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  @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca Motion of censure passed by a wide margin, Barnier is out. This is not chaos, it is the workings, however fragile, of democracy as the NFP won a plurality in the July elections, whereas Barnier's party polled at 6%, and everything that Barnier passed was at the bidding of, and with the connivance of the RN. The NFP had proposed a series of budget amendments that would have brought the deficit under the 3% of GDP as "required" in EU regs, and was fully c...

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  @gregatron5 A different, and very thorough, take on UBI, though this piece won't convince PP and his cabal that UBI is a good thing. It's reinforcing to see that at least a few people are having these thoughts.

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  Anti-capitaliste en vol: https://www.facebook.com/reel/3093856397471230

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  Water, water everywhere, and some we can actually drink. https://reasonstobecheerful.world/water-recycling-interview/

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  @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca We've over-harvested for generations, and seem to be in the process of liquidating whatever's left so that the "forestry" companies can go speculate with the profits, or, as in the case of the Coleman Coup, morph into real estate developers on the way to the financial circus. https://boundaryforest.org/

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  @LifeTimeCooking remind me of this when we get to harvest our quinces in the fall. Something new to try out! Thank you! (Our two quince trees are just about to bloom.)

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  @sundogplanets Obviously not a scientist, or even an amateur astronomer, but I live surrounded by trees and back onto a significant his that obscures meteor showers and auroras when the clouds don't moot the physical features, meaning that I generally relay on the internet for all the gorgeous moons, streaks across the sky, alignments. I get to sleep, and reap the benefits of other people's diligence, for which I am ever grateful. And goats...

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  @MatWright You could have stopped at backwards...

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  @Strider_UK The hand of the market is plainly visible.

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  In BC, we're riddled with the development disease, and the rush to torpedo DRIPA is as good an indicator as one might want. It appears as though the RE developer/Miner/Logger axis will tolerate no impediment to the exploitation of absolutely everything and the sequestration in private and privileged hands of anything of worth. It seems to gall the greedy particularly that the impediment is a people who were here first and who were supposed to have been disenfranchised and subsumed into t...

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  @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca This is a smoke and mirrors exercise that shows a lower level of debt, but also removes goods and services from the commons. Its effects are predictable when governments then pay the new owners enhanced fees plus profit to run the service, meaning that the end user actually ends up paying more. Graphic elsewhere contrasted UK's entirely privatized electrical grid where power is sold at 23p/kwh with Norway's government system, with power being provided at the...

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  @RavynWitch We have a true lauris nobilis that was a wedding present in 1982. It was about a meter tall. We decided to see if it would survive a winter on Vancouver Island in early 1984, and it died right back to the ground, but sprouted up with seven separate shoots. It grew rapidly to a height of 10+ meters, then suffered another dieback in a particularly hard frost, this around 1997. It grew up again to more than 10 meters before once again suffering a frost kill in 2007 or so. It is presentl...