don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
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don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
In case anyone missed this 😁
“Hard choices are ahead. At some point we must stop subsidizing wealthy people rebuilding in risky areas... We may need to require insurers to cover all risks and all homeowners or leave the market... We may need to create national risk pools that compete and possibly replace private insurers.”
The destruction of the federal environmental state, now with some Mazzy Star
I see these arguments more from the single-sentence PR campaign point of view. The argument that there are too many undeserving sick in the system provides a simple (and on the surface seemingly straightforward) explanation of a problem that *stops* most from a deeper look at the issue at hand.
Of course, bc they see themselves as the winners of a seemingly fair system, where they worked hard and thus deserve their privilege---as opposed to the ill. Now, whether illness is fair or controllable is another matter, which would would undermine their belief of a fair system.
But others, believing the rhetoric, will to start to blame & hate the weak. Unfortunately.
They don't hate the ill & disabled. They simply don't care. All they care about is their power. By pointing at the weak & powerless, saying they are the cause of all the problems in the society, they mange to deflect blame, and thus, maintain their power.
Swedes need to get familiar with the impact of this stereotype on the US welfare system ASAP en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare...
Routinely, I am asked, "Why is DC *like that*?"
And I know exactly what they mean, and you know exactly what they mean, because DC really is *like that.*
And I am such a humanitarian, I will answer this question for you, if you subscribe to my newsletter.
Three more days to submit your comments to The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) about the proposed 90,000-square-foot ballroom addition to the White House. www.ncpc.gov/participate/...
The NYT style guide
Or put it in a larger context. Sure, the northern half of East Coast was colder than usual this year, but look at the vastly bigger are that was equally or more hotter. bsky.app/profile/clim...
If we still had 1970-2010-era O&G export policy, how would Trump's/Trumpist billionaires' incentives for (and windfall profits from) starting wars in oil/gas-rich regions change?
Minnesota resistance t-shirt
Seems bad from an architecture standpoint, ngl.
How can someone reach this ripe age and be socially this clueless?
77% of the world’s top climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C above preindustrial levels this century, blasting past internationally agreed targets and causing catastrophic consequences for humanity, an Guardian survey revealed.
ACT NOW!
www.un.org/en/actnow/te...
This is the swamp in which we work. To pretend that these men are exceptional mistakes the deep misogyny & racism built into American higher ed. These same men have fashioned themselves as heterodox thinkers against the world of woke but this is who they really are. www.chronicle.com/article/unma...
"the old conferences did not care about diversity. I suggest you not either,” Jeffrey Epstein wrote... “The women are all weak, and a distraction sorry." #WomenInSTEM 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...
Thy literally put it in the Louvre
www.reuters.com/video/watch/...
Moths 😬
NORTH AMERICA HISTORIC HEAT WAVE
WORLD RECORDS IN MEXICO
MIND BLOWING Winter hottest day in world history at high elevations:
42.0C Rio Verde 1000m asl
35.1C Morelia 1900m
98F/37C in TEXAS
MORE FEBRUARY RECORDS
87F Hattiesburg, 86 Columbus MS
88F St Thomas VIRGIN ISLANDS
Great coverage of Kyan Shlipak's recent #ScienceAdvances study on the health impacts of U.S. residential wood burning, by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social, for the @theguardian.com @science.org
He went there. He actually went there.
According to the medical journal @thelancet.com, heat extremes caused an estimated 546k deaths every year between 2012 & 2021 – a 63% rise on rates seen in the 1990s
“That's the equivalent of a fully loaded jumbo jet full of people going down once every 7hrs throughout the year” says Prof Ollie Jay
Are there those who think they will beat the odds, have a few years to enjoy the unique location or just there to cash out on the property value gamble? Sure. But putting them into the same bucket is not helpful.
(2) Those who buy property in 'high risk' areas are not necessarily those who can escape when it becomes inconvenient. Many are there bc they cannot move.
