The broken U.S. disability system relies on a job database from the 1970s to deny applicants. Read via this gift link from @washingtonpost https://wapo.st/3C5s65X
A new study finds that the loss of wild pollinators has led to a 3-5% drop in fruit, vegetable, and nut production worldwide. The drop has led to an increase of diseases linked to consumption of unhealthy foods.
' Strategies to protect wild pollinators are not just an environmental issue, but a health and economic one as well. "[Doing] too little to help pollinators does not just harm nature, but human health as well..." '
#pollinators #FoodProduction #disease
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221214092320.htm
@cspam
When is this vid from?
@jimstewartson
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@atomicpoet Yes, but at this rate Tesla sinking is probably going to embolden the competition that is rapidly entering the EV market; so if that was their intention, it's going to likely backfire on them.
RT @mattxiv@twitter.com
chaya raichik aka @libsoftiktok@twitter.com revealed her face on tucker carlson today. we can now identify her in this video from the january 6 insurrection
India.
Pakistan.
China.
Kenya.
Malaysia.
UK.
US.
Brazli.
Australia.
South Africa.
The #climate crisis is costing the world billions. The argument that we 'can't afford' to mitigate emissions is increasingly absurd. We can't afford not to. #globalwarming #fossilfuels
2. Not everyone who posts about climate change or politics is virtue signalling. Many are actually trying to address the problems they complain about. Heck, many of the people I follow on the issue of climate change, including many on this server, are *climate scientists*. Just because Twitter promotes virtue signalling idiots to the head of the feed on climate change or other issues doesn't mean that Mastodon is the same way; indeed, Mastodon really doesn't have an algorithm to speak of in that sense.
3. I find North Korea fascinating for a variety of reasons. I know *I* can't do anything about it, but it's fascinating from psychological, cultural, and historical perspectives to see how that country operates and has operated. There's also a lot we *don't* know because the regime is so secretive.
3. You realize you can do a timed mute, or even a regular mute, right? Because it's rather presumptuous to follow a person and then demand they don't post or boost stuff you don't like. I'm not going to change my boosting habits simply because you find certain topics to not be worth it.
@peterweyand I generally boost things that I find interesting, and I actually find North Korea news interesting because I feel bad for the people suffering under that dictator and because *that place is so fucking weird, repressive, and backwards*
Do you always do this with people you follow on social media retweeting or boosting something you don't like?
This website in a nutshell
@peterweyand No, I am not. Why do you ask?
@Davidtoddmccarty @mathlover Sinema & now the dude that lied in New York indicate why I see dealing with corruption & money is a way to get more people a seat at the table who will work in a real way to make things better for marginalized group, rather than just obscuring the issue and damaging the cause, follow the money deal with systemic issues that stack the deck against those with means & that will also help support those social issues that put people at risk do both!
💥 Via Steve Vladeck:
#BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote (with Justice Gorsuch joining the more liberal Justices in dissent), #SCOTUS keeps Title 42 immigration policy *in effect*; agrees to decide later this Term whether 19 red states should be allowed to intervene in defense of the policy in the lower courts. #Title42 #news
@mmasnick if anyone knows how to get in touch with Tom Lehrer, the link to "The Remains of Tom Lehrer (disc 1)" on the albums page (https://tomlehrersongs.com/albums/) is broken.
The link is correct from the specific album streaming page (https://tomlehrersongs.com/albums/the-remains-of-tom-lehrer/).
The problem is a typo. The filename on the albums page is `trotll.rar`, when it should be `trotl1.rar`
Mathematics Ph.D. Likes hanging out with almost everyone regardless of political views or anything else.
Akkoma: @ML2