#Tennessee Republicans, spurred on by #chemtrail advocates, pass a bill that, on the face of it, appears to unintentionally ban all #CO2 emissions ("injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals into the air affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight")
Cue all the people portraying #Navalny as a liberal crusader for progressive values in 3, 2, 1...
(He's a far-right ultranationalist pro-imperialism activist and has only moderately softened his stances in recent years to attract more sympathy from the west)
Just got this email. Due to the crisis in #Grindavík, #Tesla has made Supercharging free in #Iceland to help people who have had to evacuate from the #volcano threat.
Right when my sister is en route to #Iceland with a family of geologists they're friends with... a dike is rapidly breaking a path through the crust (triggering an #earthquake swarm), with the #magma now less than a kilometer from the surface.
For those who haven't seen an erupting #volcano before, it's hard to put into words the energy on display. Imagine you were in #NYC and something was tossing the skyscrapers around. It's like that level of power. Doesn't feel like humans should see it.
Thinking about how long it's taken to prepare for this counteroffensive... I'm going to crack up if #Ukraine pulls a page out of #NorthKorea's / #ElChapo's playbook and has spent this time tunneling under the Dniper. ;)
Got support not just from 77% of #Democrats, but also 69% of #Republicans. Final votes will be on Saturday and are considered almost certain, as is quick #Senate ratification and #WhiteHouse signing by #Biden.
On #Bluesky, a few months ago, #XKCD author Randall Munroe wrote a long story about the "Case of the Missing Hit", a song with the chorus "#LOL" with specific lyrics and style aspects, which other people seem to have also heard - yet the song doesn't seem to exist.
So, TL/DR: #Tesla is cutting 20% of its workforce to save money, but also spending money by paying #ElonMusk to advertize to Tesla shareholders on #Twitter to get them to vote to give #Musk $55B in stock.
"Fun" fact: #ElonMusk's compensation plan, expected to be approved by the combination of retail shareholder enablers and the fact that many major market funds don't vote their shares, would be enough to pay 6-figure salaries to all ~14000 recently laid-off employees for 40 years.
"[He] expressed lamentation about the imaginary enslavement and misfortunes of Ukraine... acquired...the fame of a significant Little Russian writer, and therefore his poems are doubly harmful and dangerous. With favorite poems in Little #Russia thoughts could be sown and subsequently take root about the imaginary bliss of the times of the hetman, about the happiness of returning these times and about the possibility of #Ukraine existing as a separate state."
