His market manipulation creating extreme divergence in oil & fuel futures market decoupling from oil delivery price, by $30-40+. My understanding is this sends signal to refineries to cut back production & wait for future contracts to rise too so they don’t sell low when had to buy high to get oil.
On an elevated train platform thinking about this patch of grass surviving off the minuscule water catchment of a crack in the concrete panels and no soil for the roots to get to.
Oh my god the density of tree ferns in their habitat incredible. I’ve only ever see them in person as a stand alone ornamental or in small clusters in a garden.
I’m not a leftist who opts out of voting when I don’t fully believe in a candidate. I believe in harm reduction, if Newsom becomes Dem nominee in any remotely close kind of race I’d absolutely support him over whatever abomination likely to emerge from the GOP trying to maintain the Trump coalition.
I suck at spelling in general & made a mistake, but have lived in CA my whole life. Living in L.A. I didn’t take note of Newsom until SF mayorship. He’s often been on right side of things but always struck me as overly opportunistic, too willing to compromise progressive cause in climbing ranks.
Newsome always gave me The Smiler vibes, and the obvious ambitions to become president adds to it. Among the reasons I’ve never fully trusted him from his arriving in CA politics even he’s made himself an enemy of many I oppose.
What if the local roadway access to federal facilities “needed repair” and were ripped up for repaving but project experiences delay, indefinitely
Never laid a finger on anyone didn’t save Julius Streicher from being found guilty of crimes against humanity for his role as a media propagandist. Kirk wasn’t many steps removed from being that & to extent he wasn’t yet, was not for a like of trying, a dedicated cheerleader for genocidal ideology.
"The destruction of Palestine’s seed banks reveals ecocide as a weapon of temporal control — a strategy for extending genocide beyond the present moment into an undeterminable future."
Creationists have for many years now been waging a nationwide campaign to take control of roadside dinosaur attractions & make them sites of anti-evolution propaganda. I was so sad & pissed when I first learned the Cabazon Dinosaurs in California had fallen under their control after owner passed.
If I wanted to buy in area where I live now & that is convenient to where I work I’d have to blow out many years of savings on down payment & would still be paying more than double my current rent in house payments for many years. I’d have an asset I guess but I feel more financially secure renting.
Steam version of Madness does not include Alice1 game files. You can unlock place in the menu where would activate OG game but files aren’t there. Are lot of people hosting files & tutorials how to install though. I haven’t tried it on Steam Deck but recently did a play through of both games on PC.
Nightshades can easily bounce back from losing the whole above surface plant regrowing runners from the root network, but I was able to kill the root system and runners stopped coming up.
I’m usually loathe to use herbicides but some things def merit. I used some to control invasive woolly nightshade. If you want to minimize runoff instead of spraying leaves you can cut trunk/stem, score or puncture cut around outer ring tissue & drip into it. Will take it straight into root system.
Trump take tofu. Got the last packet just now before closing. It’s been like this at each of 3 different stores I’ve been to in the last week in L.A. Even at peak pandemic panic buying I don’t remember tofu out of stock like this. Has thrown SoCal supply chains all out of whack with his goon squads.
They were basically too good at branding at Rollerblade and were backed into needing to support the normalization of the genericized term inline-skates or risk losing their company trademark.
There are a lot of cartoons and memes making the same point actually made by people. AI farms crunching overtime to replace all the political cartoonists just adds to the bleakness of this moment & saps any value I might get out of the dark humor of making light of current events.
I’m pro carbon pricing but given status quo of severe income inequality & price of goods not being equally felt I think it has to be paired with other progressive reforms to get more onboard. If simply tacked onto the system as it exists will likely to get pushback from across political spectrum.
Woman holding a puppet and puppet holding a small No Kings sign.
Protest crowd in Santa Monica
Man with sign reading “Santa Monica apologizes for Stephen Miller”
No Kings protesters in front Santa Monica pier sign.
From #NoKings in Santa Monica.
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Massive #ICEoutofLA action today in downtown Los Angeles as ICE raids continue, one day after Trump announces deployment of National Guard and threatens to deploy the military.
📸 for @theintercept.com
They don’t grasp how serious we are about boycott. I had never once in years of using ride hailing services canceled a ride before, but I cancel on any Tesla now. Uber apparently encourages Tesla rentals for drivers not using own car. I dont care if my rider rating takes a hit, will not get in one.
Baltimore March is now circling the building that houses the ICE field office. Crowd is making lots of noise so that they can hear us!
Anyone who has ever enjoyed video games has enjoyed creative work of autistic people, both on the more tech side & art side of dev. In my specialty with title of ‘technical artist’ riding line of both, so many us are on spectrum. I don’t have stats on hand but it’s apparent as a longtime game dev.
It’s almost like mass deportation at the scale of his intentions is inherently incompatible with democracy or any system of government with basic due process rights, & that there is a reason such mass expulsions are only ever a feature of fascist and despotic states.
Worst person to ever emerge from generally liberal progressive Santa Monica. I’ve lived here a long time, & known people who were at Samohi at time he was. He has always been this way. That clip was what he was comfortable saying on camera in front of the school, but was known to say a lot worse.
No one should entertain stated intentions for the cuts, attacks on science are not about taxpayer savings, they’re destroying foundations of evidence based public information & decision making. It’s about consolidating control making party elites uncontested arbiters of “facts” & acceptable thought.
A bookmarking system, Bluesky please, I desperately need compartmentalized categories for the things I save.
