Federal representation comes with statehood. Puerto Rico regularly rejects statehood.

Starbucks gives the new CEO a $96 million bonus, then a month later, lays off 1,000+ workers Potential Luigis.

FTFY.

Let me translate that rhetorical question for you:

Why do you believe society should allow certain businesses to remain in existence, when those businesses utilize human labor, yet do not pay enough for human laborers to subsist?

“Thank you, Madam Chair,”

Beautiful.

My nemesis showed up.

and how would you like to quantify that

I would like to spend less time talking to environmentalists about useless people harassing victims of the oil industry, and more time actually targeting the oil industry.

For that, you don't need to identify massive, centralized oil infrastructure. You need to look at the oil industry's agents and operations within your own community. There is no shortage of businesses associated with the supplies and maintenance of ICE vehicles. Every one of those businesses needs to feel direct pressure to focus on EVs, other transportation alternatives, or go out of business.

Gas/petrol stations and car dealerships, for example. Set a standard for them to follow; target them for an appropriate degree of hostility when they don't.

• For gas stations, they can install at least as many EV charging stations as they have fuel pumps.
• For dealerships, they must offer more EVs than ICE vehicles, and the sticker price of those EVs must be equal to or lower than comparable ICE vehicles.

Businesses that meet these standards are supporting the "transportation" industry. Businesses that fail to meet these standards are supporting the "oil" industry.

JSO's website makes it clear that "arrests" are an important part of their demonstrations. There are plenty of arrest-worthy actions they can take at a gas station. They can create plenty of "awareness" at an ICE car dealership, and they can do it without convincing the general public to support cops and right-wing politicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcl14hC0MU&t=370s

Posted, commented, or voted on by members of your instance, without counting what the rest of the fediverse is doing with it.

I'm calling bullshit. Of the four states I've lived in, Texas easily had the best drivers. It's one of the few things they do right.

Maryland and California drivers are absolutely terrible.

They are on reddthat.com. "Local" would show them posts from reddthat.com communities; it would not show them posts from lemmy.world communities.

Suppose a post on a lemmy.world community is downvoted by the fediverse in general. However, that same post is highly popular among reddthat.com users, for whatever reason.

This user would like that post to appear high in reddthat.com/all, even though it would not appear high on lemmy.world/all.

The idea is kinda interesting. "all" is not the right category for it, but the idea of instance-peer curation has merit.

14/f/under your floorboards

Translation: Either "FBI" or "40/m/under your floorboards"

Imagine if Mr. “Occupy Mars” ends up being the guy to trap us here on Earth forever by clogging up space.

The starlink satellites orbit far too low for that to happen. Without expelling limited propellants to periodically boost their orbits, every satellite in the constellation will fall to earth in less than 10 years, most in less than 1.

Actually, they said they sounded like a fucking moron. And they do they do: there is no actual legitimacy to their claim. They are repeating a horseshit corpo claim without applying any sort of critical thought to it. Which can be reasonably considered "fucking moronic".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

JSO didn't exist in 1996 or 2008 or 2018 or 2020. It was founded in 2022.

You're giving JSO traffic obstructions credit for declines that happened decades before they came into existence, and in countries where they havent actually disrupted traffic.

You're giving them credit for "declines" that have actually been increases since the time they started regularly obstructing traffic in 2022.

Obstructing traffic is not an effective means of protest. Target actual agents and entities associated with the oil industry, not the victims.

Donvict had exactly one good plank in his platform: Lock the clocks.

He set that plank on fire two days before the time change.

Norway, for example, which has seen consumption decline since 2018.

They started obstructing traffic in 2022, not 2018. Norway's consumption has increased, significantly, since they began obstructing traffic.

Japan's decline since then is commensurate with its population decline. Germany's and Sweden's are flat. UK is up even more than Norway.

I think the issue is that he was, in fact, checked out mentally. There is legitimate doubt that he was making decisions or even being consulted on things that were autosigned."

The only people constitutionally empowered and charged with determining that a sitting president is "checked out mentally" are the Vice President, Cabinet, and Congress, via the 25th amendment.

Absent a 25th amendment declaration of disability, he could be picking the flowers off the wallpaper, and it wouldn't affect his presidential authority.

There is currently a way to tax them, but we'll have to act before the GOP closes it.

Blue Shell!

Shut it down for about 46 months.