“Many people misjudge which personal climate actions cut emissions most, often overrating familiar actions like recycling and underrating higher-impact changes such as flying less and eating less red meat,” Schneider says. Those findings are in line with previous studies.

Point of order: consumer-based mitigations are way less systematically effective than regulatory measures imposed on manufacturing, power plants, and marine freight.

Not saying that consumer-based mitigations should be ignored, but like, come on: of course it’s not going to make a dent if the big polluters do absolutely fuck-all in terms of changing their operations to be more ecologically sound.

Tbh I’m honestly kind of impressed at this point

Don’t bother lol

it’s for reading license plates

Suuuuuuuuuuure. Of course it is. 🙄

If this wasn’t a Russian op, I’ll be pretty shocked.

I’m being downvoted because I pissed off some tankies a while back, so now I usually get a small handful of downvotes on most comments I make, regardless of the topic or relevance (or total lack thereof) to any political stuff. It just makes me laugh tbh, because karma is not a thing on lemmy :P

Go read Ministry for the Future 🫠

FWIW voter participation DID drop pretty catastrophically. Only around 44% - a drop in turnout of nearly 15%. And combined with the fact that all the other non-satirical parties skipped the election, Farage’s whole narrative of having a “mandate from his constituency” gets a fairly meaningful rug-pull. It’s obnoxious that he won, yes, but binface bested their previous record of votes received (308 - I heard the bin itself mention it in an interview a few days ago) by about 3000%.

So, yeah, the continuing source of inspiration won, but achieved almost nothing of what he originally set out to do with this political stunt.

Better idea:

• every dollar you make in income over 10M is taxed at 100%
• net worth over 1B is assessed an annual tax of 2%

Tbh this will also probably make ICEatzgruppen’s job harder too, which is always a good thing

Tbh I’d be making a complaint to the practice, med org (if any) the practice is a part of, as well as the AMA. That’s absolutely egregious, and entirely indefensible as a medical practitioner.

One of my three strikes was for commenting on an antifascist thread as follows:

it’s always a good day to punch a Nazi

are you sure about that

please enjoy this sneak preview

What the fuck?

So:

Critics say buying commercially available records allows government agencies to bypass safeguards that could require a warrant or court order if the information were demanded directly.

The SEC is controlled by regime flunkies now. This is an end-run of the 4th amendment.

ARC announced last November that it was shutting down TIP following pressure from lawmakers and reports about its government contracts. The program ended in 2025, but the newly released SEC documents reveal that its reach was far wider than previously known, and that overseas travelers were included in the system.

In related news, it was reported in March that FBI Director Kash Patel defended the bureau’s continued purchase of Americans’ location data, despite warnings from lawmakers that the practice sidesteps Fourth Amendment protections.

You can’t imprison a company

What are you talking about? USB-C is mandated in the EU. All Apple stuff can charge on that now.

For fucks sake can we stop doing flat dollar amount fines on megacorps and do percentage of revenue - yes, revenue specifically, not profit, which can be gamed in tons of interesting ways - as punitive measures? Even astronomical 8 or 9 figure fines on companies with market caps in the ballpark of a trillion fucking dollars are effectively brushed off as the cost of doing business, and are ultimately inconsequential and entirely ineffective in terms of serving as a meaningful deterrent to the things they’re being fined for.

Meta is not going to give a single shit about this. This is a small speed bump, nothing more.