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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Decathlon? They used to carry somewhat decent wool shirts. The ones I got from there still hold up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

And used Nissan Leafs (Leaves?)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not sure of the 20 hospitals, but here’s the wire service article about the school being bombed this week.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/least-6-people-killed-israeli-air-strike-unrwa-school-gaza-2023-10-17/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (11 children)

The "half of americans" in the headline is those that live in apartment buildings.

No roof, no solar power.
That has been the dispiriting equation shutting out roughly half of all Americans from plugging into the sun.

While community solar is indeed awesome, we need to have apartment and commercial buildings install solar as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Cut near the ground, then take a dauber full of roundup/glyphosate concentrate and carefully put it on the cut, making sure to coat the outer edge of the cut.
You want to make sure to get it on the cambium layer in the bark, as this will be where the privet pulls the roundup down into the root, killing the extensive root system that privet can develop.
Note that even with using roundup it may take a couple years to actually kill the privet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can't wait for Tesla to get smacked with the new Cemex standard and the UAW getting a default win because Musk couldn't keep his mouth shut.

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

All the big corporate unions are like this. They've been captured by groups that are more inclined to work for the corporate owners and the "friendly" politicians than for the union members.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The concept is good. A DIY alternative would be to build a foam+fiberglass shell around an e-trike for most of the same benefits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Taking a look at most city maps I’m surprised how many areas, even older suburbs, fit the definition of 15 min cities already.

The issue is breaking the monopoly of the car on planning and actually making them bike and pedestrian friendly.

I encourage everyone to figure out the 15 minute bike radius around themselves and marvel at just how complete a life one can live in it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is good, but more work needs to be done to hook up private, home based solar and wind systems to the grid. Some local power companies still drag feet to tie home solar to their grid.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Far-right instances Gab and TruthSocial are also technically mastodon. By this metric mastodon also has a nazi problem.

Any software that allows people to communicate over the internet will be used by horrible people to do horrible things.

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