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Notice how it's a statement from another insurer

The problem is that as a random cemetery worker who can't afford bodyguards 24/7, pressing charges stands a significant chance of getting you killed.

The thing that's amazing is that Walz did these things in the 1990s, when it was still reasonably common to fire teachers for any kind of hint they might be gay. That takes real courage.

A lot of engineering was done assuming that rainfall behaved the way it did in the past. That's not a valid assumption anymore.

A billion-dollar bribe — wind turbines directly compete with fossil gas as an electricity source.

There's a chunk of the population for whom this is a very big deal, and it's easy to communicate what happened.

Yep. Per the article:

But what feels novel in the aftermath of this month’s hurricanes is how the people doing the lying aren’t even trying to hide the provenance of their bullshit. Similarly, those sharing the lies are happy to admit that they do not care whether what they’re pushing is real or not.

The current position of the NYPD is that some random black guy wandering past a crime scene after the cops shot up a crowd decided to steal the knife that the cops considered to be key evidence. This is, to put it mildly, somewhat less credible than the claim that a crow tried to steal a murder weapon.

You can re-inject it into the reservoir instead of burning it and dumping the resulting CO2 into the atmosphere. He's done a good thing here, especially light of the incredible death toll from the by-products of combustion.

Yep. The problem is that 90% of offsets are fraudulent. So just buying more doesn't help

1 atmosphere, so sea level pressure, per Diána Ürge-Vorsatz

Yes. For context, Texas gladly executed a guy for arson in a situation where scientific developments since his trial made it very clear that the evidence didn't really show that arson had happened in the first place