New York Times gift articles

The "it's not a big deal" attitude seems to be driven by the US$126,452 median household income; people there can mostly afford pools and AC.

Dated: 2024-09-04. Added: 2024-09-04.

TL;DR; gerrymandering means that there are a lot of races where the best a Democrat could do is 35% or so of the vote. The same often goes for white rural areas where the boundaries weren't gerrymandered, but are simply non-competitive. Democrats don't even bother running a candidate a lot of the time under those conditions.

Dated: 2024-09-04. Added: 2024-09-04.

Two luxury real-estate projects in Albania proposed by the son-in-law of former President Donald J. Trump are stirring up lingering tensions in that country, with the Trump family facing accusations that land it hopes to develop has been improperly set aside for them.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13027413

You can find translations of the Russian propaganda messaging plan here. Docs from this press release

While climate change is upending food supply chains everywhere, it is a particularly sensitive issue in China, where famines have historically led to unrest, and leaders have long made food security a policy priority. The latest flooding is a reminder of how even the ruling Communist Party struggles to tame the unpredictable weather gods.

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“Climate change is another motivating factor for China to focus on food security,” said Darin Friedrichs, the agriculture market research director at Sitonia Consulting. “A common idea in state media and official speeches is the idea that, given its size, China cannot rely on other countries to feed it through imports.”

The Romans loved a conspiracy theory, and rumors of women-led cover-ups pepper their history. This motif took hold most robustly in the peculiar conditions of the early Roman Empire, as the male aristocrats who’d once ruled the Roman Republic became concerned that women were co-opting power that was rightfully male.

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The long dominance of the classical education system threaded these clichés throughout Western thought and provided a blueprint for anxious characterizations of female power.

The big one seems to be BlueSky

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12902168

The key problem is that for ruminants (eg: cows, sheep) there isn't a currently-available path to low emissions

In the past they were typically short-lived. Big flash floods would mark a particular year, such as 2009. But recently, just as scientists predicted, human-caused climate change has produced bigger flashes that are more frequent, more violent and more desperate.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12893893

The context here is that Trump has started flip-flopping his rhetoric after spending his time in office appointing anti-abortion judges who proceeded to create a situation where women are sent home to die when abortion is what's needed