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2/2 What I do love on #Bsky:
✅ If I #block people, it takes seconds that they are not only muted but indeed blocked - no more visibility for each other.
✅ I can choose for every post who can #comment: all people, followees, follower or both, etc. And I can close a post for any comment, even later (if something escalates).

This is what I wish for #Mastodon (oh yes, let me dream!)

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@BlumeEvolution
Hollywoodfilme haben für Aussenstehende immer übertrieben oft US Fahnen im Bild und Werbeszenen der besten Armee der Welt.
Ergänzend zur Maschinerie gibt es Videospiele. Sympathie, Abschreckung, Patriotismus, da werden ja viele Zielgruppen angesprochen.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ

Wenn Narrative langfristig und immer wieder erzählt werden, setzen sie sich durch.

Team America fasst das Selbstbild der Weltpolizei sehr schön zusammen.
m.imdb.com/de/title/tt0372588/

@MontyRunner

en.m.wikipedia.orgAmerica's Army - Wikipedia
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@BlumeEvolution
Wir reden ja über ganzheitliche Systeme. Würde Wasserstoff nur als Fahrzeugkraftstoff hergestellt, wäre der Einwurf berechtigt.

Kosteneinsparung durch Nutzung eines vorhandener Gasinfrastruktur spart nicht Geld, sondern auch Bau und Herstellungskosten.

Gerade das Argument bei der Hydrolyse ebenfalls Sauerstoff zu gewinnen und den Kläranlagen zuzuführen ist eine schlaue Zusatzoption, die dem Gesamtsystem hilft.

Im Zuge kritischer Infrastruktur ist ein Ökosystem an NACHHALTIGEN Kraftwerken und Speichern positiv.

Ein Utopia wäre erreicht, wenn exponentiell zugebauter Strom als Flatrate verfügbar wird. Dann lacht man über Dunkelflaute und Überschussnutzung. Dann könnten sogar IT Big Techs mit Blockchain und KIs um die Ecke kommen. Vielleicht war der Zeitpunkt der Energierevolution noch zu früh.

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@BlumeEvolution
So möchte doch jeder gerne derbe beleidigt werden.😃

Das Wasserproblem muss man konkretisieren zu "Süß"wasser.
Schon an Küstengebieten wird das Meer immer da sein, auch wenn durch fehlenden Regen Flüsse und Seen austrocknen.
Deshalb wird versucht, z.B. Kartoffeln zu züchten, die man mit Salzwasser bewässern kann oder gleich auch salzliebende Pflanzen umsteigen.

Damit kommt aber kein Tropfen Wasser auf die Alm, gefriert zu Gletschereis, geschweige denn zu Bodensee oder Rhein zu werden.

Bei der Rumgeschwurbelei frage ich mich dann immer, was das helfen soll?
So eine Mad Max Dystopie zu schaffen, wo Endzeitmenschen mit Verbrenner durch die Wüste fahren. Das ist doch kein Ziel. Und dann sollte auch das Geschäft mit Öl nicht mehr laufen.

Auch als Wirtschafts-Techi komme ich zu dem Punkt, wo Technik (nachgeordnet) in einen nachhaltigen Lebenszyklus integriert sein muss.

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@BlumeEvolution
Teil1:
Die Ohnmacht überkommt einen, bedenkt man, wir zahlen sowohl die Angriffswaffen als auch die Verteidigungswaffen.
Das macht alles sinnlos.

Das ist Aufgabe der Politik das zu stoppen. Solar, Speicher, Wind, Biogas.(nicht mehr drosseln), Müllverbrennungsanlage (wir kriegen Verbundstoffe sowieso nicht recyclet, dann lieber in Europa kontrolliert entsorgen).

Die Fossile sind nicht nur der Tod des Klimas sondern auch der Ewigkeitsmotor des Krieges in Europa.

Teil2:
yalerussianbusinessretreat.com/

Yale Companies List​Yale CELI List of CompaniesSince the war in Ukraine began, many companies have announced their withdrawal from Russia, but some of them still operate in Russia undeterred.
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Want american Democrats to ACTUALLY DO something already?

Consider Direct Action instead!
But as well as that, we *do* need a non-corrupt (yet! there's always time, ofc) replacement party that is ACTUALLY left-wing.

Tea Party and MAGA supporters did it. Don't follow their strategies completely, but DO LEARN FROM them. We All deserve better, even the Leopards Eating People's Faces party.

How many of them would have supported having their faces eaten if they KNEW it wasn't hyperbole or something?
Or if they took time to imagine and plan for the risks: their or loved ones' faces being eaten by leopards?

lgbtqia.space/@MxVerda/1139337

Now we just need a name and bunch of furries to advise how to protect our information technologies.

