Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at hoome. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!
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Beautiful landscape! Where is this located, comrade?
Thank you!
I’m hoping to visit China one day and paint some of these gorgeous natural landscapes. Absolutely breathtaking.
It’s bigger than it looks in the picture. You’re going to need a lot of paint.
I’m really glad we’ve federated with Hexbear. The weeks in between the reddit Lib influx and the Hexbear federation were really rough, since the shitty lib takes seemed to pop up way more than I was comfortable with. But as soon as we federate we end up once again with an overwhelming majority of based takes. Thank you Hexbearists for backing us up against the Lib idiots!
The best part about federating with Lemmygrad:
we’ve got 3 megathreads now
I was pissed when the colonial government in hawaii did nothing to help us when we burn, and move mountains to evac tourists. And now that they’ve sent “aid”, I’m even more pissed.
you want to know why?
Instead of sending extra volunteers, more firefighters, or further aid. Instead of stopping the landlord leeches currently using this crisis to further buy up land.
they sent a mortuary assistant to help identify our burnt corpses
That just feels like open mockery
Regardless of what happens with people in the wider fediverse demanding to defederate from Hexbear, I will always be glad to have our friends from Lemmygrad beside us
The water suppliers over here are starting to refer to people as customers like water isn’t a basic human right and they are rolling out a digital meter to track your water usage to the last drop (and charge you for it). This meter is closely watched by the EU to implement everywhere.
Europe is in a normal place.
Learn how to collect and treat your own rainwater I guess. Things are going to get really rough in the coming decades, that’ll become a vital skill.
Everywhere should have free water like Ireland but metered with a sensible amount of water free and anything over the designated free water amount sold for a sensible price. I’ve seen too many people in Ireland forget to turn off water all the time and using it like it’s not a precious resource just because it’s free.
Modlog continues to be my favorite sort option
Your fixation with race is astounding. I’ve quite honestly never even considered the word ‘mongrel’ to be racially charged, nor was that my intent. That should be all you need to know, really, but you do go on. The word ‘removed’ could be ascribed exactly the same level of racially charged slur, but that’s not what people generally think, noy whats in the dictionary or wikipedia and not what i think when i hear the word. Nor the word bastard for example. That is unless, of course, race and racism are at the forefront of your mind at all times.
the word ‘removed’ could be ascribed exactly the same level of racially charged slur, but
what a lot of words to say “i’m white”
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I hope you all have a nice week :D
There’s this Dutch energy company of which 40% of the customers have solar panels installed. They generate enough electricity for the people to give back to the company to store. This costs money, of course. Their solution? Have the customers pay for the electricity THEY PRODUCE. So you have these people, who want to have an eco friendly way of producing energy, and you’re going to fuck them over once more. You just can’t win in this system 🫠🫠🫠
I’ve heard this happens over here too, their lazy justification for it in our case is that you’re still using their grid to distribute the energy. As opposed to building your own grid, I guess.
if you don’t like my electrical grid, just use another one!I’ve heard of this being done intentionally in many countries, as (partially) self-sustaining households cut into the profits of electricity companies. Spain is an infamous example, though they seem to have ended the practice in 2019.
Legislation introduced in 2013 by Spain’s then-ruling Popular Party made it compulsory for any individual or company to hook their solar panels up to the national grid to be metered and taxed, or face fines running into millions of euros.
popular party
does something unpopular in every sense of the word
what bourgeois “democracy” does to a mf
Germany solved this “problem” by tacking 3-6c/kWh onto every person’s electric bill to pay for the electricity generated by individuals’ solar panels. Industry didn’t have to pay the surcharge though, just working people. As of last summer it’s been abolished, but do you think our electric price has come down?
Those customers should use their Aircon in the garden to (a) cool the planet and (b) lower their bills.
Hello! I’m new and happy to be here. Excited to explore Lemmygrad 🤗
Welcome! Enjoy your time here! :)
I’ve been asked to become a writer for the upcoming version of our official party line, which will be written after the next National Congress. My name will be forever tied to a published communist piece of literature.
that’s pretty cool
CIA finna tap my phone and wire my house only to find out I’m a pretty boring guy
After a local newspaper reported that Webb had died from multiple gunshots, the coroner’s office received so many calls asking about Webb’s death that Sacramento County Coroner Robert Lyons issued a statement confirming Webb had died by suicide.[71] When asked by local reporters about the possibility of two gunshots being a suicide, Lyons replied “It’s unusual in a suicide case to have two shots, but it has been done in the past, and it is in fact a distinct possibility.”
When? Did those cases also happen to involve people who challenged the CIA?
Based and well deserved!
points
shrieks
“I’m calling the posting police! You went outside! You touched grass! You did a praxis!”Also,
Dutch news is running a story about China’s youth unemployment of 21%, stating that according to economists, it’s a ‘telling sign of decay’. Meanwhile Europe is sitting at roughly the same percentage. I wonder what the signs say about that.
That ~21% unemployment rate is based off the 16-24 age group; composed of high school and university students, whose main task is studying and not working.
People of high school and university age actually go pursue an education and aren’t wage slaves? That’s terrible the east has fallen!
People of high school and university age actually go pursue an education and aren’t wage slaves?
But at what cost?
Bout three fiddy
Our society is going to crisis, quick make some articles about how CHINA IS BAD
The icing on the cake was how they said China’s economy had a growth of 4-5%. They said that this would be really good for a European country, but for China it is BAD lmao. Meanwhile the EU is committing economic suicide on virtually all levels.
It’s setting up the narrative for when China needs to be rescued from itself.
Wtf is this dystopian sh!t?
Gotta dress fascism in bright colours and kid-friendly fuzzy toys, then no-one would notice
Imperialist elmo would be a good bit ngl
Superhero comics fulfil this role already
School is starting in many places around the country, so it’s a good time to remind everyone that schools in the US are utterly and completely fucked. One of the largest ongoing domestic neoliberal projects is the current privatization of schooling via the charter school system, highly recommend people research it a bit so they know what’s going on.
American delenda est
They’re working on it
WHAT IS THAT
It would appear to be a custard tart with raspberries and most likely cream, but I suppose it could be “white chocolate” or icing or something like that
