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silence7 OP , to news in UN Secretary-General Urges Ban on Fossil Fuel Ads as Planet Warms

Restrictions on advertising were a key part of the steps to sharply reduce cigarette smoking

silence7 OP , to news in UN Secretary-General Urges Ban on Fossil Fuel Ads as Planet Warms

Yes, but if you haven’t even taken that first step, take it.

silence7 OP , to news in UN Secretary-General Urges Ban on Fossil Fuel Ads as Planet Warms

There is still coal, oil, and gas in the ground. There are forests yet standing. It might have been better to get seriously started a few decades ago, and we can’t achieve zero-visible-impact at this point, but we can still change how hot it gets before temperatures stabilize.

I’d far prefer to be getting started now instead of never.

silence7 OP , to news in UN Secretary-General Urges Ban on Fossil Fuel Ads as Planet Warms

A ban isn’t going to be suddenly imposed; it’s going to look more like “we stop subsidies for fossil fuels, and end advertising for them, and phase them out over 20 years”

So he’s asking for the first steps. Which is a good move.

silence7 OP , to news in Never wait in the school car line again. Here’s how. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again in the US.

That’s horrible.

silence7 OP , to news in Never wait in the school car line again. Here’s how. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again in the US.

There has been a really big drop in walking and biking to school over several decades. Kids never stopped completely, but it’s a lot less common in the US than it used to be

silence7 OP , to news in Never wait in the school car line again. Here’s how. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again in the US.

Talk to your municipal government, and bring a bunch of other parents to do the same — this is something that can be fixed.

silence7 OP , to news in New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity

Pretty much — it makes it clear that they didn’t just come from Saudi Arabia but had active support from within the government there.

silence7 OP , to news in New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity

The response to that was to invite them to invest in a whole bunch of tech startups

silence7 OP , to news in New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity

Per the article, they started to change policy a bit after some of the groups they were sponsoring started attacking the monarchy:

Astonishingly, the attacks of 9/11 had little effect on the Saudi approach to religious extremism, as diplomats and intelligence officials have attested. What finally changed royal minds was the experience of suffering an attack on Saudi soil. In May 2003, gunmen and suicide bombers struck three residential compounds in Riyadh, killing 39 people. The authorities attributed the attacks to al-Qaeda, and cooperation with the U.S. improved quickly and dramatically.

silence7 OP , to technology in Disabled members of Congress are using apps to do their jobs while paving a path for others

The article is about a small number of congressmembers with speech and hearing disabilities.

silence7 OP , to news in As Insurers Around the U.S. Bleed Cash From Climate Shocks, Homeowners Lose

This implies an end to mortgages (or sharply higher interest rates) and a huge drop in real estate prices.

silence7 OP , to news in As Insurers Around the U.S. Bleed Cash From Climate Shocks, Homeowners Lose

They’re ditching inland areas too, for different climate-related reasons.

silence7 OP , to news in Biden Bans Chinese Bitcoin Mine Near U.S. Nuclear Missile Base

Bitcoin essentially has the same thing though — it’s just that the “staked class” is those who have built power-devouring ASIC facilities to compute lots of hashes. Get enough of them together, and you can roll back transactions via a Sybil attack, just as you can with organized action by stakeholders in a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency.

silence7 OP , to news in As Insurers Around the U.S. Bleed Cash From Climate Shocks, Homeowners Lose

Three, on different servers — one for climate, one for a general news reach, and one which is just New York Times gift articles

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