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  • New York City Housing Authority to Replace Gas Stoves With Battery-Backed Induction Stoves in 100 Apartments Under Energy-Efficiency Pilot Program

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  • Theyre replacing a bunch of low-end gas stoves that couldn't do the kind of heat that people use for a that kind of wok cooking anyways.

  • New York City Housing Authority to Replace Gas Stoves With Battery-Backed Induction Stoves in 100 Apartments Under Energy-Efficiency Pilot Program

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  • This stuff would matter if induction stoves just had a raw component and no cooling or temperatue sensor or pot presence sensor. They're an engineered product which doesn't fail in the same way that the raw components do without any of that.

  • New York City Housing Authority to Replace Gas Stoves With Battery-Backed Induction Stoves in 100 Apartments Under Energy-Efficiency Pilot Program

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  • Old pots which don't have enough iron or nickel in them for a magnet to stick to the bottom won't get hot on an induction stove.

    Cast iron works fine, but that cheap aluminum pot you bought as a student 20 years ago won't work.

  • New York City Housing Authority to Replace Gas Stoves With Battery-Backed Induction Stoves in 100 Apartments Under Energy-Efficiency Pilot Program

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  • I've removed this post due to misinformation. Copper and aluminum pots on an induction stove arent forbidden; they just don't get hot on an induction stove.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands. | Rocked by pandemic politics, the nation’s shield against infectious disease is shrinking.

    www.washingtonpost.com /health/interactive/2025/measles-vaccine-schools-outbreaks-public-health/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Status Check on Trump’s Nationwide Gerrymandering Assault to Predetermine Control of Congress

    talkingpointsmemo.com /news/status-check-on-trumps-nationwide-gerrymandering-assault-to-predetermine-control-of-congress
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Inside Trump’s “no data, just vibes” approach to science | 8 ways the administration has undermined data collection this year.

    www.vox.com /climate/473751/trump-data-deletion-nih-epa-ncar-climate-science-epa-rfk-hhs
  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
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    How the climate crisis showed up in Americans’ lives this year: ‘The shift has been swift and stark’

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/dec/31/climate-crisis-guardian-readers
  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
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    Australian Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005

    www.theguardian.com /australia-news/2026/jan/01/cabinet-papers-reveal-alexander-downer-warned-of-dire-climate-change-outcomes-in-2005
  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
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    It’s easy to feel powerless about climate chaos. Here’s what gives me hope

    www.theguardian.com /environment/2025/dec/31/environmental-justice-ordinary-people-power
  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
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    How a Climate Doomsayer Became an Unexpected Optimist | environmentalist Bill McKibben examines how the remarkable rise of solar power could (finally) begin to slow climate change.

    www.motherjones.com /politics/2025/12/climate-doomsayer-bill-mckibben-solar-power/
  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
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    Erderhitzung macht Welt gefährlicher | Die Klimakrise macht sich immer mehr bemerkbar: Sie hat 2025 viele Katastrophen heftiger oder wahrscheinlicher gemacht, zeigt ein Bericht.

    taz.de /Klimakatastrophen-2025/!6141769/
  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
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    EU legislation intended to fight deforestation has been effectively ‘dismantled’ | Law’s original author points to removal of obligations for downstream traders to verify origin of commodities

    www.theguardian.com /environment/2025/dec/31/eu-legislation-intended-to-fight-deforestation-has-been-effectively-dismantled
  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
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    New York City Housing Authority to Replace Gas Stoves With Battery-Backed Induction Stoves in 100 Apartments Under Energy-Efficiency Pilot Program

    citylimits.org /nycha-to-replace-gas-stoves-in-100-apartments-under-energy-efficiency-pilot-program/
  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
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    Studying the Melting Continent, if We Can Reach It | Times journalists are accompanying a group of scientists on an arduous, weekslong trip to study a key glacier in Antarctica. Here’s what to know.

    messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com /dynamic/render
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    The Latest Defenses of SCOTUS’s Corruption Only Make the Case Against It

    talkingpointsmemo.com /edblog/the-latest-defenses-of-scotuss-corruption-only-make-the-case-against-it/sharetoken/618cf516-9688-4601-a82e-ca87cba68492
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Dr. Oz wants AI to decide what procedures people need. N.J. will be a testing ground.

