So sad but that's how so many idiots think

Elon Musk’s ‘Free’ Starlink for Hurricane Helene Victims Will Cost at Least $400

Upon inspection, the offer of a free month of Starlink service seems to be the type of deal you might give to any new customer.

After first month you are enrolled in $120/mo service.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-free-starlink-for-hurricane-helene-victims-will-cost-at-least-400-2000509345

GOP rep complains it’s 'ridiculous' for Harris to ask billionaires to 'pay their fair share'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-rep-complains-it-s-ridiculous-for-harris-to-ask-billionaires-to-pay-their-fair-share/ar-AA1rYHrT

YOu want to know how woefully unprepared Law enforcement is in dealing with Death Threat calls?

People are threatening Meteorologists for spreading "fake #news" about Hurricane #Milton

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hurricane-milton-misinformation-meteorlogist-death-threats-1235130352/

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@MotherDucker From the POV of a meteorologist: The practice of putting reporters/meteorologists in the worst of the storm is dangerous grandstanding.
With the highest winds, you can't even stand up straight, nor can you be heard through your microphone, ultimately making the effort
useless.

Somewhere, sometime someone is going to get impaled or worse on live TV and the collective managers behind the scene will shrug their shoulders and move on to the next Live In The Storm report.

@MotherDucker Yep, scheduling both of mine today. Schools are petri dishes.

I'll probably get flattened by one or both but it's MUCH better than getting perma-flattened by either illness.

#politics

If it was about babies...

Repair instead of throwing away. What was normal in the past is now out of fashion. The whole thing has become a problem. More and more smartphones, laptops and televisions are ending up in the bin and causing environmental problems. There is hardly any recycling. New devices produce large amounts of CO2 during production. That is why some countries in the EU are trying to encourage people to repair their household appliances with a repair bonus.

We need to stop using so much fucking plastic.

Period. No ifs, ands, or buts.

There are other materials capable of performing the same roles plastic does in most applications.

They may be more expensive, and they may not function quite as well, but they won't infest our bodies (and the bodies of our children) with microplastics, and they won't devastate our land with horrific plastic pollution that can persist for many thousands of years & is nearly impossible to truly remediate.

It makes me angry when people defend the use of plastic in applications like packaging with "we can't use other materials, it'd increase transportation costs/energy use"...

Cost/energy use are not the only consideration.

Babies are being born with brains full of microplastics (all their tissues are affected). EVERYONE's tissues, brains included, are full of microplastics. That issue - human health - MUST take priority.

The health impacts are serious, and occurring on a societal level.

@MotherDucker Reminds me of the damage to pharmaceutical manufacturing when the hurricane hit PR. They're were 50 manufacturing plants taking advantage of the lower wages on the island. Why do we allow critical resources to be concentrated like this?

@MotherDucker @corlin
More proof that monopolies need to be broken up...

@Minholkin women making it better for us all. Why we need a female president