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The climate movement has been led by people who look and think and talk the same for a very long time. If time is short, isn't this precisely the time to try everything? To broaden out, seek fresh ideas, build a larger, stronger and more connected movement?

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14255023

The vice president released a plan to help Black men financially, held interviews with two Black media outlets and put out targeted ads in battleground states.

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Ms. Harris’s plan calls for providing one million loans that would forgive up to $20,000 for Black entrepreneurs and people of other races to start a business, in an effort to close the capital gap that Black people often face.

The plan calls for expanding access to affordable banking options that will allow Black men and others to tap into more capital that they often cannot access because of high fees and other barriers. The plan also promises to devise a regulatory framework for protecting cryptocurrency assets, which more than 20 percent of Black Americans own or have owned.

All but the last last bit sounds good.

 

The vice president released a plan to help Black men financially, held interviews with two Black media outlets and put out targeted ads in battleground states.

...

Ms. Harris’s plan calls for providing one million loans that would forgive up to $20,000 for Black entrepreneurs and people of other races to start a business, in an effort to close the capital gap that Black people often face.

The plan calls for expanding access to affordable banking options that will allow Black men and others to tap into more capital that they often cannot access because of high fees and other barriers. The plan also promises to devise a regulatory framework for protecting cryptocurrency assets, which more than 20 percent of Black Americans own or have owned.

All but the last last bit sounds good.

 

We’ve only had 1.3C of global average warming, but it’s enough to popularize the entire category of personal cooling devices. So when people say, “You won’t even notice 1C of global warming,” the market tells us that that’s absolute bullshit.

 

CARB could finally regulate methane emissions from the state’s huge dairy farms and eliminate the special treatment dairy biogas gets via its clean fuel program. Or not.

 

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Weather experts say the spiraling falsehoods, especially claims that the government is creating or controlling storms, have gotten out of hand.

 

Weather experts say the spiraling falsehoods, especially claims that the government is creating or controlling storms, have gotten out of hand.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The one book somebody has seen him read is an anthology of Hitler's speeches:

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Which is why it's absolutely essential to elect enough Democrats in the Senate to enable court expansion.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

A lot of what campaigns do is try to fire up supporters so that they actually vote. Merely "supporting" without actually casting a ballot doesn't help.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

They're referring to a podcast named Call her Daddy

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm making the point for others reading it, not for the troll.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

k = thousand

J =joules

/ = per

cm² = square centimeter

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So you have no evidence and need to resort to conspiracy theories

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

As I've said, this is a seriously dumb take — the world isn't some perfect place, but US policy resulted in less overall inflation before getting things back to normal than most other developed countries. That's an indication that we had better policy.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I haven't claimed that it's perfect for everybody — just that for most people, it's a lot better. More people are working than pre-pandemic. Inflation went down to normal levels. Median wages are rising faster than inflation.

Those things didn't happen in every country, and it's a credit to policy under the Biden administration that they have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

So you've got no evidence for your point, just insults and denial.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (13 children)

It's actually been pretty good for most people; we had an incredible recovery from the highest unemployment since the Great Depression, and wages have started outpacing inflation again over the past 18 months. And inflation came down without mass unemployment.

That doesn't mean everybody had identical outcomes.

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

This one's a weather report; I'm taking it down as off topic.

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