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GottaLaff , 2 days ago to random

I’m going to go shower now and when I get back, I’d like nothing more than to see all positive replies in my feed instead of the doom I’m seeing now.

Take the challenge.

fluffykittycat , 2 days ago

@JaneDoeTheFirst @burnoutqueen @AkaSci @GottaLaff a fictional character is your beat arguement?

GottaLaff , 5 days ago to random

#Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday voted to decriminalize possession of #marijuana for personal use, making the nation one of Latin America’s last to do so, in a move that could reduce its massive prison population.

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-decriminalize-marijuana-personal-use-2ea6a00be557553df8f45676d960f141?taid=667b2780cb18c900014f0b3f

fluffykittycat , 5 days ago

@GottaLaff 🇧🇷🌿

GottaLaff , 17 days ago to random

Women’s reproductive rights, contraception, LGBTQ rights, IVF, now this:

The Christian right is coming for divorce next - Vox

“Conservative commentators and lawmakers are calling for an end to no-fault divorce, arguing that it has harmed men and even destroyed the fabric of society.”
https://apple.news/AZrx9yMTiQiaZJGSvy9X9Tg

fluffykittycat , 17 days ago

@GottaLaff we have to stop them

GottaLaff , 18 days ago to random

#WompWomp

An appeals court rejected #Florida Gov. Ron #DeSantis’ argument that he can shield public records due to executive privilege.
The right had not been recognized previously under state law and could’ve drastically expanded the governor’s ability to keep records from the public.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/12/court-rejects-desantis-executive-privilege-00163015

fluffykittycat , 18 days ago

@GottaLaff courts are just making stuff up now

wdlindsy , 1 month ago to random

As A.R. Moxon, who grew up the son of white evangelical Christian missionaries, says, it takes "very fine people" to sustain people like Nazis, Confederates, Christian nationalists, and authoritarian supremacists. And this is a primary point of his forthcoming book Very Fine People, taking off on Trump's staterment after the neo-Nazi demonstration in Charlottesville that there were "very fine people" on both sides.

#Trump #authoritarianism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.the-reframe.com/very-fine-people/

fluffykittycat , 1 month ago

@wdlindsy religion being used to support atrocities is the least suprising thing ever.

saddestrobots , 1 month ago to random

none of the shitlibs who are mad at leftie college kids have updated any of their rhetoric or mental models since 2016, so you just get a lot of monologuing about how kids are "entitled" as if america's client state perpetrating genocide is the same thing as your college loans

fluffykittycat , 1 month ago

@saddestrobots also college students aren't entitled for demanding freedom from debt slavery.

rms , 1 month ago to random

[2/2] … freshmen had lost interest in physical hobbies and activities (model railroading being one). We both speculated that widespread use of snoop-phones and antisocial media platforms, which were addictive to social groups, helped to bring that change about. A decrease in Americans' use of those systems might perhaps expand the space for civil society.

fluffykittycat , 1 month ago

@rms the lack of ability to do things physically due to cost constraints playa into this a lot

CelloMomOnCars , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

"#Solar prices have significantly decreased, leading participation to increase. This has disrupted rate equity between solar-owning customers and non-solar-owning customers.

The proposed alternative would have all grid-provided energy billed at retail rates and all excess solar energy credited at [a lower rate].

The billing would only apply to future customers, but would not affect customers who already own them."

https://www.alligator.org/article/2024/04/gru-authority-board-adopts-changes-to-billing-for-solar-owning-customers

Edit: please read whole thread before you get mad

fluffykittycat , 2 months ago

@CelloMomOnCars @AGTMADCAT @quixote thats a good idea. We also want to be able to share solar across time zones to get more out of it with less battery capacity

GottaLaff , 2 months ago to random

🏆
Via Scott MacFarlane:

There it is:

Rep Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Rep Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) introduce bill to change the name of the federal prison in Miami, Florida to the Donald J. #Trump Federal Correctional Institution

Days after House GOP members offered bill to rename Dulles Airport for Trump

fluffykittycat , 2 months ago

@GottaLaff I'll support the prison name change on The condition he spends the rest of his life there

rms , 2 months ago to random

[2/2] … referring to plant variety monopolies, a narrower system that the WTO imposed on most of the world. It is not much like patents, but it does create a private monopoly over selling seeds or plants. It does not last as many years as patents do, but it does make farmers pay "rent" (in economic terms) for what they grow.

fluffykittycat , 2 months ago

@rms biological life should be excluded from IP laws altogether

RickiTarr , 3 months ago to random

Maybe some people are "sad", because they live in a society that is actually prejudiced against them, and trying harder isn't going to fix it for them.

fluffykittycat , 3 months ago

@RolloTreadway @RickiTarr that's probably a big part of why I struggle with employment

jeffowski , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

fluffykittycat , 3 months ago

@jeffowski sin is an abuse tactic to make you psychologically dependent on the religious power structure

CelloMomOnCars , 8 months ago to random

"Environmentalists are gearing up for their next giant climate fight: They want to force a showdown with the Biden administration over the massive expansion of #US #NaturalGas exports.

More than two dozen new or expansion projects are under construction or under consideration. Opponents say that buildout far exceeds what is needed and will further burden communities of color on the #GulfCoast and other parts of the country."

#LNG
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/10/17/natural-gas-exports-climate-activists/

fluffykittycat , 3 months ago

@CelloMomOnCars of course this was always possible it's just it took the forced withdrawal from cheap Russian gas to make it happen, because the bottlenecks were political not technical

GottaLaff , 3 months ago to random

U.S. crime rate is still dropping, FBI data shows https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/us-crime-rate-still-dropping-says-fbi-rcna144100

fluffykittycat , 3 months ago

@GottaLaff the crime wave narrative is a myth by the cops to rehabilitate their image after the protests aginst their murders. The police are the criminal gang I fear the most

wdlindsy , 3 months ago to random

PRRI recently issued a report showing that, from 2002-3, support for LGBTQ rights declined nationally. Melissa Deckman of PRRI explains to William Brangham why this is happening:

"I think what's happening is that you see many Republican leaders in red states, really trying to amp up the volume, so to speak on LGBTQ rights, and really trying to claw back some of those rights across the country."

#Republicans #LGBTQ
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-support-for-lgbtq-rights-is-declining-after-decades-of-support-heres-why

fluffykittycat , 3 months ago

@wdlindsy @luv_wins conservitism has always been like this https://youtu.be/E4CI2vk3ugk