Hurricane Beryl has strengthened into a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane — the earliest on record — as it powers across the Caribbean after bringing devastation to the Windward Islands, where at least one person is dead.
Beryl posted here twice in quick succession because its just breaking so many records.
The US president has invested heavily in renewable energy jobs but with little political benefit.
The tribe is working to replace the generating capacity of the Lower Snake River dams with solar power.
WASHINGTON—Admitting that he had never been more conflicted about a ruling in his life, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was reportedly torn Monday over a case in which both sides offered compelling scuba trips. “While there’s a strong historical precedent for a lavish excursion to Bali, the pl...
What happens if the highest court in the land loses legitimacy?
Climatic stability over millions of years has allowed ancient and isolated freshwater fishes to flourish in areas such as the 356,000 square kilometers from Shark Bay to Esperance in southwest Western Australia.
Severe wildfires increase with a decrease in prescribed burns—but new research shows that in some places across the United States there may be fewer opportunities to safely burn in the future.
Authorities are not ruling out racist motives as they investigate why a white Nebraska man shot and wounded seven neighbors who were Guatemalan immigrants
If a highschool student cannot be instructed on Shakespeare without it being a crime, the law is too far gone to be reasonable in anyway. The same goes for Brave New World and A Handmaid's Tale. There are graphic depictions of sex in many major works of literature and we need to quit pretending teenagers don't know what sex is or that reading about it will indelibly harm them.
Education superintendent and Moms for Liberty ally drafts law requiring all reading be ‘developmentally appropriate’
Soaring temperatures in Pakistan have led more people to head to hospitals seeking help.
Scientists at the EU's Copernicus monitor say Russia's Sakha region is experiencing intense wildfires.
A devastating civil war is pushing the country toward a full-blown famine, according to the international body that measures hunger.
AI, cryptocurrency “mining” and our digital lifestyles imperil the energy transition — and the planet.
A growing wave of companies and research initiatives are doing something science has neglected for thousands of years: treating menstrual blood as an important trove of information about the bodies it comes from.
Floods could leave coastal communities in states like Florida and California unlivable in two decades
One farmer told the BBC he faces 'constant warfare' against balaclava-clad thieves.
Drought in the American West is becoming a persistent reality instead of a periodic emergency due to climate change, and a recent study found that an essential tool used to measure drought can̵…
We are growing alfalfa in the deserts of Arizona with water from aquifers, so it sadly needs to be said.
The article might have been well-informed and factual
Like many substacks purporting to give health information, its a massive link dump filled with unsupported suppositions in between. Reading all the links provided would give much more accurate information.
In the final paragraphs his insistence that everyone should be keto and not use any form of sunscreen gives away the fact he's a crank.
The point of an armorer on set is that they ensure that the guns aren't dangerous. The typical rules about "don't aim at something you don't want to destroy" doesn't apply in a movie because otherwise all the action sequences would look dumb with people firing wildly at the ground. How stupid would it look if John Wick shoots at the floor and blood spurts out of the guys face.
That said, anyone who hires a scab armorer gets what they pay for and deserve to be prosecuted.
I think its collapse-y as the idea that companies know full well the danger of these chemicals, yet they still sell them in their products perfectly characterizes why were in the situation we are currently.
That said I had no idea the clothing community existed and I like putting the spotlight on more niche communities so in the future I'll post relevant stuff there instead.
As the US slides further towards fascist Christian Nationalism the more common restrictions like this will become.
American Nations is probably the worst pop-history books I've had the displeasure of reading. Its chock full of backwards rationalizations, just-so narratives, and glaring misconstructions and omissions.
Any assessment of modern society based on this author is immediately suspect and we should honestly stop letting him write for any serious publication.
Excellent, now we have a reason to chant "USA 🇺🇲 USA 🇺🇲" until we sink due to rising sea levels.
Realistically any Libertarian dedicated enough to show up to a party conference is probably a member of the 1% of the US population that votes for them in general elections.
Now when I'm lazy and don't support some standards in my open source projects, I'm just going to say its for security.
The problem with this assessment is that inaction also qualifies as an action and does not somehow exempt the bystander from the moral calculus. If you disagree you'd also have a difficult time arguing that people who don't participate in forms of other activism should as the retort could simply be they're just a bystander and that there's vanishingly little untouched by the Capitalist system so they just won't do anything proactive.
Unless you literally live in the woods and grow your own food, you're likely interacting with a mini Capitalist trolley problem every time you buy food or turn on a light switch. Being asked to stop another few genocides and not make the current one worse is just one more.
So we're using Bush era torture to justify inaction against fascism? Idk man seems a little weird.
I get voting isn't enough and half the problem is people often limiting their involvement in society to a ballot once every four years, but I'd really like to prevent The Palestinian Chair from being used on anyone deemed an enemy of the state by a man who is talking about deporting 11 million people.
Vertical integation and scale are not inherently monopolistic. Some monopolies formed because they exploited these advantages, but there are competative industries today where several vertically integrated companies compete.
Monopolies in econ 101 are not called inefficient because they extract profit. They're inefficient because they don't respond to market forces. Since they control all supply, they can disregard demand.
I mean if central planning can be redefined to mean decentralized capitalist markets, I've got a book gor you to read too.
My dude, did you even read the Peter Theil article you linked? His entire speil is in no way congruent with your point. He's basically just saying the rent seeking from a gaining a monopoly can make high risk investments worth it. His argument is still grounded in market logic. He leaves out the people who started high risk companies they thought would be monopolies but turned out to be undesireable.
And I don't even agree with his point, neither Google nor Amazon needed massive capital to hit the market, they needed massive amounts of capital to operate at a loss to squash their early competition to create a monopoly; something that can only be done by the horrible market distortions of a governmnet or rampant late-stage capitalist billionaires with equivalent piles of money.
Edit: I would also point out Theil is a believer in autocracy, known widely for literally owning a company whose product is disinformation, and is shilling to prevent the breakup of his monopolies. I wouldn't trust him under any circumstances.
China has some more central planning than the US, but they lean on the same market mechanisms that the US does when it comes to most solutions, ie tax penalties/incentives and subsidies. An excellent example is their smog reduction plans.
Its also great you linked an article about Chinese steel because they do the same stuff there
There isn't a party planner in every steel mill determining output, they let individual companies react to market forces they shape with tax structures and subsidy.
People's republic of Walmart
Good thing Walmart wasn't supplanted by Amazon who delegates most of whats sold to 3rd party sellers. They certainly havn't copied that for their online sales, right?
Out of curiosity, do you think the USSR collapsed because all its own citizens thought the government was doing too good a job?
China introduced private corperations and capital because they increased efficiency and production.
Are you saying every government whose ever tried tons of central planning just messed up or randomly decided to scale it back just for funsies?
Are we just gonna ignore the fact that the whole critique of centralization is that its inefficient, ineffective, and unresponsive to peoples needs?
Like as capitalism is becoming more monopolistic, its becoming increasingly bad at delivering goods that people actually want and just becomes better at supressing and controling them. You know the same critisism thats pointed at autoritarian communism.
I don't think this is the W you think it is.