silence7

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[–] silence7 1 points 8 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
[–] silence7 7 points 24 minutes ago

Yeah, those of us living outside swing states are basically limited to kicking in money and volunteer time. I'm lucky in that I was able to catch a bus to a swing state this past weekend, and spend a couple days knocking on doors.

 

In case you had any doubts about his fascism.

 

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.

[–] silence7 3 points 1 hour ago

To the contrary: people have shifted to having to travel long distances or get pills through the mail without local medical support.

In some states (eg: Idaho) these are substantially inaccessible.

[–] silence7 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.

[–] silence7 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.

[–] silence7 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.

[–] silence7 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

[–] silence7 6 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] silence7 15 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.

[–] silence7 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.

[–] silence7 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] silence7 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.

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