Private equity firms are using US public sector workers' retirement savings to fund fossil fuel projects that emit over a billion tonnes of greenhouse gases annually, according to analysis.
Since 2010, they have invested over $1 trillion (£750bn) in the energy sector, often acquiring fossil fuel projects and operating them, thanks to exemptions from many financial disclosures, outside the public eye.
Le pont Samuel-De Champlain (pSdC) est une unité de mesure de coût faramineux. Accessoirement, il s’agit aussi d’un ouvrage permettant de traverser le fleuve Saint-Laurent.
Dans La Presse du jour, une lettre d’opinion en donne un bel exemple (nos calculs montrent cependant que 11 milliards $ correspondent en fait à 2,6 pSdC).
Source: lapresse.ca/dialogue/opinions/…
Pour plus de détails:
machinaecrire.com/le-systeme-d…
Merci à @benoitmelancon
An observation on the uncopyrightable nature of AI art and questioning the possibility of a digital being as artist (2024, digital collage and knitted chicken)
#sillyScribbles #MyfanwyAndFriend #silly #art #nonsense
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#MovieThread V: Definitely Not The Final Frontier, Chapter Ten — October Edition
From 2020 to 2023 I watched 1492 movies. This year so far, I've watched another 356, for a total of 1848 movies.
Numbers still check out.
This month:
* 1944.
* More Musker & Clements.
* Probably starting Elaine May.
* More Conjuring.
* More Horror List.
Previous thread: beepboop.one/@Alexis/113062811…
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"Everyone will die."
the kid is honestly solid
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I'm open to these experimenting, getting away from the core of it, not just remaking the first one over and over, right, and the books eventually get pretty wacky with it, too.
but this is fucking nothing.
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Impossible not to compare to the other recent unlikely musical -- unlike that one, this one's musical sequences are well-choreographed, progress the narrative, and don't feel like they exist only for stroking the lead's ego.
Even if some of the songs feel like they were designed to accommodate actors who maybe can't, you know, sing, at least it's a musical, instead of a courtroom drama that occasionally changes the channel.
Very watchable!
Can see why some people don't vibe with this, though.
"Something dead which still seems to be alive."
that fucking rooster if this keeps up
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"What in the..."
oh that's not where you want a big unexploded bomb to be
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"Why did they leave me here? Why can't I be with my father."
buddy, you're a wee lad who's been dropped off at an orphanage and there's a war on, do the maths here
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"Who's The One Who Sighs."
you ever see one sigh, that's the fucker
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"They say [the giant bomb in the courtyard]'s been defused. But I don't believe it. Put your ear against it, you'll hear ticking. That's her heart."
haunted by the war is another kind of haunted
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"There's talk of a ghost. Have you heard?"
the adults know but will take this as seriously as a fart in a field
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"You're leaving? What about me, huh? Fuck me, right?"
yeah, jacinto, it's because you're an asshole, jacinto
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Loved it. Just so nice to hang out with my good friends Eddie and Venom while having the flu shot cold sweats.
I do not care about symbiote lore, which is great, because neither does this movie -- it's all just an excuse to get to the goofy symbiote action and Eddie/Venom comedy you're here for. From Venom horse to spending quality time with Mrs Chen -- Mrs Chen!! -- to Martin apologising, it's all just a nice 'nother round with Venom.
With breakfast, I watched --
#1872, or #380, 2024's "Dropout Presents: Courtney Pauroso: Vanessa 5000."
Have a lot of respect for the total emotional and physical commitment to the bit here, even if it never quite finds a way to go above and beyond what you already expect it to be and do. (Maybe I expect too much?)
Justin did seem like a good stepson.
But it really didn't? Big obvious things help on that front -- for the franchise it's the introduction of the Nun, but for me, chronologically, it's The Nunjuring, the conclusion of the biggest running thread these have, and going to England to fight the country's most normal pensioner (bloody barmy, innit) is at least as different a flavour from the usual Minnesouri as Romania.
And, of course, the addition of an immediate and personal threat to Ed keeps you on your toes.
But the biggest piece of the puzzle, the bit that makes this one feel like the one where they really figure it out, even more so than in the first one? Is that what this really is is just a nice movie about a pleasant couple who love each other.
I have my frequently-expressed issues with mythologising real people (real grifters) like this, but you know what, it does help that they're /this/ sweet.
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"So... He's fine..."
oh that's what happened
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"You have to come see this."
the shitter's gone the way of the doors and windows
...as have the lines between the tiles?
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"Look under the bed."
oh what's under there, the horrifying spectre of implications invisible to childhood naiveté?
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hm well
I feel like I kinda get the idea here, I'd be good if this was minute 58 of 65
unfortunately it's minute 58 of 100
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"Put the knife in your eye!"
oh NO
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sensibly, Kevin calls 911
how emergency services are gonna get into the house with no doors or windows is an open question
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"I can do anything."
this toy phone can fuck off
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"Can we watch something happy?"
public domain cartoons about skellingtons only in the skinamarink house
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and what do you call this act?
*jazz hands* skinamarink!!
Come for the raucous-but-grounded crime comedy starring Mikey Madison, stay for some of modern cinema's top goons!
Takes it a while to get past the whirlwind montage, but the terrific Madison performance, layered, rich, successfully carries you through.
Very watchable!
Lovely drama, great picture. (But funny in that the-way-life-is-funny way.)
Really comes alive in the details, the little things. The little looks, the line of shoes at the hospital.
Didn't really pull the tears out of me until they drive past at the end, that's when I fucking lost it.
Funny thing to show at Sneak Preview -- imagine not knowing this existed, going to Sneak Preview, expecting sort of the usual fodder, and then it's a documentary about a musician you don't really think about... and that can be a LEGO movie? Magical.
