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silence7@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•Companies With No Detention Experience Want to Run Trump’s ICE Camps4·2 days agoI see no evidence that they’re trying to subvert the concentration camp system that’s being built, though its not impossible
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Border Patrol chief crashes Newsom’s rollout of California redistricting campaign231·3 days agoThe National Guard can be federalized. Need a state army that’s not subject to that.
Thats normal. People mostly don’t care who is mayor of a distant city.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•Border Patrol chief crashes Newsom’s rollout of California redistricting campaign54·3 days agoI think they’re called gravy seals or something
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto World News@lemmy.world•How China Went From Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator | A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry.English10·3 days agoThey’ve gone ahead and built a solar and wind power manufacturing juggernaut. Its a big deal for anybody like me who wants those deployed at scale. You’ll find that I’m also critical of China on other topics.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto World News@lemmy.world•How China Went From Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator | A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry.English281·3 days agoThe same reason we allow them on any other technology — they create a financial incentive for innovation.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•The perfectly fine, already-paid-for satellites Trump wants to destroy in a fiery atmospheric reentry21·4 days agoFor Republicas “Fraud” actually means “might benefit people who aren’t rich or who have darker skin than mine” rather than any kind of normal use of the word
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Green Energy@slrpnk.net•Can’t put solar panels on your roof? Plug-in ‘balcony solar’ may be for you.2·4 days agoIn countries where it is widespread, there are dedicated panels sold for this, rather than ones designed for off-grid emergency batteries. They’re reasonable compared with the cost of electricity.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to actEnglish181·7 days agoMind you, the Trump administration has made it much harder to install the cheapest electric generation available — solar and wind.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to actEnglish93·7 days agoThe way utility rates are set allows them to spread costs onto residential ratepayers instead of bearing it directly.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.3·9 days agoIts available from several sources, but they’re going to be a lot harder to find after this.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.18·9 days agoThere are a ton of preexisting links to the old reports. They come up high when you do a search. People will mistakenly continue to treat them as credible as a result
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•There’s a Big Sea Change Underway Among Even the Most Conventional Dems3·10 days agoThe whole point of the article is that we’re actually seeing action in the form of voting behavior in Congreess, state reps leaving Texas to prevent a worse gerrymandering, etc.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s70·10 days agoIts less common than the native-born
Fox’s “crimes of immigrants” regular feature is the modern equivalent of the Nazi reports about crimes of Jews
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•There’s a Big Sea Change Underway Among Even the Most Conventional Dems7·10 days agoBasically, when Trump took office a lot of Congressional Democrats weren’t voting against him in any kind of consistent way. Like half were voting to confirm his nominees. Its taken a lot of pressure to get them to start fighting at all.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•This is not the US constitution; it used to be, but Article I, part of section 8, & all of sections 9 & 10 have been removed1·11 days agoAccident isnt impossible, and I’ll be really surprised if we get a definitive answer
$0 in donations to it so far. Very unclear to me whether it’s real or a scammer trying to trick folks.