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The reason for the outbreak, Aukema’s lab found, is that the winters had become shorter and less severe. The beetles here at the very southern range of the boreal forest now have just enough warm days between deep freezes to reproduce multiple times. Healthy tamaracks can typically fend off one generation of young larvae. But they’re defenseless against two or more.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (9 children)

There are large parts of the world where the big use of water is to grow food for cows. A decision to eat less beef instead of killing people is possible.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

No type of source control helps when the people who control access are giving it to people who shouldn't have it. Think of it as the github workspace admin giving out accounts to malicious individuals.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 19 points 4 weeks ago

It's not "I sent it as a pdf" but "I gave edit access to the master copy to somebody who shouldn't have had it"

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago

Yes. Came down to a few hundred votes

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For sure. It has a bunch of network effects that didn't really develop on mastodon though, and that makes it useful in a way that the latter is not. In particular, if I want to exercise influence, I'm much more likely to be able to do that on BlueSky than on Mastodon, which makes it a must-use platform for me.

I think a few key technical features helped make that happen:

  1. The nuclear block, which delinks past replies and quotes of a hostile individual.
  2. You are not buying into a moderation policy by choosing a server. This is a really big deal because people ended up on servers they didn't really agree with and had bad experiences
  3. Feeds which let you do custom algorithmic choices about what to see make it lot easier to surface interesting content
  4. Starter packs simplified onboarding
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

I'm removing this because the headline substantially overstates what's actually going on.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It lets countries spend on adaptation to the damage done. I don't seriously expect wealthy countries to actually kick in more than token amounts though, even if the agreement specifies real money.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He was paying girls below the age of consent for sex, and using venmo, so there's a whole bunch of transaction records.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It doesn't matter for right-wing elite.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Trump's nominee for education secretary has her own set of child abuse problems

Linda and Vince McMahon face a separate civil suit filed in October by five anonymous plaintiffs who worked decades ago as “ring boys,” teenagers who helped set up WWE events. The plaintiffs claim the McMahons were aware they were being sexually abused by other high-ranking WWE employees and did not do enough to protect them.

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