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Cats vs windmills
Cats
Bird deaths USsn 2.4 x 10^9
Cats in US 7.4 x 10^7
2.4/7.4 = 0.324
3.2 x10^1
32 bird kills/cat/yr
Wind turbines
Bird kills 2.4 x 10^5
Wind turbines in US 7.5 x 10^4
2.4/7.7 = 0.312
3.1 x 10^1 = 31
31 bird kills/wind turbine/yr
Refs
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cat-population-by-country
https://cleanpower.org/facts/wind-power/

2026-03-21 11:19:17 UTC

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But what if we got healthier, more equitable, more just, more peaceful, more sustainable…for nothing? Will nobody think of the shareholders!?

2026-03-10 14:48:39 UTC

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That vaccine used to be education, but apparently willful ignorance became a “right”, rather than a malady over the last 50 years.

2026-02-02 17:58:29 UTC

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Drug Fraud has been gunning for the leadership of the CPC for sometime. It’s no coincidence that PP, faced the possibility of defeat in his riding had increased *after* Ontario PC volunteers surged into his riding, “to support him”.

2025-11-16 14:15:40 UTC

“In September, Premier François Legault indicated he might be putting the province's environmental goals on hold, saying Quebecers can't be the only ones in North America making significant efforts to fight climate change. “
As if everyone joy-riding off a cliff
means you should join in on the stupidity, collectively pressing in the accelerator.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-green-fund-surplus-9.6976654

2025-09-28 12:25:57 UTC

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Yes! The argument “don’t provoke them” (MAGA/alt-Right/Fascism-de-jour) is nonsense. They have been at the stage of random murder, disappearances, and ignoring the law for generations, now. (Especially in the Anglo-sphere)
Protests, strikes, voting, civil disobedience, litigation, and sabotage have to be daily, and ubiquitous.
The alternative is looming open civil war, and that will be much worse.

2025-08-26 01:56:09 UTC

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It should have been obvious why nuclear is of limited use in a warming climate: drought, and warming rivers curtail or shut down nuclear power plants.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna22804065

2025-07-22 22:37:38 UTC

The UN reports that renewable energy is now cheaper than the least expensive fossil fuels. Talk of new petroleum pipelines is just hot air.
https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/un-energy-transition-report_2025.pdf#page4

2025-07-22 00:16:32 UTC

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And here is one
Evans, Danny. “In and Against the State: The Making and Unmaking of the Barcelona May Days (1937)” in European History Quarterly
Gets in specifics of Stalin’s machinations in the last third of the paper.
Open access.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02656914221103464?icid=int.sj-abstract.similar-articles.2

2025-07-21 22:51:27 UTC

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That was definitely Orwell’s view. Now I’m curious. If I find references, I’ll post to this thread.

2025-07-20 21:11:17 UTC

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Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia” is the only one I know off hand. It’s anecdotal, as it his memoir. It presents the Anarchists very positively, and is very critical of the USSR.

2025-07-20 20:43:03 UTC

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Thanks for this! Never saw this channel before.

2025-07-06 04:23:57 UTC

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Same. I used to go down the main office of my organization every few months. Now, that’s a firm ‘no’. It makes me sad I really enjoyed visiting my US colleagues.

2025-07-04 21:22:46 UTC

This will stop when we people, realize we cannot hide from it, and must oppose it. This fascist hooliganism cannot be reasoned with, or lawyered with, or appealed to with humanity & empathy.
Each injury(not just to Canadian visitors) is a performance of the Regime’s demand that we yield to them.
Resist!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadians-ice-detention-1.7577584

2025-06-27 13:04:32 UTC

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The ‘decarbonized Oil’ rhetoric is the equivalent of a drug dealer boasting that he “no longer gets high, on his own supply”. He is still distributing a dangerous substance.
And cocaine etc doesn’t directly, massively affect the climate like fossil fuels do.

2025-06-19 06:01:52 UTC

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CBC Ideas did a good podcast episode, exploring this, and how Smith’s work has been hijacked by subsequent forces.
Ideas with Nahlah Ayed: The misunderstood Adam Smith gets both credit and blame for modern capitalism https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16150724-the-misunderstood-adam-smith-gets-credit-blame-modern

2025-06-15 12:26:51 UTC

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That was my impression(30 years since CAF reserves). In the video I saw one unit was actually marching, four others were almost slouching. Normally, the NCOs would be growling at the sloppiness, and getting the ranks into shape. If he’s lost the NCO corps, Trump’s role as CIC is pretty much done, at least for deployments in the US, itself.

2025-04-12 09:41:06 UTC

I didn’t expect Canadian Mayors to be the proponents of comprehensive, progressive national goals…but here we are.
They call for national electricity grid, including the north, high-speed rail, and climate resilience.
They reject fossil fuel pipelines as “a handout” and waste of money.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/letter-mayors-federal-leaders-1.7507440

2025-04-05 20:00:44 UTC

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ABC (USA)
#HandsOff
https://youtu.be/YcV72e3v-6Q

2025-04-05 20:00:44 UTC

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CBS Chicago(USA)
#HandsOff
https://www.youtube.com/live/6faEOSrEy9o?si=ZJBsljCBohM2EHc6

2025-04-05 19:57:55 UTC

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Agence France Presse
#HandsOff
https://youtu.be/DDzhdXNa_q8

2025-04-05 19:55:26 UTC

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Deutsche Welle (Germany) covering live. Includes protests in Europe, as well.
#HandsOff #50501
https://www.dw.com/en/hands-off-demos-against-trump-and-musk-across-us-europe/live-72149383

2025-04-05 19:52:31 UTC

CBC coverage of “Hands Off” protests in USA.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hands-off-protests-trump-musk-1.7503026

2025-03-09 17:58:17 UTC

On a more hopeful note, I’m going to an open mic tonight.
Gonna play three covers: “Heroes”, “Take your Mama out”, and “Teenage Kicks”.
The last I’m pitching as nostalgia, and to the lovely folk who have (im)matured along with me.
#DIY #Fun #SolarPunkSunday

2025-03-09 16:58:15 UTC

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That is journalistic malpractice. They should limit their reporting to observable facts, and not promote talking points. Of course, the CPC relies on soc-med to get out their disinformation, and that disinformation *campaign* is news worth reporting.

2025-02-04 09:56:27 UTC

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Thanks for this. It’s going to be in my slide deck for my class, today. Most are trying to be kind, but some haven’t figured out that the new status quo can consume them, too.

2025-01-26 13:14:28 UTC

Trump suggests Palestinians leave Gaza and ‘we just clean out’ territory | US news | The Guardian
I’m sure this was on the minds of many who refused to vote for Harris/Walz because the former VP was “soft on Israel”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/trump-resumes-sending-2000-pound-bombs-to-israel-undoing-biden-pause

2024-11-13 12:14:30 UTC

Apparently, Arabic language song (‘Haza Salaam’ trans “This is Peace”) is “egregious”, especially during Remembrance Day commemorations.
Sounds about white.
#Canada #Ottawa
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-high-school-principal-apologizes-for-song-played-during-remembrance-day-assembly-1.7106873

2024-09-18 16:55:36 UTC

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Well that answers a couple of questions: Yes there are more booby-trapped devices out there, and Israel has access to the battery supply chain.
The only good news is that they apparently haven’t figured out a way to make standard batteries explode.
Anyone know what make/model of batteries were compromised?
#stateterrorism #pagers
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/lebanon-attacks-pagers-radios-1.7326750

2024-09-18 11:38:13 UTC

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Which raises the questions: How many untriggered devices are still out there? How secure are battery supply-chains? How did Israel get access?
#pager #stateterror