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Lats

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My home is in south eastern New South Wales. I have interests in: #climatechange as it seems the world many be a very unpleasant place for my kids and grandkids, the #environment for a similar reason, #physics as it makes our civilisation possible, #astrophotography because it’s cool, #photography as I like capturing the moment, #renewableenergy as it’s the only way out of the #climatecrisis, renewable powered vehicles as #evs and hydrogen is the way of #fossilfuels.
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randahl , to random
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When asked if they have confidence in President Zelenskyy, 20 percent of Americans aged 18-29 replies: "Who is Zelenskyy?"

Is it any wonder, Trump gets away with telling lies in the US?

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/05/08/views-of-ukraine-and-u-s-involvement-with-the-russia-ukraine-war/

Lats ,
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@randahl my kids tell me that I over assume that people know or care about politics or world affairs. After taking that on board I started to watch person on the street interviews and came to the conclusion that most people have no idea.

DemocracyMattersALot , to random
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Fox News Edited Out Trump Saying He Might Keep Epstein Files Sealed
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-fox-news_n_6667330de4b019027bc727f4

Lats ,
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@DemocracyMattersALot Epstein didn’t knock around with the hoi polloi but the rich were on his list so I imagine that Don and his mates are keen to keep the records sealed.

Nonilex , to random
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The admin toughened vehicle mileage standards, part of a strategy to transform the auto market to one led by to fight .

The measure requires to achieve a 65 mpg avg for all car models by 2031.

experts say retiring the is critical to staving off the most deadly & costly effects of .


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/climate/biden-mileage-electric-vehicles.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Lats ,
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@Nonilex 65 mpg (US) is 3.6187 Litre/100km which is about of half what my VW golf can do on a good day. Will the average include and other big end vehicles including light trucks and vans?

I expect that the industry will not be pleased.

GottaLaff , to random
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Enough already!

Danish PM hit by man in Copenhagen: office- AFP

Lats ,
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@GottaLaff people don’t tend to hit PMs however for a man to hit a female one…..

randahl , (edited ) to random
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China demonstrates robot dog which can hunt down humans and kill them with automatic gun fire.

Man this is dystopian.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/28/china/china-military-rifle-toting-robot-dogs-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

Lats ,
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@randahl if I was Boston Dynamics I would be looking at data breaches and industrial espionage.

afouxenidis , to random
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Biden administration signals it will support bipartisan push to sanction ICC

Via FT

(So, Putin is off the hook then? Or, is it ok in one case, not ok in another, whatever the US wants)

#icc #usa #politics #Israel

Lats ,
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@afouxenidis apparently logic doesn’t apply to US policy. It seems that Russia commits war crimes but Israel can’t. I assume that Hamas can too but it’s awkward as that would mean comparing Israel and Hamas as the warrants were issued together.

rbreich , to random
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The FTC found evidence that a US oil exec colluded with OPEC in 2021 and 2022 to cut production and drive up prices.

The price-fixing scam is estimated to have cost Americans an extra $2,100 per year.

When I say corporate greed is driving inflation, this is what I mean.

Lats ,
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@rbreich what’s the likelihood that the scam affected prices across the world. These jokers really have no social licence nor conscience.

mastodonmigration , (edited ) to random
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So now SpaceX, with no working spacesuit, and years behind on it's multi-billion dollar moon lander, is lobbying NASA to go to the Hubble Space Telescope.

"A successful private mission could improve Hubble's ability to point at celestial objects and, by boosting its orbit, extend its life by years... however, an accident could leave the multibillion-dollar telescope broken — or, even more tragically, tethered to the dead bodies of the astronauts sent to repair it."

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1250250249/spacex-repair-hubble-space-telescope-nasa-foia

Lats ,
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@mastodonmigration @sundogplanets interesting that it is seen as a US issue to regulate as any country can host launch vehicles. What it actually is saying is that there are a number of issues in our shared environment that require overriding international law.

randahl , (edited ) to random
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Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has been shot in an assassination attempt in the town of Handlova. In a video, the Prime Minister can be seen approaching a group of citizens to shake hands, when one citizen suddenly aims a handgun at the PM and fires five shots.

