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Cake day: September 16th, 2020
  • uthredii@lemmy.mlMtoFuck Cars@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*
    4·
    2 years ago

    This community exists as a sort of sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.

    I think both communities exist for the following reasons:

    • to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
    • to discuss and promote alternative transport methods

    I’m very uncertain about what content is allowed here and I think if the sidebar could specify a bit more that’d be nice.

    yeah the sidebar could be a bit more clear. I will update it later today.

  • uthredii@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you went to college or are going to college what have you studied and what were your favorite learning techniques?
    5·
    2 years ago
    • Find people on your course that can help you and that you can help. Teaching something you know to classmates helps you learn. There is a saying “one teach, two learn” and it is true.
    • Try to review the content of a lecture before attending the lecture. Even if it is a fast 5 minute skim of the material it will help you
    • Try to get an overview of the course at the start, again a quick skim might take an hour or so, but the content will be more familiar when you get around to it.
    • For maths and science Khan academy is really useful.
    • There is a short course on Coursera called ‘Learning how to learn’ that includes some of the above points, it is worth checking out.
  • uthredii@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Will Lemmy ever replace Reddit?
    9·
    2 years ago

    Reddit is really good for hobby/niche content. Reddit communities have become the largest online communities for quiet a few different interests where previously the largest communities would be independent forums.

    It would be great if some forums decided to use Lemmy. I guess there are barriers to this, e.g. user interface changes might not be wanted and it might be difficult to export/import the forum history.

  • uthredii@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Quite the scholar
    2·
    3 years ago

    I am getting tired of this meme. It is basically complaint about people talking about world events unless they are “experts”.

    We should look to experts for our sources of information but it is a bit shirt to mock normal people for talking about the world around them imo

  • uthredii@lemmy.mlOPtoGreen - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml•We've got climate change under control...apparently!
    1·
    3 years ago

    Rather than acknowledging that climate change is caused by emissions which are largely done through energy production, transport in supply chains and industrial activities, i.e. systemic elements, he goes on to complain about how individuals, who have nothing to do with energy production or transport, are hypocrites.

    Almost everyone in the countries surveyd use energy and transport. Infact the countries surveyd are the largest GHG emitters (historically and per capita). Why do you think industrial emissions happen? It’s because individuals buy what companies sell.

    If people (particularly in the countries surveyd):

    1. continue to consume on this scale
    2. refuse to support regulations that will force companies to emmit less

    then GHG emissions (and environmental damage in general) will continue to remain high.

    The solution to global warming is to wind down the fossil fuel industry to zero, which should be easy enough to understand. This is an act that will have a significant impact everywhere and we should focus on managing that change.

    Ok, how are you going to do that without reducing consumption? We have been investing in green energy for decades and fossil fuel consumption continues to increase every single year:

    I don’t like the framing that it is ‘industry’ that is causing GHG emissions because it lets the actual individuals who are taking advantage of the system of the hook. These individuals are the shareholders who profit, but they are also the consumers who get ultra cheap goods because they don’t give a fuck where it came from.

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