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5 Facts the Reeking Billionaire -- and Mainstream Society! -- Should Learn about Homelessness and Unhoused Humans, Who ARE People of Worth and Value
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#homeless #unhoused #poverty #bigotry #crime #affordablehousing #workingpoor #empathy #kindness #mutualaid #elonmusk #musk #classwar
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, has been appointed by President-elect Donald Trump as the co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).Judd Legum (Popular Information)
Sweet Potato ‘Rice’ Casserole [Vegan] onegreenplanet.org/vegan-recip…
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The sweet potato rice in this vegan dish cooks to a perfect consistency in 40 minutes in the oven and the savory flavors from the mozzarella and pesto pair well with the sweetness that comes from the potato when roasting.One Green Planet
How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets #Billionaires Avoid #Medicare Taxes
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Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in #taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
#News #Finance #Business #WallStreet #IRS #SteveCohen #Government
Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.ProPublica
7 Companies Creating Water from Air to Address Water Scarcity and Justice onegreenplanet.org/human-inter…
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Water scarcity affects over 2 billion people globally, with UNICEF estimating that 1 in 4 people will face water shortages by 2050.Trinity Sparke (One Green Planet)
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The report warned that generic baby car seats with adjustable headrest and shoulder straps sold under the Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN): B0D29WX2MW "could👉 increase the risk of injury during a collision."
#Alert #Recall #Parenting #Safety
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Health Canada released a consumer product advisory against the use of a baby car seat availible for purchase on Amazon.CTVNews
Voluntary carbon market has failed the human rights test
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Our organisations’ research showed that carbon projects can badly harm the communities they claim to benefit.Tirana Hassan (Al Jazeera)
Following a proud centrist tradition, Kamala Harris’s campaign promised to build an “opportunity economy” that would grant success to the deserving. The meritocratic pitch was emblematic of Democrats’ long march away from working-class voters.jacobin.com
Most voters oppose Trump's plan to pardon insurrectionists
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A majority of voters oppose Donald Trump's plan to pardon hundreds of his supporters who were jailed for their role in the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a new Civiqs poll for Daily Kos.Daily Kos
"Violence begets violence so stop celebrating it."
- Guy who considers 1 death more important than 68,000 early deaths per year from social murder.
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She wouldn't speak on how many she had killed but it sounded like 50 would've been a reasonable estimate from the back-and-forth with a journalist.
And yet, it still wasn't 68,000 that UHC kills annually.
Moreover, 50 Nazi officers dead, I wonder what the mathematics were regarding the amount of people she saved by taking this regrettable action?
Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, say Palestinian medics
Palestinian medical officials said separate Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 26 people overnight and into Wednesday. Hospital records showed that one of the strikes killed several generations of one family, including four children, their parents and two grandparents.
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Palestinian medical officials said separate Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 29 people overnight and into Wednesday.NEWS WIRES (FRANCE 24)
This guy must read #Mastodon because this take is "in -line" with the sympathy #terrorists online.
"#Khamenei says US, Israel were behind fall of Syrian regime, also alludes to #Turkey
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UnitedHealth recently helped kill single-payer health care legislation in California.
Gov. Gavin Newsom backed off his previous support of the idea -- after he & Dems received huge money from UnitedHealth donors. buff.ly/3ZPLOPu
California’s governor is caught between his campaign pledge and the health care companies that bankroll him.The Lever
But this surprising effect of pollution should hardly be taken as a good sign.Lylla Younes (Grist)
Half the internet: Luigi Mangione doesn't have good politics. He is a Ted Kaczynski fan, not a leftist.
The other half of the internet: It's-a-me, Luigi!!!!
So, fresh on the heels of last week's news that #Bluesky is considering targeted advertisements and more VC investment, today we learn that they have a paid subscription model in the works.
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This should not come as a surprise to anyone. Bluesky is burning through money, and their only options at this point are monetizing their user base through ads, subscriptions and data harvesting, and/or more outside investment. Probably they'll need all these enshitifying tactics.
Social networking startup and X competitor Bluesky is working on subscriptions. The company first announced plans to develop a new revenue stream based onSarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Researchers are working on a new generation of opioids with all the painkilling power of current drugs but with less risk of addiction or overdose.Aneri Pattani, special to CNBC.com (CNBC)
Exclusive: read Luigi Mangione's 262-word manifesto on the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
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Read Luigi Mangione's 262-word manifesto on the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEOKen Klippenstein
They don't see any other #Muslim groups than salafis to be real Muslims, just like #ISIS, this can be the beginning of their extermination of all "non Muslims" in #HTS controlled areas.
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I've been searching online for some trinket/budget gifts but couldn't find anything interesting. The person I have in mind for the gift is in his 60's, into tech and a geek, although the gift doesn't necessarily need to cater to his geeky side.
I'm just dropping the question here since Lemmy has a solid geek/tech userbase, and maybe some of you have better ideas than me.
TIA
.. and every time I have to think of a gift, I can't 😛
I'e got more ideas but this post is getting long
Storage, temperature control, and airflow.
