Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@RickiTarr In the late 1970's, I drove a taxi part-time in the American south as a way of working my way through university. I was happy to pick up black people and take them to their destinations. As a young, long-haired, white, university student, carrying black passengers in the back of my taxi, the police would frequently pull me over, make me get out of the taxi, and walk away from the vehicle (out of ear-shot of my passengers) and question me as to whether my passengers were threatening me in any way. "No sir, officer. Everything's fine." Then I was allowed to proceed.

I remember one night I picked up a very glamourous young black couple. The young lady looked like a movie star in a red ball gown. The gentleman looked like Marvin Gaye in a tuxedo. We were having a great conversation. The police stopped my taxi. After a few minutes of the usual questioning, they let us proceed.

When I got back in the taxi, I looked at them and quietly said "I'm sorry." There was a pause. They looked at me and the gentleman said quietly: "It's okay". We drove on.

My life changed at that moment.

I remember this well.
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RT @janrosenow
How pessimism about renewables was proved wrong.

Incumbent German electricity suppliers said in 1993 that renewables could never provide more than 4% of electricity.

In 2022 50% of German electricity was from renewables, mainly wind and solar.
https://twitter.com/janrosenow/status/1625113031616200708

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/10/australian-study-receptor-blocks-covid-infection Australian researchers find protein in lung that blocks Covid infection

society: damn misinfo at scale is getting a bit out of hand lately. seems like a problem.

tech guys: i have invented a machine that generates misinformation. is that helpful?

Let me get this straight. Republicans spent Friday cosplaying machismo by encouraging their supporters to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon, which was 11 miles up in the atmosphere, a balloon so large it could hold an entire football stadium inside of it. No consideration of the danger of their useless bullets falling back to earth.

Meanwhile, Biden had already given the order to the military to shoot it down when it was safe to do so back on *Wednesday.* They had already jammed their signals so it couldn’t send any info back to China, and instead was collecting info on the satellite.

So as usual, we have Republicans acting like idiots, encouraging actions that posed danger to the American people, all the while hoping to “stick it to Biden,” when in actuality, Biden had already handled the situation days before by involving the military who had neutralized the threat and then ultimately shot down the balloon over the waters past South Carolina.

Vote blue, people. #news