If I remember correctly I had the same start: tested Knoppix, tried Mandrake for a short time, then Ubuntu which I used for several years until Gnome 3 when I switched to Xubuntu for several years, but when snap happened I tried Debian, then Mint for a while, but I’m now trying MX.

In South Africa, the law determines that if something’s labeled “Product of South Africa” it can’t have any imported ingredients (tho the packaging can be imported).

“Produced in South Africa” can have imported ingredients - and I’ve been boycotting almost all of that because of the omnicidal carbon footprint of importing things. It’s easier in this country to live ethically tho because we can grow almost everything we need: from food to textiles; tho our energy production is some of the most unethical in the world.

“All it takes for evil to succeed, is good people to say, “it’s just business.”” - Janet Leahy, Michael Reisz

Try “to function as a society” when the biosphere becomes unlivable. The biggest and root cause of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change is human overpopulation:

• https://phys.org/news/2023-04-population-growth-main-driver-carbon.html
• https://interactive.guim.co.uk/uploader/embed/2017/07/co2_saved/giv-3902H9Q7lx2HE5M7/

The fact that the biggest and root cause of a mass extinction event is being reduced, is a good thing.

Because they blocked you? Maybe they don’t want to see posts from people who don’t summarize the articles in the subject/title?

(The current subject is from the source, “Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News”.)

I haven’t seen any reliable sources say this yet.

An article from February 3 https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/minerals/?hilite=minerals by the country’s public broadcaster, quotes the Minister of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, saying South Africa’s minerals should be withheld from US, but I’ve seen no reports that it actually will be.

I also couldn’t find anything at the government’s website https://www.gov.za/, nor via DDG at Reuters or AP.

When I did a search for “what happens after death” with double quotes at google.com and at google.co.in, the 1st 2 sentences at the top of the page was a quote from an article at Psychology Today mentioning the superstitious idea of heaven:

“Key points. A common view is that after death, the soul ascends to heaven.”

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22% inflation vs 700% increase for the CEO between 2016 and 2022?

Lemmy.Ca admins blocked Threads about 5 months ago: https://lemmy.ca/comment/901551

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To possibly fix this, vote for people who’ll start drastic geo-engineering and who’ll make laws that’ll jail everyone who:

1. has kids unless their community has a fertility rate of 0.01 (this needs to stay in place for several decades),
2. drives vehicles that run on fossil fuels or electricity,
3. flies,
4. …

The nazis killed millions of people. If you have a kid in a community with a fertility rate more than 0.01, drive, or fly, despite our current human overpopulation, then you’ll be killing billions of people and causing a mass extinction event by making the biosphere unlivable.

Brother, can you spare an “n”? And capitals and punctuation marks?

No they’re not - having a kid in an overpopulated world is 2 orders of magnitude worse in the USA.

• 2.4 tonnes of CO2e released per driver per year with the average fossil-fuel powered car.
• 1.2 tonnes of CO2e released for electric car users in most countries.
• 117.7 tonnes per kid per parent per year. Wynes et al. 2017

Human overpopulation is not only the biggest contributor to push us over climate-change tipping-points, it’s also the root cause of almost all other causes. It’s also the root cause of unsustainable habitat loss and pollution. It’s also the root cause of factory farming and industrial fishing, which causes more pain and suffering every year than all other atrocities ever committed in all of history combined.

“Enslave” is a bit harsh, considering there are about 38-50 million people who are currently slaves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

We’re choosing to allow a lot of the things these companies are doing to us; but we could choose to walk away at the cost of some shiny things.