Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

We had significant flooding in my region last month. Folks are rebuilding… in the same places. 🤦‍♂️ I understand the many reasons, but government has a responsibility (IMO) to set regulations to prevent this repeated loss.

I'm so sick of everything being framed as a "cost". What about the *benefits* of doing a thing? Like, what are economic benefits of having extensive and healthy rainforests?

If some fucking economist is like, "we can't calculate that, it's literally incalculable," I'm going to fucking strangle him. Just because something doesn't fit nicely into your spreadsheets, it doesn't mean it lacks value.

NPR: U.S. employers added 187,000 jobs in July, still marking a steady pace of growth. The unemployment rate edged down to 3.5%.#news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2023/08/04/1191884937/employers-jobs-economy-inflation-soft-landing

Trump is in big trouble

So the news is focusing on Hunter Biden “scandals”

Good.

Because we need to remember that this, too, is another Trump scandal

Trump blackmailed Zelenskyy and Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden

There was an impeachment over it

Trump personnel like Manafort were exposed over it

Lt Col Alexander Vindman went through hell over it

Time to tell the Hunter Biden story the way it was meant to be told

Another Trump crime

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/03/trump-trial-tv-broadcast/

Climate change slowing down key ocean “conveyor belt”
Could collapse completely by 2060
https://grist.org/climate/a-vital-atlantic-ocean-system-could-collapse
@grist

Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w
We est. collapse of AMOC around mid-century

AMOC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturning_circulation
global oceanic thermohaline circulation; zonally integrated component of surface/deep currents in Atlantic Ocean

#GlobalWarming #oceanography #AMOC #IPCC #ClimateChange #EcologicalDestruction

Adoption >> buying a pet. #petrescue #massachusetts https://mastodon.boston/@MSPCAAngell/110825933006674607

Here's what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
Due to the increased #Wagner presence, #Poland will deploy more troops to its border with #Belarus after two #Belarusian helicopters entered #Polish airspace at low altitudes, hampering radar detection.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/08/02/europe/poland-belarus-wagner-nato-tensions-intl/index.html

#Ammunition, or lack thereof, has been a focal point in the conflict so far. To combat this #Ukraine has ramped up local ammunition manufacturing. The country produced twice as many #mortar and #artillery rounds last month as it did in all of 2022.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/02/world/russia-ukraine-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@Huntn00 @LauraJMG
As #ClimateAction started to become more and more likely, the #FossilFools started to throw tons of money into the GOP and the Political Action Committees in order to wage their successful (so far) #WarOnScience

I don’t think any Canadian political family has endured the type of bullying for so long as have the Trudeaus. Do you think the kids are immune at school from verbal abuse? What has changed in Canada is that bigots now think violence is patriotic.

#CanPoli #cdnpoli

I wrote a comic about haggling.

Link:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:8b1d5c08-5daa-3290-915a-2d587327f928

82% of Voters Oppose GOP Push to Cut Social Security for Americans Under 50: Poll — “Voters would rather see taxes on wealthy Americans to ensure Social Security remains a guarantee for all,” said the head of Data for Progress.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/republicans-cut-social-security

#SocialSecurity #GOP #Cut #Voters #Taxes #WealthyAmericans #Politics #News

One thing I really like about #Mastodon - on #Birdsite, extremist right-wing posts kept showing up on my timeline and if I blocked them, others would just replace them.

This started after Elon took over and got worse after he started selling blue check-marks.

My mental health really is a lot better without an algorithm.

Back when I called the suicide hotline (a mistake, I got charged a ton of money for the "help") it was suggested that I don't watch the news because the news was +

@GreenFire @Huntn00 Then GW Bush undercut major elements of the Clean Air Act… etc. etc.

@GreenFire @Huntn00 So true! And even back when, it was hit-or-miss. Nixon signed major expansions of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act into law, but Reagan took down Carter’s solar panels and (in)famously said trees caused pollution. Then came GHW Bush, who passed critically important improvements to the Clean Air Act into law ( remember when acid rain was a thing?), and iirc also put in place the CFC’s phaseout (goodbye, ozone hole!).