Robert Fico was immediately transferred by helicopter to F. D. Roosevelt University Hospital in the City of Banská. Deputive Prime Minister Tomáš Taraba says, Robert Fico’s condition is “not life-threatening”.

Lats ,
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@randahl how lucky is he to be shot 5 times and not a critical hit.

luckytran , to random
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"The Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder told the LATimes his customers are specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows."

This is an example of how minimizing COVID is destructive to public health far beyond COVID.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/anti-pasteurization-crowd-reaffirms-love-of-raw-milk-despite-bird-flu-outbreak/

Yet, raw milk enthusiasts are undaunted by the heightened risk. The California-based Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder, Mark McAfee, told the Los Angeles Times this weekend that his customers are, in fact, specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows. According to McAfee, his customers believe, without evidence, that directly drinking high levels of the avian influenza virus will give them immunity to the deadly pathogen.

Lats ,
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@luckytran sounds like an April Fools joke. WTF?

randahl , to random
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#vatnik alert:

I have blocked @smegmacheese2.

Lats ,
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@randahl looks like Russian intelligence at work.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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I love Chinese food.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Lats ,
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@lowqualityfacts Chinese food in Australia used to be a unique thing that probably occurred nowhere else (except maybe New Zealand) in the world. What we used to call Chinese food is now largely only found in outback towns where they still love it and occasionally revolts grey nomads. Chinese cuisine in the cities has moved up market and is still not representative of the food served in China.

CelloMomOnCars , to random
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This is what climate-changed rain looks like:

" was hit with severe on Tuesday after two years' worth of rain fell in just 24 hours, records show."

https://abcnews.go.com/International/dubai-flooding-heavy-rainfall/story?id=109321601

Lats ,
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@CelloMomOnCars not only climate change but they have been engaging in climate engineering as they have been cloud seeding too. We have a long history of regretting ecological interventions.
#climatechange #climateengineering

rbreich , to random
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I still hear people arguing that prosecuting a former president sets a “dangerous precedent.”

The truly dangerous precedent would be to establish that presidents are above the law.

Lats ,
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@rbreich how many of the Supreme Court Justices are above the law?

randahl , to random
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If Truth Social was loosing cash so rapidly, how could Trump keep it afloat up until the recent IPO? According to the Guardian, by borrowing millions from a Russian shell company controlled by Postolnikov — a guy whose name is listed on FBI search warrants in an ongoing money laundering investigation.

If all of this is true, the movie about the takedown Comrade Trump appears to write itself.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans

Lats ,
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@randahl @shansterable for anyone else the legal system would freeze assets, put them under arrest (house or otherwise), enforce contempt or court, etc. but not for a supposed rich person. It’s definitely a 2 or 3 speed legal system.

GottaLaff , to random
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Happy Easter.

Via Ron Filipkowski:

On Easter morning, #Trump posted an article in two separate publications that said he is “The Chosen One” and “a miracle” who was “sent by God” to save America.

Via Aaron Rupar:

Trump on Truth Social this Easter morning again posted a photo of Judge Merchan’s daughter and followed that up by comparing himself to Christ. https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C5L4NsXra1K

Lats ,
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@GottaLaff sounds like Trump needs a stint in a psychiatric hospital. Most others who spouted rubbish like that wouldn’t be asked before being sectioned.

Lats ,
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@GottaLaff correctly put!

GottaLaff , to random
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Joyce Vance: “This is a five-alarm fire. We know what the reaction would be if Joe tweeted a photo of a bound and gagged Donald in the trunk of an electric car. Why does Donald Trump get more leeway, especially with his past history? He only continues to get it because our institutions—the courts, the Republican party—let him take it.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/we-need-to-talk-about-this?r=br61&utm_medium=ios

Lats ,
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@GottaLaff wasn’t that the credo of the Third Reich?

davemark , to random
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"MIT chemical engineers have devised an efficient way to convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, a chemical precursor that can be used to generate useful compounds such as ethanol and other fuels."

