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Just a reminder to everyone, I wrote a book! If you have read it please give an honest review of the book on Amazon. If you have not please order it. The #Skeptical #Buddha the #Tao of #Science
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NGRY4L6/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_S4QADT8DCWYNX68KREGX
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Looks seriously interesting.




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Everything King Midas's jester touched turned into pyrite

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#Cop28 #UAE What's it like in the host city?
"Welcome to the petrostate

Most delegates arriving at Cop28 will have entered the desert city of #Dubai along a 12-lane highway, reeking of #petrol fumes: welcome to the #petrostate of the United Arab Emirates. It’s not the first time the fossil-fuelled nature of the host nation’s economy has been an olfactory leitmotif for the #climate conference. In the Polish coal town of Katowice in 2018, Cop attenders were marinated in smoky aromas for the entire two weeks.

There are visual signs too. One delegate opened her hotel room curtains on her first morning to be greeted by the largest #gas power generation facility in the world: “Fitting. I am going to stare at this through the haze of pollution for two weeks.” And on heading into the conference centre on the metro, at least 50 tall industrial smokestacks mark the way."

#ClimateCrisis #Klimakrise #ClimateEmegency

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/01/cop28-diary-expensive-coffee-cheesy-slogans-petrol-fumes

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@𐪅𐪀𐪈 𐪑𐪁𐪉🇵🇸 @Ariadne If you forcefully push oil through green washing it doesn't matter how green you nation is

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If you check the #Wikipedia article you will find this nice table showing current and planned lines in #Dubai. I don’t know where you are from, but unless you are from #China, I bet your country doesn’t build mass transit this fast.
Table showing Summary of lines
Red Line and Green Line and the future Blue Line
Screenshot from the following Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Metro

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@WahbAllat I suppose we should be grateful that Dubai is playing catch up with transit. But moving around the emirates in anything other than a private car or taxi is almost impossible as there is no public transport to speak of. And for a location with wall to wall sunshine, there remains a paucity of solar panels.
More catch up urgently required.
Because it won’t take much of a sea level rise to completely flood the Palm Jumeira as well as most of Dubai 

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Sandra Day O'Connor, First Woman On The Supreme Court, Dies

Sandra Day O'Connor was called "the most powerful woman in America" during her quarter of a century as a Supreme Court justice. #press

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/01/203277264/sandra-day-oconnor-dies?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

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When napping, remember that the most comfortable position for your hands/feet is to put them right in your sibling's face.

Alternately, if the angle makes it a bit awkward, just put your face up against theirs so you are breathing up each others' noses while you sleep. :blobcatgooglyshrug::blobcatsnuggle:

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon

A close-up photo of a tan striped tabby (Petunia) napping on a couch, with a paw from her brother Simon placed directly in the middle of their face. Another photo of Simon and Petunia cuddling on the couch to sleep. In this one Petunia has her back against the back of the couch, and Simon has his butt pressing into her chest to squish her. She has her back feet curled up a bit but just a few inches away from Simon's face.
A photo of two tan striped tabbies cuddled and napping on a couch. Simon is on the left, sleeping normally. Petunia is on the right, and has one of her paws extended to rest on her brother's cheek (while also using his belly as a pillow). One more photo of Simon and Petunia curled up on the couch together. This time they are curled together such that their faces are almost touching nose-to-nose.

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The International Court of Justice orders Venezuela to refrain from any action to alter the situtation on the ground in its territorial dispute with Guyana.
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Not quite, some people are extremely ignorant of climate change or fascism and are totally cool or in denial of them.

@skeletor

Denial, yes. Maybe they are just sub-consciously redirecting that fear towards the "others" most likely to experience its effects.


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Easter widow and Waterford's 1st female TD, Caitlín Brugha died #OTD in 1959. She was one of 5 women elected to Dáil Éireann in 1923 but like other Sinn Féin TDs, she didn't take her seat. She was re-elected in June 1927, campaigning on welfare of republican prisoners, but she didn’t stand in a second election that year.

#IrishWomensHistory #Mastodaoine

📷 public domain on Wikimedia Commons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitl%C3%ADn_Brugha

Black and white cameo of Caitlín Brugha with text: Caitlín bean Cathal Brugha, TD. Elected senior member for Waterford City and County, August 27th, 1923.

