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[-] nightshade@hexbear.net 109 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sabine Karin Doris Hossenfelder (born 18 September 1976)

In July 1977, a senior scientist of Exxon, James Black reported to the company's executives that there was a general scientific agreement at that time that the burning of fossil fuels was the most likely manner in which mankind was influencing global climate change.

Exxon's research confirming the existence of manmade climate change is almost as old as you are.

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[-] nightshade@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago

(Not so) fun fact, there are several US states which prohibit the direct sale of unpasteurized milk, but allow the owner to drink milk from the cow, so they exploit the loophole by having buyers purchase a fractional share of the cow so that they can drink the milk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herdshare

[-] nightshade@hexbear.net 61 points 3 months ago

In the House on Tuesday morning, the Illinois Republican Mary E Miller acted as speaker pro tempore to oversee debate on the Republican antisemitism awareness bill.

As a choice, it was not without irony. Miller made headlines in 2021, when as a newly elected member of Congress she was forced to apologise after saying in a speech at the Capitol: “Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.’ Our children are being propagandised.”

So basically the entire US political establishment has decided that saying "Hitler was right" and echoing conspiracy theories of Jewish Marxists corrupting the youth is just a "difference in opinion" whereas pro-Palestinian activists should be shut down without debate.

[-] nightshade@hexbear.net 61 points 3 months ago

The Seed Struggle

Nazi usernames are beyond parody

[-] nightshade@hexbear.net 77 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's a stiff competition, but the idea that women are biologically incapable of flying airplanes has got to be one of the dumbest right-wing culture war talking points out there.

Edit: Also, the fact that his wife is a pilot explains a lot; I don't know how anyone could tolerate being married to The Quartering if they weren't away from home all the time.

[-] nightshade@hexbear.net 59 points 5 months ago

It really is crazy how American view their cars as personal tanks protecting them against other drivers which leads to them trying to make cars indestructible, forgetting that insufficient cushioning for the squishy human inside is much, much more likely to kill them.

Also they need bulletproof glass to protect them from the "criminals", which is why a less car-centric society is a completely terrifying prospect. But at the same time they also believe that we shouldn't reduce the number of guns in the country and everyone should be armed to the teeth at all times.

[-] nightshade@hexbear.net 91 points 7 months ago

The creator of the flag was not only a slaveowner but also owned a port where an estimated 100,000 slaves were brought in from Africa.

[-] nightshade@hexbear.net 67 points 8 months ago

Believes in an ideology which valorizes greed and selfishness

Complains when fellow believers in that ideology use their education to become fossil fuel execs, Supreme Court justices, and hedge fund managers instead of doing a teaching job which requires more effort and pays way less.

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[-] nightshade@hexbear.net 89 points 8 months ago

"From the river to the sea: that's how wide our roads should be"

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[-] nightshade@hexbear.net 65 points 9 months ago

An autistic Palestinian man was shot by Israeli police at around the same time, and Palestinians held protests for both him and George Floyd.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/01/palestinian-lives-matter-israeli-police-killing-of-autistic-man-draws-us-comparison

[-] nightshade@hexbear.net 78 points 9 months ago

The same people think that public transit and walkable city design are literally 1984 because the government will use them to control where you can go.

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(nitter link)

Couldn't have picked a better time to come up with an outrageously greedy change to an existing service huh

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