Iconoclast
What an wonderful and inspiring human, I rarely see uplifting stuff like this so I enjoyed reading about him. I hope he can achieve all his dreams and see the end of coal in his lifetime.
I tried 1) with my mother, who is sadly hooked on right wing news sources. The fires in Europe are being laid by disgruntled migrants and the “elites” are withholding their geo engineering powers due to greed, they could simply make it rain, but that isn‘t profitable enough or something.
She didn‘t really listen to my perspective. Overall, as always, it was a waste of time trying to communicate about anything of substance. I‘ve had a similar experience with a coworker recently, making me feel pretty hopeless sometimes how many people like that are out there.
I loved this, thank you for sharing. I was in this industry when I was young and it was so awful, we basically learned how to brainwash people into buying shit they don’t want or need. Article described it all well. I turned anti-ad for life.
Sadly, most people seem to either enjoy it or not care. I try to do some good as an IT person by teaching about adblockers, but get this: some people want to see ads, yeah I‘m baffled. So it would be a battle to get rid of ads. Neat to hear there is some small progress though.
Ok so the evidence of this “division” is one guy who made his own NGO and shits on the others, so he can get those who are annoyed by the protest to donate to him instead I guess. Not a bad financial move overall, if those who complained actually gave a shit about the climate, which I don‘t think they do. Those who do probably stick to those groups who we can visibly see doing these protests.
This is some real “if life gives you lemons” type of stuff, I like it.
It‘s just a deflection again, basically spreading the blame onto everyone and anyone, which makes a lot of people defensive and double down or act as useful pawns for conservatives, who want to stall any action on climate change that could hurt their pockets.
I guess it‘s great compared to other big cities, but it could still be better. Not trying to be a downer, but complaining is how we keep the politicians working on this here so it’s in my nature and Vienna could do with even more affordable 2 bedroom apartments. I‘m looking to move there next year and it‘s still a bit too much for someone earning median wage.
Ratatouille, the provencale version (stew like). Eggplant, bell pepper, onion, garlic, zucchini, tomatoes and sometimes olives, I serve with either baguette or rice.
I came here originally cause I think this instance is likely to defederate from Meta (and cause I enjoy the content and want to contribute a bit of course), though I‘m also not the type to raise a big stink if it didn’t, at most I upvote and affirm posts like this.
I really like about the Fediverse that I can basically just move on to another instance which suits me better, if I notice things going a way I don‘t want them to.