David Henry

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our excellent local bookstore has created a list of books about Appalachia to read instead of Hillbilly Elegy

Instead of Hillbilly Elegybookshop.org Check out this list on Bookshop

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Dylan Roth

Yes. There is often a homeless couple near my bus stop recently that I'll make some small walk with. It's my automatic goodbye, but I think about it after the fact. Still comes out the next day though.

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Ban crypto mines

I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining just bananas misuse of power markets 🔌💡

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Check out this article from Courier Journal: Great cities require great public transportation, and Louisville is no exception www.courier-journal.com/story/opinio...

Great cities require great public transportation, and Louisville is no exceptionwww.courier-journal.com Opinion: It is high time we face the need for Metro Louisville to unite to address the current and future need for excellent public transportation.

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Ducky Krup

Nature is amazing, my wife and I try to watch an episode every Saturday

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It also makes me feel insane that the rat fuck around Biden’s age and mental capacity is being uncritically spread around by Democrats when Trump is *incredibly obviously* grotesquely mentally incapacitated, in a way that is genuinely terrifying.

It makes me feel very much unmoored from reality to see all this *buying into* the Biden Too Old ratfuck narrative, days after the Supreme Court ruled that Trump gets to be dictator for life, just weeks after Trump became a convicted felon (oh, and there’s the Epstein stuff that just came out).

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Brendel

Similar to how I feel when people seem to claim each red state is that way because of voter suppression. Some of them, yes there is a strong case for that. But not all of them. I don't think my state of KY would flip if voting was a required action.

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jöè shïtąss™

I'm torn yes and no on this with yard equipment. Individual actions can't help save the Earth, but it can make a much more individualized difference. I can't solve climate change, but what I do in my yard affects the birds and other animals that live there.

Also, i do love my electric mower, especially compared to my two neighbors with gas that seem to always have maintenance to do on them when its 90 degrees.

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Becky Robison

We moved into our house 5 years ago, and I'm still finding out information about it like this. If I'd been asked about it before, I'd have had no idea what kind of pipes are in the ground.

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Becky Robison

Yes, I did get that flyer about a lead test. We did ours and the response was everything was fine. At least the program is actually working.

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Becky Robison

I don't have the knowledge of it bring good or not, but being in the area I'm curious as to the reason they gave for the offer?

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How accurate is the weather forecast in your city? Niko Kommenda and I learned that NWS just began doing gridded assessments of forecast accuracy. We got the data and mapped of how many days into the future they get within 3°F of the observed high temp. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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You have to believe better things can happen to go out and make them happen. Don’t listen to the prophets of doom who want only collapse to justify their predictions of collapse.

Things are bad but all the more reason for optimism of the will and rejection of doomerism and nihilism. Only way out is through.

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merry new year to all those who fiscally celebrate

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"We've built the Torment Nexus, based on the famous Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode 'Don't Build the Torment Nexus.'"

oh my god now there's a "future of prison" startup that says it will use AI and brain implants to plant fake memories into the brains of criminals, "rehabilitating" them in minutes instead of years and I am going to spend the rest of the day screaming now sciencetimes.com/articles/509...

Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitationsciencetimes.com Discover how AI and brain implants are transforming rehabilitation. Read more on Cognify's innovative prison concept now!

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Weird how rare it is to see right wingers telling their audience why it’s Actually Strategic to sit out elections.

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The media isn't interested in the biggest technology story of the 2020s, the rapid transition to clean energy, because 1) it will destroy a bunch of oil based wealth and is a boring, competirive low margin business 2) it makes Democrats look good for helping it and they want Republicans to win

THERE’S A QUIET NEW DEAL GOING ON The antidote to Project 2025 is happening now and will die if Trump seizes power. So let’s make some noise.

Why is The Quiet New Deal so quiet? | the earlyworm societywww.patreon.com Get more from the earlyworm society on Patreon

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Biden's pardons yesterday are good examples of how Democrats view coalition maintenance as important and people looking to influence party stances ignore that at their peril

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Re: state limits on social media/web access, I’ve been warning you that online verification is a threat to all privacy. Here’s your dead canary.

New from 404 Media: the ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X, and many more tech companies exposed real peoples' driver licenses. As we move towards an internet forcing us to verify our identities, shows these companies will absolutely be targeted www.404media.co/id-verificat...

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People are dunking on that “why isn’t Covid represented in entertainment” take and I get it. But there is something to be said on how we are contributing to a return-to-“normal” by not seeing any of the new normalcy of mask wearing or other mitigation tactics that should become standard. Idk idk.

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A lot of things that Biden wants to do are things I think are good things we should do. A lot of things Trump wants to do are things I think are bad things we shouldn't do. Therefore I will be supporting Biden even though I don't agree with him on everything. This is not complicated.

Excited to introduce a project I've been working on for a long time: a thorough comparison of Biden and Trump on the issues. "The stakes, not the odds," to borrow from Jay Rosen. The initial version has 6 topics, but I'll be adding more, as well as updating with new statements/policies. Gift link:

Where Joe Biden and Donald Trump Stand on the Issueswww.nytimes.com Here’s what President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump have done and want to do on abortion, democracy, the economy, immigration, Israel and Gaza, and Social Security and Medicare.

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Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.

Under current law, you really couldn’t do much better than Biden’s FTC and NRLB. New Deal shit.

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Not getting this is part of how you get people insisting that right-wingers aren’t “real Christians”, which lets them off the hook and erases the real harm that form of Christianity has done I don’t like those people, as a Christian I have very little in common with them, but they’re Christians too

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Shitty drivers think speed and red light cameras are revenue generation schemes because they think all other drivers are as shitty as they are. Most drivers do not speed down 10+ over the limit on residential streets or run red lights. It's very easy to just not do that, in fact.

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Secret Panel HERE 🍔 tapas.io/episode/3111597

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Published less than a year ago, when she lied under oath in court. Since then, with the DOJ watching, she, @LMPD and @LouisvilleMayorhave made a lie out of any commitment Louisville needs to make in a consent decree and to our community. Defund the Police? Man, just defund her.

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