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lettruthout,

Maybe “Are Trying to Silence” would be closer to the truth.

These Teens Adopted an Orphaned Oil Well. Their Goal: Shut It Down. Students, nonprofit groups and others are fund-raising to cap highly polluting oil and gas wells abandoned by industry. (www.nytimes.com)

It’s a serious policy failure that this is happening; the people paying to cap wells should be the ones who became wealthy by extracting the oil, not a bunch of random teenagers.

lettruthout,

And…

“We’re the cleanup crew for a party we were too young to attend.” - Kevin Gilbert, from a song on the album Thud

Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled (lemmy.world)

Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn’t rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn’t unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.

lettruthout,

It’s called an “H-type” head. I found some tools for that on eBay but was reluctant to spend any money on something I’d probably never need again, ever. But this video shows a hack using scissors.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA6_S9YkZEc

I didn’t have a pair laying around that worked but the video inspired me to MacGyver my way to remove that aberration against all that’s good in humanity.

lettruthout,

Wow, doing a MacGuyver with corporate assistance. I like it!

lettruthout,

He succeeded for the rich and failed for the rest of us - and future generations (increased debt, doubting climate change, etc).

lettruthout,

…because the threat of a death penalty worked so well to eliminate the occurrence of other crimes.

lettruthout,

Wow, that seems like a very useful approach. Yeah it’s a bit manipulative, but in a kind way. Thanks for sharing this, and the back story!

lettruthout,

Same here come to think about it. That’s weird too.

lettruthout,

Yeah, and even that’s stretching the term “conscious”.

Since most of the hydrogen currently available commercially is from oil production, maybe “eco-greenwashing” would be more accurate.

lettruthout,

This post made my ears itch. Luckily I do have Q-tips handy.

lettruthout,

Well apparently a lot of people didn’t come to hear what he said, they left during the speech…

twitter.com/aliyareports/…/1789435508822561181

lettruthout,

I’ve only been to one that was big. It seemed like most people were still in the venue at the end, and it was slow going on way getting out.

lettruthout,

TIL: 747s are still used for passenger service.

lettruthout,

Vermont and New Hampshire have exchanged places! Who knew?

lettruthout,

Yes, a much improved alignment!

Regulators approve sweeping change to the way most Californians are billed for electricity (www.latimes.com)

“This will punish people who use less energy,” said Jenn Engstrom, the state director at consumer advocacy group CALPIRG. “This will encourage high consumption and it will increase bills for millions of Californians.”...

lettruthout,

Some of those facing punishment, including 40 students at UC San Diego, were slapped with “interim suspension” notices following mass arrests at protest encampments. But many others who avoided arrest face the same penalty for reasons that are far less clear. …

“You very rarely see these interim suspension cases,” said Sukham Sidhu, who heads of the Office of Student Advocacy at UC San Diego and has spent her undergraduate career representing peers through campus disciplinary proceedings. “The only times I’ve seen it imposed are in cases of physical assault.”

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