The Internationalist Commune is currently crowdfunding their 'Make Rojava Green Again' campaign. If you have spare cash to donate, they are planting at a rate of 3€ per tree and are currently 82% of the way towards achieving their goal:
While the wilderness survival skills certainly can’t hurt, it will be empathy, generosity, and courage that we need to survive. Kindness and fairness will be more valuable than any survival skill..We will have to work together. We will have to grow food, educate ourselves, and give people a reason to persevere..Humans evolved attributes such as generosity, altruism, and cooperation because we need them to survive.
On average, a car weighs about 1.3 ton and carries 1.45 passengers, so 0.9 ton per passenger. The N700 Series #Shinkansen weighs 715 tonnes and carries 1323 passengers, so 0.5 ton per passenger. Combined with the lower rolling resistance of steel wheels on steel rail compared to car tires on tarmac (0.002 vs 0.010), the result is that an N700 Shinkansen is almost 10x more energy efficient than a typical automobile. And of course, at 320 km/h, a lot faster too.
hi, i'm a white hipster that likes to go on 4chans /mu/ board. i profess to love music but i avoid all the rap threads and mostly only listen to neutral milk hotel, swans, king crimson, and math rock. i say i value experimentation in music but when i say that i really only mean experimentation where white dudes with guitars play in funny time signatures. jazz is great but the only people i recognize as having made great jazz albums are white guys or the few jazz legends i've learned are acceptable, but only their most popular and least experimental albums in their catalogs. i am very cultured
My bank account was eaten alive today by an unexpectedly-enormous vet bill, and I could use a hand buying stuff like food and medication. Anything helps, including boosts. Thank you. 💜