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  • English translation for others:

    Title: The success story of guerrilla photovoltaics as a solar punk narrative

    Post Body: In recent years, photovoltaics have become widespread in Germany in a decentralized manner. The solar punk vision of a self-sufficient, more climate-friendly energy supply is getting a little closer. This is also a success story of social transformation, advanced by Do It Yourself and disobedience (both central characteristics of punk), through serious global crises, social role models and positive social contagion effects.



















  • I’m probably up to, like, 90% vegetarian these days (it’s been a long road lol).

    You’re way ahead of me, I’ve been kinda stuck trying to find a good homemadd alternative to impossible, but it’s been tough to find something that passes the good enough mark.

    I notice the difference with Beyond meat as well, which has a slightly unpleasant aftertaste for me too. Overall just OK. Usually don’t seek it out.

    I’m surprised people at those cookouts can notice with impossible though. I haven’t tried to grill them, so maybe that makes it more pronounced? But out of my airfryer, I genuinely cannot detect anything unmeaty about them, which blew my mind the first time I tried em.

    I tend to get them as a treat since they’re so much. I rarely see them on sale around here :/






  • I think the worry is that, sometimes problems or concepts are too complex to be distilled into a short form. If someone only ever gets the short version of everything, they can lose a tremendous amount of nuance, and the desire for the shortest version may lead people to come away with a misinformed or caricaturized version.

    We’re already seeing how dangerous that is with how everything has to be a quick soundbyte or people lose interest due to a short attention span, to the point where they ONLY know the soundbyte but feel well informed, when they are in fact still ignorant. This can lead to people being easily manipulated, or coming to harmful conclusions that don’t account for enough complexity or variables.

    If tiktok and twitter train your mind to have a short attention span, reading long form books trains your mind to be able to hold large concepts in your head all at once, and how they relate to one another. In other words, it is training you to be able to form ‘big picture’ conceptions about things.

    This video on the subject does a good job of delving into the issue.






  • Proton were forced by swiss court order to log the IP address of a climate activist, which led to his arrest, but as far as we know they never actually breached his encrypted emails.

    Tuta had a similar incident, but due to being based in Germany, had to go farther, and allowed access to any emails that weren’t encrypted for the court ordered individual.

    That only matters if you believe you will be a person of interest for your government, and the lesson is that no email service is perfectly safe for things that require that level of protection.

    For most of us, any of the private emails will be fine, and are certainly better than Google.