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Btw I’m a non-binary trans person [they/she/he].

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  • To dislike (or worse) an article and its author, it’s one thing. From that to draw conclusions about all americans seems like a stretch to me.

    Nevertheless, I would appreciate some clarification on the following statement, if you don’t mind.

    Americans being unable to understand the public space as a concept

    What do you believe you understand about public space as a concept that americans don’t?

    Edit: Looks like the author is Bolivian, not american
    Edit2: Sorry my bad. That’s another Ana Flores. This one is

    Ana Karen Flores is a first-generation Latina communications strategist who commands the narrative and drives real political change. She’s a Public Voices fellow with The OpEd Project and works alongside the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice and the Every Page Foundation.





  • Copy-pasting here my comment to this article from another community:

    Carbon Capture and Storage/Sequestration (CCS) is a topic I changed my mind about, not that long ago, including its subsets like Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), Direct Air Capture (DAC), etc. Up to last year or something, I was thinking that it’s important for these kind of tech to be researched.

    Now I see things differently:

    • To my understanding, the only CCS tech that makes sense is the one that catches emissions at the source, the factory chimneys.

    • The others that claim to suck up GHG and store them “out of sight out of mind” are highly problematic for so many reasons. They are distractions from the real issue which is phasing out fossil fuel.

    A few relevant links:

    Fact or fantasy? Can carbon dioxide removal save the climate?

    For fossil fuel corporations, keeping CDR on the agenda as a credible climate change solution is a Get Out of Jail Free card. Instead of stopping emissions, they promise to capture and bury them. Not now, but someday. As the CEO of Occidental Petroleum told a conference of her peers in 2023, “We believe that our direct capture technology is going to be the technology that helps to preserve our industry over time. This gives our industry a license to continue to operate for the 60, 70, 80 years that I think it’s going to be very much needed.”[

    Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions

    The car­bon capt­ure comp­any Cli­meworks on­ly capt­ur­es a fracti­on of the CO2 it promises its machines can capt­ure. The comp­any is fail­ing to car­bon off­set the em­issi­ons resulting from its operati­ons – which have grown rapidly in recent ye­ars.

    More articles in the relevant community:
    cdr@slrpnk.net















  • I tend to agree with what you say but I feel like mentionning a couple of things I see perhaps differently.

    I believe saying marine mammals are a myth has nothing to do with claiming alpha males don’t exist. The first is about a biological classification, the latter is about observed (or projected) social behaviors within one species.

    Apart from that, and to my understanding, the manosphere has taken a hold of the alpha male narrative and expanded it far beyond the scientifically debunked myth. I do not imply that the fact that the alpha male myth has been debunked means that there are no hierarchical structures in species, just that when they are present, they are misrepresented in order to promote competitive narratives. This is why primatologist Frans de Waal inadvertently popularized the term ‘alpha male.’ Now, he’s debunking common stereotypes to explain what an ‘alpha male’ really is – empathetic and protective.













  • If you look into the article, when this is mentioned, there is a relevant link. I think it is worth taking a look at it, because it gives perspective on this topic. Actually, a few, not only one.

    The countries with the biggest skews in favour of boys in sex ratios at birth have seen a reversion towards the natural rate.

    In a handful of places, the overall birth statistics appear to reflect a preference for girls over boys.

    But in most countries, any preference for girls expressed in polls is not strong enough to show in the overall sex ratio at birth. Most parents-to-be seem to balk at sex-selective abortions, in other words.

    The assumption that daughters will be more nurturing whereas sons will grow distant is ingrained even in the most egalitarian societies.

    Edit: I rewrote the comment, when I realised there are a few links in the article that clarify things