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No idea, I found it on Mastodon and TinEye can’t trace it so probably.

Masimatutu, (edited )
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I know, I just meant that I cannot find any source for this specific image, which means it’s probably AI-generated.

edit: And no, by the way, the depiction isn’t completely accurate because the balls are missing. Here is an accurate depiction:

https://wallpaperset.com/w/full/f/3/5/95007.jpg

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I had to look up what that meant, and I am glad I did! I see there is !orphancrushing, but unfortunately it’s pretty small.

Edit: for fellow non-redditors:

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/569/494/d86.jpg

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Jews

Palestinian Jews or Jewish Palestinians were the Jewish inhabitants of the Palestine region (known in Hebrew as Eretz Yisrael, lit. ‘Land of Israel’) prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

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I’d say the same logic applies: he was a Jew from the Palestine region. Of course that’s probably not the most accurate terminology, but I wouldn’t deem it incorrect.

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It becomes easier if you think of Palestinian as a demonym rather than an ethnonym.

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Not if it’s meant as a demonym. The toponym “Palestine” was already used as early as 1150 BC (en.wikipedia.org/…/Timeline_of_the_name_Palestine)

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I always commute by bike, even if it’s -10 °C and snow.

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Where I live it’s common to spread gravel on the snow to increase grip. And then, of course, it is expected that everyone has the appropriate shoes and bike tires to not slip.

And even when salt is used, cars need a lot more salt per person than other modes of transport does.

edit: clarification

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I really do not think so. Oil propaganda would support cars rather than be against it. I’m quite sure this is directed at the people who think EVs are a full solution.

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Why, then, does the picture with all the problems depict a gas car, and why is “tailpipe emissions” listed as one of the problems?

Also, usually corporate propaganda is done by less well-established cartoonists that don’t have reputations to ruin.

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This picture comes to mind:

https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aE16W0e_700b.jpg

For pedestrians and bikers, you need a lot less surface to deice, plus the lower speeds means it is not quite as vital to see all the snow gone directly. And yes, you will need roads for different purposes, but you would need a lot fewer of them, and with fewer lanes, if everyone wouldn’t take the car. Also, for supplying stores, a lot of the things trucks do can easily be done by trains.

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I think we live in very different parts of the world. Where I’m from, it is quite self-evident that we have to transition to EVs, and most people in fact already do. However a lot of people seem to forget that EVs only solve part of the problem and that we have to think further, so from my perspective this comic can basically only be used for good.

But I do get that this could be used by reactionaries to push back against clean energy in places where such sentiments are common. However, I don’t think that’s a particularly big problem on the Fediverse.

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If everyone who normally takes the car would switch to taking the bus, all of a sudden you’d only need one lane in places where you previously needed two or three, because cars are very space-inefficient, so that makes a big difference.

Also, it’s not quite true that they’d require the same amount of roads. I don’t know about where you’re from, but where I live buses use about a quarter of the roads and you can still easily get anywhere by bus.

Additionally, salt isn’t used for rail vehicles at all.

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For one, hunter-gatherer tribes before the rise of civilisation were most certainly built on kindness and cooperation

Masimatutu, (edited )
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There was plenty for everyone since there were a lot fewer people, plus there were no real territories that people claimed over longer periods at all since we were nomads.

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I’m just answering the question. They ask what system rewards kindness, I say a hunter-gatherer one does. I’m not implying that going back to the stone age is realistic by any means.

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Along with and , and are some great hashtags to follow on the microblogging Fediverse

unicorns rule (mastodon.n8vsi.com)

alt textYou’re allowed to believe in a god. You’re allowed to believe unicorns live in your shoes for all I care. But the day you start telling me how to wear my shoes so I don’t upset the unicorns, I have a problem with you. The day you start involving the unicorns in making decisions for this country, I have a BIG...

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Alt text:

Again, the corrupt and unsound Form of speaking in the Plural Number to a single person, YOU to One, instead of THOU, contrary to the pure, plain, and single Language of TRUTH, THOU to One, and YOU to more than One, which had always been used by GOD to Men, and Men to GOD, as well as one to another, from the oldest Record of Time, till corrupt Men, for corrupt Ends, in later and corrupt Times, to flatter fawn, and work upon the corrupt Nature of Men, brought in that false and senseless Way of speaking YOU to One; which hath since corrupted the modern Languages, and hath greatly debased the Spirits, and depraved the Manners of Men. This evil Custom

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It’s called the long s (ſ; ſenſeleſs). It’s actually pretty interesting, but unfortunately I don’t have much time to explain right now, so in short, it exists because language.

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No, they were pronounced exactly the same, but everyone who could write was a nerd

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