TheTechnician27

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

You can leave your friends behind

[–] [email protected] 44 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (8 children)

Hey, you shouldn't presume to know what other people do with their free time.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 17 hours ago (11 children)

It's funny you should ask that; I was just about to reach out to ruud over Matrix and have been thinking about it for a couple weeks. I'd love to if that's alright with the admin team.

[–] [email protected] 189 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (23 children)

>Not a country

>Donald Trump has repeatedly spoken badly about and deliberately mistreated Puerto Rico

>Donald Trump also routinely speaks extremely badly about the country Puerto Rico is in

I'm glad he's changed his mind at the literal last minute, but it baffles me every day how ignorant people can be.

Petition to restart [email protected], by the way.

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submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

>Owned by an asset management company that also owns e.g. online gambling sites.

>No indication of authorship

>Almost immediate, jarring, and lengthy tangent into "applicable regulations" and privacy policies/data handling

>When we established the Company [emphasis on the capital 'C']

Definitely written by a legal team masquerading as someone who actually cares about/had any role in founding the platform.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

>Owned by an asset management company that also owns e.g. online gambling sites.

>No indication of authorship

>Almost immediate, jarring, and lengthy tangent into "applicable regulations" and privacy policies/data handling

>When we established the Company [emphasis on the capital 'C']

Yup, this was written by a legal team masquerading as someone who actually cares about the platform.

 
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Are you admitting you can't name even one?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

This is so transparently projecting from the fact that you can't answer by naming a single policy or regulation, which is pretty sad. Go ahead. The NYT listed 100 of them; it should be easy to find at least one. And you're in a Solarpunk community to boot, so I'm sure you care enough about the environment that you keep up with this news, right? You're not just concern trolling about an issue you don't actually keep up with to get in a shallow "own" against the Biden administration and then scrambling to save face when it's pointed out you don't know shit about fuck, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Which one(s)? Go ahead. Tell me; this should be easy for you, because I know you actually care about this and aren't just commenting for the rubles.

Edit: wait, what do you mean "no idea"? The Wikipedia article is full of regulations Biden verifiably put back into place which Trump did away with.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

Which specific regulations did he not put back which you're concerned about? I couldn't in good faith say "all of them" because there's no head-to-head comparison, so I hedged with "quite a few". But I'm sure you know them by heart, because I know you're just so, so concerned about the issues. Fucking clown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

"I was really totally curious about this trivially searchable information and not JAQing off at all bro I promise. Please ignore my months-long comment history defending Russia's invasion of Ukraine, talking about how the US shouldn't be defending Taiwan, fluffing third-party spoiler candidates, and otherwise spreading tankie propaganda."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

Quite a few of them, yeah. And that's in spite of a corrupt 6–3 Republican SCOTUS breathing down his neck and the neck of his EPA. Was this supposed to be a "gotcha"?

The environmental policy of the Joe Biden administration includes a series of laws, regulations, and programs introduced by United States President Joe Biden since he took office in January 2021. Many of the actions taken by the Biden administration reversed the policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump. Biden's climate change policy focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, similar to the efforts taken by the Obama administration. Biden promised to end and reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030. The main climate target of the Biden administration is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the United States to net zero by 2050. A climate team was created to lead the effort.

On his first day in office, Biden began to make policy changes to protect the environment. He began revising and strengthening the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and ordered a number of executive orders aimed at reviewing or undoing the environmental policies of the former administration, including removal of some wildlife protections, the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, and drilling for oil and gas on federal lands. In the same day he rejoined the Paris Agreement.

Literally Day 1, but I guess you thought you were being clever by doing zero research but acting confidently smarmy enough not to be called out for it.

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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I know I'm just some guy, but if you're a vegan in the US, I really can't underscore enough how catastrophic a Trump presidency would be for animal welfare. I imagine the demographic of vegans who are also voting Trump is near-zero, but I can also imagine the demographic of vegans staying home on election day is not insubstantial.

Trump has a history of deregulating factory farms and is comically misinformed about veganism. One of Trump's likely cabinet members is an insane carnist who eats bear corpses. The 2017–2021 Trump administration's environmental policy was (and continues to be) disastrous and likely led to the unnecessary suffering of billions of sentient animals – including the rolling back of the EPA's powers through SCOTUS appointments, heavily deregulating the fossil fuel industry, loosening restrictions on imported "trophies" of endangered animals, removing funding for the protection of endangered species, pulling the US out of the Paris Climate Accords, being a superspreader for FUD about important sources of renewable energy, deregulating animal agriculture, allowing the logging industry to run wild on protected forests, and I could go on.

Will a Harris–Walz administration fix animal agriculture? No. Is it likely it would at least try to make it slightly better? I would say so. Is it absolutely, 100%, beyond a shadow of a doubt going to be better/substantially less bad than a Trump–Vance administration? Yes. Not only that, but a 2025–2029 Trump administration would have much, much fewer checks on their destruction of the environment and of regulations against the abuse of animals than their first administration thanks to their prior dismantling of checks and balances.

Please, on November 5th or if your state is still doing early voting, get out there and keep that cruel bastard out of office, and vote downballot too for politicians who are going to be less hostile to animal welfare than Republicans. Human welfare is animal welfare, and that will be in better (not perfect or even nearly perfect) hands with a Harris administration. But moreover, a Trump presidency would be disastrous for non-human animal welfare both through the deregulation of agriculture and through immense damage to the natural environment. Veganism is the reduction of animal exploitation and cruelty by all means practicable, and that makes it our responsibility as vegans to get out the vote and shut this shit down. Trump has already shown us what he would do once, and we can't let him do that again. It's for the animals, and it's for your fellow human.

Edit: a list of just some of the environmental regulations rolled back.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I know it's slow around here, but zero-effort AI slop can only make this community worse.

 
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