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silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Cuts to NOAA increase the risk of deadly weather tragedies | The Trump administration’s budget plan for 2026 would eliminate the lab that developed a key flash flooding tool.1·7 hours agoLol. Just that there won’t be any warning whatsoever, even if you enable alerts on your phone
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto California@lemmy.world•Heavily armed immigration agents descend on MacArthur Park in L.A.192·8 hours agoThe problem is that civil unrest can also serve as an excuse for massive violence against the people. Hence the decision to repel them using rotting fruit instead of firearms
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto California@lemmy.world•Heavily armed immigration agents descend on MacArthur Park in L.A.26·8 hours agoThey’re the people who want to harass and beat people up but who couldn’t get hired by any other law enforcement
silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Democrats retreat on climate: ‘It’s one of the more disappointing turnabouts’ | A changing political climate has California Democrats recalibrating on climate policies.8·8 hours agoThing we are up against is a media machine which favors racism and all the pathologies which to with that


silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Democrats retreat on climate: ‘It’s one of the more disappointing turnabouts’ | A changing political climate has California Democrats recalibrating on climate policies.14·11 hours agoI’ll note that solar power is the cheapest, most abundant energy source in human history.
It’s almost entirely about changing how we do things.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Update on Texas flooding: climate change almost certainly played a role8·12 hours agoIts also the case that this kind of sudden intense rain is more likely in a warmer world, and that local and state politicians were unwilling to either restrict development in the floodplain, or even set up the kind of warning system which would let people evacuate
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•Nearly Half of America’s Murderers Get Away With It | Most crimes go unsolved, emboldening criminals and potentially leading to more violence.7·24 hours agoProblem is that what we dont need is beat cops who go around harassing people because their skin is too dark. What we actually need is detectives capable of catching killers and fences, but the incentives are to go harass minorities
silence7@slrpnk.netto Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Honda now has an electric Ruckus. Will they bring it to the US?2·2 days agoThe only Honda electric scooter I’ve actually seen in the US has been the Motocompacto
silence7@slrpnk.netOPtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas; Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses w/local emergency manager7·2 days agoWell, we know that the NWS produced the warnings about an hour in advance, that the staff who communicate with local officials had been fired, that Texas abused their emergency alerts on phones so people largely disabled them, and that local politicians were unwilling to invest in a local alert system because of anti-tax sentiment. You actually need to fix all of those
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas6·2 days agoI suggest checking.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas30·2 days agoNo, but its better to understand what happened instead of some fiction being pushed by local officials.
When you do frequent midnight alerts for missing elderly, people disable the alerts on their phone entirely. Then when disaster hits, they don’t know its coming. And because no planning was done for it, they can’t evacuate a camp full of kids quickly enough even if they know what’s about to happen.
Actually preventing this kind of thing means maintaining preparedness for decades when nothing happens.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•How the Trump administration is already cutting off climate research5·3 days agoThey’re preparing for a fight with the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal while a grizzly bear is growling at them.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Trump pleads ignorance after using antisemitic slur35·4 days agoHe has, however, read a collection 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.
“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” I said.
“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)
Later, Trump returned to this subject. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Trump pleads ignorance after using antisemitic slur25·4 days agoHe’s been spewing antisemitism like this since at least 2015. (I didn’t pay much attention to him before then)
It’s not just ignorance when it’s pointed out repeatedly over the years and you keep doing it.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Elon Musk’s xAI gets permit for methane gas generators | NAACP plans to sue over massive Memphis datacenter near Black residents, who have long dealt with pollution9·4 days agoThey’re also emitting a lot of unburned natural gas, there are plans to install a lot more turbines, and it’s much easier to fight something new and illegally installed than something that’s been around a while. Plus, it’s the NAACP fighting it, which makes sense, because the turbines are being used to power a chatbot that’s tuned to be racist.
Ideally, we want to get rid of all fossil fuels, but any little place a victory is possible is a good thing.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•DOJ Opens Door To Stripping Citizenship Over Politics | It's the latest example of the Trump administration's assault on citizenship.4·4 days agoHappens every day already. Just not organized
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Trump’s Tax Bill? Many Americans Haven’t Heard of It | Those who have disapprove by a wide margin.2·4 days agoOf Americans who have a clue about it. Problem is that lot didn’t hear before it passed
Its worldwide, but national outlets with limited global reach dont put that in the headline