Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
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While Iowa has been in a drought for three years, state agencies have a new tool to better identify the slow-moving phenomenon and respond to its effects. Published in January, the Iowa Drought Plan provides guidance to address #drought in #Iowa.
The plan was developed through an interagency effort with support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Midwest Climate Hub and National Drought Mitigation Center.
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"Instead, they’re deploying a quiet, nationwide strategy of altering the playing field in ways that concentrate power in the hands of conservative extremists—limiting abortion by undermining democracy itself. Anti-abortion activists realize they can’t win a fair fight, so they’re changing the rules of the game.
This approach is not new. Attacking democratic initiatives and voting rights has long been at the forefront of an anti-abortion strategy."
@MKSinSA I’ll clarify that while alive the lantana has not been blooming since the intense heat started. Geisha Girl shrubs are blooming. :)
@MKSinSA As long as they have adequate water, which is not excessive, the roses are sturdy to the sun,heat and blooming nicely. However, generally it seems like with this kind of heat plants are liking more shade. I’ve got some succulents I have moved into mostly shade, some into the kitchen because they were burning up. Did you hear about cactus dieing in Arizona due to the intense heat? 😳
@MKSinSA …along with Vinca, lantana, good ole roses. 🙂
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Esperanza is one of my favorite plants, as its #tropical origins makes it perfect to survive our Texas triple-digit weather.
@ai6yr Remember when tornadoes were mostly a mid-west occurrence? 🤔
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It's a #SevereWeather day on the East Coast. #tornado producing thunderstorms expected to spin up mid-day, then winds.
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Antarctica’s heatwaves are a warning to humanity – and we have only a narrow window to save the planet
Antarctica’s sea ice levels are plummeting as extreme weather events happen faster than scientists predicted Opinion Antarctica is currently … Antarctica’s heatwaves are a warning to humanity – and we have only a narrow window to save the planet
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@tultican When AI gets good enough I predict humans will not only establish friendships but will fall in love with it, especially when technology provides a mobile physical lifelike entity we can touch. It could actually destabilize the species. A primer from 60 years ago: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0734656/?ref_=m_ttfc_tt 🤔
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@Huntn00 Capitalism with such regulations on corporations, monopolies, and wealth is called socialism. Plus, of course, we need environmental protection, and protective labour laws. All of which the CONservatives want to eliminate to allow unrestricted laissez-faire capitalism to take hold here.
@tultican When AI gets good enough I predict humans will not only establish friendships but will fall in love with it, especially when technology provides a mobile physical lifelike entity we can touch. It could actually destabilize the species. A primer from 60 years ago: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0734656/?ref_=m_ttfc_tt 🤔
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'Ed' an AI chatbot will be LAUSD's newest student advisor, Carvalho says in splashy show - Who needs humans when a robot can do an almost human relationship. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ed-an-ai-chatbot-will-be-lausds-newest-student-advisor-carvalho-says-in-splashy-show/ar-AA1eOih8?ocid=socialshare #education
@tzimmer_history Rufo’s argument is a variance of the equivalence argument, in this case making a false case how liberalism is evil requires me to actually be an evil conservative to defeat it. Not my argument that conservatism is inherently evil, but it’s inherently selfish, about holding on to my advantages at your expense. This premise questions the ability of conservatism to actually embrace democratic principles, standards of equality and EO upon which the USA was founded.
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That is, for instance, Christopher Rufo’s openly stated end goal. He wants us to believe radical leftism is so ubiquitous, so dangerous, that nothing but an equally radical counter-revolution to seize control of the state and all major institutions will do to save the United States. 6/
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Journalists, Rights Activists Warn of Damage From Anti-Gay Rhetoric in Turkey https://www.voanews.com/a/journalists-rights-activists-warn-of-damage-from-anti-gay-rhetoric-in-turkey-/7212323.html #voanews #voiceofamerica
@Gustodon #BadBoyDonny Plus he was a horrible POTUS by POTUS standards. What good things could we possibly have expected from a corrupt sociopath? Self described as an admirer of “strong men dictators”, cause he wants to emulate them, best buds with Vlad and Kim, hostile to NATO and Ukraine, the highest ranking foreign mole to sit in the Federal Govt and not even clandestine, out in the open for everyone to see, except for the MAGA types who are a bit slo on the uptake.
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I'm seeing a group willing to support a twice-impeached, one-term president, famous for lying and sexual assault and historically relevant as an insurrectionist working against the Constitution.
Don't tell me Republicans are good people.
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#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
