Look at the nasal mist vaccines for your kid. Slightly less protection, but no needle. And you can get them by mail order and administer at home so that you don’t need to organize an outing around the vaccine

I think they’re likely to taste dry and stringy due to a lack of food.

The problem is that it’s 90% stories that don’t really lend themselves to partisan outcomes. Their fascism comes out only once in a while, when Sulzberger thinks it’s important.

Rural smoke doesn’t stay confined to rural areas. It’s worth getting rid of the pollution from burning fossil fuels; it just won’t be enough to solve seasonal smoke in India

It probably did, though a big chunk of the seasonal air quality issues in India are a result of burning off crop stubble, which isn’t visible to urban residents.

UI design sharply increases the probability of behaving in this way; it takes a real fundamental rethink of the UI in order to change that. For what it’s worth, commercial platforms are increasingly pushing people away from providing a link, either by banning links like Instagram, or by having a feed ranking algorithm which discourages their inclusion (X, Facebook, others)

I don’t blame individual choices for something that’s largely a result of platform design.

How people treat the news is a result of how the UI on reddit, lemmy, and social media is designed. It’s not appropriate to blame people who don’t have control over that

Good guess, but no. The article is worth a click

The problem is that a huge chunk of the online audience only ever sees the headline. Click-through rates hover around 2% and of those who vote or comment, only about one in four has clicked the link.

It’s not a crazy concern, but definitely should be expressed more clearly.

There is a reason I quoted the key paragraphs in the post.

That kind of wild unreliability drives people to home solar, batteries, and electric vehicles

Useful in NY where 3rd party cross endorsement is printed on the ballot. Limited impact elsewhere unless you’ve got a media microphone

The reality of a first-past-the-post system is that it is far easier to co-opt an existing party than to launch a new one. The latter approach usually means handing power to the people you dislike the most

Yeah, the US put in place policy to support batteries for electric vehicles, and the policy got yanked by Republicans while the factories were going up. So a lot of them are planning to produce batteries for the stationary storage market now

Imagine a US resistance capable of feeding seamen, and what an organization capable of that could achieve.

The key problem with the UN COP process is that it can only act by consensus, which in practice is usually treated as requiring unanimity. So you can Saudi Arabia or the US to block any meaningful shift away from fossil fuels.

I think it’s what’s left after putting a Jolly Rancher under the insole of a midshipman’s shoe for a couple days

Not sooner so much as more likely. We’re into the 40% to 50% range now

Headline doesn’t really do the article justice. The content makes it pretty clear how evil they are, except the ones who quit rather than be involved

I recommend:

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• uBlock origin
• Don’t do anything to remove the gift token from the URL

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The proposal is outside finance. Which could make geopolitical sense for several countries