There's a moment in that realisation where if somebody told you Santa was real, you might believe them.
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But in terms of content it's… well, exactly what a LEGO Movie-style doc about a real person's real life would be like, wouldn't it.
Snoop Dogg's weed being replaced with "PG Spray" is a solid, funny gag, but it's also emblematic of a problem. Because either Mr Williams' story simply /is/ just kind of bland and indistinct, OR, every single edge this might have had been fully planed off to the point of absolute transparency by LEGO brand guideline enforcement.
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Has Mr Williams never experienced any kind of meaningful conflict that couldn't be resolved with a whimsical montage? Why don't the Neptunes really feature in the back half, did they break up? Does his grandma become a Force ghost, or are we not allowed to see a LEGO minifig pass away?
What does this movie think Black Lives Matter was about, besides promoting a Kendrick Lamar song and Mr Williams realising racism exists?
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"Sometimes you gotta troll the trolls."
as a portrait of internet cartoonist Adam Ellis this is an act of violence
he makes an extremely unlikeable protagonist
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this is pretty bad
there's just nothing of any real substance here? the protagonist is a dingdong who seems like he'd be unlikeable even if he didn't have a horror movie going on, and the horror is all pretty shallow nonsense.
also, if this is meant to be about online bullying, the message it comes to never really figures out how not to be "if you engage the trolls you WILL get punished for it"? dumb.
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* They break into a morgue and fondle several of the bodies.
* They do some pretty bad damage to some local historical tunnels.
* They know about multiple acts of violence before they happen, including some inside a prison.
* they're the last people to see an old man and his adopted daughter alive before their bodies are found, one with its throat cut, and the other horribly mangled.
Anyway.
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This concludes the October 2024 #MovieThread
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South Africa’s first electric minibus taxi to hit the road in Cape Town
Christened the eKamva (kamva is the Xhosa word for future), the 15-seater battery-powered minibus is supported by a cluster of dedicated “taxi-rank adjacent” charging stations to support the taxi industry’s transition to electric mobility.
Coetzee said the DC charging hubs to support its electric taxis provide 60kW and are able to charge the eKamva to 80% capacity in an hour, with a full charge taking 75 minutes. eKamva delivers cost savings of between 40% and 70% on running costs compared traditional internal combustion engine vehicles of a similar build, he said.
According to Coetzee, much of the cost savings promised by eKamva relate to the fact that the vehicle has only eight moving parts compared to the complexity of a traditional petrol- or diesel-powered taxi. “There are no oil filters and air filters, spark plugs or oil to change, so it is much easier to maintain. There are also fewer points of [possible] failure.
I’m blown away that the usual 40% tax on EV imports will also apply to these vehicles (South Africa really needs to sort this out, as these are not “luxury vehicles”).
I just dread to think what could happen though when drivers discover the acceleration that an EV motor has. It could be great for safer overtaking, but we’ll really have to see how this pans out.
The last paragraph in the linked article s very interesting about future plans for driver safety monitoring. As far as any public transport drivers go, this is probably a good thing.
See techcentral.co.za/south-africa…
#Blog, #environment, #EV, #southafrica, #taxis, #technology
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Capitalism in the USA = collusion between industry, government, and media to support more beef consumption.
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If cows were a country, they would compete with the United States for the title of the world’s second-highest emitter. Cows alone produce 5 gigatons of CO2e. The United States emits 5.2 gigatons of CO2e, including its massive oil and gas sector.
Yet, we keep seeing Low Carbon Beef, Sustainable Beef, Carbon Neutral and even Carbon Positive Milk claims popping up. How is this possible? Can beef and dairy really be sustainable?
Here is the truth. At the current scale, global meat and dairy production is not sustainable. Livestock is responsible for 14.5% of global GHG emissions, with cows carrying the majority share. Raising and feeding livestock occupies one-third of all ice-free land on Earth. It is the leading cause of biodiversity loss, deforestation, and waterways pollution.
So, what does the industry do? Instead of admitting the physical impossibility of farming 1.5 billion cows without the negative climate impact, it is deploying classic dirty industry PR tactics in an attempt to prop up its image.
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FULL ARTICLE -- greenqueen.com.hk/meat-dairy-g…
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing
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Cordell Jackson & The A-Bones
The great Cordell Jackson performing two songs with Brooklyn's A-Bones backing her up. Miriam Linna (Cramps, Pere Ubu, Dead Boys, Moe Tucker) on drums and Marcus Natale on bass. December 11, 1989.
#rocknroll #CordellJackson #music #Cramps #PereUbu #DeadBoys #MoeTucker #rockabilly #psychobilly
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It’s not just the publishers who are broken.
The whole concept of treating a publication as a credit for employment¹ instead of only as communication and of focusing that strongly on papers while ignoring often more impactful stuff like books with overview chapters² causes problems in science.
¹ draketo.de/english/science/qua…
² draketo.de/english/science/cha…
Quiero compartir una playlist con una selección de MUSICAZA de nuestras #anartistas! 🙌🎶
Casi 5 horas de rap, reagge, folk, pop...
audio.anartist.org/library/pla…
Quiere especificar que mi criterio de inclusión ha sido mantener una cierta coherencia de estilo y producción. Pero la riqueza de la comunidad de Anartist no acaba aquí ni mucho menos. Hay muchas más joyas escondidas que animo a explorar!
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson criticized for skipping vote on Helene emergency declaration (Paul Specht/WRAL-TV)
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Service for controlling fan speed on Linux, written in go
Discussions: discu.eu/q/github.com/IvanSafo…
#golang #linux #programming #unix
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