The storage part is the big one, imo. You keep animals in a barn, you don't want to fuck around going to another building for their food, cleaning supplies, etc. It's also more efficient land space wise. Building one or two levels up uses less land, which can then hold pastures, a different barn, whatever.
But it really depends on the type of barn. There's multiple types that gained popularity in the states over time. The oldest styles were English, with simple construction, lots of space for animals, with the storage above, but with usually only two levels. Here in the Appalachians, you see a lot of crib barns, which tend to be shorter on average, and are more for grain storage than animals. There's tobacco barns all over the south that are one or two stories, but the stories are shorter than the ones meant to hold animals and hay.
There's a kind of barn that's specifically built on hills so they have a basement/cellar.
The kind of barns for different types of livestock vary from the ones solely for crop st
... toon meerStorage, temperature control, and airflow.
The storage part is the big one, imo. You keep animals in a barn, you don't want to fuck around going to another building for their food, cleaning supplies, etc. It's also more efficient land space wise. Building one or two levels up uses less land, which can then hold pastures, a different barn, whatever.
But it really depends on the type of barn. There's multiple types that gained popularity in the states over time. The oldest styles were English, with simple construction, lots of space for animals, with the storage above, but with usually only two levels. Here in the Appalachians, you see a lot of crib barns, which tend to be shorter on average, and are more for grain storage than animals. There's tobacco barns all over the south that are one or two stories, but the stories are shorter than the ones meant to hold animals and hay.
There's a kind of barn that's specifically built on hills so they have a basement/cellar.
The kind of barns for different types of livestock vary from the ones solely for crop storage as well as each other.
But the reality tall ones are almost always animal barns because you need the height more. You can store grain or whatever on a single level, and just add a little extra height for whatever airflow you need without having an entire extra story.
But when you've got livestock, especially cattle, the storage in the same building becomes mandatory, as does having a lot of extra height for good airflow. You get manure with livestock, and if you don't have good air moving around you end up with sick animals, no matter how well you clean up. There's modern methods that can sorta bypass the manure issues, but they have their own problems.
Even smaller animals like chickens, where you won't necessarily have a second story in full, you'll have a higher roof just for air to move. That's also why the old style longhouse barns work so well. You get a long building with doors at each end, high peaked roofs, with hay storage above. The air moves freely, which cuts down spoilage of fodder, eliminates mildew from built up moisture, keeps the animals healthy (it even reduces disease spread in some cases), and you get the ability to drop hay down instead of having to haul it around.
A three story barn isn't common afaik. It's usually two stories, with a high peaked roof. It ends up being three stories high, but there's only two levels. Some do have an attic built into them, but it's pretty rare since it reduces the benefits. But even that depends on where you are and the type of farm you're on.
Now this is an in depth, awesome answer, thank you!
I was rather curious!
Don't humans need airflow? Why aren't our houses that tall
We have it, usually.
You'll run into it in different ways though. Apartments rely pretty much purely on whatever environmental controls are in place. You move the air mechanically, along with whatever heat and cooling goes on. Some have windows as well.
Houses, it's turned into the same thing a lot of places. Particularly with new builds, but even those have ways to manage air flow for the house itself, when the area calls for it.
Older houses? Plenty of air flow. Windows, higher ceilings (in warmer climates), floorplans that allow for doors to be open to the outside (but screened) on opposite ends, etc. There's a lot of ways to manage living space airflow. Plus attics for more general purposes than comfort and environmental management of living spaces.
You'll see higher houses here in the south a lot because higher ceilings gave you better relief from heat. We also tend to have attic space that's meant to keep hot air moving out and away. Up north, as I understand it, it's more about balancing summer and winter needs, whereas we didn't historically have se
... toon meerWe have it, usually.
You'll run into it in different ways though. Apartments rely pretty much purely on whatever environmental controls are in place. You move the air mechanically, along with whatever heat and cooling goes on. Some have windows as well.
Houses, it's turned into the same thing a lot of places. Particularly with new builds, but even those have ways to manage air flow for the house itself, when the area calls for it.
Older houses? Plenty of air flow. Windows, higher ceilings (in warmer climates), floorplans that allow for doors to be open to the outside (but screened) on opposite ends, etc. There's a lot of ways to manage living space airflow. Plus attics for more general purposes than comfort and environmental management of living spaces.
You'll see higher houses here in the south a lot because higher ceilings gave you better relief from heat. We also tend to have attic space that's meant to keep hot air moving out and away. Up north, as I understand it, it's more about balancing summer and winter needs, whereas we didn't historically have severe enough winters to worry as much about the balance, even here in the mountains. I don't doubt there's equivalents for desert building, coastal, etc.
Back before AC and central heating, pretty much every design of houses had a solution for controlling how air moved.
Hog barns or farrowing houses typically don't have high roofs and you can accommodate more pigs in the same amount of space.
It’s more of how things were engineered and for what uses. IE if the barn is also used for hay or equipment storage in addition to accommodating livestock