dialectical_analysis_of_gock [she/her]

wrote a dissertation on “the mouth-feel”

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Cake day: August 20th, 2023
  • dialectical_analysis_of_gock [she/her]@hexbear.nettogames@hexbear.net•Made a new character in EQ, a dark elf wizard.English
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    6 months ago

    really neat, i play around with the idea of starting up EQ again as i loved the game when I was young but I never get around to it. I like watching some of the let’s play channels on youtube for EQ.

    My friend that got me into the game had a dark elf wizard while I went with wood elf druid, we mostly duo’d or soloed and the nostalgia is strong. I realize though if i did download and roll up a toon i would get bored within a few days and drop it but its cool to see your posts about it.

    When private EQ servers first came onto the scene I joined up on one that had a bunch of developer console codes enabled so I was able to make a max level beastlord and just kind cruised around all the continents checking out all the zones I never got to see as well as joined up with planes of power groups so I’m glad I got to see majority of the peak EQ content.

  • dialectical_analysis_of_gock [she/her]@hexbear.nettogardening@hexbear.net•wat doEnglish
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    6 months ago

    So there are two things that could help:

    Building bio-mass and aerating the soil that already exists.

    For aerating you want to plant large tubers that can break up the soil, Daikon Radish is the go-to for this kind of task but here is a list: https://www.tenthacrefarm.com/clay-busting-plants/

    For the second I am a huge fan of Lasagna Beds and Hugelkultur Beds

    It may be a good idea to establish multiple beds that you can rotate between trying to plant pairs. So like Tomatoes and Peppers in Bed A and Eggplants + Beans + Cucumbers in Bed B and next year rotate the Tomatoes and Peppers to B and the other three to A.

    Consider adding some annual flowers to the bed as well, Cucumbers, Eggplants, Tomatoes, and Peppers all are helped by beneficial flowers that attract pollinators which will also bring in helpful insects too

  • dialectical_analysis_of_gock [she/her]@hexbear.nettoInteresting Global News@lemmy.zip•Carmakers may be using aluminium made by Uyghur forced labour, NGO investigation findsEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Let’s see if we can find any proof of the “forced labour”

    HRW’s concerns centre on the link between aluminium smelters in China’s Xinjiang province and what it describes as Chinese government-backed labour transfer programs that allegedly “coerce Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims into jobs in Xinjiang and other regions”.

    The group has alleged that since 2017 the Chinese government has committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, including “arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, and cultural and religious persecution, and has subjected Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim communities to forced labour inside and outside Xinjiang”.

    HRW said there is “credible evidence” that aluminium producers in Xinjiang have received workers from labour transfer programs, as has the local coal industry that energy-intensive aluminium smelters rely on. The organisation said its research relied on Chinese state media, company reports and government statements available online, because of “the high level of repression and surveillance in Xinjiang, including threats to workers and auditors” that make it impossible for both human rights groups and car companies to conduct credible investigations into allegations of forced labour.

    from: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/01/china-carmakers-implicated-uyghur-forced-labor

    Human Rights Watch reviewed online Chinese state media articles, company reports, and government statements and found credible evidence that aluminum producers in Xinjiang are participating in labor transfers. Human Rights Watch also uncovered evidence that fossil fuel companies that supply coal to aluminum producers in Xinjiang have received labor transfer workers at their coal mines. Xinjiang’s aluminum smelters depend on the region’s abundant and highly polluting coal supplies to fuel the energy-intensive process of aluminum production.

    from: https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/02/01/asleep-wheel/car-companies-complicity-forced-labor-china

    this is the study cited by the guardian and the hrw article

    “In a 2020 report that typifies the way company and media documents describe labor transfers as benefitting Uyghurs, Xinjiang Energy (Group) provides a glowing account of the life of one labor transfer worker, praising the company’s efforts to tackle his homesickness and separation from his family. Another Xinjiang smelter, Xinjiang Zhonghe, co-owns a coal mining company, Tianchi Energy, which participated in labor transfers in 2019 and 2023.”

    “Chinese government restrictions on the ability to freely and independently investigate human rights violations mean that field research on forced labor within Xinjiang or on aluminum supply chains is not currently possible. This report is out of necessity primarily based on online research relating to aluminum companies’ operations in Xinjiang and the flow of aluminum from the region into the wider supply chain. This includes review of company statements, annual reports, media articles, and Chinese government documents.”

    “Human Rights Watch’s research draws heavily from a December 2022 report by Sheffield Hallam University and NomoGaia, a nongovernmental organization, that documented the links between aluminum smelters in Xinjiang and major global carmakers. It also builds on a report in April 2022 by Horizon Advisory, a consultancy group, that documented links between aluminum smelters in Xinjiang and labor transfer schemes”

    https://www.horizonadvisory.org/backtobasics

    That’s the entire source chain and am completely unconvinced that this is “forced”