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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 8h

To be fair, $120k/year is only ~8k/month after taxes. If you have to pay $4,000/month for your $700k house, $1,000/month on you lifted F-150, $1000 for fancy food, and $500 for your student loans that only leaves $1500/month for clothes/entertainment/utilities. Basically hand to mouth.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 15h

The Americas got the far worse side of the germ exchange with smallpox, measles and flu. "the viruses tore through the continent, killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans." Just an incredible tragedy that makes the bubonic plague seem mild in comparison.

Guns Germs & Steel: Variables. Smallpox | PBS

www.pbs.org

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 1d

Same with Alaska Public Radio, an NPR affiliate: www.kyuk.org/alaska-state...

Remnants of Typhoon Halong bring widespread damage to Western Alaska

The remnants of Typhoon Halong have already caused damaging flooding in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The storm is expected to move north and continue into Monday, Oct. 13.

www.kyuk.org

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 1d

He is

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, and in gas' case the transportation infrastructure is faced with the twin problem of needing to transport less and less gas as time goes on, making the non-fuel costs and even higher percentage over time.

Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 1d

I think the difference here is that transportation for gas requires multimillion dollar projects built to last decades during which gas use itself must be lowered to reduce the devastating impacts of climate change. The climate disinfo campaign is largely to maintain support for projects like these.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 1d

I think the difference here is that transportation for gas requires multimillion dollar projects built to last decades during which gas use itself must be lowered to reduce the devastating impacts of climate change. The climate disinfo campaign is largely to maintain support for projects like these.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone needs to read George Retes words. Federal actions like this are a national disgrace that harm our country. We must end them.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 1d

And once it's a stalk I'd be dang sure to make an uncomfortable middle front seat possible. We had this in a 90s Taurus and it was amazing the few times you need it. Maybe it disappeared for safety, but I feel like pushing families into huge EV9s just to carry 6 people a few times is more dangerous.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 1d

I think the 2022 model Bolts do it best. There's a button below the shifter that you push to engage L mode with no creep and heavier regen. I'm pretty sure this mode even applies to reverse. Only thing I'd change is making the whole shifter a stall like in the Equinox EV with this button on the end.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 2d

Same. Though I wore mine so much that after a few years I literally wore through the elbows. I loved that dang shirt though, it was awesome.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 2d

Clicking through the images and seeing that this person is not made up, but literally just lives their life full of contradictions. I guess in ways we all do, but we all don't require others to suffer from our contradictions, that's only a subset of us.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 2d

Did it look like this?

QUEEN BABY: Food Critic

YouTube video by Woodsie TV

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 2d

I'd love to read the article Jamelle is referencing here. Anyone got a link?

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 2d

Science is amazing. The Republican push to kill research will drastically reduce life saving discoveries like this. It is self defeating and we should return to funding science.

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

Researchers envision their vaccine being used as both a treatment and a preventive, and as an approach to treating multiple cancer types.
• www.umass.edu/news/article...

The study has been published in Cell Reports Medicine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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HIGHLIGHTS
•Lipid NPs carrying STING and TLR4 agonists promote synergistic type I interferons
• NPs drain efficiently to lymph nodes and increase polyfunctional T and B cells
• NPs improve tumor-free outcomes with memory against multiple aggressive tumor models
SUMMARY
We report on the utility of a "super-adjuvant" nanoparticle (NP) system as a modular, customizable platform for next-generation cancer vaccination. Using nanomaterials engineering technology, we aim to harness not only the effective adjuvanticity of whole-pathogen vaccines, but also the safety of subunit vaccines.
Our lipid-based NP platform co-encapsulates agonists of the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) and Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) pathways to promote synergistic production of type I interferons and other
proinflammatory cytokines in innate antigen-presenting dendritic cells and macrophages.
Compared to empty NPs and free agonists, dual-adjuvant NPs administered with antigenic peptides or tumor cell lysate promote increased antigen processing and presentation, drain efficiently to nearby lymph nodes, increase polyfunctional tumor-specific T and B cells, and improve tumor-free outcomes upon vaccination and subsequent challenge with multiple aggressive tumor cells.

Graphical Abstract

The vaccine combines two immune-stimulating molecules (adjuvants) in a tiny lipid nanoparticle that enhances both innate and adaptive immune responses. The innate immune system acts as the body’s first line of defense, responding quickly and non-specifically to invaders using cells that release inflammatory signals. The adaptive immune system takes longer to activate but provides a targeted, long-lasting response, training T-cells and B- cells to recognize and remember specific threats. Together, they form a coordinated defense: the innate system alerts and activates the adaptive system, which then delivers precise and durable immunity.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 3d

Seriously, the kid needs fiber!

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 3d

The wet toilet paper solution for your home seat bidet is reusable cloth baby wipes. Throw used ones into a reusable diaper pail or a compost bucket with a charcoal filter. Wash them on the hottest setting and never flush a tree down your toilet again.

www.grovia.com/products/clo...

GroVia Reusable Cloth Wipes :: White

GroVia's collection of ultra-soft terry cloth diaper baby wipes are soft enough for baby's face but generously sized for maximum coverage during diaper changes.

www.grovia.com

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 3d

I mean I don't get the extreme appeal of a movie like Minecraft, but it seems to have given Gen-Z some movie memories that they judge to be good.

a green monster is holding a stuffed duck with a yellow beak

ALT: a green monster is holding a stuffed duck with a yellow beak

media.tenor.com

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 3d

Yes the seat integrated bidet is so much better. What happens if you bidet on this thing and then have to go again? You crab walk back to the toilet? I'm pro-bidet, but this is a dated waste of space.

Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 3d

This particular solar farm does have sheep grazed under it! The main holdup for this seems to be the lack of shepherds. Hopefully more people will go into this profession and reduce the amount of mowing we have to do under solar panels.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 3d

That makes sense and roughly matches the blue bar in the graph I posted from 2005. Scary to realize how much more irrigated corn is being grown in the Ogallala region. If we dry out the Ogallala aquifer and make another dust bowl to power like 1% of VMT it's gonna be a tragedy.

The Dry Future of the American Plains: Threats to the Ogallala Aquifer | The Triple Helix at UChicago

voices.uchicago.edu

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 3d

It'd be great if solar ordinances required this last type of development, but instead what we frequently see is ordinances with requirements that are simply there to try to prevent solar, not trying to get it installed in an environmentally friendly way.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 3d

A few solar farms have experimented with simply laying the panels on the ground (no racking) and I expect that'd be far worse for the soil. Others have bulldozed the area before building, which is bad too. Many do it right, limited earth moving and native plantings. This can improve soil health.

Solar panels with a bunch of plants growing under them.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 5d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 4d

As long as they're electric, or eBikes even, the most efficient form of transport (though limited in range). All of these are electric vehicles that can be powered by solar and replace gas cars, trucks, etc. that are also burning ethanol.

1,000+ MPGe eBike to Profit

We're in the midst of a quiet transportation revolution right now.

www.profitgreenly.com