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@Raywat Deonandan Not wrong, but did you have to be mean about it?

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If the world didn't suck enough, now Venezuela plans on annexing (by force) 3/4 of my birth country. Why? Because they found oil there. For decades I've been haunted by Steinbeck's "The Pearl", which told of how poor people are destroyed by the promise of great wealth.

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This is awful. Ecocide - everywhere! No end to corporate greed & enabling corrupt governments, it seems 😪👿
Heard their might be oil in Gaza, coinky dink?

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Save the #wolverine
US moves to protect #wolverines as #climatechange melts their mountain refuges, threatens extinction
“#Wolverines join a growing number of animals, plants and insects — from #polarbears in Alaska to #crocodiles in southern Florida — that officials say are at growing risk as increasing temperatures bake the planet” https://apnews.com/article/wolverine-species-endangered-climate-change-024ec09a032851a26a248fab93ad7d0e #endangeredspecies #habitat #environment #globalwarming

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#News #TopStories #CTVNEWS

For a male sexual assault survivor, justice won in U.S. court does not equal healing

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/for-a-male-sexual-assault-survivor-justice-won-in-u-s-court-does-not-equal-healing-1.6668950

Despite their false statements that defy reality, the cops/courts operate on culture not Justice, and their culture is harmfully biased:
- men are supposed to enjoy sexual abuse
- men don’t suffer domestic abuse
- men can’t be a parent

My buddy almost lost his children because he truthfully told the court about the physical and mental violence he (and the kids) suffered, the judge was mad because his claim is contrary to the endlessly destructive judicial culture.

"We have such strong and well-worn stereotypes and ideas about who is a survivor in this country, stereotypes that don't match reality," said Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center. "And men as a category don't meet that stereotype, even though all the research has shown us that at least 9% of sexual assault survivors are male."

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New US rules, aimed at curbing China, could limit tax credits for electric vehicles

The Biden administration has proposed new rules that could make it harder for electric vehicles to qualify for a full $7,500 federal tax credit #press

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/joe-biden-ap-china-treasury-congress-b2456847.html?utm_source=press.coop

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It's like he's deliberately trying to make voters angry with him.


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People claim British humor is biting. But it's nothing compared to German straight talk: "#Tesla #Cybertruck more expensive than claimed, but at least it doesn't go as far"
#climate #AutoKorrektur
Der Standard competing with The Onion
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This is my dangerous kitty Penny. She is a very deadly hunter and is very vicious.

She's actually the most gentle cat I've ever met and is the ONLY cat I've ever let play with hands. She never scratches and we play this game every single day.

She is such a nice kitty.

#catsofmastodon

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Never thought I’d get an advertisement in a FORTUNE COOKIE
Fortune cookie paper saying “MANSCAPED”
Other side of Fortune cookie paper saying “Unkempt terrain can obscure the treasures beneath”

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@SrRochardBunson I think that's my past, present, and future
Aha, so more of a singularition.
:blobcatthink:

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Cats Riding Invisible Bikes!

We don't need no stinkin' engines!

#AI #AIart #Midjourney #Bikes #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

Invisi Cat! Invisi Cat! No moto.
Invisi Cat! No bike! Invisi Cat! High rider!

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#US: Three Jewish Israelis just disrupted a fundraiser for the Israeli military in #NYC, demanding a permanent ceasefire in #Gaza
https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZTQEDZXlzuKjvFUDjiu5zU3h4gK85Mkxx7
#NYC #US #Gaza

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🗣️ 📣 PROTECT ZOOMERS AT ALL COSTS!!!

they are the most anticapitalist and antifascist generation compared to those of the 20th century; ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE DUAL-CITIZENSHIP AMERICANS

https://www.newsweek.com/majority-gen-z-americans-hold-negative-views-capitalism-poll-1604334

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/05/14/on-the-cusp-of-adulthood-and-facing-an-uncertain-future-what-we-know-about-gen-z-so-far-2/

https://iea.org.uk/publications/left-turn-aheadsurveying-attitudes-of-young-people-towards-capitalism-and-socialism/

