silence7

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For context, the high-level picture of decarbonization is:

  • generate electricity without burning stuff
  • electify everything we can
  • stop doing the things we can't
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 hours ago

Be nice if she had made the flip before voting for the bill instead of after

 

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome.

 

Small improvements in taxes are overshadowed by cuts to health insurance and other federal aid, resulting in a package favoring the wealthy.

 

Only place left to stop it is the House, so call your rep

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Only enough to get 3 out of 53 Republican Senators to vote against it. That's a few percent. Not enough to stop it, which is what matters

 

The federal website hosting five legislatively mandated reports stopped working Monday afternoon.

 

The federal website hosting five legislatively mandated reports stopped working Monday afternoon.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 hours ago

They never really cared about that. The modern anti-abortion movement was dreamed up after pro-segregation churches lost that battle and needed something else to fixate on.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They're not doing anything like dismantling the telescopes; just stopping a tiny instrument that is mounted near them from being used.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The idea is to force people to pay for private forecasts

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 12 hours ago

Im taking this down because its misinfo.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 21 hours ago

If this bill passes in its current form, yes

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 16 points 21 hours ago

Because most of it would show up as having been written by corporate lobbyists

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 22 hours ago

They are trying change things, but there's a good chance basic stuff like measuring CO2 concentrations would continue normally with a nonzero budget

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 23 hours ago

The Republicans are pretty uniformly in favor of that part.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 20 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

They had a corps of competent people with civil service protections who were getting paid out of that budget. They avoided committing fraud during the first Trump administration

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

If they even have a home country

When someone has been in the US for decades, and now has no real ties to where they were born, deportation is often a death sentence

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