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The beginnings of a list:
"The biggest perpetrators were energy companies like Shell, Exxon Mobil, and Chevron, which were able to enjoy massive profits last year"
If you can find any way to go electric, use petrol less, ride a bike, walk, use a train, avoid a plane, etc, go for it. Prolly the petrol corps won't notice your individual actions, but the carbon you'll keep out of the atmosphere might just help to keep our planet's ecosphere viable.

The Study itself: INFLATION, PROFITS AND MARKET POWER TOWARDS A NEW RESEARCH AND POLICY AGENDA - https://www.ippr.org/files/2023-12/1701878131_inflation-profits-and-market-power-dec-23.pdf - Jeebus, 32 pages!

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The renaming of military 'posts' to non-Confederate names is already in progress for some time now. The removal of the monument from Arlington is part of that process.
Did you read the article: "Virginia’s governor, Glenn Youngkin, disagrees with the decision and plans to move the monument to the New Market battlefield state historical park in the Shenandoah Valley..."

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Good. 40 GOP congresspeople object. Last I checked 40 is a tiny sliver of congress, even of just the GOP members.

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Ooh, let's do that then! Enforce the law, and these individuals will stop endangering the lives of fellow human beings, and other species. smh.

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Maine has also joined in disqualification on 14th amendment grounds. If you insurrect, we won't elect!!

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Wow! This sifting AI can do, in conjunction with bench top experimentation makes for a whole new game in drug discovery. From approx 39,000 substances for training the model, to 12 million compounds screened, to reveal 280 likely compounds, then off to the lab, and they found 2 promising candidates. Talk about finding a (2) needles in a hundred acres of haystacks!!

Citation: Discovery of a structural class of antibiotics with explainable deep learning (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06887-8)

What search engine do you recommend that isn't Google or Bing?

I’m still trying to de-Google my life, little by little. I don’t trust Bing for similar reasons. DDG is feeling shady of late. What’s the search engine you all recommend that I can inject into my daily life? Is there perhaps a search engine that is focused on code, or have we just all moved on to AI for searching?...

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I've been using DDG, and Ecosia. So I looked to see what was up with DDG. From what I'm reading, I'll keep using DDG.

May 25, 2022 An article in TechRadar, and another on The Register mention an inability to block Microsoft trackers on DDG.
https://www.techradar.com/news/duckduckgo-in-hot-water-over-hidden-tracking-agreement-with-microsoft
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/25/duckduckgo_browser_microsoft_privacy/

August 5, 2022 A TEchCRunch article describes DDG's efforts to block advertising requests and other tracking protections
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/

May 12, 2023 Reuters article "No deal between DuckDuckGo and Microsoft to track users online"
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N3792HE/
"Independent experts say that DuckDuckGo blocks known tracking scripts from loading to prevent vulnerable personal identifiers from being exposed, including Microsoft-owned scripts. A separate partnership with Microsoft for advertising on DuckDuckGo’s search results page is limited to ad placements, not tracking users or building profiles, a DuckDuckGo spokesperson said."

Further, "Users sharing the headline, “Google Lite: DuckDuckGo Signs Secret Deal with Bill Gates to Track Users Online” in April 2023 can be seen (here) and (here).

The headline belonged to a story that first appeared on NewsPunch on May 25, 2022 (here), which now redirects to The People’s Voice (the two are affiliated) (here) (here).

The original article was published before DuckDuckGo eliminated, in August 2022, an exception that did permit some Microsoft-owned tracking scripts on websites to send data to Microsoft."
Links are in the article cited.

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and soon, please.

"Earlier this month, a judge denied Navarro's request (https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-aide-peter-navarro-sentenced-defying-jan-6/story?id=106653782) to remain out of prison while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. The Bureau of Prisons has not yet set a date for Navarro to report to prison."

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IMHO Russia has been doing all they can through subversion, mis-information, efforts as destablilization, sowing seeds of distrust in elections, and democratic government, etc, etc, which is to say they are already "at war" with NATO, they just don't really want NATO and aligned countries to know and act on that fact.

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Occupied as early at 1042-1278 CE. Very cool! So much to learn about on this spherical oasis of ours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruins_of_Gedi#History_of_occupation

Full Cold Moon Super Hero Bike Ride 12/25/2023 7PM Railyard Water Tower

We're riding again! Come all Ye Superheroes! Light up your bikes, finish all your Super Heroic Chores, and Celebrate the Full COLD Moon with us. We'll meet up 7pm at the Railyard Water Tower, and ride around at a social pace. At 7:30 we'll gather up the Loops: Santa Fe riders on The Plaza.

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Truly a shitpost. No, it's not the case. Who makes up these shitposts? Big Broccoli, I tell ya! I was curious, so I looked it up: https://baringtheaegis.blogspot.com/2020/02/no-sappho-didnt-give-broccoli-to-her.html

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I will mark in celebration the last day I ever hear of this despicable human. "Shut up, man."

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Beautiful!! I'll have some free time in the next couple weeks, and hope to get some lacto-chutney going. I'll post something here, soon. Pic is my hot sauce from the past September - Habanero, Cayenne, Yellow Hots, garlic, cumin seed, and a 5% brine. After it was done bubbling I puree'd it along with some more garlic. It was so good! And I made enough to give some to friends, too. :-)

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Hmm, deleted by author. Which troll? Please, elaborate.

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TY! Gotta keep the community safe by calling out the trolls. I hope Santa is very good to you, this year. ;-)

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