MrMakabar

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submitted 4 hours ago by MrMakabar to c/degrowth
[–] MrMakabar 7 points 1 day ago

Great news. US and EU oil demand is already falling. Combined with China that is half the current global oil consumption.

[–] MrMakabar 1 points 1 day ago

In this case absolutly. However not all green subsidies are like that.

[–] MrMakabar 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The problem is that there are a lot of fossil fuel subsidies as well. It would be better to cut those, but try to lobby for that.

[–] MrMakabar 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A four day work week is against the interest of capitalists. The labor market like any other market is governed by supply and demand. A four day work week would reduce the supply of work by 20%. So unemployment would have to go down, which leads to higher wages, which again lower capitalists profits. That is not to say that it is impossible and obviously a number of companies tried it successfully. However to actually do it at scale you need unions or other ways of large scale mobilization of workers. To be quite frank, workers are not organized well enough to get this done today.

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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by MrMakabar to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
 

For a long write up with more data and some reasons for it:

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ql4ykel4bgsqzslwsa3lflh2/post/3lcdewkbmf22w

Keep in mind Russia is a massive country and trains are amazing at transporting freight over long distances. So they have a lot of regions and industries depending on the railroad. Much more so then in most other countries. Some places can hardly be reached by road, but can be reached on train.

[–] MrMakabar 2 points 3 days ago

The statement also neglects that Ukraine is going to stop gas transit to the EU from Russia.

[–] MrMakabar 5 points 3 days ago

Lemmy is by default set to "local", so a lot of users will see posts from a new community, especially if it becomes popular. As for that the key is to simple, short, visual content so basically memes and the like. The other content going well are important news. So if you post those in your community, you might get a lot of interaction. If you want the community to somewhat grow, you probably want to post a lot on it on a regular bases. Then crossposts are important as well. That can bring people to your community.

[–] MrMakabar 1 points 4 days ago

Not even. Russia has sanctions on food products from the EU, USA and other Western countries. The West is fine with exporting food to Russia.

[–] MrMakabar 4 points 5 days ago

NK is not shooting at European arms factories, besides the ones in Ukraine.

[–] MrMakabar 30 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Interesting that he has to say that....

[–] MrMakabar 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

5million shells is a hell of a lot. Just incredible that South Korea does not want to send or even sell weapons to Ukraine. I really would not want to be Poland right now, with all the arms deals they did with them.

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15676244

Even tho the parts are not divided by chapters, I suppose they can be more or less categorised as follows

  • Part 1 - Preface by Extinction Rebellion
  • Part 2 to 5 - historical analysis
  • Skip parts 6, 7, 8 because they are the same as part 1
  • Part 9 to 12 - analysis of contemporary times & practical systemic change suggestions

Consider using FreeTube, an open-source program for YouTube, and/or Libredirect, because privacy is important.

[–] MrMakabar 3 points 5 days ago

The way VW does direct to consumers in Europe is to have the dealerships sell you the car and getting a comission for doing so. However they earn less money from selling EVs then from selling combustion engine cars, so they focus on the later. So they plan to change that. But if you want to go into VW theme park to buy a car or do it online, then you can still do that.

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