sbv @ sbv @sh.itjust.works

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When you get to 50, you'll understand.

I'm not the original commenter, but as someone in a similar boat, I'll interpret:

Aging fucking sucks. Seeing doors close as your body switches modes is depressing as hell. Knowing you have another half century left, but it's all gonna be worse is a terrible feeling.

Political advocacy is the way to go. Pushing politicians to change laws is what got renewables to be cheap in the first place. We need more of that.

Solar, wind, and EVs have become much cheaper after they received significant government incentives. Feed in tariffs started in the 1990s, implemented by Japan, Germany, China, and many other governments decreased the cost of renewables and built industrial capacity.

Governments did that because of significant environmental advocacy from the 1960s onwards.

Advocacy feels like it doesn't work now because there's massive advocacy pushing back against our longterm interests, but it's couched as "industrial interests" so we don't see it.

If you truly don't need the money, donate it to an org that's doing political advocacy.

10k of solar isn't going to make a difference in the grand scheme of things. Changing laws and regulations will.

WE BE RAMMIN

I worry that we'll only get it fixed once the human population falls to some horrifically low number.

Are you referring to the capital gains exemption being lowered after the first 250k? If so, that hasn't been passed.

As the article mentions, the miniscule lowering of CEO income was due to changes in regulations for CEO remuneration.

It's a bold statement for a bold disembodied head.

Yeah. Output would make more sense. But it's cute.

I'm also hung up on the output thing. But it's cute.

It says right there. Like three times. Which isn't suspicious at all.

"The long-term trend is pretty clear," Macdonald said in an interview with CBC News. "In the 1980s, CEOs made about 50 times the average worker. In the '90s, it was 100 times. We're now, I think, pretty solidly over 200 times."

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But there's kinda/sorta some good news too:

But Macdonald said the federal government's changes to taxation policy have led to "a huge decline in stock options as a means of pay for CEOs," including a 2021 policy change that capped stock option payments.

"There are important loopholes that have been closed over the last couple of years, and we're seeing the impact of those loopholes in the CEO pay data," he said.

pugjesus has a lot too

Isn't there an account-wide hide nsfw switch?

While Castaneda's work was accepted as factual by many when the books were first published, the training he described is now generally considered to be fictional.

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What is there to be celebrated and to be cheered, in the face of many, many ongoing disasters and impending disasters?

The people you love. The people you care for. The people whose well-being you're worried about when describing all those disasters.

Saying "Happy New Year" is saying that you hope for the best for that person. Despite everything. Or maybe because you want everything to get a little bit better.

That sounds shitty. But welcome to Lemmy.

FWIW, you're less likely to get permanently banned unless you do something egregious.

I thought panel 4 was gonna be shitting on their goals.

Thank you for subverting my expectations.

I'm having a hard time finding useful sources describing windmills on ships.

Here's one that describes how a windmill was used to charge batteries for lighting.

This one suggests the Chance used it for running the bilges.