ryancbartlett.bsky.social
Doing whatever I can to avoid the climate apocalypse. Mostly failing. Nature and climate resilience, infrastructure planning. Opinions my own.
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Massive over-learning from a 1.5 point popular vote loss going on here.
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Surprised she isnt Trump's top pick for press secretary given the way things are going.
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Seems like the stigma over "ETs" for decades is still preventing an actually effective interagency coordinated response/communications to the public.
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the rage click farming appears to be doing gangbusters
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This is even more contemptible in light of his actual experience with the court.
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Especially because users were given absolutely no choice in the matter. Overnight, it's integrated in every piece of tech we use in our daily lives and the workplace, to no discernible benefit, while vaporizing entire emissions goals from the largest tech companies
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Apt from the guy who solely writes about the lifetime appointment tribunal that regularly rules against the will of the people
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Would have thought there’s at least a small chance he doesn’t get confirmed based on the pretty explicit animosity within his own party…? Or is that just more wishful thinking
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Here’s hoping a viable bluesky doesn’t make the tendency to read comments and only comments over actual substance worse
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Future literally has to be some continued version of this so here’s hoping Dems figure out how to actually connect with swing state voters seeing the absolute deluge of cash and marked long term improvement to their livelihoods from the IRA
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Big part of the solution still has to be labor centered just transition/rapid decarbonization and all the associated benefits. Biden was heading in the right direction but completely fucked up/didn’t even make the sales pitch on the implicit assumption voters would just feel it and vote accordingly
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It is an absolute COP fantasy world that we continue to talk about 1.5 as remotely attainable. When we don’t even have declining emissions, let alone pledges that would get us anywhere close to 2.
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I struggle with using the extreme end of the scenarios as a cudgel (even though I think a helluva lot more people are fear motivated than climate comms research says), when we clearly have failed to communicate on a core level how bad even 1.5 degrees could be.
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Orwell was apparently too vague in his metaphors
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The wildfire spread of “it’s an interview, but sure” line as a gotcha couldn’t be more misleading
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The levels of incompetence required for this to not be malevolence strains credulity
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Accidentally punched a perfect basketball sized hole from two miles out right through the roof logo of the organization whose movements we’ve been directly approving..
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Also as if calling them that somehow justifies that they needed to be mowed down by firing squad, instantly? Couldnt call them terrorists, so I guess this was the next best option.
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reaping/sowing on creating an SUV/truck addiction.
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Absolutely agree with you on overall trends and the absurd levels of disproportionate wealth share for the .01%, but the fact that real wages have grown for the middle class faster than higher income brackets for the first time in decades is not insignificant.
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I'm entirely talking relative comparisons here. As much as we might want to burn it all to the ground, one party is miles closer to protecting democratic norms than the other
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Post-Trump, Dem leadership just cannot figure out how to navigate the cognitive dissonance of having to be the only adults in the room to protect democratic institutions while also rooting out the republican/industry corruption in those same institutions
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just gonna leave this here apropos of nothing www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...