He’s rich so far, but he really seems to be alienating his consumer customer base. If he keeps this up, his car company could crash as fast as it grew, and maybe his other customers will start reacting

That’s not the same as net neutrality, more a free speech concern.

I used to be a free speech absolutist, partly on the grounds that people recognize lies, hatred, racism, sexism, and bs of every kind, so are generally not affected. We always ostracized the nut cases, so why wouldn’t we online as well? I had faith in my fellow citizens that letting extremists speak out would just shine the light on that extremism., expose the truth, correct the facts.

But we’re clearly in a world where none of that is true. We have people spewing forth all sorts of extremism, and people believe it. They’re gullible, naive, easily manipulated. Hatred, anger and lies have done serious harm to our society, economically, socially and politically.

The right to free speech only applies to government, and does not guarantee freedom from consequences. The root of the problem is online speech without consequences, but that’s a commercial entity, not government . If the service won’t rein in the worst speech, or provide consequences for speech that harms society then society doesn’t need the service. Shut ‘em down

Congress also has specific authority over making laws and allocating money. You’d think they’d have the self-interest to protect that authority from whatever baboon tried to take it, especially an unelected one

All true but I thought she would have been an effective president, due to focussing on organization, negotiations, influence, and that she was generally for the same platform as bill, so I’d generally agree with it (but with obvious caveats). She would have gotten things done, but in a democratic way instead of a fascist way, and those things would align with the generic Democrat platform

The clickbait part is the “D’uh” that scientists are mystified by January being hottest. No, models predicted a medium term trend caused by El Niño that didn’t seem to happen

Models are never perfect, will always be tweaked to try to improve accuracy. That’s pretty much the definition of science. There will always be something not yet accounted for, and people working to account for it. Yet that title makes it look like predictions are wrong. While that may be true in the details, from our perspective nothing has changed. Maybe this is the real problem with today’s society: technical details that always interested those of us interested in science, engineering, data, are now pushed to everyone. Most people don’t have the perspective to really understand and the clickbait headlines try to instill an outrage that is not appropriate

Why do we need to be outraged by small inaccuracies in the model that do not affect the overall prediction nor even most of the details. That will likely not be noticeable to the rest of us

I used to feel that way, but the term isn’t a copout….

It’s more than global warming. We’re not just warming the environment but destabilizing weather patterns and climate in ways that can be much worse for everyone.

People can dismiss a small shift in average temperature as something you can easily adjust to: just wear a sweater. But it’s much harder to adjust to more and worse storms, receding coastlines and increased flooding, agricultural areas that can no longer grow crops, long term water shortages, Western Europe losing its climate moderation, huge losses of biodiversity. And yes destabilized weather patterns means some places will get colder or wetter, and that will also probably be bad

I hope so, but she’s going to have to get through at least another four years, probably more, of being ratted and feathered by Republicans, and somehow still look clean

I still contend that was the real problem with Hillary Clinton. Not that she was a poor candidate or hade some questionable decisions but that Repugnants spent years throwing shit at her so she looked like a mess. She was at least as good as a candidate as anyone else and many of the objections were manufactured

Well on her way to beating who? Who is “them all”? Are you claiming she’s making enough to beat Musk, Bezos? Is she hawking golden sneakers and shilling bitcoin scams?

Wow, wasn’t it just last year when they took the 1.5° target off life support and called it?

Now the 2° is dead? Are we killing off 2.5° by summer?