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.

mmmmm… mildly carcinogenic…

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”.

Honestly I think as a “regular citizen”, this is somewhat aligned with what I want the police to deal with? Like assault, robbery, murder, they’re somewhat dealt with. The big problem is with Rape, but theft being the vast majority of crime with the vast minority of effort, that’s totally fine.

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.

Sadly, politicians just want the hot potato issue off their table so they can claim stability, and this is a way to do that without causing too much disruption.

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.