Eastern Europe collapsing in the power vacuum left by the fall of the USSR, multiple civil wars, horrendous war crimes including genocide. NATO having to go in.

Can you link your WhatsApp account to these though? I’m not going around trying to persuade everyone to get off WhatsApp. I’d be better off just using RCS.

Meta owns WhatsApp.

Yes china has a lot of coal power. They also have a really fucking lot of solar. They are also currently in the process of installing twice as much as the whole rest of the world combined. The huge amount of renewables they’ve installed has lead to some analysis pointing to the potential that they have now reached peak CO2 output.

Whether the motivation is energy security, reducing costs or green policy it doesn’t matter. At the end of the day the results are the same.

https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/china-continues-to-lead-the-world-in-wind-and-solar-with-twice-as-much-capacity-under-construction-as-the-rest-of-the-world-combined/

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-set-to-fall-in-2024-after-record-growth-in-clean-energy/

(now if they could just quit the whole genocide and repression of human rights that would be fab)

It’s probably because I’m British so assume I don’t need to use things like /s

More making an analogy.

Something like this at £40 per 100g will taste as different to ops Irish breakfast tea as the Champaign and the cheap sparkling wine.

Exactly.

Sounds like you’ve been drinking some shit twinings level Darjeeling.

Alternative

I think the £3 bottle of prosecco I got from aldi and the £100 Champaign taste the same.

"We” as in consumers don’t use enough to hurt companies by divesting.

I think you’re confused by what divesting is. That’s us as business owners, not as customers (obviously we as customers can hit them simultaneously from the other side too).

Yes, individually it doesn’t hurt them much, but it becomes the death of a thousand cuts.

If you can put pressure on your pension provider, local government, church, favourite charity or any other organisation you care about to drop funds with them in entirely then all the better.

By all means do anything you can to reduce your individual carbon footprint

Divesting is not to do with that, it’s about hitting these companies right in the share price.

Which, as I said, is exactly why we should stop giving them our money. Divestment is a key thing people can will hurt these companies massively.

The most significant difference individuals can make is to create political and legal pressure by voting and protesting.

Well can also stop giving them our money. Reduce consumption of their products through alternatives and overall reduction. We can also divest our investments away from funds that include their shares.

Very strange. It doesn’t work. I shared directly from the f-droid client droid-ify

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/index.html

Oh weird. That’s shared from droid-ify which is an f-droid client.

Here’s the proper link https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/index.html

Be the change your want to see in the world https://droidify.eu.org/app/?id=de.westnordost.streetcomplete&repo_address=https://f-droid.org/archive

That being stopped by the police and saying you’d don’t consent to being searched won’t fly in the UK. The police have the right to use force if you refuse to be searched. So say that line and expect yourself to be pinned to the ground and searched anyway.

I’d swap may out for probably TBH.

If you’re doing it yourself you’ve got control over how much you’re adding. It’s the pre made sauces they are the problem where they use it as a cheap way of masking how shit the tomatoes they’re using are.

You need just a small amount.

Parmesan makes sense, it’s a bit alkaline so will act to help neutralise the acid. You could also put a small amount of bicarb in.

Add a tiny bit of bicarb to cut the acid down. Sugar just makes it sweeter and doesn’t actually do anything about the acid.