I think the new version of net metering pays homeowners less than it did previously, for power that they feed into the grid, disincentivizing rooftop solar.
A California city has agreed to pay $900,000 to a man who was subjected to a 17-hour police interrogation in which officers pressured him to falsely confess to murdering his father, who was alive....
I like how each subsequent time the dollar amount is mentioned, you learn that the previous number had been rounded up.
Man awarded $1m is glad to receive $900,000. That $898,000 will make him feel better but is $897,600 really adequate compensation? However, it’s kind of unfair that the tax payers end up footing this $897,550 bill.
I don’t have any direct sources to link but I remember seeing some pretty appalling omissions of Bernie Sanders during the 2020 primary.
They’d literally put up a little infographic on the screen that would say something like
Democratic primary front runners:
1 Joe Biden
3 Pete Buttigieg
4 Michael Bloomberg
And it was like, WTF! Bernie Sanders, at #2 would just be completely omitted. I saw many news sources doing this kind of thing.
With that, and seeing how they reacted to help the rich stop losing their asses when the hedge funds were getting raped via their illegal shorting of GameStop stock solidified for me that all media is controlled by the rich and they’re controlling all the narrative - to the detriment of the 99%.
I think he’s saying that you can measure how much energy the food contains but not how much energy each individual will successfully absorb and metabolize.
Why would this guy think that the sign has its right arm and right leg forward? That’s not how walking works. Its clearly the left leg and the right arm. Tell that guy to get back there and do it right!
The concept of being fed up with water is so alien to me. Water doesn’t have some powerful, delicious flavor but the sensation of drinking water is almost always one of satisfying refreshment.
How can you be irritated by water? “Damn it, this is only exactly what my body needs!”
Haha, people choose the language that supports the narrative they’re peddling.
When emphasizing how bad Trump’s actions were, he cheated on his wife with a porn star. When trying to make it no big deal, he had a fling with an escort.
When trying to humanize Stormy Daniels, she’s an adult film actress. When trying to tear her down, she’s basically a hooker.
I think the question becomes, should you need to be licensed to operate and should you have to register/insure what essentially become ultralight motorcycles?
If you could get a $1-2k “motorcycle” that was an electric bike, having about a 45 mph top speed, a 20 mile range, and a detachable battery that you could take inside with you to charge, it would be such an efficient, practical method of transportation.
However, I have a bottom of the barrel, 250w hub motor ebike. With pedal assist, it gets me cruising at 20mph no problem. I got it from Walmart for $400. I am pretty ignorant when it comes to production and manufacturing but it stands to reason that at 5x the price, they could make something that would safely go a little over twice the speed.
The problem with ebikes is that they manufacture all these huge, fat-tire, inefficient pieces of garbage and then price them at $3k like some luxury item.
Wait, the bike I was hoping for already almost exists. Its called the goat v2. Its just a little over $2k with some promo codes and realistically, it’s a couple mph shy of 45.
I think we’re going to see bikes like this everywhere within 5 years, which is great!
I still try to limit my impact but a few years back I realized that going out of my way to do “green” things was mostly pointless. Its like trying to bail water out a boat that people are actively kicking holes in.
Recycling - It almost all ends up in the trash anyway. Fuel Efficiency and green transportation - Why? 90% of people seem to want to drive a giant SUV.
People care about stupid, ineffective, virtue signaling bullshit like plastic straws and not wasting a piece of paper.
If people really cared, they’d ride their bikes or at the very least, reduce their meat consumption. However, a wide majority simply do not care.
You can talk about what people say they want to do or you can look at what they actually do. They glorify overconsumption as a way of showing personal success, value, luxury, self worth, etc. They reproduce far too often.
Congratulations! You, by virtue of being another member of our overly abundant, highly resource consuming species, are also part of the problem.
US grade school textbooks
Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert (ca.news.yahoo.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.crimedad.work/post/91685...
Kyle Rittenhouse mocked for trying to make ‘gay’ a slur on the first day of Pride Month (www.advocate.com)
Americans shrug over falling birthrate (www.newsweek.com)
Embarrassing coal (lemmy.world)
Which stage of capitalism is this? (lemmy.world)
How Google Ruined the Internet | Adam Conover (www.youtube.com)
‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation (www.theguardian.com)
A California city has agreed to pay $900,000 to a man who was subjected to a 17-hour police interrogation in which officers pressured him to falsely confess to murdering his father, who was alive....
Bernie would have won... (lemmy.world)
They messed up the order (lemmy.world)
There are no guardrails in life (lemmy.world)
Making healthier choices (lemmy.world)
Too rule-following (sh.itjust.works)
My cats look so done with me taking pictures of them all the time (lemmy.world)
I’m not going to stop though.
so dreamy wow (mander.xyz)
Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk (lemmy.world)
Byron Looper - Obsessed with his political career, he legally changed his middle name to "(Low Tax)" and murdered his election opponent (en.wikipedia.org)
Stormy Daniels wore a bulletproof vest to Trump’s hush money trial, attorney says (www.independent.co.uk)
Earlier this year, porn star said she accepted hush money so Donald Trump could not have her killed...
E-Bikes Should Not Require Pedaling, Proposes U.K. Government, Diverging From E.U. (www.forbes.com)
E-bikes could get faster, more powerful and not require pedaling, in a move announced today by UKGOV. Cycling organizations are opposed to the plans.
Water barrel for a fallout shelter from the Cold War era seen in a flea market. (lemmy.world)
Bonus: modern doomsday prepper booth in the same flea market. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ee65f843-66be-4009-9aec-12d2d991e91d.jpeg
superfile - A pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager (raw.githubusercontent.com)
github.com/MHNightCat/superfile
Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere | Experts issue warning after finding global average concentration in March was 4.7ppm higher than same period last year (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9388627...