silence7

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Republicans pushed through a budget plan with a $70 billion increase for immigration enforcement after an overnight session in which they beat back Democratic proposals aimed at lowering costs.

 

Republicans pushed through a budget plan with a $70 billion increase for immigration enforcement after an overnight session in which they beat back Democratic proposals aimed at lowering costs.

 

“Ultimately, we want to use less fuel, not more, and so we should be looking at increasing vehicle efficiency more,” he said. “We should be looking at public transportation options.”

The article doesn't get into it much, but an acre of solar panels provides a lot more vehicle-miles than an acre of corn turned into ethanol.

 

The justices sided with Michigan officials, who have raised environmental alarms and pushed to decommission an aging section of the pipeline.

 

Cache Energy’s pilot project harnesses excess wind power from UMN Morris’ two turbines to heat a carpentry shop and could be expanded across campus.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You don't, but it is something that lets you organize a community in a way that enables them to act, for good or for ill. No reason to cede that exclusively to those who want to create a worse world

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It does both. No need for an either/or

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

Not when police are on the side of ICE

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 months ago

Because the Portland cops are a bunch of Nazis who wish they could do what ICE does.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 months ago

3M in particular sells a lot of filters designed for particular industrial chemicals, but which might not do much for tear gas. The 60921 should work.

The Mira CBRN filters are designed for chemical warfare and should also work.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 16 points 4 months ago (5 children)

All I can say is that your experience is wildly different from any I've run into, and would be really unlikely unless you did something.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 20 points 4 months ago (7 children)

This is utter nonsense. Just show up and don't be an asshole. Nobody is going to kick you out over skin color or gender.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 19 points 4 months ago (23 children)

Invite folks to join you at a protest, or canvassing, or almost anything else that is more than zero. A big chunk of the population can be hooked on action if somebody they know asks.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

He did, but it wasn't actually a serious attempt. Just posting a meme

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

Those are concerns that tend to have local laws empowering people to block projects. "It creates too much traffic for my residential street" has the potential to stop something like this using established comfortable mechanisms when "They're planning to round us up and murder us" might not.

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