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https://climateactiontracker.org/global/emissions-pathways/

This is pretty cool and a better deal than I thought it was. The article pitches it like a $35 per month subscription model, which would be hot garbage - but Bright Saver's website explains they charge $1329 up front or $35 per month for six years, plus the $350 installation fee.

The kit ks two 400W panels, so yeah, if you're handy with solar you can buy parts and build your own for cheaper - but with such low barriers to entry, that's literally plug and play and is more or less reasonably priced, I definitely think there's going to be a market.

I mean, maybe not in California, legal reform will have to get past Newsom and the legislators owned by PG&E, but there's going to be a market somewhere.

Hey now, banana pancakes are awesome.

I don't.

I remember when American conservatives in the '60s claimed to support states' rights. But what they actually supported was segregation and Jim Crow. They used "states' rights" as a rhetorical tool to hide their racism behind a facade of principle, just like the Confederacy had a hundred years prior.

Among the American right, only useful idiots (like libertarians) actually believed in states' rights - or small government rhetoric in general - as a principle. It was always empty rhetoric. And now that Republicans are openly supporting Trump's big government authoritarian conservatism, it's become obvious how badly the Ron Paul types were used.

I'll take wildfires over wet bulb temperatures any day.

That makes a certain amount of sense. Cartels go after the families of snitches, so I imagine this guy wanted them safe in the US before he cooperated.

Community buy-in is more important than efficiency in projects like this.

"The process started with the community-based participatory planning," WFP program policy officer Bakalilou Diaby shares in the video. "By the end of this process, it was agreed that one of the major action is the land reclamation or land recovery project."

At first, it took some time to convince the community that the regreening of the degraded landscape was even possible, but after learning about how to improve the land, "the people believe and they are convinced, and they are also committed," says Diaby.

Sure, these projects could be done more efficiently by one construction company with heavy machinery, but that takes dollars these dirt poor areas don't have (and I think Trump's bullshit arbitrary defunding of USAID is an object lesson for developing countries not to rely on foreign charity for anything important, among many, many other reasons why foreign charity is bad for development). So local people need to know how to do it with local resources in order to expand the projects to new areas.

Just as important, local communities need to support and maintain these projects in the long run, and sweat equity is a great way to build commitment.

Wouldn't a law that exempts a law enforcement agency from constitutional limits be an unconstitutional law - and therefore an illegal law - and therefore not lawful?

The early 2000s Republicans are the same people as 2025 Republicans.

Some of them changed their beliefs. They moved right - or were moved right by an incredibly effective decades-long propaganda campaign.

And some of them didn't change their beliefs at all - they're simply more emboldened to express beliefs that weren't acceptable twenty years ago.

Give it twenty more years and Democrats will be where Republicans are now.

I do.

Which is why groups that aren't targeted should be out there being supportive IRL and making it safer for targeted groups. Strength in numbers.

I'm a big fan of IRL, personally.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/ikaria-wariootia-fossil

The plan is to argue that only two consecutive terms bar someone from running for a third term, and have the Supreme Court's Republican majority rubber stamp it, so Trump can run and Obama can't.

• has a podcast where he fawns over conservative guests like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk
• borrowing talking points from Jordan Peterson about "bro culture" and a "crisis of masculinity"
• wants to "solve" California's housing crisis by jailing unhoused people
• thinks "social issues" like transgender rights and due process for immigrants are distractions from the real issues (like tariffs)

Newsom has generally been pivoting conservative over the last few years, most commenters think in preparation for a 2028 presidential run, and has turned it up since Trump was elected.

The American people aren't stupid. They're poorly educated and brainwashed by propaganda.

When a kid without developmental disabilities gets to 12th grade and still can't read or write his own name, we don't blame the kid for being stupid - or at least we shouldn't - we blame the parents and teachers. The kid was failed by the people who had the responsibility to teach him.

Same with politics. Voters don't have degrees in political science. They make the best decisions they can based on the information they have. Biden presided over the worst economy for the poor and middle class and the biggest wealth transfer to the ultra rich in my lifetime, Harris told voters "I'm not going to do anything different from Biden but Trump will destroy America so vote for me", Trump told voters "I know you're hurting, Biden and Harris failed you, and my policies will help you", and voters made the best decision they knew how to make.

Which was a stupid fucking decision. Granted. But the lion's share of the blame has to go to Biden, Harris, and their enablers. They were the experts. It was their job to keep America from making that stupid fucking decision. And they failed America.

Immigration law is based on the idea that deportation is not a punishment. So people in immigration court don't get the same protections people in criminal court do - lower standards for evidence, no right to an attorney, guilty until proven innocent instead of the reverse, etc.

Because technically (coughbullshitcough) we're not convicting or sentencing them, we're just sending them back to their home country.

Which has always been offensive and cruel, but with the goal of this administration being to hurt as many immigrants as possible as badly as possible, the cruelty is turned up to 11.

It is weird. Except, thinking about it, it's not.

All sides of American politics have been encouraged to hate and fear other Americans who disagree with them politically.

So when liberals have a choice between blaming their own political leaders for fucking up, or blaming the conservative Americans they hate anyway, a lot of them will make the wrong choice. Just like conservatives do when their leaders fuck up.

The plan was Project 2025. Trump didn't write it but he certainly followed it.