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."
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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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Last month shattered the previous record for the hottest July global sea surface temperature on record 🥴
Data available from NOAA ERSSTv5 (https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.ersst.v5.html).
https://vidanewspaper.com/2023/08/05/trumps-niece-pulls-no-punches-brands-former-president-a-traitor/ If you examine #BadBoyDonny, it does take much observation to realized that the only loyalty the mental patient has is to himself, everything else is secondary. At best he has momentarily alliances with people he can use and that includes the Millions of his Suckers who have latched onto his hallucinogenic teats hoping his oozing putrescence will grant them some personal advantage in their bewildered lives.
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He’s right, you know. https://bit.ly/4582Acs
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#COVID rising
UK in the dark
New wave uncertainties
Risk of Covid + Flu + RSV
Waning immunity, new variants
Limited surveillance, no @ONS survey
People mixing inside due to poor weather
Expert views: @chrischirp @Daltmann10 @RowlandKao @adamjkucharski
https://www.pmp-magazine.com/2023/08/05/covid-cases-rising-uk-in-the-dark-about-virus-future/
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Follow a Simulated Journey of the Destruction of ESA's Aeolus Mission https://www.universetoday.com/162672/follow-a-simulated-journey-of-the-destruction-of-esas-aeolus-mission/
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"I blame the father. Frederick Trump raised his children, one in particular, to believe that the world was divided into winners and losers and that there was no greater crime than to fall into the latter category. …
Referring to the second article of the US constitution, [Donald Trump] told an audience of teenagers in 2019, “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.”
~ Jonathan Freedland
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/04/donald-trump-courtroom-jurors-truth-indictment
#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
