Which is actually pretty hopeful. Once the dude got out of a media ecosystem telling him what to think and feel, and he was presented with the facts in an irrefutable way, he did what was right.
Right-wing media is all about creating an information bubble keeping inconvenient truths out.
President Joe Biden promised Black voters Wednesday that he would appoint progressives to the US Supreme Court if elected to a second term, suggesting he expects vacancies on the high court over the next four years....
Yes. But that rarely happens (usually just because of health issues). There are very few decisions that have been made where all the members didn’t weigh in. When even votes have happened the lower court ruling will stand as is. Which is particularly bad when you have places like the 5th circuit trying their best to fascism.
Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....
The problem with such statements is the energy costs are nowhere near fixed. The amount of energy needed to play a song on my iPod shuffle through a wired headset is wildly different from the power needed to play that same song on my TV through my home theater equipment.
The same is true on the backend. The amount of power Google spends serving up a wildly popular band is way less than what they burn serving up an unknown Indy band’s video. That’s because the popular band’s music will have been pre-optimized by Google to save on bandwidth and computing resources. When something is popular, it’s in their best interests to reduce the computational costs (ie power consumption) associated with serving that content.
A synthetic rubber manufacturer accused of increasing the cancer risk for the nearby majority-Black community in Louisiana told a federal appeals court it will have to shut down “likely permanently” if it’s forced to meet the Biden administration’s deadline to reduce emissions....
Yup. Not only that, years earlier they were under investigation by the doj for their chloroprene emissions.
Denka’s arguments here are ridiculous. They are trying to play like chloroprene isn’t horribly toxic. It’s a human pesticide. No emissions are safe, and that means they can’t run their 60 year old cancer factory without rebuilding. Booo hooo.
Analysis of the carbon offset projects used by top corporations including Delta, Gucci and ExxonMobil raises concerns around their emission cuts claims...
Worse, they were pure PR. A way for a company to say “look how green we are, we are offsetting all our emissions!”. Which, of course, they did by finding a shady company that “offset” the most for the least amount of money.
I wonder how many times the same tree was paid for by companies to “offset” their CO2.
It doesn’t even kick any can down the road. It’s throwing cash at a tree while rolling coal.
The hostility towards EVs is misplaced, likely due to both musk being a shithead and tons of misleading articles about how terrible they are. Over their lifetime, EVs have far less emissions than any other vehicle. It’s not even close. Certainly there are better alternatives like public transport (which isn’t available everywhere) or cycling (which isn’t doable by everyone). However, in a car society, EVs are just about the best we can do.
As for the food restrictions, they are just not that common. Most people have access to and can tolerate rice and beans which are a complete protein set. As for vitamins the vast majority are found in high quantities in common plants (such as spinach). About the only thing to watch out for is B12 deficiency. Combatting that, however, does not require meat with every meal.
Certainly it’d be better if more variety and tasty plants were available. However, because plants are a staple to cuisine they are everywhere. If you look at the actual meat in your diet you’ll find it’s almost always served with a load of plant based food surrounding it.
I’m sympathetic with the difficulties going full vegan and am open to the notion that it’s not possible for everybody. However, that does not mean that it’s not an achievable diet for most people.
Back when I bought mine (2018) they were pretty much the best in the business for EVs. There really weren’t other options and Elon wasn’t flirting with nazis. Now? Buy something else (or at very least don’t buy a new tesla or used from tesla). Hundai’s iconiqs look quiet nice.
The two major issues he’s highlighting is the border and gaza. I can’t for the life of me understand why THOSE are the issues his campaign has settled on. Well, I guess I understand israel because of the money groups like APAC bring in… but still it’s become really toxic among the base (even with most republicans at this point). And the border… like the fuck… we lambasted Trump for kids in cages and biden has decided that we should continue that policy and double down on it?
The only way he’s winning a second term is if somehow Trump voters have lost their motivation and devotion to him. Otherwise this election is really not looking good.
There are so many popular issues that also make trump look terrible that biden could run on. Abortion, climate change, hating nazis, raising the minimum wage, expanding workers rights, LGBT rights, the actions of the FTC to reign in big business. He’s got so many talking points to really be effective against trump and he’s instead doing Hillary’s campaign strategy of “Well yeah, look at that guy?”.
I’ve met more than a few libertarians that view an essential role of the government is banning books that mention gay people.
A lot of libertarians are just Republicans mad the Republican party isn’t fascist enough. Their “small government” ideals often include government functions like making sure everyone worships Jesus.
FFS, I’ve seen idiots proudly waving the libertarian flag AND a thin blue line flag.
Most libertarians are both profoundly selfish and woefully uninformed about history, theory of government, etc. proud ancaps (which is the loud majority) are dumbasses that swallowed koch propaganda. “I got mine” is the real libertarian credo.
Behold, how capitalists justify immoral behavior. “it’s not my fault my actions hurt so many people, they should have realized I was going to hurt them and stopped me”
Not fucking good, the bill is hot garbage and the fact that so many Senate Democrats and Biden support it is an embarrassment.
It’s a bill criminalizing a non-problem that creates a worse issue than what it “solves”. We don’t need or benefit from a more militaristic boarder and xenophobic/racist rhetoric about people crossing.
This garbage kills people and promotes human trafficking. The bill Democrats should be supporting is loosening the boarder and opening pathways to citizenship. We don’t need more detention centers to separate children from their families.
This bill is the same as if the Democrats put up an anti abortion bill just to show that the Republicans don’t care about stopping abortions. Democrats implementing Republican’s fascist policies is not what we need. Not even as a “gotcha”.
There’s also so many issues that are way more popular that the Democrats are flubbing on by focusing on the fucking border of all things.
