Allgegenwärtige Kriegstüchtigkeits-Propaganda und Werbekampagnen der Bundeswehr wollen mehr junge Menschen zum Kämpfen für Deutschland begeistern – bisher erfolglos: Die Hälfte der gerade volljährigen Männer ignoriert den Musterungsfragebogen einfach.


https://jacobin.de/artikel/bundeswehr-aufruestung-nymoen-musterung-verweigerung-propaganda-krieg

Good idea: ban destruction of unsold clothes

https://earth.org/eu-bans-destruction-of-unsold-clothes-and-shoes/

The European Union has banned the destruction of unsold clothes, a move aimed at tackling overproduction and making the fashion industry more sustainable

#fastfashion, #EU, #degrowth

https://ieji.de/@MinistryOfGoodIdeas/116166754596015223

For my non-European subscribers: A lot of items people think are non-recyclable - like brita filters, toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes, and razors - can actually be easily recycled for free https://www.terracycle.com/en-US/brigades

TIL that the Andromeda Galaxy is about 2.5 million light‑years away, so when we see it in the night sky, we’re seeing it as it was 2.5 million years ago. If an observer in Andromeda could see Earth in detail right now, they would be watching our early human ancestors, not modern civilization. [source, comments]

I was spiraling a bit as I was catching up on all the 2025 events and data regarding climate change. But here is the gist of it with some sources.

One new phenomenon we’ve never seen before is the stratopheric polar vortex completely changing its pattern; not just deviations, but entirely new "mixed-type" events. [1][2] This is causing two-digit temperature anomalies in the Arctic, disturbing the jet stream (which normally moves high- and low-pressure systems so they don’t remain stagnant). On top of that, the ice is melting more rapidly. [3]

So far, the prognosis was that by 2100 we’d be in territory where serious human life would barely be sustainable, limited to pockets of the world and marked by extreme difficulty. Think heavy temperature fluctuations, more intense seasonal extremes (summers getting unbearably hot, winters extremely cold), large-scale agriculture becoming impossible, cities unlivable due to heat (because of impervious surfaces), and cycles of drought followed by heavy monsoon rains and floods. Not to mention the collapse of insect populations and loss of undomesticated animals. [4][5]

Due to the polar vortex changes, the new projections are closer to 2050. We’re already past the +1.5°C target, and the new somewhat realistic goal is +2.8°C. [6] But there’s no way to achieve that under any capitalist mode of production. We can’t cleantech, greenwash, or paper-straw our way out of it. [7]

As long as climate action has to be profitable (which directly contradicts the fundamentals of capitalism), it won’t be possible. We need a science-based, data-driven, high-tech command economy that prioritizes social and net-zero circular industries. Literally, I see no other way out as long as profit and surplus value are in play. [8] We wouldn’t make it. Or maybe I’m just not creative enough to imagine one.

or to put it into serious liberal words, every child under 10 years old you see will not be dying of old age.

EAT THE RICH