parties are reflections of their voters.

And here I thought the elderly didn’t really believe in anything, but they sure do believe in capitalism…

There was a parent who didn’t correctly park her pram on a train platform, and sadly the pram went onto the train line, and one of the children and her husband died. This was a major news story, harrowing CCTV footage, a community in mourning. There was discussion on changing platforms to be safer, etc.

Similar story with an SUV which reversed over a pram. No CCTV, the story was barely reported, largely local news. Similar scale of tragedy, and sadly the SUV story is probably more common, but the fact that it’s common also makes it an invisible story.

I do think part of the issue is that you might not see actual violence on a train, but you might see some behaviour which makes you feel uncomfortable. Because you’re in a carriage with maybe 100 other people, then the likelihood is less that you’re in any actual danger, and far more that you’ve witnessed an incident which makes you wary. Meanwhile, there are several car accidents daily, but it’s witnessed by maybe 20 odd people, and most people only see a slowdown of the road.

Teaspoons are fair because at that scale you might be talking about 0.5grams, which is harder to weigh and easier to eyeball.

This is about institutional memory. Like we know how to make a cassette tape player, but we can’t actually do it.

I don’t know if there’s a name for it, but an increasing number of recipe writers are using only weight based measurements. This is super handy because you just have a scale, add ingredients, and just tare as you need. The measurements are also more accurate because, eg, flour can be compacted, so “1 cup of flour” could vary by a lot depending on how you measure it.

This is what happens when you believe dogma such as “deregulation is good” over what’s right in front of your eyes of “companies will poison the earth”.

That’s why it’s solarpunk.

The “forgetting” isn’t individuals forgetting, it’s about institutional memory. Individually, there might be plenty of folks who can build chips, but they might live too far apart, or there’s no money in it, or whatever other mechanism which causes things to be built and the technology to continue. There’s a massive bootstrapping issue.

That’s why it’s solarpunk. Slower computers which need different software.

Depends on if you believe that using biodegradable plastics on your chip packet is dystopia because ruffling it around sounds different.

Lobbying, protest, etc. These are effective. Money matters less than you think*. Often organising gets the job done.

• The US is a weird case there, but in general this holds.

Yes, exactly this. The book by Andreas Malm had a review which read like “this book is less how to blow up a pipeline, and more why to blow up a pipeline”, and the movie is working on a metaphorical level to argue the case. You’re not meant to emulate it directly.

USA.

It’s a good movie, but like others have noted, this is not how you do it. 90% of blowing up a pipeline is community building, being able to get the gear you need and carry it out with a lot of people knowing and being able to trust that they won’t rat you out. But it turns out when you have a community like that, well, you don’t need to blow up the pipeline, you can just lobby the government.

The band also provided venues with a “green rider”, requesting measures including eliminating single-use plastics

Again, not saying they’re perfect, but feels like they’re trying.

While I don’t know if it’s effective, I do believe it is earnest. PR Bullshit is Masterchef taking Gas money and using “hydrogen burners” and calling that green while the entire fucking industry is a carbon factory, and that’s to say nothing of the fashion industry.

Speaking colloquially, I’m not an expert, just trying to impart intuition.

India has monsoons, and unfortunately the city design is pretty awful for controlling water. There’s far too much concrete / not enough green space, and then insufficient drainage to handle even regular monsoons. In other countries, building out like this is simply illegal. For example, they will do flood modelling for both a new area for property, and each property needs to get approval for floods – both green space and drainage. Nothing like it in India, especially the older areas (informal settlements) which are simply not built for this.

What sucks the most is that India also needs the water. They have underwater reservoirs which cannot fill up because the water stays on the surface, wipes away property and lives, and then goes elsewhere, leaving the water tables barely refreshed. The faster the water comes down in cloudbursts, the worse it is. They really could focus on how to control that water and save lives as well as have better, safer water storage.