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Timo Tiuraniemi
ttiurani@fosstodon.org

@aarnegranlund@mastodon.social Also: there is a significant lack of systems understanding in reporting on different sectors' sustainability plans.

IIUC SAF is essentially just another name for biofuel. That means the more airplanes burn the less we have for actually critical uses.

Nowadays it seems every sector can separately take an overlapping share of the same very limited future biofuel pool and claim sustainablity.

fosstodon.org/@ttiurani/108271

January 09, 2023
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Timo Tiuraniemi
ttiurani@fosstodon.org

@aarnegranlund@mastodon.social @jruoh I can definitely believe that. Helsinki has the corporations, high salaries and competitive consumption.

I just don't think that abondoning cities is the way forward, but transforming existing infrastructure built for cars to suit people.

We definitely need to bring the deep rooted Finnish suffiency back everywhere. Especially where political power is concentrated.

That's why I would hope the people who understand that wouldn't move out.

December 25, 2022
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Timo Tiuraniemi
ttiurani@fosstodon.org

@aarnegranlund@mastodon.social @jruoh Insisting on maintaining the imperial mode of living is definitely the issue here. There are wants that simply aren't sustainable, like driving cars even though there's perfectly good public transit, or flying for fun. IMO zoning can't be expected remove them. Policies are needed.

So it's a matter of how to produce well-being most effectively with green policies in place. I believe the literature suggests cities are the best way to do it.

December 25, 2022
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Timo Tiuraniemi
ttiurani@fosstodon.org

@jruoh @aarnegranlund@mastodon.social Isn't the argument more that in Helsinki you don't need a car at all, and not that you drive less in Helsinki?

While I'm sure it's possible to live carless in many places in Finland, but, from personal experience, it's very easy in Helsinki, also outside the city center.

December 25, 2022
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Timo Tiuraniemi
ttiurani@fosstodon.org

@aarnegranlund@mastodon.social I use in Helsinki my dad's over 50 year old Finnish Snow Star leather coat, that's still in great conditition, super warm and grunge af.

I hope to pass it on to my kid in a couple of decades.

December 18, 2022
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Timo Tiuraniemi
ttiurani@fosstodon.org

My wife hit a bug reported in August with a new where Do Not Disturb still plays notification sounds. Only way to silence it is to manually mute the combined notification/ringtone volume, which in practice means she's accidentally radio silenced half the time.

She says her 2018 mid range phone is vastly superior to a 2022 flagship 95% of the time.

How bad can things be at when "DND still disturbs" is a) not caught by regression tests and b) takes months to fix?

December 16, 2022
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Timo Tiuraniemi
ttiurani@fosstodon.org

Fantastic and accessible new comment article in Nature by all-star writers @jasonhickel, Giorgios Kallis, Tim Jackson, @jks and others.

There is much still to research, explore, expose, advocate and win, but the momentum is growing every day.

"In our view, the question is no longer whether growth will run into limits, but rather how we can enable societies to prosper without growth, to ensure a just and ecological future. Let’s pave the way."

nature.com/articles/d41586-022

December 12, 2022
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Timo Tiuraniemi
ttiurani@fosstodon.org

Yet new leaks about the immorality of fossil fuel corps.

For example, BP claims publicly to be part of the solution but internally says it has “no obligation to minimize GHG emissions”.

needs to be first cut out of all climate policy discussions (how they are allowed have any lobby groups in meetings is beyound me) then nationalized, and then ramped down.

There will never be a time when they will voluntarily stop destroying the planet for profit.

edition.cnn.com/2022/12/09/pol

December 10, 2022