@dromografos




If #Elon was smart, he would sell off #twitter. then spend the next 20 years working in charity 50% of the time making things worse and 20 years from now people would view him as a wise kinds sage, just like what Bill Gates did when he was exposed as a childish asshole. Elon is not smart.
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Thanks for the novel. and no Elon's problem is not autism, I too am on the spectrum, itws the fact that as the quote says, "the day you get wealth or power is the day you stop maturing" He's always had money. and yes IQ if BS.
I was using smart in the colloquial term. He's smart at raising funds and kissing ass of the rich people. Literally that's all. When it comes to the actual work part of things he s a lazy sloppy idiot, and its all his workers that make things a success in spite of all his meddling.
His code was some of the absolute worst on paypal and the fact that he doesn't know how servers work says everything you need to know about his purchase of twitter and why its crashing.

Sorry, we're disagreeing on a point, then.

His being able to see-through what-is, to what-ought-be, in both the *physical* technologies of SpaceX & Tesla ( that die-cast car-frame "gigapress" stuff, an entire car-frame from liquid alloy in 300 seconds.. ), outclasses his competition, not incrementally, but categorically.

I'm autistic, and having seen people complain that he *can't understand* the human dimension .. is kinda obvious evidence of how *his* autism damages *his* capability to make human-life work well.

Your claim that his smartness is limited to raising funds & kissing asses directly contradicts the actual Falcon9 rockets that essentially wiped-the-floor with ALL the competitors, due to his directing the *right* engineering.

Same with that 0.8km tall monster Starship/Superheavy.

I consider him delusional for believing he'll be colonizing Mars, but the actual-results of his physical engineering-insight cannot be denied by anybody who accepts evidence's validity.

We disagree, then.

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After apologizing for endorsing an antisemitic post earlier this month while speaking at a New York Times DealBook event on Wednesday, Musk unleashed a profanity-laced tirade against advertisers for fleeing the platform and accused the brands of "blackmail." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/12/01/companies/musk-tirade-x-advertisers/?utm_content=buffer69c38&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #business #companies #elonmusk #twitter #socialmedia #advertising

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Looking at cybertruck, it's difficult not to imagine Elon being like...

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how is sugar-tits ever not a compliment
That was pretty remarkable - 10/10.

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Current Inflation Rates:

• Miami, under DeSantis: 7.4%
• Tampa, under DeSantis: 6.7%
• Entire U.S., under Biden: 3.2%
• Los Angeles, under Newsom: 2.4%

#USPol #USPolitics #Economy


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We asked political experts to share their thoughts on the legacy of Henry #Kissinger.

One scholar noted, simply: “My mother told me not to speak ill of the dead.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/30/henry-kissinger-legacy-00129420

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Lost in all the conversation about what a monster Kissinger was is the fact that he was also fully incompetent !
@POLITICO My mother told me not to speak ill of the dead, even Hitler?

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Three reminders:

"Handmaid's Tale" has already been here the whole time, it was pointed at racialized women.

#Racism is fascism that hasn't yet come for the white people.

The #future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. [@GreatDismal]

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we all know this is a wack, shitty country run by frumpy fucking babies but it's always nice to see a photo that really shows it
A Washington Post story:  "Ukraine funding’s fate hangs on thorny immigration issue in Senate
A bipartisan group is trying to work a deal on border issues as part of larger package of aid for several nations"

Pictured are two US senators in a weird, sloppy room looking like frumpy fucking babies.

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‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/


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Amen.

@PeterCronau on X:

"Everything neoliberalism stole is broken.

"Every government service, every large government enterprise, every transport system , every privatised road, every tollway interchange, every light rail, every broken ferry, every deregulation, every privatisation, every public school underfunded, every public hospital rundown, every firesale of a public asset…

"Every damn one!

" ‘Australia’s broken employment services system needs public provider, parliamentary review finds’ "

#LNP #AusPol #Privatisation #Rentseekers

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For some reason I don't have a #studentloan payment due in December so that's nice. Thanks #Biden

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@ekknappenberger I don't think mine is forgiven (yet) but at least I don't have to pay in Dec!
i hope you get a christmas surprise and then consider maybe donate to the biden campaign