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| 10:48a |
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| 10:48a |
Pollution limits, CA trains
California has put toxic pollution limits on train engines. Many will
have to be replaced with
more efficient engines.
The new rule will greatly reduce toxic pollution and greenhouse gas
emissions.
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| 10:48a |
SpaceX starship's environmental damage
The
"Starship" rocket faces an environmental investigation
because of
the damage it when lifting off. It not only destroyed the launch pad,
it threw parts pieces of it into the air, and they crumbled and rained
down on a nearby town.
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| 10:48a |
(Satire) Governor's kid's at summer work camp
(satire) *Sarah Huckabee Sanders Drops Kids Off At
Summer Work Camp.*
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| 10:48a |
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| 10:48a |
GOP fuel: anxiety
Robert Reich: why Republicans make a
big fuss about gender bigotry:
it is a well-established path for recruiting for right-wing extremism.
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| 10:48a |
"News" as bias and lies currying favor for a harmful foreign empire
*The Murdochs
Want to Erase the Dominion Exposé [of Faux News]. We
Won't Let Them.*
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| 10:48a |
Medically necessary abortions in OK
Jaci Statton had an unviable fetus which was turning into cancer, but
doctors in Oklahoma could not treat her because the treatment is an abortion.
They told her to wait in the parking lot
until she was on the verge of
death,
so they would be allowed to perform it.
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| 10:48a |
New charges against Alexei Navalny
*Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says he faces life in jail over
terror charges.*
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| 10:48a |
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| 10:48a |
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| 10:48a |
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| 10:48a |
Using AI to launch nukes
Congress has proposed a law to prohibit setting up AI systems to
decide
whether to launch nuclear weapons.
This is not an imaginary issue: there have been proposals to do just that.
The legal technique of "no federal funds may be used" has a well-known
loophole: just find a private source of funds to do the specific job.
Thugs have used "police foundations"
to negate laws design with that
method.
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| 11:03a |
SpaceX Starship's environmental damage
The
"Starship" rocket faces an environmental investigation
because of
the damage it when lifting off. It not only destroyed the launch pad,
it threw parts pieces of it into the air, and they crumbled and rained
down on a nearby town.
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| 11:03a |
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| 11:03a |
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| 12:03p |
Republican counter-offensive against voter registration, FL
Florida Republicans have another idea for attacking voting rights:
attacking the organizations that help people in disprivileged groups
register to vote.
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| 12:03p |
(Satire) Great Pacific Garbage Patch
(satire) *Promising Report Finds Great Pacific Garbage Patch Could
Support
Full-Scale Ground War
By 2040.*
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| 12:03p |
Nursing Home ownership, US
*Why We Must Beat Back
Private Equity's Deadly Hold
on Nursing Homes.*
We need a law to prohibit tying many companies together. Not solely
via visible mergers, but also by having common owners.
Perhaps certain companies should be forbidden to have their stock
owned by anyone but individuals.
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| 12:03p |
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| 12:03p |
Invasive species V humans
Naturalists are breeding and releasing 11 species of Polynesian snails
that were extinct in the wild, killed by an
intrusive predator snail
that humans had brought,
hoping it would wipe out another invasive
snail.
The technique of releasing an intrusive predator to control a pest
species has often backfired in this way.
Cane toads in Australia
are
a prominent example.
I wonder if robots could be programmed to efficiently find and kill
the two intrusive species of snails. It might be easy to distinguish
them from all the other species actually present in a given island,
making the robots reliable there even if they might not be reliable
elsewhere.
Unlike intrusive life forms, robots are easy to prevent from becoming
a pest. They don't reproduce, and they need the help of humans to
recharge.
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