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The reasoning was that in the old style of filibuster no other senate business was possible. In theory was supposed to help the senate be more productive. In practice, it's made the filibuster even more powerful. If a party was holding up all legislation and other functions of the senate by grandstanding for something stupid, that could hurt them politically, especially if it got bad enough that the military was being impacted or there were government shutdowns. So maybe they would think twice if it was worth a filibuster. Now they can kind of do it risk free. I think if you saw, government shutdown caused by Republicans trying to prevent abortion protections, well it'd be pretty unpopular with most Americans. And they'd pay for it in the polls. Or maybe not even do the filibuster in the first place.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/21/china-spent-230-billion-to-build-its-electric-car-industry-csis-says.html

China has spent far more. So yes it's a combination of trying to subsidize US production more in combination with tarrifs to make sure a domestic electric car industry can get off the ground too. Many countries in Europe are also making similar moves.

I don't know if it's really about "good guys" or "bad guys," it's about many countries, China included, wanting their own domestic production lines for cars.

If anything I would think government subsidies would be a preferable solution for people who had issues with the tarrifs. I would take this to be good news.

~~Cheshire~~ Pelosi cat

Sounds most like, we have to keep supporting him publicly in case he stays in the race but on the dl we think we would have better chances with someone else.

As a result, to achieve 100 percent clean energy — at least on paper — companies often buy what are known as renewable energy certificates, or RECs, from a solar or wind farm owner. By buying enough credits to match or exceed the energy its operations use, a company could make the claim that its business is powered entirely by clean energy.

“That’s what we do, buy RECs for projects that are not yet operational,” Ms. Hurst said.

In a report published by the Amazon employee group after the company’s announcement, the workers said their research concluded that after deducting Amazon’s use of credits, the real investment in clean energy was just a fraction of what was publicized.

“Buying a bunch of RECs doesn’t help anything,” Ms. Stokes said. “You just have to be investing in real projects.”

Kind of the main punchline of the article. It's indulgences again

Yeah the person above you had a slightly old list. 2023 smashed all previous records and was number one. Well until 2024 it was number one I guess.

https://www.noaa.gov/news/2023-was-worlds-warmest-year-on-record-by-far

The same Clarence Thomas trying to give ammo to the Trump team undermine the very idea of a special counsel?!? I can't believe it

I suppose if we had way more judges who worked on a much quicker timeline and retained independent qualified experts in all these areas, and the judges weren't just partisan hacks, then Chevron being struck down might not be so bad. But that's not the world we live in. Slow decisions by corrupt judges that don't know anything about what they're ruling on. Just look at some of the ridiculous fda related rulings trying to go after abortion.

But that's basically why at the time it was originally ruled on you had liberals upset about Chevron and conservatives happy (basically a more conservative executive and more liberal court at that time).

One slight silver lining is that it may make it easier for judges to strike down Trump admin regulations if he wins the election. But that is kind of cold comfort. Probably have worse issues than that if Trump is re elected.

I agree. I'm also worried about the lack of incentives for testing. Currently you get $75 for being tested. That's fine, but they should get more if they test positive. They will lose more money from that from missed work time, they could even lose their job after a positive test. So many refuse. We don't have a complete picture of what's happening right now with the lack of testing participation.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/26/bird-flu-spreading-dairy-farm-workers-but-not-testing/73842450007/

Or we could even have something like nationwide paid sick leave and none of this would be an issue. But no, that would be crazy.

Also, many of these farm workers are likely undocumented immigrants, further complicating things.

“I’m almost anti-gay,” Dorman told The Post. “It’s an embarrassment to see this kind of behavior… I’d really invite them to go to Iran or Gaza. See what that does for you. See how fast they throw you in prison or kill you.”

The internalized homophobia is strong with this one. It's honestly really sad. I mean, he's an ass. But it's still kind of sad.

D&d also explicitly describes female trolls too. Female trolls are also described as larger and stronger than males. Here's a happy troll family from a d&d source book, lol.

Again not saying you can't enjoy something or use it in an rpg just because the person who wrote it may have problematic opinions or it might have some mixed history. Like I really enjoy Lovecraft, but holy crap is it a mess in terms of racist undertones because of the author.

They try to get you to submit articles to them (usually for a fee too). But they're kind of sham journals with no peer review or standards who no one actually reads. They'll publish pretty much anything without even looking. They have bots that just mass email every corresponding author in every paper published just begging for submissions to their journal. Whenever an article is published in a reputable journal, one author has to have contact information publicly listed so they can answer any questions about the paper, and these predatory journals just scrape that info. It's bad, so many emails every day.

I'm not really aware of that. Not to say troll couldn't be used in a sexist way ("men are brutish trolls"). Even from the earliest myths of trolls I believe they could be either sex. There's also nothing I'm aware of to suggest in d&d that trolls would all be represented as male.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergsr%C3%A5

Trolls also are not a myth that comes from a matriarchal society directly used to opress men, unlike how the idea of hags and witches was used in a patriarchal society to opress women.

Just some examples, male doctors trying to eliminate female competition:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358198427_Healer_or_Hag_Female_Medical_Practitioners_and_Witch_Accusations_in_17th-Century_New_England

Women were far more likely to be accused of witchcraft. It was often used to persecute those who chose not to settle down with men or become housewives, or those who were running their own businesses:

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/witchcraft-work-women

There's lots of sources and writings out there on the history of witchcraft and its relationship to misogyny. Especially in the middle ages, renaissance, and colonial America.

And at least in d&d hags are described as being exclusively female. Some creatures that might be problematic in some contexts like the succubus have added a male equivalent like the incubus. Hag is also still used as a sexist insult for older women.