Abortion, climate change, cost of living, housing costs, medical costs, ect. It’s a limitless field of popular problems that need fixing and instead of focusing on any of them, the hill they are dying on is funding and arming ICE? In the wake of calls for police reform, they want to empower some of the worst most fascist cops in the US?
These old dog Democrats are the dumbest most of of touch politicians out there.
Yup. Nobody needs advice from advisors negatively impacted by this ruling. It’s a common sense regulation, telling people the best financial move is buying their junk financial implements is unethical and now illegal.
This CRA would make it so a pay day lender could tell their marks the best financial move is taking out their terrible loans.
A pardon stops all punishment from the judicial system. You don’t have to plead guilty and criminal proceedings stop. A pardon further undoes any legal handicap (for example, you can own firearms again).
That said, if you accept a pardon you can’t plead the fifth when it comes to details related to the crime you’ve committed.
There’s also a commutation, which is weaker than a pardon. Instead of having the crime fully forgiven you are simply let out of jail with the understanding you committed the crime and must face follow up consequences (like not being able to own firearms).
Finally, there are also conditional pardons. Those are ones where the president could impose a “you must plead guilty” style rule before the pardon can be applied. He could also apply a rule that says “you must perform 10 jumping jacks”.
Pardon powers are some of the most broad we have in the US.
About the only limitation is you can’t pardon for future crimes.
Biden’s campaign proposed that the first debate between the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees be held in late June and the second in September before early voting begins. Trump responded to the letter in an interview with Fox News digital, calling the proposed dates “fully acceptable to me” and joked about...
The terms here are how the commission should have been running debates from the beginning.
Trump will never agree to these terms as they undercut his entire debate strategy. With no crowd there, Trump can’t feed off their responses. With the mic time limit he can’t interrupt and interject like he wants to do. That leaves him with his rambling disconnected thoughts.
Yeah, and that will be another problem. Even with this format, most people aren’t going to watch the debate. What they’ll watch is clips from the debate from their favorite media outlet.
Biden isn’t a great debater, so I’m sure there’ll be plenty of clips of him looking like an idiot. And, well, Trump is an idiot and his supporters know and don’t really care about that… So… Yeah. These debates will ultimately be pointless. The two are known entities that really don’t need exploring. A format change, though, would hopefully help with the 2028 elections.
We aren’t talking about a toxic waste dump or a steel mill. This is a grocery store attic.
I’d agree that if they rented the space to her that would be unethical as they aren’t providing essential utilities like water and sewage. However, this location was likely safer and more private for her than camping out on the street. Her situation was not improved by being evicted. She was harmed. That’s why it’s unethical to evict on discovery.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont announced Monday he will run for reelection this year, squelching speculation that the 82-year-old progressive icon might retire at a time when the Democratic Party is anxious about the advancing age of its top leaders....
Senate is a 6 year term so he’ll be 88 at the end if he survives.
Besides just being with his family, the most important thing he could be doing is finding a replacement with similar politics to him and endorsing the shit out of them. Otherwise when he dies it will be a blood bath that might not end up with a progressive like him.
Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict (www.reuters.com)
"My juror": Trump believed a loyalist on the jury could save him, until the very end (www.salon.com)
Biden pledges to name progressives to the Supreme Court, suggesting he expects vacancies (www.cnn.com)
President Joe Biden promised Black voters Wednesday that he would appoint progressives to the US Supreme Court if elected to a second term, suggesting he expects vacancies on the high court over the next four years....
The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)
Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....
Louisiana chemical plant threatens to shut down if EPA emissions deadline isn't relaxed (apnews.com)
A synthetic rubber manufacturer accused of increasing the cancer risk for the nearby majority-Black community in Louisiana told a federal appeals court it will have to shut down “likely permanently” if it’s forced to meet the Biden administration’s deadline to reduce emissions....
Corporations invested in carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says (www.theguardian.com)
Analysis of the carbon offset projects used by top corporations including Delta, Gucci and ExxonMobil raises concerns around their emission cuts claims...
Used Teslas are getting very cheap, but buying one can be risky (arstechnica.com)
Joe Biden's approval rating in swing states is worse than national average (www.newsweek.com)
Trump takes stage to 'thunderous boos' at Libertarian convention event (www.rawstory.com)
American Airlines backtracks after lawyers blame girl, 9, for not seeing hidden camera in bathroom (www.fox4news.com)
Senate Democrats to force second vote on border bill that Republicans blocked (www.theguardian.com)
Legislation has next to no chance of passing but Democrats hope to show Republicans are not serious about solving border issue...
Manchin, GOP senators move to overturn retirement investment planning rule (thehill.com)
Romney Says He’d ‘Have Immediately Pardoned’ Trump If He Were Biden (www.thedailybeast.com)
Biden challenges Trump to 2 debates but won’t participate in nonpartisan commission's debates (apnews.com)
Biden’s campaign proposed that the first debate between the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees be held in late June and the second in September before early voting begins. Trump responded to the letter in an interview with Fox News digital, calling the proposed dates “fully acceptable to me” and joked about...
Homeless woman was living inside Michigan rooftop store sign with computer, coffee maker (apnews.com)
Judge rejects Trump demand for a "mistrial" after embarrassing testimony from Stormy Daniels (www.salon.com)
Liberal icon Bernie Sanders is running for Senate reelection, squelching retirement rumors (apnews.com)
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont announced Monday he will run for reelection this year, squelching speculation that the 82-year-old progressive icon might retire at a time when the Democratic Party is anxious about the advancing age of its top leaders....
House passes antisemitism bill with broad bipartisan support amid campus arrests (www.nbcnews.com)