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Gently reminding everyone that a well-fitting N95 mask can filter out a lot of particulates. Particularly helpful for people with asthma going outside, but tbh, on days like this I just wear them everywhere. I’m already wearing them in indoor spaces to protect me from covid, why not keep it on outside to protect me from smoke

Seconded! A book club sounds really cool :D

Yeah, exactly. I have my news feeds curated to give me the information I need. But when I’m here I want to be talking about what we can do, getting inspired, making connections, not just getting more sad and more cynical

The thing is, it’s a lot easier to copy and paste a news article than it is to make a new post from scratch - I think people are posting other stuff, or at least I am, but it gets drowned out pretty fast. I wonder if we could have a separate community for news articles? Or a sticky post for sharing news articles? I think the news is super important but I also think part of creating a space for change means that we need to foster discussion rather than doomscrolling

Hi, not sure if this is the right place for this, but - I come to slrpnk.net to talk with people about solarpunk ideas and actions, but my dash is frequently filled with endless news stories. If I wanted to read upsetting news, I would… go read the news. Climate in particular has almost no discussion about climate change or actions we can take and only news articles. I’ve been thinking of blocking the community so that I don’t have to sift through news stories to get to posts by members of our community. Does anyone else feel like this? (Note: this isn’t to say that I’m ungrateful for the folks sharing the news articles. I do appreciate it! I just feel that for myself, I’d rather focus on the possibilities that solarpunk has and human connection with others in this movement.)

Very true, but when it comes to something like ChatGPT (or Claude or whatever new AI assistant we have with a cutesy name), people need to understand that using these services is a bad thing, until things change

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/39070502 neat little one-page zine about genAI!! Please spread it widely!

May this man rot in hell, and may people like him who are still around live in agony and loneliness.

The consumption of Elon Musk has been proven to be significantly more effective at reducing carbon than eating pork, beef or chicken

If OP hopes to retire or purchase a home (or farm land) someday, investing is pretty much a necessary part of that. I won’t say it’s true for every case but it’s probably true for OP. Spending all your money isn’t a great long-term financial strat (though the farmstead plan, if someone can somehow afford it without investing, seems pretty damn solid to me)

Very well written article. We need to hold CEOs responsible for hammering the delicate window of our spaceship

Get rid of Chrome. It's obsolete these days anyway

American here. Can confirm. It’s not left vs right, it really is just two different colors.

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D’you wanna explain what you meant initially? I did assume that I’d offended you somehow because you cursed while disagreeing with me, so I wanted to know what I said wrong. I’m interested in hearing your thoughts. It’s a really scary time in the world right now, and I know that we’re just randos on the internet but it is important to me to listen when you speak - we’re all hanging out on slrpnk so ultimately we share a base ideology.

Yeah? I’m so confused now ;-;

um… did I say something wrong? I didn’t mean to be offensive, it seems like you’re having a really strong reaction to something I said

Blows my fuckin mind that fuckin Orange Palpatine is accidentally making the whole world switch to renewable energy while he turns the US into a dictatorship. Honestly, it kind of gives me some hope? Like how do you fuck up being H*tler so badly that you make the rest of the world a better place

No shame, survival is a worthy cause, maybe the most worthy

Thank you, I needed to hear this