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2022-12-01 at 12:12 AM UTC20% of species in Canada at risk of extinction: report
More than 2,200 plants, animals, fish and other wildlife in Canada are at some level of risk of extinction, according to a troubling new report released by the federal and provincial governments.
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2022-12-01 at 12:12 AM UTCWhy not? Where do you live Obbe?
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2022-12-01 at 12:15 AM UTC
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2022-12-01 at 12:21 AM UTCI like to say I love Chinese food but in reality I just love black pepper chicken and other flavored chickens mixed up with fried rice. When I go to Chinese buffets I do the same thing no matter what which is just eat fried rice and the same three or four chicken types that I like, generally the spicy ones, and that's it. I don't fuck with anything else in the buffet even once. And if I'm drunk enough I'll eat like nineteen free bowls of ice cream because they always have an ice cream machine.
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2022-12-01 at 12:57 AM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe 20% of species in Canada at risk of extinction: report
And they're killing them right now to prove it. Caught poisoning rivers, lakes, forests, soil, and particulate spraying. -
2022-12-01 at 1:26 AM UTC
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2022-12-01 at 1:37 AM UTC
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2022-12-01 at 3:31 AM UTCLong Covid may be ‘the next public health disaster’ — with a $3.7 trillion economic impact rivaling the Great Recession
Norpel is one of millions of Americans with long Covid, also known as long-haul Covid, post-Covid or post-acute Covid syndrome. While definitions vary, long Covid is, at its core, a chronic illness with symptoms that persist for months or years after a Covid infection.
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2022-12-01 at 3:34 AM UTCI was happy you actually backed up something you claimed for once but I'm taking my thanks back because that video is just garbage.
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2022-12-01 at 3:37 AM UTC
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2022-12-01 at 3:39 AM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2022-12-01 at 1:33 PM UTC
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2022-12-01 at 6:20 PM UTCOfficials fear ‘complete doomsday scenario’ for drought-stricken Colorado River
If that happens, the massive turbines that generate electricity for 4.5 million people would have to shut down — after nearly 60 years of use — or risk destruction from air bubbles. The only outlet for Colorado River water from the dam would then be a set of smaller, deeper and rarely used bypass tubes with a far more limited ability to pass water downstream to the Grand Canyon and the cities and farms in Arizona, Nevada and California. Such an outcome — known as a “minimum power pool” — was once unfathomable here. Now, the federal government projects that day could come as soon as July.
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2022-12-01 at 6:31 PM UTCThe author of this post has returned to nothingnessThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2022-12-01 at 6:40 PM UTC
Originally posted by lockedin the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster
…whatever may happen with technology in the future, it will not be rationally planned. Technology will not be used “wisely.” In view of our society’s past record, anyone who thinks that technology will be used wisely is completely out of touch with reality. Technology will take us on a course that we can neither predict nor control. …The changes that technology will bring will be a hundred times more radical, and more unpredictable, than any that have occurred in the past. The technological adventure is wildly reckless and utterly mad, and the people who are responsible for it are the worst criminals who have ever lived. They are worse than Hitler, worse than Stalin. Neither Stalin nor Hitler ever dreamed of anything so horrible.
- Ted Kaczynski, Technological Slavery (2019)The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2022-12-01 at 6:48 PM UTC
Originally posted by lockedin the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster
Hey, there are worse disasters that have befallen the Earth and it's lead to better times.
The Chicxulub asteroid for example that lead to the death of the dinosaurs but the rise of the mammals.
Try to look on the bright side. -
2022-12-02 at 12:01 AM UTC
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2022-12-02 at 1:33 AM UTC
Texas has long promoted itself as pro-business and anti-regulation. I wonder how that is going to play out..
Come to Texas! Its a big open freedom place!
Texas is big, but watch where you tread. Only 4.2% is public land, one of the lowest percentages in the U.S. The rest is private, with a lot of signs saying “Protected by Smith & Wesson”.
Texas is business friendly!
This means that businesses write the laws. I should know, i’ve worked at the Texas comptroller and other state agencies, where giant oil companies may have a staff member assigned exclusively to them.
By the way, if you are not making campaign contributions of at least a million dollars you are not even a player.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/18/greg-abbott-texas-fundraising-governor-donors/
Texas does not have a lot of environmental protections, including protection of aquifers.
Instead it follows the “rule of capture”. This means that if you can drill down to an aquifer from your private land, you can suck out as much water as you’d like.
Do you love fracking? Well so do we!
I know they love fracking because of the earthquakes. A couple of weeks ago we got a 5.4, which was the largest in 3 decades:
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/18/texas-earthquake-fracking-railroad-commission/
Fracking uses a large amount of water, and the wastewater must be pumped back underground. Hence the earthquakes.
Buy a ranch and live free on the land. Like a modern Cowboy!
Ranches normally have their own wells, drilled down into the aquifers.
The aquifers are dropping so you have to drill deeper. But heres the rub:
You aren’t just competing against your neighbor Billy Bob, but against multinational corporations like Samsung:
https://www.statesman.com/story/business/technology/2022/08/01/if-samsungs-texas-expansion-happens-where-will-the-water-come-from/65385569007/
https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2021/09/24/samsung-utilities-are-key-to-17b-decision.html
Buy some beautiful lakefront property!
I have a Sunfish (little sailboat). I’ve sailed a number of Texas lakes over the last 20 years.
Lake Travis is a gem, just outside of Austin. Like a little Mediterranean. It is ringed with multimillion dollar mansions.
Right now the lake is 40 feet low, approaching the top 5 lowest levels ever since 1942. The fall rains have made little difference. The last time it really topped off was in Oct of 2018, when a Gulf hurricane made it to central Texas and flooded everything. Since then we’ve been praying for another hurricane.
https://travis.uslakes.info/Level/
Texas uses a lot of water, so you might think that we’re at least working to conserve water.
And you’d be wrong. Many houses have automatic sprinklers, lots of backyard swimming pools, and Austin utilities alone leaked 6.5 billion gallons last year.
https://www.kxan.com/investigations/austin-water-utility-leaks-plummet-largest-drop-in-nearly-a-decade/
The good news is that the fall colors are beautiful this year in Austin.
Which is unusual. And fall is pretty late, since its already December.
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2022-12-02 at 4:54 AM UTC
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2022-12-02 at 5:55 AM UTClol, rail shutdown will make the supply chain issues after covid and the ports look like nothing
there's significantly more to it than paid sick leave though; certain classes of maintenance workers are on call 24/7 and get paid very little. they want like a 15% pay increase and backup crews and the rail operators can't/won't negotiate
