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Cake day: December 29th, 2023
  • Visikde@beehaw.orgtoEnvironment@beehaw.org•Greening Concrete: A Major Emitter Inches Toward Carbon Neutrality
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    2 days ago

    “German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, says that “carbon capture and storage” (CCS) can be done safely in the saltwater and limestone pores at 600 to 1,200 meters below the seabed. “It will either dissolve as carbonic acid or bind with the limestone,” she says. Injection sites in the North Sea are the German government’s main solution for so-called “unavoidable emissions,” like those from the cement and other industries”

    Basically another subsidy harvesting scheme
    There isn’t even the expectation that the co2 will stay in porous limestone, but instead end up making the oceans more acidic, which is already a problem with elevated atmospheric co2 levels

    A crisis of excess consumption & growth can’t be solved, by growing in a slightly different way

  • Visikde@beehaw.orgtoSocialism@beehaw.org•The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift (Part II)- How Corporate America Offset Liability Onto Its Workers --- Citations Needed Podcast
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    4 months ago

    I lived this from the factory floor in the central valley of california from 1980-2010
    In my experience safety was driven by workmens comp insurance companies. The would be a clip board conga line a couple of times a year made up of representatives of our company & insurance company people, checking to see if their “suggestions” had been implemented & new threats [to the bottom line] identified
    Anyone who had a moderate to serious injuries were fired with the expectation the injured would sue the [insurance] company, requiring a lawyer who got a percentage of the award
    A fun bit of outsourcing that generates billable hours for the guild of lawyers & shifts responsibility back to the victim

    As time went on the monthly mandatory safety meetings became the perfect time for all of us to sign off on liability for normal operations

    I found the suggestion box to be a powerful tool
    Careful wording can force managers to answer difficult questions in front of all the other managers :D

    The primary dysfunction is corporate personhood, more than all the rights of a human, none of the responsibilities beyond the bottom line
    Socialize the costs
    Privatize the profits

    Money as speech has always been the case
    Having an impactful political opinion has always required one to have excess resources, what rules there might have been eroded by the guild reinterpreting founders intent

  • Visikde@beehaw.orgtoPolitics@beehaw.org•Ralph Nader would like to stop having to explain why the spoiler coverage is stupid
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    7 months ago

    An important point:
    "The higher level is: What do we do with these big corporations? One is we’ve got to subordinate them constitutionally. So corporations should never have equal rights with real people. Now they’re connecting with AI. You want a deadly cocktail? Connect artificial persons called corporations with AI.
    Founders intent was for corporations to be temporary
    https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/

    We have a system designed for 1% of the present population
    We have a system designed for information moving at the speed of horse
    Founders intent was a representative for 30,000 citizens, presently a representative for 700,000 citizens
    We have a system that is completely over whelmed by the number & complexity of decisions to be made
    We need more channels for informed feedback
    Having a meaningful political opinion has

    I lived in California in 2000 & voted for Ralph, knowing Gore had Cali in the bag

  • Visikde@beehaw.orgtoMusic@beehaw.org•Vinyl vs. CD vs. tapes vs. digital. What's your favourite storage medium for owning your music and why?
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    8 months ago

    Any of it is so much better than listening to an AM radio while I delivered newspapers.
    Yesterday I heard a Red Rider song from an album that I had recorded on cassette off FM radio.
    I converted whatever music I had into MP3s 20 years ago, When I was converting LPs to MP3 I did several concept albums which didn’t have songs, so I set the length at 6 minutes or less. I was using MP3 Direct Cut which had a bar graph, I could visually chop up albums into songs without actually listening. Over some years I went through my collection & chopped up songs that were too long or have intros longer than 10 seconds, I may or maynot keep the originals. I use the comment field for tags to make it easier include/exclude long, duplicate, alternate versions I have more than a few copies of music files, including data cd’s from 15 years ago, sata hdd, sd cards, nvme. every 6 months or so I renew a couple of the back ups