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Early retirees rely on stock market growth for long-term income, but this risks losses early on; a gradual shift to safer investments helps, though it won't eliminate all risk and may reduce potential gains. What is your risk tolerance? #FIRE earlyretirementnow.com/2017/09/13/t...

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Hell hath no fury like a pissed off Canada Goose. #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦

submitted 26 days ago • 65 comments

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

submitted 26 days ago • 1705 comments

It’s a golden age for drug companies that no longer have to lower their prices. It’s a golden age for oil executives as clean energy is being killed.

submitted 38 days ago • 135 comments

Day one of his administration and Donald Trump has already made the Jewish community less safe.

submitted 38 days ago • 65 comments

Anyone who ever again suggests that the GOP is the party of the police or the party of law and order should be laughed out of the room. There has never been anything like this before in modern US history: the president pardoning people who we all saw on live TV assaulting police.

submitted 38 days ago • 83 comments

They are still as incompetent and stupid as before. It’s because they work for a fucking idiot.

submitted 38 days ago • 14 comments

Trump’s White House just withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Agreement and World Health Organization. This shameful embrace of science denial puts the entire world at greater risk of climate catastrophe and deadly pandemics.

submitted 38 days ago • 29 comments

Climate is the long-term average of weather. It is defined by a 30-year period referred to as a "normal", which is updated each decade. It's necessary to calculate long term averages to remove the impact of short-term weather fluctuations. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋+... www.climate.gov/news-feature...

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

Just have to say that the $Trump meme coin is a gift to all of us who are not fans of his. It’s just a matter of time until a lot of people lose money from this. I’m a crypto fan. This is not crypto any more than Madoff was just buying and selling shares of stock

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📌 The United States' GDP in 2024 is estimated to be around $29.167 trillion, making it the world's largest economy. In the 3rd quarter of 2024, the US GDP increased by 4.7%.

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Last year averaged the 5th lowest #Arctic sea ice volume on record. Sea ice exhibits large year-to-year variability (e.g., due to weather conditions) on top of the long-term declining trend. More info about data: climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data...

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The major climate groups monitoring global temperature released their estimates for 2024. The anomalies range from +1.46 to +1.62°C, likely the first post-industrial year with Earth +1.5°C above pre-industrial conditions. The 30-year climate average is still ~1.2°C but obviously increasing 🧪 +...

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

The air you breathe, the water you drink, the chemicals under your sink, the car you drive, food you eat and a host of daily routines depend on actions of the EPA and the EPA administrator – the equivalent of a Cabinet secretary. https://buff.ly/3C6YyrS (Stan Meiburg @wakeforest.bsky.social) 🌎

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

We lost our home and everything we own in the Eaton Canyon fire. Climate change is real and it’s a bitch.

submitted 50 days ago • 363 comments

I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist but honestly the fact that China is building the world's largest mega dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) and the recent earthquake's epicenter being Dingri, near Shigatse, is just too much coincidence to sit well with me. 🤨

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On this day in space, January 1959, the USSR launched Luna 1, the first spacecraft to escape Earth’s gravity and pass near the Moon. 📸 RIA Novosti archive, image #510848 / Alexander Mokletsov 🧪🔭

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Renewables now provide the majority of the electricity generation in the UK as fossil fuel use declines. They closed the last of their coal power plants in 2024 +... 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

submitted 56 days ago • 19 comments

On Christmas day, Antarctica will lose about 400 times this Eiffel Tower high ice cube from record surface melt. 🇦🇶🧊📉

submitted 66 days ago • 4 comments

Wow. Hard to be afraid of the US losing it's place in the world. I suppose that is what they said when the Roman empire was at its peak.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Today the great divide is not between left and right. It’s between democracy and oligarchy. Let me explain.

submitted 69 days ago • 616 comments

The biggest divide in America today is not between “right” and “left,” or between Republicans and Democrats. It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re being shafted. Know the truth.

submitted 69 days ago • 126 comments

The key takeaway is that the world’s richest man got what he wanted; stripped our cancer funding for kids, killed reforms to bring down drugs prices and caps on investment in China. Trump on the other hand demanded a debt ceiling raise and got nothing.

submitted 69 days ago • 483 comments

The first solar facade building in Australia will provides excess power and enable the building to reach net zero emissions during it’s lifetime. It will feature no fossil fuel use for building systems. The future is renewable. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

submitted 74 days ago • 11 comments

We all need to be eating at the table. Every small change in how we produce, store and use renewable energy is important.

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Advancement in renewable technology and reduced costs for that technology is the only thing that can save us

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Climate science identified polar amplification via the potent ice-albedo feedback centuries ago & decades ago as an indication of anthropogenic GHG forcing. Permafrost melting, CH4 release & boreal wildfires are additional polar positive feedbacks now in play. 🧪🔌💡🌊 www.climate.gov/news-feature...

submitted 79 days ago • 30 comments

I read the first post in this thread about mirror life, thought “they can’t mean…”, and then clicked the link. Yep, that’s exactly what they mean. Bioengineering reversed-chirality microbes. Vaughn’s piece is a necessary if frightening read.

submitted 77 days ago • 35 comments

Ignore all my ranting today and just go listen to Kate Gordon talk about the gathering crisis as climate change & home insurance collide. www.volts.wtf/p/climate-ch...

submitted 81 days ago • 24 comments

“…this is an unparalleled chance to do things right. We can find smarter ways, better ways, to support our economy and ourselves, without wrecking the planet and compromising the lives of people in the future.” Powerful post by @globalecoguy.bsky.social.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Update on the Sanday #wreck from Wessex Archaeology - they have funding to date it #MaritimeArchaeology #MaritimeHistory #CoastalHistory #Dendrochronology www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/sanday-...

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I sampled a white pine log at this boat landing a couple years ago. It was overgrown with willows and partially decomposed in the soil. I finally measured it today and it dates from 1422-1588. It was a nice 30-minute break from the work I should be doing. #treering #dendrochronology

submitted 78 days ago • 5 comments

Yes it is 🧪 🔌💡

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