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fucking die!

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pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.

“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”

This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/banker-budget-mega-rich-traders-jeremy-hunt?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

melanie,
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@pvonhellermannn The yellow guy looks like mustard.

ai6yr, to venturacounty

Shelter in Place for a bear lifted in Santa Paula.

melanie,
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@amd @ai6yr @kfcrosby @va7tz I wonder what the end solution is, to prevent the creation of city bears.

ai6yr, to politics

AP: Biden administration releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from reserve in bid to lower prices https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-administration-releasing-1-million-barrels-of-gasoline-from-reserve-in-bid-to-lower-prices

melanie,
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@ai6yr except that a chicken in every pot is more likely to be sustainable than cheap petrol

melanie,
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@ai6yr you and I also both know that oil companies will use this to further cut pumping and raise prices

notsle, to random
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melanie,
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@notsle Sale and leasebacks should create a rebuttable presumption of unfair favouring of a creditor in bankruptcy court.

anniezaidi, to random
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"they curtly informed my sister and me that our names weren't on the voter list so we couldn't cast our votes.
We insisted this couldn't be right since we had double-checked the Election Commission of India (ECI) website... After adamantly demanding to see the voter lists ourselves, they begrudgingly showed us one, seemingly concealing the other... we didn't back down and persisted until they finally revealed the second list. Our names were right there"

https://article-14.com/post/a-muslim-voter-s-first-person-account-of-how-she-fought-to-cast-her-vote-in-the-2024-election-664abb5c73502?s=09

melanie,
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@crmsnbleyd @anniezaidi I weep for India.

RickiTarr, to random
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What is your dream road trip? Where would you start? Where would you end up? What stops would you make along the way? It can be short or long, whatever interests you!

melanie,
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@RickiTarr Not really a dream road trip, but a template I think would be interesting: The patch of dust described thus: all of Cascadia all the way inland to the BC-Alberta border/Intermountain West, with the eastern extent being extended into the US using the mountain range that bounds BC to the East, from 54° 40min N to the southern extent of Oregon (line extended east as required). Within that, stopping at every settled place with a population over 100. Unless it’s over 5000, I won’t be stopping for any longer than to take a self-portrait, unless that’s where the campsite nearest the 5k town is.

Start point: I already live in the start point town, which is Prince George, BC, just under 54° North and 122° West.

melanie,
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@RickiTarr Really? The greater PNW is actually mostly a dour place. Even when it’s dry and cold, it’s somehow drab and dreary like England.

rameshgupta, to random
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is too stupid to realize that NOT voting for is a vote FOR , and that her boycott of could be her last — She might not get another opportunity to vote EVER.

Via @SteveThompson

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/cardi-b-wont-vote-joe-biden-or-donald-trump_uk_66477644e4b0cba40889b45b?utm_source=press.coop

melanie,
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@SteveThompson @donray @rameshgupta @RunRichRun @GottaLaff @joeinwynnewood @Eetschrijver So, you support genocide.

cstross, to random
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UK government adviser on disruptive protest accused of conflict of interest:

John Woodcock, whose review proposes bans for protest groups, has lobbying links to firms in arms and fossil fuel sectors (and is recommending bans on protests against both those industries)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/government-adviser-on-disruptive-protest-accused-of-conflict-of-interest

melanie,
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@HighlandLawyer @simon_brooke @BashStKid @glitzersachen @cstross my understanding is the EU is slightly older, but even so, that’s one more than Simon demanded

I will say though that I think second chambers might be wasteful if they’re just as democratically elected as the first chamber

melanie,
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@glitzersachen @BashStKid @simon_brooke @HighlandLawyer @cstross The tangled mass of treaties making it up can be argued to be the constitution you seek.

melanie,
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@HighlandLawyer @glitzersachen @BashStKid @simon_brooke @cstross Yes, it’s just like whatever clogged mess is going on on the Thames.

