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The way voter ID laws like this prevent citizens from voting is generally considered a feature — by restricting ID forms common among the young, such as student IDs, they change the makeup of the electorate to favor Republicans.

 

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has written an op-ed piece in The Sun promising "I will not sacrifice Great British industry to the drum-banging, finger-wagging Net Zero extremists"

Which means he's willing to sacrifice all the industry to appease the fossil fuels industry.

 

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The paper is here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Version 1:

  • The world is going to end real soon
  • they expect to be raptured away to Heaven
  • God put stuff on the earth for us to use up before the rapture

Version 2:

  • Somebody else is going to suffer because of the environmental damage
  • Hurting other people shows how masculine and powerful I am
  • I profit from the damage
  • Damage = good
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

There's a significant impact from the higher temperatures.

It's not just the management history, though that doesn't help.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's a very plausible claim, but difficult to prove

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A fair-sized chunk of this fall's electorate was too young to vote in 2016, and doesn't have a real sense of how awful he is, or how much has deteriorated over the past few years.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (11 children)

A lot of people don't pay much attention until shortly before the election.

His age and mental capacity can weigh on folks when he can't give a decent explanation of what he's going to do on a particular topic.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Mental capacity.

He's very good at tossing out free association, and showing that he's in touch with the latest racist meme.

Anything else? Not so much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Also, they'll borrow huge amounts of money so the handful of people making 10 million can pay 500k less in taxes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

The IRA is absolutely a bill which uses capitalist mechanisms to achieve some decarbonization.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'd love to get rid of PG&E and have a publicly-owned utility instead, which doesn't charge the @#$@#% markup the PG&E gets to in order to pay an ever-increasing dividend.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Which is why lobsters have been shifting northward, with populations rising on the north edge of their range, and declining on the southern end.

Not exactly what we want humans to be forced to do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

They'd probably get less engagement if I did that; headlines that confuse people cause them to comment, which in turn causes Facebook and Reddit to show content to more people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The mystery is "why this gesture" and not "are they communicating"

The hypothesis that's being put forward is this:

Apes, they argue, do not inherit specific gestures, but they do inherit the sense that they can use gestures to communicate with other chimpanzees. The animals create new gestures by borrowing — or “recruiting,” in the scientists’ lingo — movements that apes commonly make.

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