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@jessicawildfire Also: it's not our fucking job to stop pandemics. That's the government's job. Stopping pandemics is pretty much the textbook example of what governments are for, since individual action isn't sufficient. Things like pandemics are why we cede power over our lives to governments.
Many of us are individually doing everything we can, at great personal expense. But that can't possibly be enough.
Our fucking solution is for the fucking government to do its fucking job.

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Next time someone criticizes my coverage of Elon Musk and says something along the lines of "have you built the first successful EV company or launched rockets into space? Then you shouldn't comment!" I'm going to point out that the answer is no, but I've also never destroyed this much shareholder value in a year.

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Looks like George Santos created a fake pet charity and then kept the money people donated to help save animals.

Yeah, this is the Republican criminal mind that the GOP base loves and votes for.

cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/1

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The country where EVs have been most successful is Norway. The runner-up is Iceland. People trying to tell you EVs don’t work in cold weather are working for the oil companies —whether they know it or not.

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The broken U.S. disability system relies on a job database from the 1970s to deny applicants. Read via this gift link from @washingtonpost wapo.st/3C5s65X

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Can't believe I'm only getting $58 next month for food stamps what the fuck.

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A new study finds that the loss of wild pollinators has led to a 3-5% drop in fruit, vegetable, and nut production worldwide. The drop has led to an increase of diseases linked to consumption of unhealthy foods.

' Strategies to protect wild pollinators are not just an environmental issue, but a health and economic one as well. "[Doing] too little to help pollinators does not just harm nature, but human health as well..." '

#pollinators #FoodProduction #disease

sciencedaily.com/releases/2022

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$TSLA crashing because the company is on autopilot is the most fitting end to 2022 possible

@atomicpoet Yes, but at this rate Tesla sinking is probably going to embolden the competition that is rapidly entering the EV market; so if that was their intention, it's going to likely backfire on them.

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it’s rather presumptuous to follow a person and then demand they don’t post or boost stuff you don’t like

Where can I get this on a T-Shirt? :-)

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RT @mattxiv@twitter.com

chaya raichik aka @libsoftiktok@twitter.com revealed her face on tucker carlson today. we can now identify her in this video from the january 6 insurrection

🐦🔗: twitter.com/mattxiv/status/160

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India.
Pakistan.
China.
Kenya.
Malaysia.
UK.
US.
Brazli.
Australia.
South Africa.

The #climate crisis is costing the world billions. The argument that we 'can't afford' to mitigate emissions is increasingly absurd. We can't afford not to. #globalwarming #fossilfuels

theguardian.com/environment/20

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2. Not everyone who posts about climate change or politics is virtue signalling. Many are actually trying to address the problems they complain about. Heck, many of the people I follow on the issue of climate change, including many on this server, are *climate scientists*. Just because Twitter promotes virtue signalling idiots to the head of the feed on climate change or other issues doesn't mean that Mastodon is the same way; indeed, Mastodon really doesn't have an algorithm to speak of in that sense.

3. I find North Korea fascinating for a variety of reasons. I know *I* can't do anything about it, but it's fascinating from psychological, cultural, and historical perspectives to see how that country operates and has operated. There's also a lot we *don't* know because the regime is so secretive.

3. You realize you can do a timed mute, or even a regular mute, right? Because it's rather presumptuous to follow a person and then demand they don't post or boost stuff you don't like. I'm not going to change my boosting habits simply because you find certain topics to not be worth it.

@peterweyand I generally boost things that I find interesting, and I actually find North Korea news interesting because I feel bad for the people suffering under that dictator and because *that place is so fucking weird, repressive, and backwards*

Do you always do this with people you follow on social media retweeting or boosting something you don't like?

This website in a nutshell 

@peterweyand No, I am not. Why do you ask?

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NEW: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told the nation's children "the American bastards" want to "steal your hope" and that the military is still in live battle with enemies. The 2-day Korean Children's Union congress ended Tues. and Kim did not attend, state media reports.

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