That’s a silly place to put a parliament, as well, isn’t it? What if the river decides it isn’t very happy with that?

lain, to random
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the feminine urge to have that smol bean energy

melanie,
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@lain are you a gril

mcc, to random
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Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgrade to Python 3.9 to run it

melanie,
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@dragonfrog @mcc A shovel is just a tool

AnnaAnthro, to Toronto
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caused 80 power outages in last year: hydro officials

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/squirrels-toronto-eighty-outages-1.7208716

melanie,
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@AnnaAnthro Remind me again why power lines are not insulated?

melanie,
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@AnnaAnthro Beats me.

melanie,
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@AnnaAnthro boreal gigantism?

tomkindlon, to mecfs
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New US preprint:
Oxidative Stress is a shared characteristic of ME/CFS and

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.04.592477v1

Authors include Ron Davis, Mark Davis & Hector Bonilla

@mecfs

melanie,
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@Tooden @tomkindlon @mecfs reactive oxygen species

Christine_Broesenhuber, to gardening
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It's pouring down today. I hope the won't completely devour my plants. They're even eating my and 😠 🤮 + the are killing off my plants. Sometimes can be frustrating. Heute regnet es Bindfäden. Hoffe, die werden nicht alle meine Kürbispflanzen auffressen. Sie haben sich schon über + hergemacht. killen meine . Manchmal ist furstrierend.

melanie,
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@JimmyB @Christine_Broesenhuber @gardening Did you prune the roots as well? Very important for root bound plants

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Anyone else struggling to see any prospects for turning things around? I will keep on trying to do what I can. Of course. But 2024 is challenging.

Last year did a post about how I wasn’t motivated by hope but by . I now realise i got that wrong. Hope isn’t just fluffy “things will be alright”. Hope is some flicker of belief that you and others can change things; I did, actually, have “hope”. Less now, but will keep going.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/13/banks-almost-7tn-fossil-fuel-firms-paris-deal-report

melanie,
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@pvonhellermannn Things are going the same way they have been, and I doubt they will change. The tropics and subtropics are trending less and less habitable, although in the main, the biological productivity (rice, and other arrangements for multiple-per-year cropping) required to sustain the highest population densities in the world remains (although that is also under threat). Temperate and warm-temperate cropping systems are going completely haywire due to unpredictable moisture and temperature régimes.

It’s bleak and getting bleaker. Even among the wreckage, someone is going to scrape together an existence, but that itself will be bleak.

ai6yr, (edited ) to random

Boy, this auction liquidator said "screw it, no photos, no lots, we're just going to sell the whole damn thing" Anyone want a Red Lobster (INCLUDING EVERYTHING IN THE PREMISES)?

https://bid.restaurantequipment.bid/Public/Auction/AuctionItemDetail?AuctionId=%2fKoYA1j74%2fd45J4SRlQW0g%3d%3d&pageNumber=pf6Q%2bhJtdeleDd9FfYpy9w%3d%3d&pageSize=O5OaPaZE1XrTjGtTQItkaw%3d%3d&showFilter=iBcS%2b4ptjknZQtCojbueqQ%3d%3d&sortColumn=C9SY4KX74WJIILYqur0bmw%3d%3d&AuctionItemId=Z2zRQq1PXgF4PX0W5ApbJw%3d%3d

melanie,
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@ai6yr Image is just a screenshot.

lain, to random
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should he get a better desk?

melanie,
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@lain maybe it would’ve stopped him from becoming a killer

ai6yr, to climate

In the face of increasing climate impacts, Florida is picking "denial" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/climate/desantis-climate-change-florida.html?utm_source=press.coop

melanie,
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@ai6yr why blurring

melanie, to random
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@simon_brooke hey did you know that you write good and you have done for 11 years?

melanie,
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@Tallish_Tom @simon_brooke I don’t think farms should be that large unless you’re in a desert and using the excess land to harvest rain. Not even in BC, where spaces are, relatively speaking, wide-open.

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