Mitra Ardron

Exactly - copying twitter's model is the big mistake of Bluesky and Mastodon - 95% of what I read on Facebook is group chat's - because the rest of it is so poor. Many of those groups have moved to Whatsapp - but that's still Meta. Bsky needs group chats badly.

Time for California to secede - while it still can - before martial law, and all the other trappings of fascism are entrenched.

Cant wait for the retaliation on all the US social media flooding the world.

Part of the fascist playbook - has to silence either by action of the threat of action all the main sources of opposition - Military; courts; students; police; media & academia; Cutting funding not only hurts Harvard, the threat of it silences any that are on the fence.

I find it a huge assumption that there will be an election in four years - in fact I doubt there will be one in two.

Fascists get voted in, have they ever been voted out? If there is any doubt of an election's outcome it will be cancelled; rigged; or the opposition leaders locked up.

Doesn't this make the highly dubious assumption that there will actually be an election in four years.

Fascists get voted in, they pretty much never get voted out, if there is any doubt about the outcome of an election it will be cancelled, rigged, or the opponents locked up.

Every fascist regime needs their concentration camps (or Xentation camps to follow prefered naming), and these have to be one-way, i.e. the fear of being kidnapped (not arrested); then - without any due process - human trafficked (not deported) to a hell-hole from which the only exit is death.

And the question of course, is who is paying those organized crims, and who has the most to gain by these kind of false-flags.

Net Zero by 2050 is largely meaningless for a country whose main contribution to global emissions is not domestic emissions, but the emissions from the fossil fuels it extracts and exports. Drilling and opening more mines is criminally irresponsible during a climate emergency.

Judges will be moved sideways until the good ones all quit and all that are left are Mump's lackeys - that's a classic fascist strategy.

The best way to get rid of rapists and violent criminals is to stop electing them.

Its California that should get out - of a country going fascist.

Trusk just needs an act of congress to repeal it, and he's got congress for at least the next two years.

Biden did not genocide Gaza himself but he was responsible.

I'm a big tea-drinker. There was a report a couple of years ago that listed which brands of tea-bags contained plastics. None of the non-plastic brands were available in my local super markets so I switched to loose leaf,which of course is better for other sustainability and taste reasons anyway.

We dont have an insurance crisis - its not that these houses are uninsurable, it is that they are uninhabitable due to climate change. No amount of tinkering around the insurance system can hide the fact that a house with e.g. a 10% chance of catastrophic flooding each year shouldn't be lived in .

That makes sense - I saw them advertised and had my doubts as well. I've got a few of the soil moisture ones to try, but haven't hooked them up yet. I've heard the reliability is low - that they corrode quickly though the capacitive ones are supposed to be better than resistive ones.

So - did you find any alternative that did work?

Not forgetting - that Florida has consistently elected climate deniers !

Those SSTs are just absurd. More than a full degree above the climatological mean.

Opinion: I’m a climate scientist. If you knew what I know, you’d be terrified too | CNN Climate scientist Bill McGuire writes on his conundrum: what’s happening to our planet scares the hell out of him—but if he shouts the unvarnished truth from the rooftops, will that inspire you to act...

"If the fracturing of our once stable climate doesn’t terrify you, then you don’t fully understand it....We’re experiencing, in our lifetimes, a heating episode that is probably unique in the last 4.6 billion years."

He had to do something to differentiate himself from the Libs after all they align on the other big issues like - spending billions on nuclear phalluses and opening approving more coal,oil and gas; and supporting the current genocide.