Science!!!

https://news.mit.edu/2024/engineers-find-new-way-convert-carbon-dioxide-useful-products-0327?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
#Science #Chemistry #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

Lats ,
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@davemark a useful form of carbon dioxide removal that helps replace fossil fuels but will it help reduce the excessive amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere?
#co2 #CO #cdr #fossilfuel #climatechange

Lats ,
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@dymaxion @davemark I agree that CCR for dealing with climate change is irrelevant if there are still greenhouse emissions. In this case the deal looks more like replacing fossil fuels as a feedstock which may be useful in driving the evil companies out of business.

rbreich , to random
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Random reminder: You don't grow the economy through trickle down economics.

You grow the economy by investing in workers: their education, health care, child care, transportation, and job training.

Lats ,
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@rbreich sounds radical. How does that transfer obscene amounts of wealth to ? Isn’t a large pool of semi- trained unemployed people essential?

GottaLaff , to random
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ISIS terror group claims responsibility for attack on Moscow-area concert venue that left at least 40 dead -CNN

Lats ,
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@GottaLaff how many people in Russia get to hear that ISIS have claimed responsibility and that they may have to start worrying about more than Ukrainian drones? Probably not many.

wdlindsy , to random
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"Today, March 12, the full transcript of Hur’s interview with Biden was made public in advance of the special counsel’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. And as reporters noted, the Biden of the transcript looks quite different from the forgetful Biden described in the report. 'Biden doesn’t come across as being as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be,' wrote the Washington Post."

~ Quinta Jureric

#Biden #Hur #age #media

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-the-press-got-wrong-on-the-hur-report

Lats ,
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@wdlindsy how is that the special counsel felt that he was qualified or authorised to officially make a judgment about someone’s mental state? Sounds like vindictive defamation.

mondoweiss , to palestine group
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UN expert: Israel is engineering famine in Gaza

UN Special Rapporteur Michael Fakhri says Israel’s intentional starvation of Gaza is unprecedented. “We’ve never seen a civilian population made to go hungry so completely and so quickly,” he tells Mondoweiss. “Never in modern history.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/un-expert-israel-is-engineering-famine-in-gaza/


@palestine @israel

Lats ,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel the Polish ghetto in the Second World War comes to mind.

GottaLaff , to random
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Stay to the very end.

Then share like crazy.

nailed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6e4ruziZBI

Lats ,
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@GottaLaff it’s odd that people associate Trump (variously called a narcissistic/sociopath) with caring about their interests. I suppose it’s possible if their interests coincide but…

marcelias , to random
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Put simply, the Court allowed Trump to stay on the ballot in order to avoid an outcome that would raise the “national temperature.” My objection is that Judges should not bend to the will of an insurrectionist simply to placate his supporters.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/in-9-0-ruling-supreme-court-justices-bend-toward-trump/

Lats ,
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@marcelias republicans are always going on about activist Supreme Courts but apparently not conservative activist ones.

GottaLaff , to random
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✔️ Via Instit. For Policy Studies’ Sanho Tree:

I think Welker needs to understand that we cannot have a rational discussion about public policy if we can’t agree what constitutes a baseline for reality.

Aaron Rupar:

Kristen Welker says that #Trump "allegedly" tried to overturn the 2020 election. No, he really tried to do that. We lived through it!

Lats ,
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@GottaLaff @cindyweinstein they use the same weasel words to imply that it undecided that he is a rapist, fraud as well as an insurrectionist. These are matters of judicial fact and should be treated as such.

CelloMomOnCars , to random
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"Rather than using their own furnaces, boilers, fireplaces or electric baseboard heaters to heat buildings, consumers would receive heat directly from a utility.

In Europe, 67 million people enjoy heating from thermal networks and systems supplied by a variety of sources in a mix that is increasingly less reliant on carbon."

https://theconversation.com/thermal-networks-the-missing-infrastructure-we-need-to-help-enable-carbon-free-heating-224054?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Lats ,
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@CelloMomOnCars I wonder how many people will live close enough to these industrial processes especially nuclear power plants. There are significant health downsides to living too close and piping heat long distances must have losses.

Lats ,
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@CelloMomOnCars thanks. I suppose that I was considering the Australian context where heating is not a big issue in a lot of areas and for a lesser time than in the north. The distances between the industrial areas and the residential areas can be quite large. It would definitely work better where the population density is higher.

