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[–] silence7 17 points 1 hour ago

It's going to make it a notch harder to prosecute people for bogus charges. The appearance of legality is still somewhat important if the target is cis and doesn't have dark skin.

 

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Among those receiving the pardons were Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the longtime government scientist; and all the members of the bipartisan House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, including former Representative Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming.

 

Among those receiving the pardons were Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the longtime government scientist; and all the members of the bipartisan House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, including former Representative Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming.

 

Many of these are paywalled, but can pretty much all be bypassed using archive.today

 

What this means in practice is a return to the very corrupt system we had before there was a professional civil service, in which the winning party uses federal jobs as a means of rewarding supporters.

 

What this means in practice is a return to the very corrupt system we had before there was a professional civil service, in which the winning party uses federal jobs as a means of rewarding supporters.

[–] silence7 6 points 20 hours ago

Unfortunately, that doesn't do it either; you get conspiracy theory type answers instead.

The paper makes a very strong point about how people change minds, and it's not about some personal impact; it's about gaining distance from an ideological community that denies reality, and then getting useful information from people they trust.

 

Findings suggest that prior to shifting beliefs, participants were similarly skeptical or rejecting of climate change, while remaining diverse in the ideologies that influenced these beliefs. For most participants, shifting beliefs were catalyzed by three key experiences:

  1. distancing from ideological community
  2. desire to seek out information, and
  3. solidifying experiences of gradual or epiphanic realization
 

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[–] silence7 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For the NYT, 30 days. I seem to have missed one character in the gift token when I did a copy-paste though. Fixed now.

[–] silence7 6 points 2 days ago

A couple things:

  • ICE operates under rules that say they're not supposed to detain people at church. So encourage people to spend raid day at church.
  • Don't help out. Give the absolute minimum, don't provide information, and refuse to give access on the basis of an administrative warrant (one not signed by a judge)
[–] silence7 7 points 2 days ago

That's exactly the problem — in the US there's an extra tariff on larger vehicles, so the manufacturers face less competition and therefore earn greater profits if they only make big vehicles.

[–] silence7 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The point of not burning gas is to avoid the CO2 released when it burns, and the inevitable leakage of ~3% of the methane from the distribution system. This helps to limit the amount of warming we get, which reduces fire risk.

[–] silence7 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

That's not my department, " says Wernher von Braun.

[–] silence7 2 points 3 days ago

When appointing people who have absolutely no clue, he's tended to do better than when appointing those who are actively malicious. Rick Perry famously wanted to abolish the Department of Energy, despite not being able to remember his name, but was probably one of the least-awful Trump appointees, since he seems to have been unaware of its primary mission of nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship until after he was appointed.

[–] silence7 7 points 3 days ago

Canceled policy = you've got an opportunity to get another one when your current one runs out.

Denied claims are of course a problem.

[–] silence7 12 points 3 days ago

Houston has significant hurricane risk, whether or not you've actually had a problem.

[–] silence7 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The problem is that it's capital-intensive; people need to eat and make rent for quite a while before the subscriber base is large enough to support them

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