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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

It's not a direct impact; it's that the ad buys get the oil folks access in a way that you and I don't have. The journalists end up at things like conference panels with oil folks, and not so much with activists or scientists, and the editors choose who to put on a given story.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

The NYT takes huge ad payments from the oil industry. Industry reps get regular access to reporters in non-news contexts as a result, and this spills over into the background beliefs and attitudes a lot of them have

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 days ago

Both personal appearances at rallies and paying for votes

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I expect that a lot of their constituents do. And the Republcians will change their tune when they fear the public anger over their actions more than they fear the billionaires

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Gun owners mostly shoot:

  • themselves
  • their wife or girlfriend
  • their kids
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They apparently know now — she was taken to an ICE facility in Loisiana in violation of a court order.

She was transferred to Louisiana despite a federal judge’s order Tuesday night telling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to remove Ozturk from Massachusetts without prior notice.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 week ago

The plan is explicity to force states to change their rules by illegally withholding money from them and their citizens until the states change their rules

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 week ago

Definitely not 100% external. A chunk of cases are known to be genetic.

And these people were eating a mushroom known to be mildly poisonous.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Exactly. There's a reason I won't eat any Amanita: the similarity of edible and deadly species in that genus makes them the main source of mushroom fatalities in North America.

By contrast, messing up a bolete ID is likely to result in a meal that is too bitter to eat. That's a much more acceptable risk.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 week ago

And these days, that means making sure it's a book written by someone who knows what they are doing, rather than AI auto-generated bullshit.

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