    www.nj.com /healthfit/2025/12/dr-oz-wants-ai-to-decide-what-procedures-people-need-nj-will-be-a-testing-ground.html
  • California @lemmy.world
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    Delete Act: How you can request your personal information be purged by data brokers in the New Year | A ‘big delete button in the sky’ comes Jan. 1

    www.mercurynews.com /2025/12/30/prevent-data-from-being-sold-california/
  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
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    Tatiana Schlossberg, Kennedy Daughter Who Wrote of Her Cancer, Dies at 35

    www.nytimes.com /2025/12/30/us/politics/tatiana-schlossberg-dead.html
  • California @lemmy.world
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    Altadena homeowner threatens to sue over bear that won’t leave his home

    ktla.com /news/local-news/altadena-homeowner-threatens-to-sue-over-bear-that-wont-leave/

  • Rioters? Agitators? Immigration agents’ claims against US citizens mostly fall apart in court.

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  • CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast

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  • There were things like a congressional authorization of the use of military force. We don't even have that

  • CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast

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  • Who knows. Trump seems to bomb and not tell until he randomly decides to call in to a talk show somewhere.

    Be nice if there was a refusal to carry out acts of war without a declaration of war or a pressing need of self defense

  • It’s a Gas | There have been five great mass extinctions on Earth: four have been the result of carbon dioxide flooding into the atmosphere and raising the temperature.

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  • That one is not so documented because it happened before creatures with hard parts, and not one he is including.

  • More Student Loan Borrowers Are Shedding Debts in Bankruptcy

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  • The courts definition of undue hardship means not being able to attain a minimal standard of living and not having any real chance of it changing. For new grads in good health, the expectation is that it will change in the near future.

  • More Student Loan Borrowers Are Shedding Debts in Bankruptcy

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  • Because you can't do that, even under the new rules; it takes making a good-faith effort to pay off the loans and having undue hardship as a result of them. That's not a typical situation for new grads.

  • More Student Loan Borrowers Are Shedding Debts in Bankruptcy

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  • This is normal; only about 1 in 4 people who comment or vote on an article bother to do so much as click the link.

  • Trump’s Kennedy Center chief threatens jazz musician with $1M suit over canceled Christmas gig

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  • Trump replaced their board with a bunch of his supporters, so that's unlikely

  • A new California law requires tortillas to include an extra ingredient. [Folic acid] Here's why [to prevent birth defects]

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  • Per the article, it's already added in things like bread. They're mandating it in tortillas because the Latino population eats a lot of tortillas instead of bread, and has a higher birth defect rate as a result.

  • Chemtrails Aren’t Real. So Why Are Politicians Passing Laws About Them? Banning chemtrails is “like banning unicorns or banning Bigfoot,” says one weather expert

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  • In a couple states, yes. They don't actually do anything to restrict the water vapor trails that aircraft routinely produce in cold air.

    They in a couple cases impose restrictions on cloud seeding.

  • Trump jokes about Santa giving a child 'clean, beautiful coal' for Christmas

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  • Republicans do stuff so ridiculous that you can't easily tell.

    What's actually happening:

    • Truth Social stock value dropped sharply because its not a platform with any real monetization potential
    • a fusion company with no working product wanted to sell stock to the public so its founders could make off with a bunch of money
    • so they merged to create hype for the truth social stock and to let the fusion company list shared without having to undergo the usual scrutiny

    What hasn't happened

    • the silly name the Onion came up with

    What might happen:

    • large transfers of money from the federal government to the combined firm

  • Trump jokes about Santa giving a child 'clean, beautiful coal' for Christmas

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  • Out of a superhero movie: Companies are coming up with plans to block out the sun

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  • Unless government steps in, yes.

  • Trump’s DOE Issues Additional Orders to Illegally Force Indiana Coal Plants to Keep Burning Coal | The Trump Administration delivers coal for the holidays and higher electricity bills

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  • Its almost like their fearmongering was actually a wishlist

  • The legal battle bogging down Massachusetts’ plan to ditch gas

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  • Carbon taxes are quite effective, but have been really difficult to maintain political support for