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  • The unlikely coalition fighting to keep Energy Star labels on your appliances | The Trump administration wants to eliminate the energy-efficiency program

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  • bakers, builders, hot tub lobbyists, and chemical companies are trying to save it.

    Unlikely coalition indeed!

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    Billionaire Jack Ma tried to behave like Elon Musk. He lost his fortune after publically mocking Chinese regulators. Now he is just a small millionaire and was spotted riding a bike.

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  • Probably lucky he didn’t get disappeared. Actually he lowkey did, but they released him after.

    In any case, fuck Billionaires (but also fuck totalitarian governments like the CCP).

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  • Ah, me a pillar of my insanity.

  • HELP HIM.

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  • I know… :(.

    I’m sure some of it is worthwhile. But knowing a couple applied researchers who work in animal labs, according to them a large amount of what is done is absolutely useless and only serves to get out a new useless product TM or publish a paper that looks good.

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  • Not really. It causes them stress. “Safe” and “Humane” are variable. But it definitely isn’t the “best” restraint method.

    lifting and holding by the tail, and handling using a soft plastic restraint cone, resulted in significant increases in mean arterial pressure and heart rate compared with baseline.3 The authors concluded that being lifted in a restraint cone appeared to be the most disturbing handling method for the rats, followed by the tail method, as determined by prolonged duration of increased cardiovascular parameters as compared with the encircling or scruffing methods.3

    As for example explored by this paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10844733/

  • Faced with rising seas and falling aid, Fijian villages move uphill

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  • This is generally a good article, but unfortunately downplays the locals agency and gives a bit of “humanitarian saviour” vibes.

    Kua ni vakacalai ena veika lailai ni “loloma”, mai na veimatanitu ka vakavuna na leqa oqo. Vakasalavata kei ira era vakaleqai.

  • Faced with rising seas and falling aid, Fijian villages move uphill

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  • Abolish the State

  • This startup wants to use the Earth as a massive battery

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  • Paywall…

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  • Noooooo. Poor rattie :(

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  • And for the USians joining us, “States” here means “countries”. Not regional governments like “States” in the US sense.

  • GOP's Texas map has Austin residents sharing district with rural Texans 300 miles away

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  • Edit: Are you from the US? Because sometimes in the US they refer to “social liberalism” as liberalism. If so then the arguments you are trying to make make far more sense. Vis à vis social liberalism. From Wikipedia

    In Europe and North America, the establishment of social liberalism(often called simply liberalism in the United States)

    Previous comment: Oh my god. No it isn’t. Liberalism is a political philsophy based on enlightenment ideals.

    Like Locke’s social contract theory, hence the idea (that often fails in practice) of “consent of the governed”.

    Liberalism did give us the declaration of human rights. It also gave us capitalism. It’s a complex ideology that has been dominant in the west for the past couple centuries. It is not synonymous with “Human rights”, and it is not the only ideology that claims to promote them.

    Plenty of anti-capitalist ideologies arguably promote them more.

    And famous liberals throughout history have been slave owners. So please please learn nuance.

  • GOP's Texas map has Austin residents sharing district with rural Texans 300 miles away

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  • Dude when did I ever say I’m anti human rights????

    This conversation is so frustrating its like talking to a wall.

  • GB News marks milestone on mission to be biggest TV news channel in UK by 2028

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  • GB News has claimed a major milestone for its TV ratings as it beat BBC News Channel and Sky News for average viewership in several key slots in July.

    However Press Gazette understands the total weekly reach for the BBC News Channel through July remained more than twice the size of GB News while Sky News was almost double. 

    This means GB News appears to be engaging fewer people in total each month but the high average viewership means their audience stay watching for longer.

  • GOP's Texas map has Austin residents sharing district with rural Texans 300 miles away

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  • I have a hard time believing your good faith. Are you seriously arguing there’s no pro-human rights ideology except liberalism?

    Liberalism ≠ Human Rights

    If so please please learn about political philosophy. There’s a lot more than “liberals” and “conservatives”.

  • GOP's Texas map has Austin residents sharing district with rural Texans 300 miles away

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  • Liberalism promotes capitalism. Which isn’t great for human rights.

    So no, criticising liberalism as an ideology, built upon capitalist and statist-nationalist ideals does not make me an evil person trying to “catch the smurfs”.

  • TIL the pro-apartheid party won South Africa elections in 1948 and instituted apartheid despite winning fewer votes than the anti-apartheid party

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  • The KPD was shit. That doesn’t excuse what the SPD did. As always, just because two bad things happen doesn’t take away for the first thing being bad.

    There were plenty of grassroots anarchist and communist riots (unaffiliated with the KPD) that did a lot of good.

  • People living near busy roads can reduce their blood pressure by buying HEPA air purifiers, a study found

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  • GOP's Texas map has Austin residents sharing district with rural Texans 300 miles away

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  • Arguable that things have improved for poor people in the last 50 years. In relative terms they are objectively far worse off. And native Americans were arguably better off in the early colonial days pre-manifest destiny. I know US liberalism loves the myth of linear progress. But I think it isn’t necessarily accurate.