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[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

For the Atlantic for being willing to run it in a format that confuses readers, the Public Utilities Commissions in the states where the Southern Company operates for letting the Southern Company do this kind of thing with ratepayer money, and the Southern Company itself for trying to mislead people.

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For context, the author is one of the more influential members of the Federalist Society, the right-wing judicial takeover group. If you've lost him, you've lost a huge chunk of people who have historically funded the Republican party patronage machine.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 hours ago

For sure...but it's being run as an ad, and people are absolutely awful at telling the difference between this kind of ad and editorial content, even when it's plainly labeled.

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On Tuesday, Climate United, one of the country’s newly established nonprofit ​“green banks,” unveiled a $250 million plan with electric truck-charging startup Forum Mobility aimed at overcoming those barriers. The money will help secure low-cost financing for up to 500 U.S.-built Class 8 electric trucks — the largest such order of electric trucks in the country — for small freight companies and independent truckers serving California’s busiest and most heavily polluted seaports.

The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle about 30 percent of U.S. container imports, and about 80 percent of the ​“drayage” trucks that haul those containers to inland distribution centers are owned by small fleet operators and independent drivers, said Beth Bafford, CEO of Climate United.

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[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 9 hours ago

I think that nitrogen is what they're using now. It's readily available, cheap, and fairly easily contained.

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TL;DR;

Nike used to put SF6, a greenhouse gas which causes 24300 times more warming than CO2 over 100 years, in the "air" cushions in their shoes. Nike stopped, and sold carbon offsets based on the counterfactual of what the world would be like if they kept putting it in shoes. These offsets are part of the "buffer pool" to compensate for the fact that some offsets turn out to be bogus or simply fail due to unanticipated consequences.

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To be clear: they splashed soup on the glass in front of a piece of art.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 12 hours ago

I'm aware of the LSD and Ketamine, weed wouldn't surprise me too.

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Carmen Yulín Cruz’s cellphone started buzzing on Sunday while she was at the airport in Connecticut, waiting for a flight to Puerto Rico. A standup comic at former President Donald J. Trump’s rally in New York had called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 13 hours ago

I'll take electrical power from the heavens any day.

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[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 15 hours ago

It's almost like a group focused on climate action isn't actively working on every other issue.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 16 hours ago

There are only tiny numbers of billionaires, and we need to get emissions to zero to stabilize temperatures, so we're all going to need to pitch in, even if that means something like "change how we heat and cook" instead of "switch to sailboats instead of diesel mega-yachts and private jets"

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The top-level gift link used in this post may have a capped view count. If it runs out, there's an archived copy of the article available

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 17 hours ago

The individual reporters aren't disreputable at this point; it's the owner and his interference that's a problem.

I'll note that I've provided a link to an archived copy above.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 11 points 17 hours ago

Security clearances are nominally the domain of the FBI, rather than the CIA. They tend to see themselves as a right-wing organization though.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 17 hours ago

That's ok. Most of the cross-state activism in California right now is people going to AZ and NV to knock on doors for the Harris and Democratic senate candidates.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

There has been a ton of modeling on how declining numbers of ratepayers cause methane gas prices to skyrocket. If you actually get rid of almost all the people buying it, the last few are left paying a fortune for what was once common infrastructure shared by many people.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago

The problem is that informed opinion thinks that Trump has something around a 50% chance of winning there. That's a kind of risk that regular people can't put serious money into.

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