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I don’t doubt it. They might be laughing and ignoring what they’re listening to as they count their next set of bribes, but their listening.

The growing number of lawsuits and treaty revisements to increase actual climate change action gives me hope that humanity might just make it.

Hey, some of us smart people can’t do that basic math either 😭
(In my case, calculus and ADHD combined powers to make me useless with actual numbers, real and imaginary, lol)

I don’t think it is (though Dems seem to pull that often). Supreme Court Justices seem to have a very hard time letting go of the power, even on the more progressive side (Notorious R.B.G. being the most recent example). There’s basically no way to remove a supreme court justice, impeachment will pretty much never happen. I think it’s more recognizing that multiple who are 75 years old in a stressful job and being targeted by the public more and more is likely to lead to at least one of them leaving, be it death or retirement.

Yeah, Florida just did it wrong. They’re not having major farming and trucking issues because they scared away a bunch of immigrants. It’ll work this time everywhere else.

That movie “Teeth” is about to have a resurgence of watchers I bet.

Florida just banned lab grown meat and removed climate change targets from their books. So, the usual for them.

I’m pretty sure March 26 is the day the pre-order started, so that one at least kind of makes sense.

Although I agree in general, the antivirus complaint isn’t really fair. Windows was by and large the largest install base, especially in the corporate sector. It only makes sense it became the most targeted. Scam apps and that’s do exist on Android and Linux, they’re just mitigated other ways. For now.

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Almost always follow the money. Often the mayors offer insane tax breaks or land finances or something to attract the companies. Ostensibly to bring in more jobs and boost their own economy. Most do not consider the environmental portion, definitely companies don’t.

I dunno about FartsWithAnAccent, but I’m getting so fed up and depressed by the current system I’m looking back around to hope. Not expecting, but hoping. Crazed optimism could be next for me.

Hopefully the mod community writes an AI removal mod quick. Seems like something they’d do. And I was just about to stand up a server for my friends dangit

I can’t comment on fairphone, but the Discord thing is likely not your phone, it’s Discord or something. The same happens to me randomly on a Pixel 6a.

And I’m saying you’re wrong and completely ignoring the actions he took to address it. It was mentioned. States were to expand Medicaid in conjunction with his expanding ACA explicitly to handle situations like you brought up.

His proposed budget involves $150 billion earmarked for Medicaid explicitly to expand it to cover people in your situation where the 10 states did not expand coverage as they were supposed to after his American Rescue Plan Act in 2021 and Inflation Reduction Act in 2022. This was not 14 years ago. That was 3 and 2 respectively. And the budget is being debated currently.

He’s mentioned it. He’s been trying to tackle it.

I’m sorry you’re in that situation, but this is wrong.

He successfully created subsidies that brought Affordable Care Plan enrollment up and brought the number of uninsured Americans down from 14.5% to 11% through the American Rescue Plan Act, which removed a cap on eligibility for subsidies above 400 percent of the poverty level and limited premiums to 8.5% income among other things.

Every action he’s tried to take in the healthcare front has been blocked by others, lawsuits from drug companies, Congress, you name it. States were supposed to take increased funding and expand Medicaid access for people outside the income range for ACA at the same time as the increased subsidies. Many did. Several did not (take a guess which).

He’s certainly a flawed president and I wish Democrats ran someone stronger, but this critique is provably false. He has mentioned it and tried to take actions to improve healthcare access.

Of course he could do more, but saying “no mention” is either willfully ignorant or trollish or angered exaggeration. This is on top of the health care improvements he managed to get into the Inflation Reduction Act and proposed healthcare funding in the budget he released in March (which is again supposed to expand Medicaid and Medicare).

That’s the part that I’m banking on, that 12% has already happened. That’s 12% they’ve lost out on in the short present term. I’m hoping they see that and decide they want that money back. I know they’re probably doing a cost benefit analysis of cost to combat climate change versus potential lost GDP. But still, I’ll take any arrow in the quiver against them.

A recent study (still in peer review phase last I saw but the people who wrote it and good work) showed that the 1C rise in temperatures vs pre-industrial times (which we’re already past) lowered GDP by 12% or more globally. The current 3C that many climate scientists are warning we’re on track for could lower GDP by 50% or more.

Not following the Paris accords or stricter is actually going to hit stockholders hard if the study is accurate.

Thanks for taking the time to list links!

Does being rich cause neurological changes, or do those with those neurological traits by and large try to become wealthy?

Just curious the actual science there. I agree to be that rich shows a lack of empathy one way or another.

He hasn’t gotten away with the defamation against E. Jean Caroll I’d argue.