(not my OC nor my OP, just helping spread the message around:-)

  • @iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    611 month ago

    Great but I already do as much as I personally can handle. Would be great if society at large, e.g. laws, regulations, and big corps, could get on the same level.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      491 month ago

      Me: dusts off hands Installed solar on the roof, bicycling to work, updated the insulation on all my windows, and drastically reduced the amount of plastic in my life.

      Tech Company Next Door: CONSUMES 70 MwH OF POWER FOR TWO YEARS STRAIGHT POWERING AN UNOPTIMIZED AI

      Me: Begins flipping through a copy of How To Blow Up A Pipeline

      • LostXOR
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        211 month ago

        Don’t blow up the pipeline, that’ll pollute the environment! Go for the pumping infrastructure, if you can knock out a pump you can decrease or even completely stop the flow of oil.

          • @9bananas@lemmy.world
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            1 month ago

            eh, I don’t think that’s gonna make much of a difference:

            most of the cost is probably lost revenue from the stopped flow, not the pump itself!

            that said you’re almost at the ideal target already!

            it’s best to sabotage the nexus point nearest the pipeline source: that way you knock out the largest part of the network resulting in the most damage by disabling most of the network!

            tl;dr: knock out infrastructure as close to the source as possible, that isn’t actually the source!

            (because sabotaging the source is a really, really bad idea, see: every oil spill ever)

            (and for fucks sake, don’t do any of this in winter…people might freeze, if there’s no time to come up with alternative energy sources…which is why late spring is the best time to blow up a pipeline! :D )

          • @spacesatan@leminal.space
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            21 month ago

            “guarded” is usually a fence and some cameras, maybe a locked door. Honestly an easier target than any buried pipeline. Kind of surprising we don’t see more ELF action on this front, except for the whole ‘get sent to jail forever to make an example of you’ thing.

    • @surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      71 month ago

      I agree, many of us have maxed out passive improvements. Now let’s work on active.

      Call your local oil company CEO. Get a job at Exxon and really half ass it. Visit your town government and demand better public transport and electric busses. Take a dump on the nearest gas pump.

      Only some of those are jokes and I’m not sure which.

      Don’t poop on stuff you don’t own.