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lgsp, 3 months ago to milano Italian

Ho dovuto prendere l'#auto per andare dentro #Milano ieri, per fortuna vicino.

Le mie attuali condizioni fisiche non mi permettono di andare in bici né di prendere i mezzi. Anche guidare è stato doloroso, ma dovevo proprio fare quella visita da uno specialista.

C'era #traffico, c'era poco #parcheggio.

L'idea di tutte quelle persone che usavano l'auto senza averne necessità mi ha messo rabbia, pure troppa (col dolore che amplificava le emozioni negative).

Lasciate a casa l'auto, se potete.

lgsp, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to eticadigitale Italian

L'ultimo numero di Internazionale è dedicato alla #enshittification (articolo di Cory Doctorow)

@pluralistic, nell'articolo del FT tradotto in italiano, parla di come le piattaforme sfruttino i monopoli per imprigionate i propri utenti mentre li spremono e rendono la loro esperienza sempre peggiore.

Penso che Cory Doctorow sia una specie di profeta nell' ambito dell'etica digitale, consiglio anche il suo blog, scrive ogni giorno cose interessanti!

@eticadigitale

https://www.internazionale.it/sommario/1552

ajsadauskas, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to climate

If you care about the planet, please make sure you sit down before you start reading this post about ExxonMobil.

So.

The CEO of ExxonMobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Who's the most influential voice on climate change? Who's to blame for inaction on climate change?

According to the CEO of ExxonMobil, it's environmental activists.

No, really:

"Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."

Oh, and the CEO of ExxonMobil also apparently thinks consumers are to blame for climate inaction:

"Today we have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon, but people aren’t willing to spend the money to do that."

Gets better.

He thinks unnamed 'people who generate emissions' should pay for it. (Rather than, say, major transnational oil companies.)

"People who are generating the emissions need to be aware of [it] and pay the price. That’s ultimately how you solve the problem."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Worth including a quick reminder here that Exxon-Mobil made a US$36 billion profit in 2023: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-beats-estimates-ends-2023-with-36-billion-profit-2024-02-02/#:~:text=HOUSTON%2C%20Feb%202%20(Reuters),higher%20oil%20and%20gas%20production.

Not gross revenue.

Profit.

So, remind me again. Who knew about climate change before most of the public?

"Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue... This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

And just who, exactly, stood in the way reducing emissions all these years?

"ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents...

"The new revelations are based on previously unreported documents subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general as part of an investigation into the company announced in 2015. They add to a slew of documents that record a decades-long misinformation campaign waged by Exxon, which are cited in a growing number of state and municipal lawsuits against big oil."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/exxonmobil-documents-wall-street-journal-climate-science

#oil #BigOil @fuck_cars #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #ClimateChange #environment #ExxonMobil #Exxon #business #economy #politics #capitalism #ClimateCrisis

informapirata, 3 months ago to fediverso Italian

Nell’acquario del fediverso. Una riflessione sul Fediverso nella doppia natura di ecosistema e modello sociale

«Non è solo una delle famose bolle dei social, ma un sistema di acquari interconnessi, ognuno con popolazioni, temperature, salinità e pH diversi, e rappresenta un modello di socializzazione e di governo globale in cui gli amministratori hanno strutturato regole di convivenza che realizzano il bando degli intolleranti teorizzato da Karl Popper»

@fediverso

https://www.ilpost.it/2024/02/27/macchia-acquario-del-fediverso/

enobacon, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to ebikes

In the last five years, #eBikes caused only 3.8% as many injuries as bathrooms. Wear your bathroom #helmets, and shame your friends and family until they stop taking baths

without a helmet.

lgsp, 3 months ago to random Italian

I am seriously thinking about a #nebulatv subscription, but I have a serious question:

How will nebula.tv avoid the #enshittification going on on major platforms?

Is it really owned by the creators themselves? Is there some safety mechanism to keep it running as it is?

@notjustbikes @Techaltar @pluralistic

jon, 3 months ago to random

Engineering question

Denmark - when building the Storebæltsbroen - concluded you cannot easily put a railway on a suspension bridge (so tunnelled the railway instead)

The Øresundsbron is a cable stay bridge instead of suspension

And here comes a proposal for a suspension bridge at the Strait of Messina with a central span of 3.3km... how will they account for movement / flex when a train crosses? 🤔

https://www.railwaygazette.com/infrastructure/strait-of-messina-bridge-design-approved/65969.article

davidho, 3 months ago to random

For most of us, driving is the most dangerous thing we do.

That is all.