Posts by BarrenPlanet@calckey.social
 (DIR) Post #AVoOorNtyPY5auOGHY by BarrenPlanet@calckey.social
       2023-05-19T11:32:30.313Z
       
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       @doomscroller@mastodon.online @kravietz@agora.echelon.pl Germany does have nuclear weapons. Although the warheads are owned by the USA, Germany is a NATO member state. Belgium, Italy, Netherlands and Turkey also have nuclear weapons.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVtmG0pJyohcMSG6tM by BarrenPlanet@calckey.social
       2023-05-21T02:39:48.262Z
       
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       ChatGPT is a cop.
       
 (DIR) Post #AW6Aj4ivIf7vdqB052 by BarrenPlanet@calckey.social
       2023-05-27T23:39:15.862Z
       
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       “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”-- John Ehrlichman, senior aide to President Richard Nixon and co-conspirator in the Watergate scandal
       
 (DIR) Post #AWHxpR2lmqEfz2anNA by BarrenPlanet@calckey.social
       2023-06-01T13:22:32.575Z
       
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       "The idea that the UK obeyed "unelected bureaucrats" in Brussels, was fabricated as a diversionary tactic to give the rabble a common enemy, and distract attention away from the real architects of their misery: the austerians within Britain's own national government. For years, the press barons and conservative hacks knowingly scapegoated the EU and its economic migrants for issues caused by our own ruling classes. And a slim majority of the electorate swallowed it whole.Britain has never been dictated to by Brussels, nor has our democracy ever been undermined..."Full article:https://libera.site/item/052a7a34-2ae8-4754-a38c-02574b660b54#Brexit #BrexitLies #RightWingCoup
       
 (DIR) Post #AWSpnVR9orjs8T7zhA by BarrenPlanet@calckey.social
       2023-06-07T12:02:59.973Z
       
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       @breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social High humidity makes heatwaves so much worse. It's one of the reasons 40°C temperatures were no joke here in the UK. Foreigners from hotter countries laughed at us for not coping well with the heat, but we're a tiny island nation surrounded by sea. The heat here was different from the dry heat to which they were accustomed. I had friends of Black African heritage who weren't coping any better than the rest of us.Also, our homes were built to be heat traps, so there was no escape from the heat unless you were wealthy enough to have fancy air conditioning.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWn42ZYbEV2Ydxt51M by BarrenPlanet@calckey.social
       2023-06-17T16:32:34.697Z
       
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       @killick@dmv.community Some sort of wasp, most likely.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWv6q8SI1bbiF0NPRg by BarrenPlanet@calckey.social
       2023-06-12T16:15:03.618Z
       
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       Your occassional reminder that since 1988, only 100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, and 25 corporate and state-owned entities have been responsible for more than half of all emissions worldwide.Indeed, the whole concept of a "carbon footprint" came from a 2004 marketing campaign for British Petroleum (BP), one of the world's largest oil companies. The purpose was to individualise the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, and stave off government action against the worst pollutors.Not saying we shouldn't all take some personal responsibility for climate change, but let's not be tricked into failing to hold the main culprits to account.