CrimeDad

Wild strawberries? (pixelfed.crimedad.work)

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fathermcgruder, 5 days ago to Parenting

New trick for getting my picky kiddo to eat her veggies:

I put all the music on my phone on random and whenever she wants me to skip a song she doesn't like she has to eat some of her veggies first.

#parenting

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NY Gov Hochul delays controversial NYC congestion pricing plan ‘indefinitely’. (www.cnn.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.crimedad.work/post/92015...

Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert (ca.news.yahoo.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.crimedad.work/post/91685...

CrimeDad, 7 days ago

There’s more to NIMBYism than saying “not in my back yard” in opposition to any development for any reason. A position isn’t meaningfully NIMBY unless it is in opposition to an arguably good development for bad reasons. For example, it is NIMBYism to oppose the construction of affordable housing because you don’t want to attract poor minorities to your neighborhood. In this case, a PV solar power plant might arguably be a good thing, but the reasons for opposing it, including the destruction of a rare ecosystem and a specific type of dangerous construction pollution, are more than fair.

CrimeDad, 7 days ago

How? What are the differences between the new and old versions of net metering in California that are affecting this situation?

CrimeDad, 6 days ago

What’s wrong with !nuclear?

CrimeDad, 6 days ago

All of the electricity in a power grid is physically identical, but markets make a distinction between the sources by way of purchase agreements and various types of renewable energy credits. If it seems crazy for the locals to complain that they are losing their forest and not even getting the electricity from this new plant, it’s not because they’re mistaken. It’s because we have a crazy system to try and use market incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity production.

CrimeDad, 6 days ago

What headline would you have written instead?

CrimeDad, 6 days ago

What about all the sunny land that doesn’t have Joshua trees? Why are we even trying to build power plants so far away from where the electricity is mostly needed?

CrimeDad, 5 days ago

To me, good reasons would align with the goals of environmental protection and wealth transfer to the working class. How do Aratina-type projects do so better than a nuclear power plant (or concentrated solar or deep-well geothermal) within or nearby to a population center? If they ever do it’s just incidental. The real reason for the Aratina development is that this was deal that satisfied the various capital interests involved in it (the land owner, “Avantus, a California company that is mostly owned by KKR, the global private equity firm”, and the bourgeois interests served by the county).

Woman declared dead in US is found alive at funeral home (www.straitstimes.com)

Mexico's new president! (i.redd.it)

boingboing.net/…/mexico-elects-first-woman-presid…

Is this tree healthy? (lemmy.world)

The tree is an adjoining neighbors backyard with large branches that come pretty close to my house (Though there is a sizable gap, if it comes down under the wrong wind direction…) and are actually touching another neighbors roof....

Green hydrogen producer signs first-of-its-kind agreement with major steel company: 'Increasingly necessary to ensure the long-term survival of our industries' (www.yahoo.com)

Which adaptation do you think has surpassed its source material in quality?

I think this was the little reprobate that woke me up at 1am screaming for its mama. (pixelfed.crimedad.work)

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