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- Comment on How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years? 4 hours ago:
Mortgage interest rates are very high at the moment, and many people “feel” like that’s never going to change, but it very likely will, significantly increasing what they’ll be able to afford. Home prices in my city have been falling for a couple years since they went out of control bonkers during the pandemic, and I don’t think they’ve hit bottom yet.
- Comment on How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years? 4 hours ago:
Check out much of the Midwest. Check out Detroit.
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 3 days ago:
I have a battery powered mower and utility has done a pretty good job of incorporating renewables into their mix
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 3 days ago:
I don’t view this as a “pick up the leaves or not” false choice. I leave the leaves in some areas and mow over/pick them up in others. They’re literally free mulch and compost
- Comment on Frog's Gift 3 days ago:
It’s an even more fundamental conservative tactic. What they do is find a single example of something they think they can easily deride and hold it up as representative of that entire thing. Think welfare, immigration, criminal justice, reproductive rights, gender identity, and much more. Right wing media is full of single cases they beat into their viewerships’ minds while ignoring all other cases
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 5 days ago:
It’s never this cut and dry in real life though. People often misinterpret others’ actions as flirting when they’re just being friendly. For some people, a woman smiling and making eye contact is flirting. It’s not on the person who’s being friendly “to make it extremely clear from the get go” that they aren’t interested in going out with you.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 5 days ago:
A lot of
womenpeople just liketheattentionthey get from being attractive. - Comment on Whelp 2 weeks ago:
What about either source isn’t neutral? I don’t think you’re approaching this in good faith
- Comment on Whelp 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Whelp 2 weeks ago:
If you think solving climate change requires a shower dt to renewable energy and don’t see the difference between US Democratic and Republican Admins, you’re not approaching this from a place of rationality
- Comment on Whelp 2 weeks ago:
I think this post is about climate change, which is absolutely a global problem
- Comment on In a Record, All but Two U.S. States Are in Drought | Little rain has fallen since Hurricane Helene dropped huge amounts across the Southeast. 2 weeks ago:
This was the worst October ever here in Texas. The high was above 90 almost every day, and not a single drop of rain for the entire month, when it’s usually our fall rainy season.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Or be invested in managed funds with high fees that are performing poorly vs index funds. My 403b is definitely up over this same period, but I’m only in index funds
- Comment on Texas AG Ken Paxton Sends Letter of Criminal Referral to DOJ Outlining Act Blue Illegal Campaign Finance Activity - The Last Refuge 3 weeks ago:
If someone fakes their identity to donate money, the person committing the fraud is the person faking their identity. Big brains over here probably created a fraudulent ActBlue account and donated money, thinking “gotcha!” Lmao
- Comment on You'd better 3 weeks ago:
Ow, my frickin’ ears!
- Comment on You'd better 4 weeks ago:
Well what does it say under there?
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 4 weeks ago:
The question was about early voting though? Voting by mail is only a small piece of the early voting total in most states
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 4 weeks ago:
Early voting in the US as we know it today, meaning going to a polling place to cast your vote in-person prior to election day, started in Texas in 1987 and spread to other states from there. Every state has its own specific rules regarding how long the early voting period lasts, and other aspects like how long polling places are open each day may even be left up to local governments.
Where I’m at in Texas, we have some early voting locations that stay open until 10pm, even on weekends. I’ve never had to wait more than 20 minutes to vote (and usually less) since I started voting in the 2000 election. We have 12 days to vote before election day, and even a website with real-time updates on wait times at each polling place across the county.
The drawback is there are fewer voting sites open during early voting, so people with transportation barriers will have to expend effort to get there, but you can do so on whatever day works for your schedule. On election day itself, way more polling sites are open, so there’s likely to be a site within walking distance or a short drive in denser areas, but lines are much longer than during the early voting period, and many people have to work because it’s a Tuesday and not a holiday
- Comment on Godzilla Minus One director is down to redo the kaiju's best film 4 weeks ago:
More Japanese-produced Godzilla movies, please! The US-produced ones suck
- Comment on All hail the snail 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on A decline in arable land 4 weeks ago:
Is this showing changes in arable land or changes in land dedicated to agriculture? Those are different things
- Comment on Fruit Flies 5 weeks ago:
Dobsonflies don’t even eat Dobson!
What a world
- Comment on When your vision quest changes science 5 weeks ago:
Mullis acquired a reputation for erratic behavior at Cetus, once threatening to bring a gun to work; he also engaged in “public lovers’ quarrels” with his then-girlfriend (a fellow chemist at the company) and “nearly came to blows with another scientist” at a staff party, according to California Magazine. White recalled: “It definitely put me in a tough spot. His behavior was so outrageous that the other scientists thought that the only reason I didn’t fire him outright was that he was a friend of mine.”
After resigning from Cetus in 1986, Mullis served as director of molecular biology for Xytronyx, Inc. in San Diego for two years. While inventing a UV-sensitive ink at Xytronyx, he became skeptical of the existence of the ozone hole.
And he only goes downhill from there…
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 weeks ago:
Mosquito paste is delicious
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 weeks ago:
The entire point is to kill them. They are invasive anyway
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 weeks ago:
They’re largely applying this technique to invasive species of mosquitoes, eg Aedes aegypti, which is a potent vector of disease and native of Africa that has spread worldwide only within the past 200 years
- Comment on Element in water heater died; less than two months old. 5 weeks ago:
Except it’s not a boat transporting one heating element, but thousands upon thousands of other things. To accurately quantify emissions you’ll need to divide the ship’s total emissions by the # of products on board, likely making transport emissions from a single heating element negligible and easily surpassed by burning methane in your house constantly every day forever
- Comment on Element in water heater died; less than two months old. 5 weeks ago:
Oh I used to work at a hospital that was built in the 60s and know full well what sort of asbestos-laden Frankenstein’s monster they become over time
- Comment on Element in water heater died; less than two months old. 5 weeks ago:
In my case, a mix of fossil fuel and renewable resources that on the whole are significantly less carbon-intensive per unit of energy than straight up burning methane in my house
- Comment on Element in water heater died; less than two months old. 5 weeks ago:
The emissions to produce a single heating element off a factory line are probably a lot smaller than keeping a jug of water in your house hot by burning natural gas off and on all day every day forever