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Re: NFTs
(Anonymous) 2022-01-17 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)Re: NFTs
(Anonymous) 2022-01-17 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)Re: NFTs
(Anonymous) 2022-01-17 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)I think the anon above me is especially pissed at UK news due to the recent aggressive anti trans articles and propaganda by the BBC. Don't be too harsh on them. While yes, it's a weird justaposition to make, I think they're just too exhausted and feel under attack to see it.
I'm actually very surprised that the UK news didn't talk about that. WTF. We have VERY VERY biased news in the country, but at least we hear about the most important international affairs, especially the ones threatening the EU stability (ex. constant updates on Libia, Turkey, Russia, China etc). Are you guys having problems with bills cost going up because of the gas shortage, too? If not, maybe that's why it's completely ignored. In my country it's a very big issue and we're entering a new crisis because of that.
Or maybe you have a little pro Russia propaganda going on and they're sweeping the Cremlin's problems under the rugs.
Re: NFTs
(Anonymous) 2022-01-17 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)Energy bills are going through the roof. There's little analysis in the news on it over here. I suspect it speaks to exactly how much Russia has got its tendrils into our politics. Which is frankly scary.
Re: NFTs
(Anonymous) 2022-01-17 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)They are a huge platform supporting J.K.Rowling, which, OK, anyone should have the rights to say what they believe even if I disagree with them. BUT! The most egregious accident for me is an article from the BBC where some cis women claimed that trans women were a danger to their safety and they interviewed a cis lesbian woman who is a known SEXUAL PREDATOR. Fuck 'em. I can't find the same article now because I'm in a rush, but you can maybe check
This is an example on the recent articles that I could easily find: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-57853385
They have pretty heavy transphobic tones.
I'm a cis lesbian. I am actually offended that someone wrote these articles trying to "defend" people like me.
I know about these accidents because I follow trans content creators like Philosophy tube, Stephanie Jim Sterling, Jessie Gender etc so I have no idea if this discourse is well known or not outside that bubble.
I'm a little concerned about the lack of anylisis on the gas shortage over there. When I have time I'll try and see if I can find something on the British news outlets. What a world we live in...
Re: NFTs
(Anonymous) 2022-01-17 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)I did a quick Google and found an article about Kazakhstan on the BBC. It was barely a few lines. Outside the BBC, I found numerous articles, mostly on tech sites, blaming energy shortages for the problems crypto miners are facing, but only a rare few linking the miners as the cause of the shortages. This massive blindspot that tech bros have for the environmental impact of their new shiny thing is equally depressing and alarming.
Re: NFTs
(Anonymous) 2022-01-17 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)I'm on you on this one. Too much back and white and us vs them rethoric on both sides. I don't agree with JKR, but I don't think treating her like either a saint or a complete devil is helping anyone. She's just a symbol now and I'm just tired of her.
I think that the only balanced view I saw on her and all that discourses are the video essays from Jessie Gender and Contrapoints. If you're not completely burned out and want to check them out: ContraPoints = https://youtu.be/7gDKbT_l2us Jessie Gender = https://youtu.be/XyODMw6Xm-8 not sure this is the video I intended on JKR specifically but she has a lot of valid empathetic views on other videos, especially the one regarding Buck Angels. Highly recommended.
(PS. I checked the article I linked, and that's the one with the sexual offender's interview, but it was cut off due to the backlash. You can read about it in the end notes of the article)
The tech bros NEED to have that delusion of not directly causing enviromental damage. Their lifelihood directly depends on that denial. SO yeah, I'm not surprised.
Even those who are more enviromentally conscious now spew out stuff like "But wait!!! They are working on a new blockchain system that will burn way less energy so it will be enviromentally friendly in no time!!!" but in the meantime.... and even if the blockchain will eventually burn off less energy it will probably still be at a very high energy expenditure, especially if the NFTs and crypto transactions keep on increasing.
Re: NFTs
(Anonymous) 2022-01-17 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)It's not just tech bros that use that rationale to be fair. I've heard that delusion from just about everybody with a large environmental footprint attached to their lifestyle/life choices. People are waiting for tech to save us and it's not going to.
Re: NFTs
(Anonymous) 2022-01-17 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)You're totally right on pointing out that people with a more enviromentally friendly lifestyle use that rationale, too!
I think that people in general that blindly believe in the "carbon footprint" are delusional. It's not their fault. We as humans need something to attach to when we sense lack of control in our life and environment.
The carbon footprint is largely a lie feeded upon us consumers to trick us to consume like before or even more using the shame in our " individual complicity" of polluting the earth, while not addressing or even masking the systemic impossiblities of being more enviromentally friendly. It's all tightly connected to green washing and other tricks.
"Buy this car!!! You will feel better in your enviromentally conscious choices. It consumes less petroil/fossil fuel, but to build this car with new "green" technology we have to mine very rare minerals and trash all the old cars that circulated before, thus creating even more pollution!!!"
Even worse the green washing rethorics in the fast fashion industry. Sickening.
There are no REAL solutions in this model. The only real solution is probably global degrowth, but no government will ever want to do that or admit it's a solution.
I try to be enviromentally conscious because I try to respect where and with whom I live, but I'm aware that it's all out of my control now and while it's terrifying it's also liberating. Let it all collapse.
I sound very pessimistic and a total doomer, and on this particular subject I very much am.