The Wikipedia page for it is a great read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_Czech_Republic

A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that accomplished environmental goals set by the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million, providing ecological benefits including improved water quality, enhanced biodiversity, and better water retention

I remember our hydro company in my small Ontario, Canada town sending out free LED bulbs to people if they made under a certain amount. We were able to replace nearly all the lights in our house

Canada too 🙋‍♂️

Way too many American games in there :(

I remember when people would argue and get mad at the generic use of the word meme for funny internet picture.

I miss a lot of things but I don’t miss the image macro pedantry

Did… Did he actually say that?

I want off mr bones wild ride

What country? You totally can in Canada, especially if you cause a crash

IIRC the US heavily pressured other countries with tariffs to also ban it

It’s the stupidest thing since they’re fighting against UBI at the same time. Robots taking everyone’s jobs should be a utopian future to look forward to, but instead they’re creating a situation that’s universally bad for everyone including themselves. When nobody is employed and nobody has any source income, who’s going to give the oligarchs more money via consumerism?

I know a lot of billionaires want to bring back a tech-flavoured version of feudalism where they live like as actual kings but even medieval peasants were given some form of bread and circus to keep them from rising up.

Billionaires right now are on track to create a duel between millions to billions of poor and hungry people against the tiny number of them. Without bread and circuses, the people have nothing to live for except overthrowing their oppressors

You’re assuming everyone here is American to the point of using an acronym like FDR. I know who you’re talking about but still

edit: the person who you’re responding to is Australian based on their instance and I’m Canadian

The insistence on pushing thorns to be a thing again (which I’m generally pretty whatever about) while talking about a heavier topic just seems kind of insensitive to me personally

I don’t know. Lemmy’s majority user is former reddit users and even at the size reddit is now, sarcasm would constantly go over peoples’ heads

Is there any links to Israel specifically though? Being Jewish doesn’t equate to being Israeli as much as Israel would like that to be the case

Not American nor am I lacking my own doctor but I generally choose to see a specific NP at my clinic over my doctor since she’s able to do everything I’d need my doctor for as well as actually caring to look into my health issues. I went over a decade with crippling digestive issues that I complained about constantly to my doctor but it was always dismissed as anxiety related. It was only the NP who actually cared to get me checked for celiac disease

Not exactly that related of a tangent but just wanted to say bless nurse practitioners 🫡

I’m not sure we’re talking about the same people here. I’d hesitantly lend more sympathy to an American soldier more broadly fighting in this war but not to those who directly commit war crimes whether that be shooting (and worse) children or knowingly dropping bombs on schools or hospitals.

Anyone who doesn’t immediately know that’s wrong has something severely wrong with them

edit: and also yeah, regarding your point about Canada doesn’t really change anything. I’d feel exactly the same way regarding any Canadian soldier doing the same thing. While Canada is feeling quite nice right now compared to the USA, we’ve done and continue to do some absolutely vile shit, no question

Have you actually read into some of the shit Americans have done? I wouldn’t even want to fucking cooperate with anyone who took part in the My Lai massacre or anything else like that.

To copy/paste from Wikipedia:

The Mỹ Lai Massacre […] was a United States war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. At least 347 and up to 504 civilians, almost all women, children and elderly men, were murdered by U.S. Army soldiers. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated, and some soldiers mutilated and raped children as young as 12.

(emphasis mine)

edit: oh and the most justice that came of that was that one person got house arrest for three years

If they participated in any of these events and it took them years to figure out that it was wrong then I highly doubt they’d vote for anything other than MAGA anyway

They’ve actually been doing all of that. Iran’s killing it with their propaganda and I love it

Yeah, like where else would the LLMs pick it up?