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bred menace @averincm
"the problem with solar is we can't monopolize the sun or make it scarcer than it is"
= MIT Technology Review @techrevi... • 2d
The problem is that solar panels generate lots of electricity in the middle of sunny days, frequently more than what's required, driving down prices-sometimes even into negative territory.
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Black voters being purged from voter rolls

The car in front of me had a bumper sticker on it. It read: "Pray for Trump Psalm 109:8."

When I got home I opened my bible to the scripture and read it and started laughing.

Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few and brief; And let others step forward to replace him."

At last I can voice a Biblical prayer for our president!"

DeWine adds poison pills in calling legislature into special session to put Biden on the ballot - cleveland.com

"You may think that Gov. Mike DeWine is a hero for forcing the legislature back in session to pass a bill to get President Joe Biden on the November ballot in Ohio (”‘This is ridiculous ... an absurd situation.’ Gov. DeWine calls for special session to ensure president is on the November ballot,” May 24). But, beneath all his talk (buried in his proclamation), he is asking the legislature to also pass poison pills to make it more difficult for citizens to pass ballot issues, which is the only way we have left to fight a gerrymandered legislature that does not act in our interests."
https://www.cleveland.com/letters/2024/05/dewine-adds-poison-pills-in-calling-legislature-into-special-session-to-put-biden-on-the-ballot.html

Senate Democrats Introduce Bill To Make US Supreme Court More Transparent - Democracy Docket

"Senate Democrats, led by @SenBlumenthal, introduce a bill to require Supreme Court justices to provide written explanations and a vote breakdown for decisions on their emergency docket, also known as shadow docket."
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/senate-democrats-introduce-bill-to-make-us-supreme-court-more-transparent/

"Pete Aguilar @PeteAguilar
I'm so angry - House Republicans have introduced legislation to repeal the $35/month cap on insulin that Democrats passed for seniors on Medicare.

"I need you to retweet and spread the word about this. Every voter needs to know."

Sawyer Hackett on X: "Wow. After Ted Cruz snuck a line into the FAA bill to make it harder to get refunds for canceled flights, Dems successfully added an amendment to reverse it. The bill will now codify Biden’s new rule guaranteeing automatic refunds." / X
https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1787961213026267611

Thread by @SethAbramson

"This is a brief thread from a NYT-bestselling Trump biographer on what everyone—literally everyone—is missing about the 34 felonies Donald Trump committed to win the 2016 presidential election. This will change how you understand the 2016 election cycle."

He says Trump blackmailed the FBI into not investigating him and falsely implying wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1787543910509666332.html?utm_campaign=topunroll

I've been wondering why Texas and other red states (Florida, most recently) have been outlawing water and rest breaks for construction workers, and it comes down to the definition of "conservative" from Corey Robin: "a conservative is someone who believes that a minority of people were born to rule, and that everyone else was born to follow their rules, and that the world is in harmony when the born rulers are in charge."

We know water and rest breaks keep workers healthy and able to do their jobs, so why the hell do you want to risk your worker getting heat-stroke and unable to do their work?

In order to assert your dominance.

As Cory Doctorow says "The conservative project of the past 40 years has been to reverse this: to return the great majority of us to the status of desperate, forelock-tugging plebs who know our places".

https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/748961487439249408

"Porpoises communicate with narrow-band, high-frequency clicks, known to those in the clicking cetacean business as NBHF clicks. Dolphins on the other hand like to swim around whistling, a sound porpoises never make.

Upon reviewing the recordings, the researchers realized Kylie “definitely identifies as a porpoise,” National Geographic reports co-author on the paper David Nairn, who studies porpoises in the area, said. Not only did Kylie not whistle like other dolphins, but even when alone she could be heard using sounds that resembled the NBHF clicks associated with porpoises.

Furthermore, communication between Kylie and the porpoises had a rhythm indicative of a conversation, though exactly how much information is portrayed in these chats is unclear."
https://mastodon.social/@readbeanicecream/112218705744233782

https://www.tumblr.com/jackalgirl/746950270545739776

Why Clouds Vanish During Solar Eclipses - Atlas Obscura

"In 1972, a group of umbraphiles gathered in Nova Scotia to witness a total solar eclipse. Just before the celestial event was to begin, clouds completely obscured the view. One of the group members, now-retired geoscientist Steve Dutch, recalled that, as the eclipse began, the clouds suddenly fled. "All of us had perfect views," he wrote in an online post.

The clearing wasn’t a fluke or divine intervention, but the now-documented reaction of certain kinds of clouds to solar eclipses.

Cumulus clouds—the low-lying, fluffy ones with flat bottoms and poofy tops—dissipate as an eclipse begins, according to a recent paper in the journal Communications Earth & Environment"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-clouds-vanish-during-solar-eclipses

Geoengineers Propose Freezing Water Vapor to Stop Global Warming - Boing Boing

"Geoengineers have a bold new idea in the battle to slow climate change. According to Gizmodo, water vapor trapped 4 to 50 miles above earth acts as a greenhouse gas. Joshua Schwarz, researcher at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory, believes that water vapor could be reduced by adding ice-forming nuclei to the atmosphere.

Removing just 3% of the water mass through freezing could have positive global effects. The strategy is in its early stages, and many technical difficulties lie ahead, but there are positive results from models based on NASA research to track the movement of vapor into the upper atmosphere"
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/22/geoengineers-propose-freezing-high-altitude-water-vapor-to-slow-climate-change.html

I USUALLY VOTE FOR WHOEVER PROMISES TO CUT THE MOST TAX

"Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

It's the way Dictator wannabes rise to power: by first normalizing their seemingly unbelievable claims to total authority - and then gradually enacting what they have succeeded in making seem entirely normal and unsurprising ...

* Greg Sargent & @GregTSargent

"Trump said he wanted termination of the Constitution, and NYT put it on page 13...the media has utterly underplayed the story of an attempt to kill democracy."

"Why are things expensive?

4 companies control 55% to 85% of the meat market.

4 airlines control 80% of air travel.

3 companies control 92% of the soda market.

3 companies control 73% of the cereal market.

Why don't I hear about it?

6 companies control 90% of the news"

"Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system:

The Tetanus vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine"

@lilithsaintcrow @NiveusLepus

no one buys 3-star reviews, and bigots give 1-star reviews, so 3-stars are the ones I look at first (more for products than books.)

"On MSNBC Peter Baker just said something to the effect that eggs cost the same as last year

January 2023 national avg for a dozen large eggs was $4.82

January 2024 it was $2.52

Journalistic malpractice like this is a big reason why people say the economy is worse than it is" https://x.com/danahoule/status/1760885557914124333?s=12&t=3d9pIKw692D3Dy-4Ms4pFA

Me: <explaining a new cosmological theory that our universe was originally a small bubble and merged with other bubbles, and some related theories...only for 5 minutes.>

Wife: You know what I'm thinking?

Me: What?

Wife: I'm thinking about pie. What kind of pie do you want to eat? Are Safeway's pies good?