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Cake day: March 14th, 2023
  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.nettoAnarchism and Social Ecology@slrpnk.net•Article: Civilization And Its Discontents – Critical Reflections On Anarcho-Primitivism – AnarchistStudies.BlogEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I don’t agree with much of the article at all, he’s approaching it complety from a philsiophical bent which i think is self defeating eg why does Monbiot propose producing vegan food in labs as the only way foward ? Becase farming has gone past a tipping point of sustainability. To then equate how we farm (mega industrial farming) to his litte plot of land is folly. As someone who does much the same its in no way able to sustain 8 Billion people, I don’t even sustian myself, just supplement it. (My parter does lots of the work, i do the grunt work)

    I’m not sure what the article even hopes to achieve?.

    I do agree that no language is nonsese but I also agree with Diamond that agriculture was the worse of all mistakes, in hindsight…

    For me anarchonprmitivism is the only sustainable system to live upon the planet, it’s “perfect” in that respect.

    But we only know that with hindsight We can see that for example the Australian First Nations peoples lived 60,000 years in balance. That doesn’t mean no impact, as they killed mega fauna to the pont of extinction but the introduction of any top predator has that effect eg the domestic cat in Australia has sent countless species extinct.

    In every society that survived millennia, inequaity was always the key.

    A good segue is Tom Murphys series here on the cancer of modernity

    https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/07/metastatic-modernity-launch/

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.nettoBike Commuting@lemmy.ml•I just tightened the brakes on my bikeEnglish
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    11 days ago

    When the travel starts to bottom out on my hydraulic disk brakes, that typically means it’s time for new brake pads.

    Just replaced the brake pads (front an back) on my parters MTB (hydraulic) after we’d finished (she did most of tje work while i mansplained ) I told her to test ride and be careful jamming the brakes on as you’ll notice a difference. She came back “jesus fcukibg christ they nearly sent me over the bar!”. She’d been used to pulling them on further as the pads were well worn.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.nettoAustralia@aussie.zone•BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on saleEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Indeed, this in the FT yesterday

    https://archive.md/ujuyF

    If Europe wants to see how Chinese manufacturers could affect its all-important car industry, it could do worse than look to Norway. Fully 94 per cent of cars sold in the Nordic country in October were electric, putting it on course to hit a target of no new fossil-fuel passenger vehicles next year.

    Chinese carmakers sold no cars in Norway in 2019; this year so far, they have managed to take 11 per cent market share. Brands such as MG, BYD and Xpeng are common sights on Norwegian streets. Perhaps most telling is that Oslo’s main shopping strip Karl Johans Gate has only one car dealership on it: Nio, a relatively new Chinese brand.

    The US and EU have sought to stem the rise of Chinese electric cars with tariffs, but Norway has pointedly refused to follow suit.