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… or banned until we have adequate time to study the long term effects this technology will have on child development.

we already struggle as a society with educating and shaping kids into well rounded, emotionally stable, socially competent adults.

we need to do a better job funding and prioritizing child welfare in general before we sign off on allowing billionaire owned Fortune 5 companies a direct pipeline into the consciousness of still developing human minds. just as a matter of public health policy, let alone performance/utility.

The US Geological Survey says “glacial collapse and debris flow” triggered the deluge - and there are risks of more floods

“glacial collapse”

that’s a phrase we’re going to hear a lot more in the coming years.

people will do anything except hold companies accountable

more expensive gas projects with far greater negative externalities (pollution, price volatility)

it low-key feels like you’re trying to lessen the impact of the decision by pointing out a minor detail that the money isn’t technically “wasted”. if they take the money and invest it in terrible projects that accelerate global climate catastrophy and burden future generations, doing a well akshually about the money is kinda disingenuous. it’s not like he’s simply re-investing in US based energy, he’s misusing tax dollars that were planned in advance for the benefit of posterity, to enrich his circle of oligarchs deeply tied to fossil fuels.

I commented elsewhere but it’s worth noting here too.

this is FIFTH TIME the administration has done this and it’s cost almost 4 billion in total: Source

If this sounds at all familiar, it’s not your imagination. In March, the Republican administration announced that it had agreed to pay a foreign company almost $1 billion in American taxpayer money to abandon two wind farm projects that would have produced enough electricity to power more than 1.3 million homes and businesses […]

At the administration’s insistence, the company will instead proceed with different energy projects that will cost more and pollute more. [thanks to] President Donald Trump, many American consumers will pay for the privilege of paying more to turn on the lights, all while polluting our own air.

Then in April, it happened again, when the Republican administration announced plans to pay energy companies almost $900 million to abandon plans for two offshore wind farms. Two months later, Team Trump spent $765 million to buy back another group of offshore wind leases.

In late June, a fourth example emerged, when the administration announced plans to pay Duke Energy $129 million to abandon an offshore wind project off the coast of North Carolina.

With a fifth instance this week, the combined price tag for the developments is approaching $4 billion.

How Might Climate Change Increase the Risk of an Outbreak?

For one, warmer temperatures help speed up the maturation process that makes cyclospora oocysts, or early stage parasites, infectious to humans. That’s why you typically see more cases of the infection during the summer months. As climate change makes summers hotter — and longer — the window of time when cyclospora could become infectious and present a public health risk is also growing.

Another way that climate change supercharges the conditions for an outbreak like cyclosporiasis is by disrupting the water cycle. Extreme heat sucks moisture out of the environment, from rivers and lakes as well as the soil and plants. During drought conditions, agricultural producers are more likely to reuse nontraditional water sources, such as municipal and commercial wastewater, to irrigate crops. What’s more, cycling between drought and downpours means that when it does rain on dry soil, more runoff carries more particles and organisms across a landscape.

there’s even more pathogens to worry about too:

Food system researchers have seen how very dry, hot conditions supercharge the likelihood of other foodborne pathogens, such as salmonella and E. coli. In 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a multiyear study centered on Yuma County, Arizona, where a majority of the country’s lettuce is grown in the winter months. The researchers found that dust kicked up from a nearby cattle feedlot helped carry E. coli through the air and deposit the bacteria on nearby water and soil.

Holly Bainbridge, a senior attorney at FarmSTAND, a legal advocacy organization, noted that studies like the USDA’s point to a gap in the nation’s regulatory oversight of the food system. “It was a step in the right direction, but the federal government hasn’t really done anything with it,” she said.

Bainbridge added that the corporate consolidation of agriculture — and specifically, the intensive confinement of animals on farms — makes outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli more likely.

Last week, the FDA issued a recall of over one and a half million eggs that have been potentially contaminated with salmonella. As of this writing, 98 people across 17 states have been made sick, according to the latest numbers from the CDC.

did you know that many of the worst insurrectionist traitors were intentionally placed in the same prisons and cell blocks?

that some operated a video podcast called the DC Gulag / “We Are Good Men”, from inside?

that they had/have? a GiveSendGo (conservative GoFundMe) that’s raised over $500k for their “defense”?

and they formed a men’s prison choir and wrote and sang Trump glory songs? and they’re releasing a second album?

look up “the Patriot Wing”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/patriot-wing-january-6-rioters-insurrectionists-jail-cell-block.html

this article is beyond infuriating.

this is how the US government, under Biden, treated literal traitors. and then they were all pardoned by Trump on like day 1! super normal and cool.

correct, and that’s exactly how the American president became a king.

the Legislature gradually warped into a machine that never claimed or exercised power for itself (by enacting laws or protections) but only ever ceded power to the Executive (via appointment approvals, judicial nominations, etc).

if Congress had done it’s job over say, the entirety of Mitch McConnells time in office, the power of the president today would be dramatically diminished.

the US govt was completely captured long before Trump took office. they really rolled out the red carpet for an authoritarian criminal to just run with it.

