J. Steven York RESISTSHey, look! Sale! Why, for less than a dollar you can take a human life! Maybe several if you pick your shots well! Heck, for the price of a Big Mack these days you can have yourself a big ol' American mass shooting! What a great country we live in!
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SasyecatWOW… That’s how shitty #Merica is. #Capitalism and #Corporatism gone absolutely bonkus. In our lucky country (despite all its problems and issues), home owners get to own their PV and battery installation and even get a $$ helping hand with Govt grants to install it. Over on the other side of the great Pacific, #Finance companies are marketing home owners into ‘leasing’ PV installations… what a bunch of grifting fuckers.
Land of the free, home of the brave… give me a break…
#PV #Renewables #ClimateAction
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Gavia Immer (@GaviaImmer@theblower.au)
Great piece on the enshittification of solar by @pluralistic@mamot.fr One thing to add is my sense that many solar companies (at least in the US) are really just finance companies. We got quotes for rooftop solar and the most expensive option was for us to own the installation outright. They want you to lease. Going with the finance option wouldn't have made us any better off month-to-month, and we couldn't front the cost to own outright, so we just elect a clean energy supplier instead. More savvy consumers could probably figure out how to do an independent install, but rooftop solar is aggressively marketed by several companies in our area. https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/our-friend-the-electron/
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MarkIt’s been a relatively quiet start to September as far as gun violence in America, with “only” 10 mass shootings, 6 victims killed, 44 victims injured. https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting (To be clear, my minimizing of these stats is sarcastic; unlike #rwnj influencers, I am not ok with this level of gun violence & seemingly daily mass shootings.)
The latest was yesterday in Tampa, killing a 17-yr old boy and injuring 5 others. https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2025/09/11/mass-shooting-tampa-florida-today/86091885007/#
#GunViolence #MassShootings #merica #murica #GunViolenceArchive
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