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That’s interesting… I thought a Scandinavian country was known for banning ICE cars. Though apparently Ethiopia is getting credit for the first to enact the policy.
Though in principle it would make sense to have an exception so that someone in Ethiopia could to do ICE→EV conversions if they wanted.
If your premise is that both POTUS candidates are equally bad (nonsense¹, but I’ll play along for a second), then your most foolish move is to give one of them the POTUS and also give that same party both branches of Congress.
The thread title should have made it clear that the actions herein are for climate activists who intend to support the democratic party. So what are you doing here? Giving anti-action advice counters the purpose of the thread. If you oppose Kamala then there is no problem here for you to solve. Your feedback could only be useful in a place like Gab.
¹ It’s utter nonsense in the very least because you think a POTUS is just one person, not an entire administration. It’s also an absurdity to claim any two people are equal on the environment when one of them is a climate denier and the other is not. It’s a fundamentally rock stupid claim at its core, particularly when the climate denier demonstrated a neutering of the EPA his first term in office.
And beyond that it’s a failure to understand that a large number of people are inherently in play. Incompetence can only explain the idea that the republican party and democratic party are equals on anything but most particularly environnmental policy.
You mentioned FedEx and UPS. That’s basically every package dealer.
I have not used FedEx and UPS for like 15 years now. Boycotting Amazon really helps because it essentially boils down to buying local.
No e-commerce, no sending items to loved ones, no freight whatsoever.
Not true. USPS ships pkgs.
In one very rare circumstance where I bought online in the past 15 yrs, the seller had a field for notes on the order form. I wrote something like “You do not say how you ship this. Please ship it USPS or DHL, or if that is not possible then cancel my order. Thanks.” They shipped it USPS.
The whole “vote with your wallet” thing is drivel concocted by those in power
Those in power love you for saying this. You could not advocate for them better than this boot-licking drivel.
The popular vote does not matter. It has no effect and no consequences. So you can give up on that.
Boycotts have consequences, so no good reason to neglect to boycott. In the very least you can rest knowing that you are not part of the problem.
Folks in my family vote D every opportunity. That’s a periodic drop-in-the-ocean single micro action. Then every single fucking day spanning the next 4 years they will continue to vote for all the republicans in the country (esp. Greg Abbott) by putting gas in their cars and feeding banks. It’s reckless. Then they wonder why republicans take power.
(edit) I have only ever heard anti-boycott folks claim (incorrectly¹) that boycotts do not work. Never has anyone given good cause for wasting your consumer power for nothing in return. It’s obviously a fool’s move to give up power for nothing.
¹ Recent example of boycotts working: McDonalds in Israel gave free meals to soldiers. Consumers outside Israel boycotted McDonalds, even though it was completely different store ownership, which would almost seem silly superficailly. But it worked so well that McDonalds bought all the Israeli shops with their brand just to nix the free meal promo to protect their brand.
It’s not just Republican shenanigans and Gerrymandering. We’ll see what the popular vote comes out to be; maybe Kamala will have “won” that,
That’s not how gerrymandering works. Gerrymandering affects the house and has zero effect on the POTUS election. So you are looking at irrelevant factors while ignoring opportunities to have effect – and worse in fact, encouraging others to not use their power. Your stance is purely destructive to your own apparent political posture.
American people didn’t understand Project 2025, or they agreed with it; both options are utterly demoralizing.
The inaction you advocate only supports Project 2025.
Judging from the article and abstract (not the study itself), I think it shows that natural reforestation is clearly better than humans doing arbitrary ad hoc reforestation. It does not seem to suggest that natural reforestation would outperform well-designed strategically engineered reforestation. We could make it as diverse as we want.
But it’s interesting nonetheless to be able to conclude that reforestation that is not well thought out is worse than doing nothing. It also means that the greenwashing practice of just planting arbitrary trees to take credit for carbon offsetting is even worse than previously thought.
I can’t see a wristwatch defying physics. It likely has to calculate your position fewer times per unit time, thus gets an updated fix less frequently than a phone. Which may be good enough when on foot. Otherwise it would suck the battery dry if it works too hard for a frequent high res fix. (edit: see item 4 on this page Looks like you get one calculation per second which is possibly a bit too infrequent for cycling unless the app is good at using other sensors to estimate intermediate positions)
When I said CPU load, I should have spoke more generically because indeed a dedicated chip is used. But that chip still needs energy. A dedicated GPS device would indeed help my situation, whether it’s a phone or otherwise. Getting an old dedicated satnav device isn’t a bad idea. The maps on those are far from useable but I recall some Garmins and Tomtoms had bluetooth and I think sending NMEA info is common. That might actually be a good way to repurpose an old obsolete dedicated satnav device – or phone that can be configured as such. There is an opentom project to put FOSS on a Tomtom.
what DO you want it to do?
Essential: navigation (and update maps over Tor), VOIP over VPN, render locally stored PDFs (pushed over adb).
Non-essential: XMPP (snikket), notes, calculator, take photos, scan QR codes, play from local music library
GPS navigation is heavy because calculating a fix from GPS satellites is always CPU intensive. This means (on old phones) the always-on screen coupled with CPU load while navigating drains the battery quick, which is a compounding problem because old devices are less efficient. On top of that, the CPU heat degrades the battery and charging performance when it is most needed. I would rather not strap a power bank to my arm. In principle I should navigate with two devices:
- a phone dedicated to receiving GPS, calculating the fix, and transmitting over bluetooth while screen is off (this could be stashed in a backpack)
- a phone with screen on and mapping software running, GPS disabled, bluetooth receiving the fix from the other phone
That would also mean when I stop for food or something I could charge both devices at the same time and they would each drain slower when used. Bluetooth uses much less energy than GPS. This approach is inspired by my PalmOS days, when a palm pilot had no GPS and there were dedicated separate tiny GPS→bluetooth devices. The tech exists but I think the GPS server app is either absent from f-droid or it requires a newer device (I forgot which).
