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Enshittocene


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#Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
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Planting trees in Germany with Bergwaldprojekt.
In November I was in Munich planting beech trees in a spruce forest. One of the reasons it's because beech tree can hold way more underground water than a spruce. And forests like this one supply about 70% of the drinking water to Munich
youtu.be/780EM7T2i3Y

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Thanks Tio.
Yes, sure if you want to deal with Peertube it's ok.
For some reasons it doesn't like my standard format, and I need to reformat it specially for Peertube, and no one watches the videos there except you, so it's a bit too much effort. But if you want to do it, then of course.
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Well you have 48 subscribers on Peertube...is not just me for sure. I can try to help out maybe fix the issue with auto importing from youtube...




Canada's postal strike - Bigger context


I don't know how many people outside Canada, but Canadians certainly know, that for several weeks we've had a postal strike that of course severely impacts businesses and customers in the lead up to Christmas. There is a short Wikipedia article. Usual issues of wages not keeping up with inflation and benefits - what, they don't already have paid breaks? #canadapoststrike

What people may not have heard of is how since several years the postal union has been advancing innovative ideas for how the postal service could be more sustainable and useful to the community in multiple ways going forward into the future. Seems to fall on deaf ears in management whose forward looking focus seems to be expanding hours of parcel delivery by hiring more part-time rather than full-time workers.

deliveringcommunitypower.ca/ou…

in reply to fionag11

@fionag11 - that sounds like La Poste in France. They have long offered "bank" acounts with 24/7 cash machines outside, had copiers inside in case you needed one, and their carriers on rural may check on seniors.
in reply to fionag11

They really need a whole new business model, because the current one is just failing badly.

I am not a fan of Maxime Bernier, but he has a policy of privatizing Canada Post. That may be the only way to save it, but I always ask "who would buy it?" I can;t think of anyone other than CUPW. I mean UPS or FedEX might, but only to shut it down.


in reply to fionag11

I hope they employ Forest Ecologists before they waste their money.
in reply to fionag11

It's been estimated that 9 out of 10 tree-planting ventures fail, either largely or entirely.
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