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Americans: it's worth not just voting, but actively volunteering for Harris

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14862098

A radio station in Poland fired its on-air talent and brought in A.I.-generated presenters. An outcry over a purported chat with a Nobel laureate quickly ended that experiment.

 

A radio station in Poland fired its on-air talent and brought in A.I.-generated presenters. An outcry over a purported chat with a Nobel laureate quickly ended that experiment.

 

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Americans can achieve even more by helping to get others to vote

 

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Americans: look up details about how to vote at iwillvote.com

 

A journalist and an analyst, he was driven to hold oil companies accountable. Earlier, he was on the storied boat Greenpeace when he and others tried to halt a nuclear test.

[–] silence7 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To be fair, they're actually recycling #1 and #2 rigid containers. It's everything else that's not making it.

The better move is to avoid manufacturing other plastics for most consumer products.

[–] silence7 6 points 1 month ago

I'm not saying that either. But we are at the point where it takes people showing neighbors the changes that everybody needs to make.

[–] silence7 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They're mostly not blasting it directly; they're selling fossil fuels for others to blast. Changing how you commute or heat your home helps change social norms around those and lowers the rate of emissions

[–] silence7 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No; it's a fairly distant thing with there being some aircraft design happening.

It's not a "next tuesday thing"

Ammonia, steel, and some petrochemicals could be moved much sooner.

[–] silence7 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ideally, would be both. And it likely means getting Congress on board.

[–] silence7 7 points 1 month ago

They're smoking money. The raison d'être of the Heritage Foundation is to promote the interests of the wealthy over those of the rest of us.

[–] silence7 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a contagion effect, where news of school shootings inspires others to attempt the same.

[–] silence7 7 points 2 months ago

It does, but importantly, it's fiction. So it raises some (but not all ) of the relevant issues, but doesn't necessarily present a realistic view of how things will play out.

More would involve some serious spoilers.

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

You don't need to name-call here. It's actually important to not just require that everybody do stuff, but have some people go first to make the case that it works well.

[–] silence7 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I can't control your spending, but it's a really effective outreach tool.

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