Notices by InkySchwartz (inkyschwartz@mastodon.social)

@gemelliz Ford seems to have cancelled Starlink. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/quebec-government-set-to-award-new-contract-for-elon-musk-s-starlink/ar-AA1ylzaP

@patrickleavy @pluralistic Well David Dayen is the one generating those ideas. @pluralistic is effectively spreading the ideas around.

Source here: https://prospect.org/economy/2025-01-27-we-found-the-2-trillion-elon-musk-doge/

@pete @daihard @ascentale @meganL @ai6yr @Brownian_motion I also feel this is an issue only for setups with more than 7-8 cogs in the back. With a 3x7 you simply do not get much deflection and when I had a 2x5 there was effectively minimal deflection.

#BikeNite

@benroyce @Waitnwallflower Yeah because thenreality in short is this. https://apnews.com/live/election-biden-trump-campaign-updates-07-13-2024#00000190-afde-debe-aff0-ffff2fb60000

So that would make great fodder for a nutter.

@argv_minus_one @pettter @drbjork @goatsarah In addition to what the other person said, most nullify themselves by attacking the divisions within their own movement. Something that also allows them to be infiltrated.

@signal9 @tek We would be OK with the right relocation at 40+.

@CloudyMrs Just wondering if there are really no bikes on the lane or the drivers don't notice what are there because they are not other cars.

@CloudyMrs No bikes actually or they don't notice other 2 ton machines?

@GreenFire @BangClankBoom I just want to put in this: Nader voters probably would not have voted for Gore in sufficient numbers to shift this.

The issue was as always: Popular vote does not always equivalate to electoral votes.

@GreenFire point 3 is often missed or ignored.

Remember those massed tree planting campaigns? While the idea has utility it must be appropriate to the locality where it is being done. This means native plants, putting trees where they were in the Holocene, and not putting trees on top of healthy landscapes like bogs.

Now we must consider the albedo of trees as well. The study is linked in the article and is open access: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/tree-planting-climate-change-albedo

#climatechange #trees #climatecrisis

@MadeyeTheCarnaptious @CloudyMrs @Snoweider

Ok so where does thia fit: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/20/scottish-ministers-cut-spending-on-free-university-places

@notjustbikes Sadly while I like Strongtowns for what they are, Chuck's politics that he is running on are not great and present as stock conservative horse hocky with no recognition of LGBTQ+ people and non heterosexual relationships.

Plus his podcast is great except then he did the episode for conservatives and lied about the left over and over, as if that is the only way to talk to US Conservatives.

I really expected better of him.

Adding his political party: https://www.solidarity-party.org/platform

@fu Then specify that and not use the term minority without it because that had.ore than one meaning in this context.

And if you disagree with democracy what more egalitarian system do you propose?

@fu Because you brought it up.

@fu @noturtlesoup17 @nsarwark @cujobyte That is some weasel wording right there. The definition of democracy is literally people's rule, it means the people are the source of power in a democracy.

And the majority, ideally, is whatever segment of the population that wins a given election by voting. The minority there is just what ever group was not the majority of voters, not a ethnic, religious, cultural, or gender/sex minority automatically.

I think you are being dishonest.

@fu @noturtlesoup17 @nsarwark @cujobyte
You know what they say about assumptions. https://library.louisville.edu/ekstrom/criticalthinking/assumptions

Why do you assume the "most people" excludes minorities?

@fu @noturtlesoup17 @nsarwark @cujobyte Because it can best serve the most people.

@fu @noturtlesoup17 @cujobyte Because when it works it works better than any other form of large scale government we have seen.

@ianepperson @Azuaron @anarchopunk_girl @pluralistic

Read the final paragraph and realize it's a wishlist of what they want property rights to be.