Notices by GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai), page 3

@br00t4c

Dave is a reasonably sharp political commentator. And you have to believe that. Yes, they are going to contest the election, the conservatives of managed to get a number of their loyalist and positions of election oversight and administration. Likely this is going to be a terrible mess. And they’re willingness to resort violence just makes it even more worrisome.

10 min

🔥 :100a: conservatives says the quiet part out loud and gets flamed for it.

I don’t think much of CNN, but all praise the host that after a break got rid of the offending Nazi who had threatened Hasan’s life and thought he could get away with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCzt2bKAQWY

#OwenJones #MehdiHasan #uspol

@feld

Yup. I would point out that NASA’s smaller, lighter faster project success. The ISS itself is well documented is a gigantic boondoggle.

Modernity is not competent to colonize space. We are decades if not centuries away from it.

@feld

I consider manned missions waste. The amount of effort and resources necessary to keep people live in a deadly environment is absurd, especially when contrasted with projects like Voyager, Rover or Cassini.

Boeing is a corpse, thanks for the kind of business that both Musk and Bezos embody: financialization.

Starship is not even on track to fulfill any of its primary contract objectives. They’re off doing something completely different.

Has anyone stopped to considered that the chief function of contracting out development to SpaceX or Blue Origin, is to ensure that huge chunk of NASA’s budget is siphoned away from doing anything useful?

Cancellations for plutocratic owned media is a great reminder to house clean all those other pesky, big platform subscriptions, reaching away the money in your bank account.

Might be funny to also write your representatives and say I hope the Sherman act gets a lot more enforcement

Oct 14

2 min

MAGA Embraces Climate Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alfae90e8h4

#saracsm #uspol #silliness

I want to say the main reason the great salt lake is dying because too much water is diverted from it.

Insisting that people in the basin embrace the reality of climate change is a little beside the point. As the Great Salt Lake withers and dies, so will all the cities in the basin.

The lake needs more water.

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

#climatechage #Utah #economics #uspol

Immigrants who gain US citizenship by lying in their oath to defend the constitution should be kicked out.

We can say to Peter Thiel and Elon Musk byieee!

Kick them out! Kick them out! Kick them out!

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@photoncollector @GottaLaff

Given his nut job taste for us to ostentatious bullshit I go with Mussolini.

#IlDuce Mr Deuce…

I think the recent news regarding the transition of the world’s forest into carbon emitters rather than sinks and the increasing desiccation and aridification taking place all over the world in Europe and the US certainly in South America, Central America Africa, Asia, have I missed a spot yet, Really begs the question when are we going to start a crash program to restore a ecology?

Only by restoring ecology everywhere, do we have a chance for restoring the systems that define our climate

3 min

A brief interview over some of the details of this particular mission. Some of the challenges with the radiation belts and the overall size of the craft itself, which is pretty large.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-zn3kwTJok

#NASA #DW #Europa #Space

@bmacDonald94

There’s one other thing about her that I appreciate that she was the daughter of Kroeber, anthropologist of some significance. he was the one who interacted with Ishi when he emerged from the wilderness, after settlers had shot up his family, he was prepared to die at that point because he had no other expectation.

I can only imagine experiencing somebody who was the last of his culture, explain how they went about their daily lives. And the crime of their extinction.

@bmacDonald94

Everything she wrote was amazing

What the future would look like. This reports covers all the basics of what human habitation will become as global and national supply chains falter. I would add here, integrating “rural” into cities and towns is also an element. Small farms, urban farming, “sponge” spaces, replacing concrete and asphalt, with bits of ecology immediately affect supply chain and energy intensity of our lives. Changing local energy intensity ends oil; we can choose to walk away from oil

https://www.postcarbon.org/publications/the-future-is-rural/

Growth is a marketing term to sanitize "we can't figure out how to sustain ourselves on what we have" civilization and bend all human invention to making more efficient the ways to deplete, pillage, pave over and sterilize the world, to cremate the world with the fossilized remains of life in the past. It's human invention turned to global necrosis

@HeavenlyPossum @prestontumber @RD4Anarchy @UnassumingKiwi@kolektiva.social @OhWeh @gerrymcgovern

The US colonies may offer a good example. Farming practices of tobacco plantations were little different from slash and burn. It was more profitable to clear forest, farm it for a few years until the soil was depleted and move on. This was a major factor of westward migration and conflict with first nations.

@economics-that-works

What the heck trying to seems to have learned nothing from GC their economy is faltering and one of the major problems has been a crash in the property market, which should sound a little familiar to those of us who are old enough to remember 2008.

Injecting money into a banking sector that’s not going to lend because they don’t think anybody can pay back the loans it’s not going to help
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(Pay wall because FT)
https://www.ft.com/content/7c106fa8-f450-41a8-91c9-97f055d95b58

#china #economics

@economics-that-works

China’s economists are dedicated to the same stupid misunderstandings about land use as wet rest of the global economy. They bought into the same civilization backwardness as west emulated and integrated into.

Investment in gigantic water management projects, urbanization and mechanize farming is the wrong policy for long-term survival. Because Western land use practices guarantee catastrophic extreme, catastrophic regional climate change.

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Utah’s Great Lake a thing of history. The mineral dust from its corpse is toxic. The video goes on to mention that people in Utah generally deny climate change, but I don’t think it’s necessary to change their minds there . Why? because land use is climate change, and land use has not been polluted with denialism. To stop climate change, advocates must make the strong case that land use is destroying the lake.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qby4kqU4f2w

#France24 #Utah #uspol #climatechange