasoline cars (apparently the popularity of diesel peaked around then and has been declining since) is the equivalent of removing 74,788,800 - 186,972 = 74,601,828 vehicles off the road in paris alone.

The European Rail Passengers Union recently started and is looking to advocate for solutions to some of these issues.

"Best we can do is Hydrogen jets"

To be fair, we usually also call it Ukraine war instead of Russo-Ukranian war or just Russian invasion or Russia Expansionist war. Makes it not less wrong, but you need to admit Iran war is a little shorter than your suggestion.

No, it's the Epstein war

Epstein Files War? Wouldn't wanna bait him with Trump War I

Gulf War 3

Technically, it's the "Stop talking about the Trump and Epstein child rape crimes War"

The global economy is having its Wiley E. Coyote moment. The floor is gone, but gravity isn't doing its thing yet.

It's fucking terrifying. And it makes me angry because it was all so avoidable. All the Untied States government had to do was enforce its fucking rules

It's not easy when the whole world runs on Heavy Fuel.

And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles They can always fly away from this rain and this cold You can hear them singing out their telegraph code All the way down the telegraph road

Im not evading user blocks, I provide a listing that's available in my bio. I have told you this and others have as well and you have flat out stated you refuse to take advantage of what tools have been given to you for "reasons".

Additionally, your story about me changes every time someone counters your arguments.

.ML content, they repost shit from all instances.

Nope, you just assume or, perhaps maliciously just conveniently leave that part out, because someone else crossposted after me. Like you did here: https://lemdro.id/comment/22804934

Actual reasons for multiple accounts:

1. Promoting smaller instances, because of the volume of my posting it helps makes smaller instances more recognizable
2. Making comms on fitting smaller instances (e.g. a programming comm id make on programming.dev)
3. Mitigating against the imposter problem
4. Better interconnecting smaller instances

Why am I cross-posting .ml content:

I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitilize non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some active niche comms.

Megathread on the issue

Some highlights from the link:

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

"If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

"NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

Well said. And look, thrre they are with their bullshit answer/excuses, right on queue.

I don't know what's "short distance" for you, but a flight from Zagreb to Amsterdam takes about 2 hours.

Using public transportation on the same route is 20+ hours at best and you need to switch between bus and train four times. Driving is 10+ hours.

Maybe, just maybe, we should stop immediately providing kerosine to private jets first? And droping subsidies for jet fuel and financing public transport instead?

because they fear Trump will leave Nato

which would be the best outcome for europe