Posts by KimSJ@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #AXPQIPE7MIwVtD28Tw by KimSJ@mastodon.social
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       @SeaMonster @ChrisMayLA6 ‘Glazering’ is a word we need in the English language… bleeding institutions dry by loading up debt to pay huge dividends. It’s a far more effective way for the parasites to get richer than old-fashioned asset stripping, and probably even more destructive.
       
 (DIR) Post #AztknCMvl1CXjmvfIe by KimSJ@mastodon.social
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       I have long been of the opinion that economists’ estimations of ‘acceptable’ global warming were dangerously naive. This article by Ann Pettifor provides damning evidence of just how naive these calculations have been, and still are, sadly…     Essential reading for anyone still complacent about the climate emergency!https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/08/22/neoclassical-economists-are-the-last-people-to-listen-to-on-climate-change/(Edited to fix the link)#Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
       
 (DIR) Post #AztknCSFRFSG0HPuaW by KimSJ@mastodon.social
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       Has it not struck anybody how farcical it is that a sixteen year old can legally participate in a gang bang, but can’t look at some of the content on Wikipedia?#OSAhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr11qqvvwlo
       
 (DIR) Post #AztknEa7WwwMbH7E8W by KimSJ@mastodon.social
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       Engineers spend a lot of time anticipating possible problems and patching round them before they actually happen. The best known example of this was the so-called Millennium Bug: hundreds of thousands of hours spent checking and fixing computer systems to make sure that the year 2000 arrived without any disasters.Politicians are the complete opposite: they seem to wait for disasters to happen before they even begin to think about solutions. Why do we accept this dumb, irresponsible behaviour?
       
 (DIR) Post #AztknKbl7lofI5vcWW by KimSJ@mastodon.social
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       @guigsy A great example of the Kimbeau effect… if things go smoothly, people come to believe the status-quo is inevitable, and start to focus on the small irritations. So they turn politics upside down in an attempt to fix the minor stuff, without realising that they will wreck the big things that way. That’s why people vote out left-wing Governments.
       
 (DIR) Post #AztknKjCg5lrfBPZ7w by KimSJ@mastodon.social
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       Worse still, we now have politicians claiming that the Millennium Bug was an over-hyped panic — “see, nothing happened, it was all a fuss about nothing”. Why aren’t such statements laughed out of court?I’m thinking about this in the context of Covid. People claiming the lockdowns were unnecessary, etc. If politicians had done enough to avoid a global pandemic, would anyone have thanked them? I think not. Instead they would have been ridiculed for ‘over-reacting’. Who’d be a politician!.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0HLu1YSWlfnAIW9kO by KimSJ@mastodon.social
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       I have just realised why legislators are pushing forward with proposals to monitor encrypted Internet traffic. They assume that objections are political, because everything *they* do is political. This allows them to dismiss expert opinion (almost universally hostile to their ideas) as just politicking.     Politicians are completely incapable of understanding that some people deal in actual facts. We hit the same problem when it comes to climate science. God help us all!
       
 (DIR) Post #B0HLu2MRWvehfJu4em by KimSJ@mastodon.social
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       @eff https://mastodon.social/@KimSJ/115533575299567049
       
 (DIR) Post #B0qD7hxm4CtlOyPFVA by KimSJ@mastodon.social
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       @Tutanota @noybeu Maybe going to https://www.facebook.com/privacy/genaishort-circuits some of those steps?