We're currently looking for a new refrigerator because we're renovating our kitchen. The existing built in fridge has been there for the 16 years that we've lived here, and who knows how long before. It's awful: The internal temperature fluctuates between freezing and 8 C and it guzzles electricity - measurement suggests ~500 kWh per year.
For some reason all new built in fridges still have high energy usage, so we're only looking at free-standing models.
Most fridge/freezer combi models are absurdly large. It's a stretch to reach the top shelf inside.
All the A-rated refrigerators are huge and have apps. Linking appliances to the internet is IMO stupid and in any case white goods ought to last longer than mobile phones.
Some of the B rated models are only just behind the 'A's in energy usage but they usually have apps as well.
Then there's the problem of avoiding boycotted brands (#siemens linked to Israel and Russia, #liebherr and #samsung to Russia, #Beko to Turkey).
Please don’t insult my intelligence by claiming Israel is anything other than a far right fascist, racist apartheid State.
It’s also one of the single biggest mistakes humanity ever made, kowtowing to the fanatically religiously delusional gifting them another people’s land.
“The Foreign Office has received official legal advice that Israel has broken international humanitarian law but the government has not announced it.
“They have not said it, they haven’t stopped arms exports. They have done a few very small sanctions on Israeli settlers and everyone internationally is agreed that settlers are illegal, that they shouldn’t be doing what they’re doing, and the ways in which they have continued and the money that’s been put in.”
Any organization with any morality left in its systems is now ending its complicity with the zionist régime and its genocide against the people of Palestine.
But ... (you guessed it) not Google or Amazon.
Google and Amazon enable genocide, by providing the cloud platform for 'israeli' occupation forces, as part of their Project Nimbus signed with the 'israeli' government and military.
Want an example of collaboration in the most serious war crimes imaginable? Here you go
As part of 'israeli' apartheid week 2024 (#IAW2024), join in on Thursday 14 March by putting the spotlight on Google and Amazon. Pressure them to drop Project Nimbus
What you can do:
Organize a teach-in to raise awareness on Google and Amazon’s complicity in 'israel’s' genocide and apartheid
Join an info session (http://tinyurl.com/Palestine4Tech) on Living Israel’s High-Tech System of Oppression, organized by StoptheWall
Petition your local Google and Amazon office to #DropNimbus
Call on institutions to divest from Google and Amazon
[…] "I think that a large number of those countries who suspended are (having) second thoughts," Barth Eide told Reuters in an interview, citing the recognition from these nations that "they cannot punish the whole Palestinian society".
[…] "But then, of course, they need an honourable way out, which means they are hoping, I think - without speaking for individual countries - that they will get something from these investigations that suggest that they can say: "well, we needed to suspend, but now we're back'."
Notwithstanding the frankly ridiculous handling of the debacle over the Sturgeon Cult and caravanettes allegedly bought on supporter’s dime, where the SNP lead others follow.
While I won’t rejoin until it’s clear the SNP has got its financial house in order I have no problem voting SNP in #GE2024. Its nice to have a winning progressive voice to vote for, rather than holding your nose and voting Labour because theyre not quite as shit as the Tories