GottaLaff , to random
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Via David Cay Johnston

& Co. intend to force a despite our Constitution expressly forbidding any establishment of religion.

Jews, Muslims, agnostics, atheists, and actual Christians should be horrified by words below from a retired general who has shown his disloyalty to America..👇🏼

Trump’s former (& future?) nat sec adviser Mike Flynn: “If we are going to have one nation under God which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God and one religion under God”

Lats ,
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@GottaLaff I assume that they are referring to the Judeo-Christian-Islamic god that is worshipped by a lot of people. Pity there are so many religions and sects to choose from.

Strandjunker , to random
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As long as I live, I will never forgive Mitch McConnell for both causing irreparable damage to the Supreme Court of the United States, and not voting to convict Donald Trump.

Lats ,
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@Strandjunker he doesn’t look like he’s going to live much longer which is a plus.

CelloMomOnCars , to random
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‘Blue’ Hydrogen Could Produce 50% More Warming than Burning Fossil Fuels

"[Canada] “is betting big on #BlueHydrogen, a fossil fuel-derived chemical masquerading as an energy solution."

This research should finally lay to rest the unfounded hope that creating incentives for fossil #hydrogen production in Canada is any kind of solution for the climate, or for economic development.”

https://www.theenergymix.com/blue-hydrogen-could-produce-50-more-warming-than-burning-fossil-fuels/

Lats ,
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@CelloMomOnCars the cost of adding CCS to just doesn’t look to be sensible. The process to create blue hydrogen costs energy and CCS also costs energy just as it does to all those fossil fuel using industrial processes then more energy is needed/wasted. It all seems counterintuitive and that green hydrogen would be a better solution. Must be a billionaire or two in there wanting it.
#ccs #fossilfuel #bluehydrogen

GottaLaff , to random
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Via Klasfeld:

#EJeanCarroll's attorney Robbie
Kaplan reflects on #Trump posting cash in lieu of bond on the first $5 million judgment.

"I suspect it’s because he couldn’t get a bond."

Lats ,
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@GottaLaff it must suck to be a supposed #billionaire

GottaLaff , (edited ) to random
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⚠️ Via @atrupar:

the loud part is getting louder

Republican Accountability:

Jack Posobiec at CPAC: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it.”

UPDATE, VIDEO:

https://indieweb.social/@stephenjbell/111977391928939182

Lats ,
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@GottaLaff if an Iranian group was talking about overturning US democracy, it would be called terrorism. It’s apparently alright for Russians and Russian political activists to do so as well as conservatives.

GottaLaff , to random
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“Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-#Wisconsin) announced Saturday that he will not seek reelection this fall after four terms in office.”

https://trib.al/0rJHEM5

Lats ,
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@GottaLaff if they are tired of the circus then they have the rest of the term to vote their conscience. If they side with the circus then you know the truth about them. No ethics and no spine. It would be easy enough to work with the Democrats and get something done.

GottaLaff , to random
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Psst! #ClarenceThomas won't do that. But keep up the pressure regardless.

"Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin is calling on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from a case focused on #Trump’s eligibility for the 2024 ballot." #14thAmendment #legal #SCOTUS https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/02/07/congress/durbin-thomas-scotus-trump-2024-ballot-eligibility-00140147?cid=politico_threads

Lats ,
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@GottaLaff @jwcph @Sandywb @argv_minus_one broke is a relative term. For most it means selling the house and not being able to feed the kids for a supposed billionaire it can mean not being able to be called a billionaire any more or people calling you a loser or being laughed at. He may never sleep on a park bench but then it might come to that.

CelloMomOnCars , to random
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The will make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like a walk in the park. With ice cream.

" Rising seas, bigger , and other increasing hazards have created a dangerous instability in the U.S. financial system. "

That, on top of developers building in flood plains and wildfire-prone places, and the US government providing the .


https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/04/bubble-trouble-climate-change-is-creating-a-huge-and-growing-u-s-real-estate-bubble/

Lats ,
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@CelloMomOnCars this is how rich countries are starting to see the climate crisis approaching. In Africa they haven’t heard of insurance. Major changes are coming.

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