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At first, Ziz LaSota seemed much like any other philosophically inclined young tech aspirant. Now, she and her followers are in jail, six people are dead, and Rationalists are examining whether their ideas played a role.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 hours ago

The only Honda electric scooter I've actually seen in the US has been the Motocompacto

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I suggest checking.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 27 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (12 children)

No, but its better to understand what happened instead of some fiction being pushed by local officials.

When you do frequent midnight alerts for missing elderly, people disable the alerts on their phone entirely. Then when disaster hits, they don't know its coming. And because no planning was done for it, they can't evacuate a camp full of kids quickly enough even if they know what's about to happen.

Actually preventing this kind of thing means maintaining preparedness for decades when nothing happens.

 

Negotiators from the seven river basin states said in a series of meetings in recent weeks that they were discussing a plan rooted in a concept that breaks from decades of management practice. Rather than basing water releases on reservoir levels, it would base the amount released from the system’s two major reservoirs on the amount of water flowing in the river. The new concept would be more responsive as river flows become more variable.

 

Mastodon bots which mirror the NWS warnings back them up

What failed was local officials not succeeding in alerting people — in large part because they had plan or mechanism available to do so with the roughly one-hour warning that current meteorology can provide for specific flash floods like this.

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're preparing for a fight with the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal while a grizzly bear is growling at them.

 

President Trump’s efforts to freeze climate spending have sparked warnings of rippling consequences in years ahead. For many climate scientists, the consequences are already here.

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 35 points 2 days ago (6 children)

He has, however, read a collection of Hitler's speeches:

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

"Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?" I asked Trump.

Trump hesitated. "Who told you that?"

"I don't remember," I said.

"Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he's a Jew." ("I did give him a book about Hitler," Marty Davis said. "But it was My New Order, Hitler's speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I'm not Jewish.")

Later, Trump returned to this subject. "If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them."

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He's been spewing antisemitism like this since at least 2015. (I didn't pay much attention to him before then)

It's not just ignorance when it's pointed out repeatedly over the years and you keep doing it.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They're also emitting a lot of unburned natural gas, there are plans to install a lot more turbines, and it's much easier to fight something new and illegally installed than something that's been around a while. Plus, it's the NAACP fighting it, which makes sense, because the turbines are being used to power a chatbot that's tuned to be racist.

Ideally, we want to get rid of all fossil fuels, but any little place a victory is possible is a good thing.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

Happens every day already. Just not organized

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

Of Americans who have a clue about it. Problem is that lot didn't hear before it passed

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They tried. Problem is that most of the press is billionaire-owned and they're literally settling frivolous lawsuits Trump has filed in order to bribe him.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'd try a device reboot. It works fine on windows, Mac, and android

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