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  • Matt Gaetz launches bill to defund Jack Smith probe as Trump asks Capitol allies for Jan 6 indictment help

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  • Weaponization is such a limp argument. Law enforcement is the citizenry's weapon against corruption and crime. Claiming it is political is rubbish. As the attorney general of Michigan stated as she investigates the fake electors scheme in her state, the most political thing she could possibly do is not investigate. There's nothing political about doing the job you were hired to do. There was no need to push for investigation by elected officials on the Left, it was all plainly corrupt to even the most ordinary objective citizen. If anything, the right made investigations inevitable by brazening acting like nothing wrong happened, bragging about it, and then lying about it all, with erratic and contrary lies.

  • Climate change is a hoax /s

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  • "Climate change" is obsolete, now it's "climate crisis". I suppose after that it's climate collapse and then climate desolation.

  • Reddit now won't let non-logged in users see subreddits until they've been "reviewed"

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  • From my readings in the last few weeks, there does seem to be some sort of coordinated effort to control public messaging. There was/is a discussion about how the right wing is suing and chilling any and all efforts to expose and educate about disinformation. The lawsuits were so menacing that they even wanted to go after the students of the classes run by professors they were suing for teaching about present day disinformation in our society. It isn't just professors, it includes writers and journalists and groups that targeted disinformation. This is being done under the banner of 'bias'. Opposing, criticizing, or pushing back against far right wing messaging is attacked and sued as intolerable bias.

    It's believed that this is to clear the way for a massive onslaught of disinformation and conspiracy theories entering into the 2024 election cycle. As far as what's happening to some social media sites, the timing is suspect. Reddit and Twitter were among the most effective at getting out the blue vote. Now they are in shambles.

  • Turns out all we may need to stop climate change is 139 billion gallons of super-duper white paint

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  • Terrible article. It even leads with a photo to mock the idea.

    The benefits of painting a home's roof with any white paint are enough to justify making it the standard. The article doesn't even mention that the super white paint can reduce indoor temperature by 8 or more degrees. That's a lot of energy not needed to cool the home. Even more effective is placing a second white roof above the roof on posts to shield it from solar heat. It would make sense to make a secondary roof solar panel ready. It would also extend the lifespan of the original roof.

    "The paint's properties are almost superheroic. It can make surfaces as much as eight degrees Fahrenheit cooler than ambient air temperatures at midday, and up to 19 degrees cooler at night, reducing temperatures inside buildings and decreasing air-conditioning needs by as much as 40 percent.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/climate/white-paint-climate-cooling.html

    The article sounds like a hit job to ridicule a simple and effective idea.

  • 10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000

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  • That actually tracks, since lemmy is supposedly populated mostly by "older nerdy males". I mean they have a point, the quality of discussion is definitely better -- for now. That could end with an Endless September event.

  • 10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000

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  • There is a whole lot of desktop and laptop users who couldn't care less about APIs, but some of them have begun to notice that Reddit just isn't the same anymore.

  • 10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000

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  • Beehaw has a number of news and politics communities. As one might imagine, there's livelier debates and discussion and lots of new things to discuss almost every day.

    I'm going to use the past tense here. Reddit was more than anything a news feed, at least originally. I suspect that their early days created a lot of momentum around politics, national and world news, since they are naturally bountiful sources of content.