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Don't tell HR 🤫 but sometimes, the right approach to accessing accommodations is asking for forgiveness not permission.

This means sometimes implementing the accommodations in good faith without requesting them and making the request later, if anyone notices

Not just resistance to the regime, but to the idiotification of the world techbros are pursuing by trying to convince you that reading long things is just too much work and you should let a liebot do it for you.

Reading books is apparently resistance.

Go to the library.

Land is hard to acquire for solar farms. Could floating solar tech be the answer to this problem? I reported on the intricacies of this issue in 3 different stories. The first one got published today:
https://www.ciphernews.com/articles/land-is-hard-to-find-for-solar-farms-asias-answer-float-them/
Billionaires are getting rid of regulations to a point where they dictate what is legal or illegal.
Healthcare should be a public utility. Would you want wealthy water CEOs deciding who goes thirsty?
Boost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025.
Billionaires will piss on your leg and call it trickle-down economics.

Same in Denmark - e-books are killing libaries and print -/not because better but because they take all the funds: "The high cost of e-books compared to physical copies makes it difficult for libraries to keep up with demand, Macintyre said.

Depending on the title, public libraries may pay two or three times more for an e-book than they pay for its print edition. In some cases, the e-book may be up to six times the price, librarians told CBC."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-library-e-books-queues-1.7414060?cmp=rss

'Astronomical' hold queues on year's top e-books frustrate readers, libraries | CBC News

More than 1,000 people are waiting to borrow the Ottawa Public Library's most popular e-book of 2024, and librarians say inflated prices and restrictive e-book publishing practices are responsible.

CBC

"2 Million seek treatment as #Smog chokes #Punjab "

https://www.dawn.com/news/1872493/2-million-seek-treatment-as-smog-chokes-punjab

The WHO recommended Air Quality Index is 40, the safe limit is 300 above which it is considered too hazardous to breathe

#Lahore (and most of Northern #Pakistan + northern #India) have been averaging 1000-2000, roughly 25x-50x the recommended AQI

And we still have automaker + fossil fuel lobbies pushing to expand vehicle sales & coal power across both countries

#Lahoresmog #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #AirPollution

2 million seek treatment as smog chokes Punjab

Health dept data shows 1.93m reported cases of respiratory disease in 30 days; complaints of asthma, conjunctivitis, heart disease also surge.

DAWN.COM