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silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Breaks His Campaign Promise to Fund IVF16·9 hours agoHis word is only good if you’re rich and powerful and bribe him. For those people, he makes good.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose3·9 hours agoMore to the point, these satellites let you verify CO2 emissions from places which have unreliable or nonexistent on-the-ground emissions reporting, like the US and China
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Texas Starts a Nationwide Gerrymandering War2·13 hours agoThe actual power to respond is in state government. It’s looking like California is likely to, and perhaps other states too.


silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Inside the ‘Radical Transformation’ of America’s Environmental Role1·1 day agoBecause they prioritize access over commutation of truth. You need to dig into the details buried in paragraph 27 in order to have a solid handle on what is going on.
silence7@slrpnk.netMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•The Invisible Climate Change Effect That Is Most Likely to Kill You2·2 days agoThere are two effects here:
- Some pollutants increase simply because higher temperatures cause the reactions which form them to run faster
- Getting rid of combustion prevents the emission of pollutants which don’t have a meaningful climate impact in addition to preventing the emission of CO2, which does. This is a co-benefit of electrification, and doing something like moving to e-fuels would mean seeing the same problems for human health.
I wish the article did a better job of explaining this, which is why I didn’t post it when first published.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Vatican strikes solar farm deal to become first carbon neutral state2·2 days agoIf you are a tiny country that’s tied to the grid of a big one, its probably the only way
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Is the Government Still Collecting Inflation Data? Well …2·3 days agoNot really; as of when this article was published, they had reduced data quality by collecting less information, but weren’t actually faking it.
Now that Trump has made it clear that delivering bad news gets you fired, faked stats from official sources are much more likely.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public.3·3 days agoTo be clear: it’s billionaires funding it, not the politicians.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Says He’ll Fire Labor Statistics Head After Weak Jobs Data421·3 days agoBecause he doesn’t want to hear the bad news about his policies causing unemployment
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Administration Live Updates: Maxwell Moved to Minimum-Security Prison After Justice Dept. Questioning on Epstein9·3 days agoCongress is only kinda sorta accountable thanks to gerrymandering. As soon as it became clear that Republicans are at risk of losing seats in 2026, they went to update the gerrymander
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Administration Live Updates: Maxwell Moved to Minimum-Security Prison After Justice Dept. Questioning on Epstein102·3 days agoThey have been. Congress basically stopped holding any votes at all once they started trying to amend every piece of legislation to include a requirement to release Epstein files
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Administration Live Updates: Maxwell Moved to Minimum-Security Prison After Justice Dept. Questioning on Epstein214·3 days agoThey literally dont have the votes in Congress to do anything. All they can do is make noise
silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•New York becomes first state to commit to all-electric new buildings5·4 days agoI’ve had great success using fairly thick heavy pots for sauces… Though maybe I have a stove with a shorter pulse interval than yours
silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•New York becomes first state to commit to all-electric new buildings14·4 days agoShort frequent pulses mean cooking is smooth at the lowest power settings when using a light pot
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Green Energy@slrpnk.net•The U.S. invented these technologies. Then China dominated them. | How the United States lost its lead in electric vehicles and other clean energy inventions.3·4 days agoIts more that the US has industrial policy to support fossil fuels over everything else. It takes active support to create new industries, and that didn’t happen
silence7@slrpnk.netOPtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•House Democrats Sue ICE for Barring Them From Detention Facilities1·5 days agoThey’ll be looking for an injunction, not huge amounts of money
silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Trump EPA moves to kill "holy grail" of climate regulation | The agency said its 2009 finding that greenhouse gases harmed people had caused “years of uncertainty for automakers.”2·5 days ago
Have you considered adding formaldehyde to the milk, so you can enbalm the baby, like people did before pasteurized milk?