One of Elon’s private flights can easily produce as much CO2 as the average US inhabitant does in a whole year.

See for yourself.

Very nice looking knife.

Mostly I use a regular kitchen knife (ie non serrated) for bread too, just have to keep it very sharp. It’s carbon steel so it’s easy to hone and strop.

Not only a petrostate, but also a dictatorship and a state that just ethnically cleansed 100,000 Armenians and is getting ready to do even more of that.

Modern bikes being less maintainable is largely on the extreme low-end like Walmart bikes, or extreme high end carbon-fiber nonsense designed for rich weekend warriors.

Best if you find a shop that deals in second-hand bikes and get a cheap one. A bike that has been maintained by such a shop is likely to continue being maintainable. Plus you may not know what kind of bike you like til you ride it for a while so don’t spend too much for your first one.

How dare they damage the frame of an artwork and make the curators have to wipe off soup from the protective plexiglas, while leaving the artwork entirely intact?

How dare they throw easily-removed biodegradable cornstarch-based paint onto Stonehenge? Don’t these monsters know Stonehenge is made of such fragile stones?

Americans (and others in “democracies”) can choose every few years which oligarchs have a turn at the wheel. However, any kind of democracy at the workplace is forbidden. Workers getting together to decide what to produce by democratic means? Sounds like communism. Can only get democracy theatre.

The area this article is talking about was oak savannah:

Within these oak savannas, which were interlaced with prairies, tree crowns covered between 10 percent and 30 percent of the ground. They were essentially a transition between the tight deciduous forests of the East and the fully open grasslands further west.

Odd to see Papua New Guinea referred to as an “Island Nation” as if it were like a microstate in the Pacific. It’s half of New Guinea and bunch of other islands besides, and it’s bigger than Sweden.

Under pressure from Nazis and tankies.

The commute itself? Hard to say. But according to the article, a billionaire produces emissions equivalent to a million average people.

There are 3,311 billionaires.

Once they are eliminated, that’s the emissions of 3.3 billion people taken care of.

Sky burial for me please.

I’ve been trying to find clothing made in my overdeveloped country. Though the only textile we make here is wool, maybe linen, it’s a way to support labour practices that are not sweatshops.

Still learning more names of species that live here. I’m starting to spot some trees quicker. ID’d all the trees around my apartment.

Edit: also found local farms to get a good chunk of produce from. Food miles don’t matter as much as people believe, but strong rural economies do: less likely to turn into exurbs, and less of my money going to supermarket extortionists.

It’s a dictatorship that just did some ethnic cleansing. COP29 is going to be an absolute joke.

As are the Dems. Well, they at least slap a rainbow sticker on the oil rigs.

Hydrogen: the crypto of green energy.

https://archive.is/vxV5v

Non-paywalled version.

Well, I guess boomers are chemicals polluting the environment if you think about it.