Where do you think the cider presses get their apples?

Are the apples good? My plum tree has gone nuts too but its a) watered which a lot of orchards won’t be, and b) almost all the fruit is absolute shit or eaten to buggery.

Given that espousing support for them is a terror offence now they don’t even need to do that much.

No2Nato is George Galloway outfit which specifically differentiates itself from other “anti war” groups by not criticising Russia.

I’m not surprised that there was “interest” in some of the people there.

Can’t wait for him to backtrack on this one too!

Define ecofascism then, because its easy to just fuck around and shit on an opinion without providing an alternative.

I’m not saying we need eugenics or a cull., and I’m certainly not blaming the global south for existing in a world that was driven by short sighted rich European capitalists.

What I am saying is:

1. Population is a problem provided the status quo doesn’t change
2. The status quo just ain’t changing. Not fast enough, anyway.
3. In light of this the current state of human existence (and the systems which support it) could be reasonably described as a virus. Exponential growth at the cost of a host? Prove me wrong.
4. Solutions? Fucking sea change and a total shift in the way we occupy the planet. We’re not over crowding we’re over producing (and over consuming).

What’s eco-fascist about that, and if you don’t agree, please let me know.

Resorting to calling people ecofascists feels pretty reductive. As the world currently exists, and under current economic systems, population growth is a pretty huge issue, especially while basically zero effort is being put into reducing carbon emissions globally.

There was an article somewhere in these threatlds that gave a decent summary:

The Earth cannot sustain the future human population, or even today’s, without a major overhaul of socio-cultural practices for using land, water, energy, biodiversity, and other resources

What a lot of people (myself included) struggle with is that the amount and significance of change needed to make an actual difference is huge right now, and it requires a concerted global effort to get anywhere close to halting what feels like an inexorable rise in earth’s temperatures.

Until we can change this then humans might as well be described as a virus and looking at forced population control (in this case of transport etc. under covid) and seeing a measurable improvement in our environment feels cathartic and, honestly, easier to obtain than the global overturning of capital.

If you think that this will apply to CCTV and surveillance I have a bridge to sell you…

What about words like “historian”? An Historian and a Historian both “work”; my rule of thumb as a native speaker would be “does it feel odd to say” for this.

And owned by google to boot, no?

I might have been able to (for a price)! In all honesty I love this phone, and depending on the cost of a replacement phone when the time comes I might just look into it.

It’s the second best one I’ve ever had (the first was my beloved Xperia X which was amazing.

In the UK its basically in-house repairs by EE stores of “iSmash” concessions elsewhere (mine was in a sky mobile store).

And the other 6 days too, right?

i know this is the US and not anywhere else but from the UK perspective - its not a grey area and I wish people would stop saying it is:

“It is clear what an ebike is, but it’s not clear what it isn’t”

This should be all there is to it, and if you’re going to regulate something just fucking do it and enforce it, or don’t even bother in the first place otherwise its just a waste of time.

Having worked on, and sold, ebikes (actual, EAPC, cycles) the number one issue we had was people coming in and asking for surrons and similar ‘non pedal’ type things. If the people in charge of this stuff just took an active approach in enforcement it would be a thousand times easier for Joe Public to manage.

Yeah but that probably won’t impact the share price that much, for some reason.

They’re publically traded - they now only exist to generate profit, and that’s the only metric that matters to them. It’s the same in any industry, unfortunately.

The only bit that matters is the first sentence. Games are here to make money now, same as everything else.

Juries let people off, can’t have that!

Show off…

Then they’ll get turned into aero fairings! It’s evolution baby.