Flying is the hardest one. Most other individual carbon emissions can be avoided or greatly reduced with some planning and effort these days. But unless you live somewhere that has really developed HSR flying is the only really viable method for long-distance travel. Even more so if you need to cross an ocean.

My whole family which I rarely see is gathering soon and my guilt over taking an unnecessary flight and my guilt at not spending time with my family are at war. Haven’t come to any decision yet.

The backstory is important though. I trust science because I understand and endorse its methods of determining truth.

That doesn’t mean every scientific claim is true. But it does mean it’s the best approximation of the truth that we as humans have come up with.

It’s still good to be reasonably skeptical of scientific claims. But that skepticism needs to be approached with an open mind. Skepticism with a predetermined belief at its terminus is not true skepticism. It’s just another form of blind faith.

Those ethnicities were counter-revolutionary so it’s good to murder them actually.

(Hopefully incredibly obvious but this is sarcasm)

I mean the Lemmy devs are objectively assholes. You don’t gotta be anti-communist to recognize that.

But if there’s more to this story than just vibes I’d be interested to read about it. Did they make some statement or where did you hear this? Because I’ve never heard anything about this.

lol what

I’m not convinced this is the real reason it was pulled since that would have happened way earlier if so… but I kind of agree that it was mostly information that had already been reported. There were a few new details and the interviews were good but I think they should have followed up on the CECOT reporting by talking with people who have been imprisoned in other foreign prisons by the US, now the American CECOT prisoners have been released.

I tried looking into it but it was so complicated. How much would it cost to hire someone to do this research for me?

States really need to just start ignoring the feds. If everyone does it they won’t be able to stop it.

Let’s hope. Honestly that kinda seems like the good ending compared to what’s possible.

It’s quite complicated. Basically state law can never contradict federal law. So the question will come down to whether this masking is a legitimate exercise of federal law. While I think it obviously isn’t because there’s no law requiring ICE agents to mask, I’m sure they will make the argument that it’s part of federal discretion in how they choose to execute laws that do exist. Again, it’s hard to make any reasonable argument that masking materially helps them in executing their duties, but the courts have traditionally given a pretty absurd amount of leeway to the Feds when it comes to this kind of thing. This will probably give the SC just enough wiggle room to expand federal dominance over state law and strike this down.

But who knows, that’s just my slightly educated prediction. I’m not a lawyer or anything.

Maybe Russia should stop using all of its weapons for imperialism if they want to intelligently advocate for the multipolar world they claim to be seeking.

Two leftists with minute political differences calling each other fascists.

Unfortunately I think the chances are high the corrupt supreme court will strike this down. But you gotta try.

I mean cars are a bit of an impractical transportation method in general but I don’t think EVs are much less practical in the US than any other vehicle nowadays. They’re just too expensive for our crumbling middle class.

Kinda seems like democrats are still locked into the same failed strategy even as we’ve seen better options emerging…

Were these subsidies going to small farmers though? Usually these things end up benefiting the giants.

Not sure if this is your blog but good choice! This is certainly the main reason I live where I do. And I’ve never been happier.

There are so many benefits but an underrated one is I honestly think a lot of the lonely people out there might have a better time of it if they lived in car-free environments. There’s just something different about the way people interact when you see them incidentally all the time as you go about your business.

Like two of my best friends now I happened to meet at a neighborhood meeting. We chatted on the walk home but I’m shy so I probably never would have reached out to them. But then we happened to see each other on train and chatted more, and this kept happening and now we’re great friends.

Imperialism is often seen as a compelling solution to the absolute failure of tyrants to govern domestically.

A: Stalin wasn’t communist and B: not really. The political spectrum is just a model to aid with understanding. It’s not a fundamental quality the way up or down is. Political ideologies don’t have opposites in that way.

There are plenty of obvious similarities between fascism and Stalinism (and yes, some differences too).

I’d rather not be test subject number 3. But if others do then I’m OK with that, and over time as more people try them we can get a sense of their safety and effectiveness. Are side effects like that common with vaccines?