I'd start with Strange New Worlds. It's very classic Trek in terms of its themes and stories, but as it's still being made it has contemporary audiences in mind. If you like it, I would then go to TNG.
This documentary follows the formation of the Amazon Labor Union, showing how difficult it is for workers working for a company determined to efface their rights
This documentary follows the formation of the Amazon Labor Union, showing how difficult it is for workers working for a company determined to efface their rights
Exactly. I think Labour would do it, more than happily, were it not for the housing crisis. They understandably want to build a lot, quickly, but they need to be convinced that the crisis won't really be 'solved' without medium- long-term thinking, which includes eco-friendly standards.
Yeah, no room for complacency! But that's why we need to do the difficult things quickly (e.g., building all the pylons we need to link up new green energy developments) and also do things that aren't likely to be undone (which is why Labour shouldn't drop the requirement for new homes to have solar panels).
In the UK, the environmental movement has actually won the argument, but I don't think we've fully realised it, yet. Even Conservative voters (if not MPs) want climate action as a high priority.
I'm sceptical, but I think that as long as carbon capture happens alongside shutting down fossil fuels, it's at least worth a try.
Exclusive: Target is 81% emissions cut compared with 1990, but activists say it must be backed by plan of action
Yeah, you're right about the footnotes. I read someone the other day saying they felt like Kuang was writing with an imaginary social justice scold hovering over her, and I think that's about right. I find it odd that someone feels they have to say 'racism â which is bad, by the way â exists in this society'. We know it's bad! Even racists don't like being called racist!
I started reading it yesterday, so I'll let you know.
Why did you dislike it?
I'm not going to go through this point by point. Some of it I think is probably about right and some not. What I will say is that I don't think it's consistent to say people were crying wolf over Trump, who tried to overthrow one election and would have done the same with this one had he lost, and then in the same place to suggest that a Harris win would've resulted in the end of democracy based entirely on a loosely defined notion of elitism.
Yeah, if I was in charge I'd build council housing for the rich, too (like the Barbican). Then the money currently going on rent and mortgages could be better invested elsewhere!
sell them for full market value and put any profit into a fund to build more council houses
This is probably the way to go, because then the Tories won't be able to run on 'Bring Back Right To Buy'.
Angela Rayner says restrictions may be placed on sale of new social housing to prevent loss of stock
The prime minister has made important first steps on bolstering standards.
At least one good thing happened today: Starmer's government published an improved ministerial code.
My point was that if the man is still 'armed', he hasn't been 'disarmed', he just has one less (type of) gun. For example, if I told you that there was a man in my street with two guns, and then added that he'd now been disarmed (forcibly or otherwise), you would assume that he now had zero guns.
The fact that he didn't call them trash is the salient point here.
I mean, apart from anything else, the word he used, whatever it was applied to, was 'garbage'.
disarm
If a man had an assault rifle and a handgun, and he put down the assault rifle, would you describe him as 'unarmed'? If so, I don't think you can describe removing assault rifles as 'disarming' people.
No, he didn't. Both the context and the grammar make it clear that my interpretation is correct. Even if you interpret it unsumpathetically, the inference that it's 'all' Trump supporters is something you've added.
Any Trump supporter pretending to be offended by what Biden didn't actually say is in any case a massive hypocrite, because Trump built his political career on being offensive. They can't turn around now and act all offended unless they also repudiate Trump.
That's part of the reason I'm sharing it here!
Anyway, I'm sure there's a non-zero number of conservative-leaning readers of the NYT. Every one of them who's swayed away from Trump is a win.
He didn't. "The only garbage I see is his supporter's" garbage, i.e, it's the possessive "'s". The clue here is 'is', singular. If he meant a group of people, he'd have said 'are', plural.
Anyway, Trump called the whole country a garbage can, so if you're so desperately offended by your misunderstanding of Biden's comments, I guess you're also pretty torn up about Trump's actual comments, right?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30532463
He was a secret Marxist all along. The Daily Mail was right!
A year after completion, an innovative UK river âresetâ project has been hailed a success. It could provide a template for tackling some of the impacts of more extreme weather events.
>Industrial strategy can accelerate growth and create good jobs, says TUC
A longtime conservative, alienated by Trumpism, tries to come to terms with life on the moderate edge of the Democratic Party.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14237802
> cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14237801 > > > Archive link. > > > > A ridiculous number of the recent posts to this sub are me trying to convince conservatives not to vote for Trump.
Anyway, here are this guyâs reasons:
>[The] Republican relationship to truth and knowledge has gone to hell. MAGA is a fever swamp of lies, conspiracy theories, and scorn for expertise. The Blue World, in contrast, is a place more amenable to disagreement, debate, and the energetic pursuit of truth.
>Iâve come to appreciate the Democratsâ long-standing tradition of using a pragmatic imagination. I like being around people who know that itâs really hard to design policies that will help others but who have devoted their lives to doing it well [âŚ] Over the past four years, Iâve watched the Biden administration use pragmatic imagination to funnel money to parts of America that have long been left behind.
>Another set of qualities now drawing me toward the Democrats: patriotism and regular Americanness.
>But ultimately whatâs pulling me away from the Republican Party and toward the Democrats is one final quality of Blue World: its greater ability to self-correct. Democrats, Iâve concluded, are better at scrutinizing, and conquering, their own shortcomings than Republicans are.
A longtime conservative, alienated by Trumpism, tries to come to terms with life on the moderate edge of the Democratic Party.
A ridiculous number of the recent posts to this sub are me trying to convince conservatives not to vote for Trump.
Anyway, here are this guy's reasons:
>[The] Republican relationship to truth and knowledge has gone to hell. MAGA is a fever swamp of lies, conspiracy theories, and scorn for expertise. The Blue World, in contrast, is a place more amenable to disagreement, debate, and the energetic pursuit of truth.
>Iâve come to appreciate the Democratsâ long-standing tradition of using a pragmatic imagination. I like being around people who know that itâs really hard to design policies that will help others but who have devoted their lives to doing it well [...] Over the past four years, Iâve watched the Biden administration use pragmatic imagination to funnel money to parts of America that have long been left behind.
>Another set of qualities now drawing me toward the Democrats: patriotism and regular Americanness.
>But ultimately whatâs pulling me away from the Republican Party and toward the Democrats is one final quality of Blue World: its greater ability to self-correct. Democrats, Iâve concluded, are better at scrutinizing, and conquering, their own shortcomings than Republicans are.
Exclusive: Labour to promise more investment as PM tells Guardian he will not be distracted by âside windsâ
The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washingtonâs vision for the presidencyâand the United States.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14148802
> I'm not a conservative myself, but I defy any conservative intending to vote for Donald Trump to read this comparison of Washington and Trump, and to honestly tell themselves afterwards that that they believe in America and its ideals.
The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washingtonâs vision for the presidencyâand the United States.
I'm not a conservative myself, but I defy any conservative intending to vote for Donald Trump to read this comparison of Washington and Trump, and to honestly tell themselves afterwards that that they believe in America and its ideals.
Improvements to workersâ rights to include day-one universal sick pay and an end to zero-hours contracts and fire and rehire
Former foreign and home secretary loses out in shock result in final round of MPsâ voting
Exclusive: chancellorâs plan to change rules to allow more borrowing comes as cost of government debt rises
I'm sure similar things have been shared here before because I saw this and thought it was possibly the most solar punk thing possible.
A 3D printer that:
- Is solar powered
- Is open source
- Can be run using FOSS
- Can use recycled plastic as its material
- Can print most of its own parts, including the solar panel components