Post-Human series by David Simpson

Author David Simpson writes the “Post-Human” series of science fiction novels. The series of novels began publication in the year 2009, when “Post-Human” was released.

Despite being the third released novel, “Sub-Human” is really the beginning of the story, as it tells how everything happened to lead up to the events of “Post-Human”.

in an illegal war waged by literal criminals, pretty much everything counts as a war crime.

there’s no justification whatsoever for any of this military invasion

driving with all the windows closed, AC blasting, dark tinted windows to block sunlight… seems reasonable to think the climate could have an impact.

…suggest a short-range ballistic missile called a Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) was used to bomb a sports hall, school, and residential neighborhood in Lamerd.

The missiles are newly developed and are designed to detonate just above a target and propel small tungsten pellets into the surrounding area.

…The Times reported that munitions experts had analyzed footage of a weapon in flight over a residential area about 900 feet from the sports hall and school, showing the missile erupting “in a large fireball midair.”

Another video showed an explosion in midair just above the sports hall and nearby school, and photos of the aftermath showed the sites with numerous holes, presumably from the tungsten pellets.

…The sports hall in Lamerd was reportedly being used by a children’s volleyball team at the time of the strike; fourth grader Helma Ahmadizadeh and fifth grader Elham Zaeri were among those killed while at volleyball practice, according to an Iran-based journalist, Negin Bagheri.

Zaeri’s father “described her as an avid volleyball player, who would always turn up to the sports hall 20 to 25 minutes early,” the BBC reported.

The outlet also said the youngest victim of the suspected PrSM strike was two years old.

pretty sure they’re just speculating based on the fact Hawaii is one of the few places medically assisted suicide is codified into law.

https://health.hawaii.gov/opppd/ococ/

excellent points. just want to help people contextualize here. roughly 3/4 of all that water you’re talking about is for industrial scale agriculture. we could almost halve the water usage with restrictions on which crops can or can’t be grown.

Irrigated agriculture is responsible for 74% of direct human uses and 52% of overall water consumption. Water consumed for agriculture amounts to three times all other direct uses combined. Cattle feed crops including alfalfa and other grass hays account for 46% of all direct water consumption.

source

in other words, there’s a fuckton of water available for human use… but not enough for humans AND cows. not enough to satiate the endless global demand for cheeseburgers and steaks. our mis management of the water supply is steering the entire southwestern US into a man made disaster with catastrophic knock on effects for global meat consumption. some folks say "cattle ranching made The West. seems fitting that cattle will be it’s unmaking.

because Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (billionaire former hedge mgr) is friends with another billionaire (Rob Citrone) who is heavily invested in the right wing Milei government.

succinct explainers: YouTube shorts from MorePerfectUnion and NowThisImpact

if one good thing can come from these senseless murders, let it be this. these services should not be allowed to operate without strict regulation.

iRiver= S tier mp3 nostalgia

I’m extremely skeptical corningware contains lead which can come off… it’s sealed, ultra hard ceramic. that’s not how people have historically gotten lead contamination. there’s probably more lead in the soil in their front yard than in every piece of corningware in the house…

please don’t destroy these, just donate them to a thrift shop so sensible folks can use them as intended. many of those vintage ceramics are collectibles, more importantly they are infinity reusable.

this makes me so fucking angry… and exhausted.

please, everyone reading this:

consider ways to protest what’s happening to biodiversity and climate right now as a result of the Musk/Trump administration.

even if you can’t participate in actions directly in person, find ways to materially support those who are putting themselves on the line. (eg, cover their shift at work, give them a ride, babysit their kids while they are involved in actions, etc). even a simple ‘thank you for fighting’ goes a long way.

we can’t let this constant string of bad news grind us down into apathy. consider participating in nationwide protest April 19th. hope to see you there.

people keep using this ‘interrupting your enemy’ phrase incorrectly and it’s really tiresome.

it’s like, “hey, your enemy is destroying your country, do something!” and braindead meme junkies are like “well actually, don’t interrupt your enemy…” smh

ig it gives them permission to do nothing… it grants validation for passivity.