Uncontacted Tribe Confronts Developers in Dramatic Video
Members of the uncontacted Hongana Manyawa tribe in Indonesia have been filmed recently confronting developers who tear up their forest.
Logging and mining operations on the Indonesian island are now penetrating the rainforest of uncontacted Hongana Manyawa people.
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Read the headline, thought this was about the lengths people go to to complain to open source coders.
"My handaxe hasn't been working properly for two months now. I raised the issue back then and there's still nothing. Nothing! Fuck, Open Source, I am getting my next one from Google, these people know how to axe."
"Axes are now deprecated."
"We welcome everyone to try our new solution: Hatchet. Hatchet will be brought to complete parity with our previous solution."
"Hatchet will be taken offline three months from now. Monthly unique user counts never rose to expected levels and we cannot justify the continued support costs.
We want to thank our loyal users. We hope to serve you better in the future."
Company that mines nickel for 'green' electric cars destroys forest in doing so. Ironic
plenty of nickel used to come from Russia but nyet anymore.
Ah yes. Nickel is only used for electric cars. Right. Gotcha.
Ah yes. This is how the company apparently justifies it. Right in the article.
Marketing: We need to defend this - what's something people are really excited about?
Engineer: Stainless steel; you can't make a good stainless without nickel
Salesman: Oooh - I know! How about nickels? Everybody loves nickels and their worth 5 cents each!
Engineer:
Marketing:
Intern: You know, they use nickel in battery packs for electric cars
Marketing: Oh, right - everybody likes electric cars. Green and vroom-vroom, I love it!
Engineer: You know that electric cars don't go vroom-vroom, right?
Marketing: I'm going with electric cars, it's a feel-good use people will get behind.
There's no sensible argument for the continuation of gasoline cars. Spills are much worse to the environment and the constant dumping of CO2 is literally causing millions of acres to burn.
Fuck off
You can be mad at both, that was always allowed
NO! I must side with my political party on all topics! Otherwise I risk having a thought occur.
I'm against oil propaganda, it has nothing to do with any political party. Gas companies are not your friend.
Being mad at both only helps the oil barons. Maybe we can wait until we aren't setting off a new feedback loop every month before trying to make cars out of sunlight.
Resource extraction and vehicles are going to be a part of our society for a long time. I hate cars but anyone saying "green" ev vehicle with those quotes is the enemy.
Well no, our future is public transport, if we don't kill ourselves first, which we will.
Yes, 100%. But switching to ev right now is literally how we don't kill ourselves first.
By using gas and coal energy to mine lithium and nickel? Destroying millions of acres of forest in the process and contaminating God knows how much land and water?
Like I said, we can concentrate on making cars out of sunshine after we aren't pumping death into the atmosphere.
Normal cars take resources as well to build and keep polluting non stop after they are built. Even worse, the resources they need just to run are fucking terrible for the environment to extract and use, not to mention the spills. There's no contest, gas is always worse.
We don't have time to transition to only public transport while keeping our dependence on oil.
It's either EVs now and a public transport future, or gas induced suicide.
But there was no mention of these thousands of people being decimated...
I'm not a fan of environmental degradation or basically stealing land from a tribe that appears to have been there since... Ever.
I'm just trying to distinguish fact from something that hits slightly off.
@APassenger it's just poor reporting. Of course the contacted ones would already have been decimated back in the 1980s.
Lack of immunity to diseases from other areas is a very common phenomenon, so there's no reason to think this would be different.
A quick google found me this:
They were nomadic and the Indonesian government relocated them. Source.
Literally Pandora
Where's the Vault Hunters when you need them?
Lol, wrong pandora. It's the shitty remake of dances with wolves, the non shitty avatar movie, and shittier avatar franchise.
There was an Avatar movie that wasn't shit?
And yea I figured it's not that Pandora, but I also figured it's worth a shot. Despite how low they've fallen, I'd still rather remember Borderlands than Avatar!
Hmm, I'd say overall the avatar (blue people) movie wasn't shit. It wasn't breaking any new ground in story or such, but the visuals complemented the actors and didn't break immersion in comedic, unintentional ways. So... mostly just by comparison to the shitty avatar (blue tattoos) movie.
I've only finished the first game. I keep getting stalled around mid-game in the second. Now, those games had some humor that didn't break immersion.
Ah yes, the real life indigenous people who have existed for thousands of years and are trying to defend their way of life - just like in that recent film! 🙄🙄
"Dramatic video"... seems like a stretch.