I’m pretty sure that when OP said “biology is not binary” they meant “biology does not mean that you are either 100% male or 100% female” (true) as opposed to “people with Z chromosomes exist” (false)

If you want to quickly find RSS feeds without having to view source:

Want My RSS for Firefox

openfeeds for Qutebrowser

Apparently Google has an RSS extension but I haven’t looked into it.

Some RSS tools that are useful:

RSS Bridge

Kill the Newsletter

MoRSS (worked for like, one niche website I look at, but still might be useful)

EDIT: By the way, Facebook has been working very hard to fight RSS at every corner, but most other platforms still support it.

Also, if you use Kontact like I do, it supports RSS feeds through Akregator

Server locations: Riseup is in the US (Washington state), so keep that in mind. Disroot is in the Netherlands (part of the EU).

Governance: Riseup: Look at their “about us” page. Disroot: Look at their “about” page. The terms of service are more detailed. tl;dr: As far as I can tell, these are run by leftists.

Integrity/Transparency: I have no idea how to grade this.

Ease of Use: Subjective. Riseup VPN is just: install the client, turn it on or off. Disroot is much better with a mail client of some kind, so if you already use one, it’s probably a 10, otherwise, the webmail server isn’t that great. Disroot also requries manual encryption (I’m biased here because I use Kmail which makes PGP really easy to use).

Pricing and Links: Free https://riseup.net/en/vpn https://disroot.org/en/services/email

tl;dr: Use collective-run services, not corporate-run services

When I read the first part, I thought “which megacorporation?”

Renewable energy is better: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1038/s41560-020-00696-3

However, this is still progress.

https://grist.org/climate-energy/no-climate-change-wont-kill-the-planet-but-itll-kill-plenty-of-people/

Yes, renewable energy is better: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1038/s41560-020-00696-3

However, declaring nuclear energy illegal means destroying functioning power plants that have very low emissions. We should wait to destroy nuclear energy until we can replace it with renewable energy, and we should not be having to replace nuclear energy until we’ve replaced fossil fuels and biofuel.

EDIT: Basically, we should start out by getting rid of* what is most polluting (agriculture/industry emissions), and then working our way down from there (coal, natural gas, oil, biofuel, and nuclear, in that order).

*Agriculture emissions can be offset by transitioning to a more vegan diet. I don’t call it plant-based because that excludes fungi and bacteria that we also consume.

I agree to everything you just said. It appears like someone else already discussed what I said in a comment thread below, so I apologize for bringing it up again.

EDIT: What I meant by agreeing with you was that I agree that climate change will not be solved with nuclear or renewables alone. I did not mean that using nuclear energy and renewable energy does not have any effect on solving climate change.

I am fine with nuclear energy as a temporary solution since climate change is such a big problem, and we need all we have to deal with it. Once that problem is dealt with, then we can continue to ramp up low-emissions renewable energy. I think we should wait to declare nuclear illegal until climate change is solved.

“Exxon signals record quarterly profit from rapid climate change”

It’s especially bad when open source projects use a proprietary service like Discord.

Network effect, basically.

I wonder why Exxon has been denying climate change /s https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/08/exxon-climate-change-1981-climate-denier-funding

It doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to have emissions peak in 3 years if we want to cut it in half in 7. We just need to actually do it.

https://libreddit.spike.codes/r/CitizensClimateLobby/comments/rqg2y0/i_used_mits_climate_policy_simulator_to_order_its/

While it is generally true that completely free* providers make money off of your personal data, some of them are run by not for profits and are funded by donations. An example of this is disroot.org.

*As in, not freemium

Renewable energy has little to no pollution. EDIT: Excluding biofuel which is not a solution to pollution or climate change.

Yes, if you are looking at all forms of pollution, you are indeed correct, as all life forms have to excrete waste. An extreme example of this is cyanobacteria likely causing a mass extinction.

However, I was referring to air particulate pollution, as shown by my source. I apologize for not being clearer. I have updated the original comment, but yes, you are indeed correct that all human cultures and ideologies have pollution at their core if you are looking at pollution in general.

Every Western country government helped cause the rapid climate change emergency we’re in, so screw them, and especially the oil companies that spread lies about the severity of rapid climate change for decades. EDIT: Same for China’s government, Russia’s government, etc. Anyone still using fossil fuels, really.

Alternate solution: stop relying on oil

Rapid climate change is continuing to get worse

The FSF uses nonfree social media sometimes to get new people into free software: https://www.fsf.org/twitter Of course, many free software projects likely don’t use social media for that purpose.