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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago
  • Western nations aren't funding people to work in Russia.
  • Russia requires people who live there and accept funding from overseas to register as foreign agents
 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14501312

Climate science has been stymied as Russia continues its war in Ukraine. The stalled work threatens to leave the West without a clear picture of how fast the Earth is heating up.

 

Climate science has been stymied as Russia continues its war in Ukraine. The stalled work threatens to leave the West without a clear picture of how fast the Earth is heating up.

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14501168

Title & subtitle from the article version of this newsletter; linking the no-paywall newsletter version to make access easy.

 

Title & subtitle from the article version of this newsletter; linking the no-paywall newsletter version to make access easy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Maybe I'm confused. In any case, I don't think i can buy them locally anymore.

 

archived copy of the article

For context, something like 90% of the credits they certified as likely fraudulent.

 

On climate change in particular, wilder talking points are distracting from the small, boring ways a Republican administration could pour money into oil and gas companies’ pockets.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

It's not a bad thing to have as a backup for a condom; the main issue is that some of the spermicides increase HIV transmission risk, so you typically don't see condoms with spermicide in the lube anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's not about understanding — it's about making nice with people who wish the South had won.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's not about "man up" — it's about having the votes in Congress to do it. We didn't have that in 2009, when we last tried, and I'd be surprised if we have them now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

For sure. I just don't expect it to be durable unless we elect Harris.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

The problem is that the things he can do without congressional support can be easily overturned by the next President — and the Republicans have a majority in the House of Representatives.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

The paper makes it clear that it can — and it's actually important to avoid doing things like random murder. But the kind of nonviolent acts we've seen so far aren't a problem.

They also had a null result on policy support; the main impact was activating people towards more moderate activist groups.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I don't expect commercial extraction to be limited to one area.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

In practice, I see people in your situation spend their additional budget on insulation and an air-source heat pump, rather than go to geothermal.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I'm not waiting — spent the weekend in a swing state talking to voters. You can too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago
  1. You wouldn't want to actually use nuclear weapons
  2. You'd need to actually maintain technical geoengineering for hundreds of thousands of years, eg: for something as long as time time period that modern humans have existed.
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