LGBTQIA.SpaceMx Verda (@MxVerda@lgbtqia.space)@swacknificent@fosstodon.org @TCatInReality@mastodon.social @StillIRise1963@mastodon.world Equality Now (stolen obv), Anti-Hierarchy, All of us or no one, Let People Live, Past the Polycrises, Gunderman's Go-Getters, Uppity Queers, Ok Fueler, Feelers and Doers, Future Crafters, Generations' Orchestration, Leave Later Lovely, Prog Glock, Amass Health, Our Improvement Movement
#US#USA#UnitedStates
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@swacknificent @TCatInReality @StillIRise1963

Prompt and Push. No one more than anyone. Punch Fascists. Tolerate No Intolerance. Ideal Outcomes.

These all feel like mottos or mission statements more than names, but eh. Hopefully this inspires someone. -- oh my god:

NOT DEM.

Varied Mountain Climbers?
"Everyone climbs the mountain in their own way."
After the (I wanna say Hong Kong?) Protests,
back when Blizzard censored an eSports player for mentioning or holding a flag or something?

(Or maybe enlightened leftists, for a laugh based on enlightened centrists.)

#US#USA#UnitedStates
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As noted in the article, the UCP's $2 million dollar report to review Alberta's Pandemic Response was panned by the Alberta Medical Association.

Calling it "anti-science" and "anti-evidence," the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) claims the document advances misinformation.
"It speaks against the broadest and most diligent international scientific collaboration and consensus in history.… Science and evidence brought us through [the pandemic] and saved millions of lives," AMA president Dr. Shelley Duggan said in a statement.
This is such a missed opportunity for Alberta to document the impact of COVID upon our communities, and an embarrassment on the part of those involved in this report.

Don't take AMA's word for it - nor mine. Go download the AB Report for yourself. I invite you to look over the first few pages. Once you're done, go look at the UK's COVID Inquiry and look at the first few pages, and then look at Australia's COVID Inquiry Report Foreword.

At the end of the day, Alberta's own report couldn't pay any respect to the people who died.

They didn't pay any respect to the people who survived.

They didn't give voice to our experience.

This is a disgrace. Science aside, clearly $2 million dollars doesn't afford Alberta any humanity either.

#EthicalFading

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/covid-19-alberta-vaccine-task-force-1.7442816

https://open.alberta.ca/publications/albertas-covid-19-pandemic-response

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-covid-19-inquiry-resilience-and-preparedness-module-1-report

https://www.pmc.gov.au/resources/covid-19-response-inquiry-report
CBCAlberta doctors push back on provincial COVID-19 task force report | CBC NewsA task force created by the UCP government to review the province’s pandemic response has issued its final report and, while it is currently being reviewed by the province, Alberta doctors are pushing back, saying it contains misinformation and poses a threat to public health.
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Healthcare for Rural Alberta: Good, Bad, and Ugly

I agree that transforming Alberta’s Healthcare system defined her GOV in 2024: Just not for the benefit of Albertans.

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/premier-smith-proud-of-alberta-s-major-transformation-of-health-care-in-2024-1.7149334

Despite the UCP often declaring the virtues of private healthcare, I don’t think that such a private system - tiered or otherwise - was ever realistic for Rural Alberta. If you look at the extreme, and ask what it might look like for a fully private model, I doubt you would find any supporters willing to pay full freight for their family doctor visits, surgeries, or emergency medical services.

I’d suspect if Rural Albertans were sat down and asked to pay hundreds of dollars for each of their Family Doctor visits, or thousands of dollars for their EMS call, the UCP would have no future.

Where does that leave us?

What does it mean when Premier Smith applauds herself for transforming Healthcare?

I’d suggest that - possibly - it means more “gaps” for incidents such as the Contentment Social Services. Gaps where the Minister of Health and its offices say they had no idea, joined by Alberta’s now four agencies who also say they had no idea.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/province-has-no-ties-to-provider-that-sent-stroke-patient-to-leduc-hotel-alberta-ministers-say-1.7150255

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-health-minister-pledges-to-fix-huge-gap-in-post-hospital-discharge-system-1.7154752

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-government-mulls-legal-action-against-social-services-agency-that-moved-clients-to-motel-1.7343863

Maybe it means more ethics “disputes” like the one Albertans learned of in Dr. Daniel O’Connell.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-ahs-physician-dispute-investigation-1.7111961

Or, maybe, it means these unexplained forms in favour of private corporate interests?

https://www.theprogressreport.ca/exclusive_ahs_pressured_health_care_workers_to_transfer_mentally_ill_patients_prescriptions_to_shoppers_drug_mart

Rural Albertans rely more on ER visits than those who live in the cities. From a fully privatized point of view, Rural Albertans stand to gain nothing in such a scenario. Cost of healthcare would skyrocket and become completely uncompetitive to the cities.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/rural-albertans-use-ers-more-than-those-in-edmonton-and-calgary-review-shows-1.5461339

How about allegations of increased inefficiency and/or graft to the current system? There’s not much of a future there either. One would have to believe that the only people who benefit in this scenario are corporate players and GOV insiders, many of whom would not be properly considered middle class “Rural Albertan”.

As a thought, we can take this to the next level: A world where these “gaps” are okay as long as the “correct” team is involved.

#EthicalFading

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