Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲

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Primarily interested in #news, #politics, the #environment, #biodiversity, #climate, #science, #nature

I don't boost RT's from Twitter & I don't refer to Twitter on here as the bird site 🙄

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Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲Jan 8, 2023

Color-changing cars have #PublicSafety implications

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/08/check-out-bmws-new-color-changing-concept-car-the-i-vision-dee.html

Imagine a #police #alert to be on the lookout for a thief/arsonist/rapist/murderer fleeing in a purple #car, then the car changes to green

It's easier to see the #color of #cars than #LicensePlates when things are #moving quickly

Should this #technology be banned specifically for #automobiles for the #PublicGood?

Seems like #capitalism pursuing the wrong goal again

#LawEnforcement #crime #criminals #transportation

Yes color-changing cars should be banned
0%
No, we need more ways for criminals to escape
100%
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BMW’s first 'color-changing' concept car is here—and the tech could be used in everything from e-readers to smartwatches

BMW's "i Vision Dee" is a midsize electric sports sedan concept covered in 240 individual futuristic panels with the technology to change color on demand.

CNBC
Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲Jan 7, 2023

The party of #violence observes the anniversary of #JAN6 the only way it knows how

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article270879957.html

#HouseSpeaker #Jan6th #CaptiolRiot #Insurrection #GQP #GOP #Republicans #UnfitToGovern #Unfit

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@georgetakei Ohh myyy
Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲Dec 31, 2022
Imagine if #Mastodon was like #Wikipedia and you could edit the #factual errors in someone else's post
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@elizkolbert this is why #federalism is BAD

Allowing #Earth's fate to be decided in myriad little localities filled w/ NIMBY's, #science deniers, #ConspiracyTheory / #Misinformation peddlers & idiots is only recipe for disaster

Don't want your view "ruined" by wind farms? Check yourself & your shallow, malignant #narcissism, you should be stripped of all #voting rights

#Democracy definitely has its limits regarding #ClimateEmergency

#Nationalize all #farm lands, #resouces are too important

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲Dec 27, 2022

In the US alone, what happens to #climate haven states once the #ClimateEmergency is over & reversed, & normal climate is restored, after those states spent lots of money & effort in prep for a mass influx of #ClimateMigrants from, e.g., the desert southwest & disappearing coastal areas?

Will people just then return to, e.g., AZ from MI, saying "hey thanks for letting me crash on your couch"?

#ClimateMigration # ClimateHaven #ClimateHavens
#ClimateAction #ClimateChange

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/michigan-is-a-climate-haven-in-a-warming-world-will-everyone-move-here/ar-AA15dBL8

Michigan is a climate haven in a warming world. Will everyone move here?

It seeped through gaps in the windows and doors. The smoke was inescapable, a constant, sickening odor of a bonfire they didn’t light. They duct taped every opening or crevice – even the dryer vents in the basement – to isolate themselves from the smog looming outside. Amiel Handelsman and his family were locked in their Portland home for a week as Oregon newspapers reported the air quality ...

MSN
Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲Dec 27, 2022

#Christianity didn't reach consensus on when to celebrate birth of JC until centuries after his alleged life, so how hard would it be NOW to adjust #Christmas date to fall outside of deadly #blizzard season (in both northern & southern hemispheres), so people don't feel a need to undertake #holiday #travel when it can impede the movement of snow plows & emergency responders, w/ abandoned cars & cadavers, during driving bans no less?

#Religion #Freedumb #Cooperation #HumanEvolution #CommonSense

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲Dec 27, 2022

@james #Nostradamus predicted that every #Mastodon user will eventually have their own instance

So the same toot will have 2 billion different ID strings

#winning

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@jaredzimmerman interesting, I just installed it, look forward to seeing how it works

If all this can actually be accomplished by a browser addon, I wonder why it can't just be done directly by Mastodon / the Fediverse themselves

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲Dec 25, 2022

How long will it be before #LucidMotors, #Rivian, maybe even a post-#Musk version of #Tesla form a #merger, as now they're just another automaker competing with the likes of #GM, #Stellantis, #Toyota et al. to make & sell #electric cars, no longer being unique in that space?

We've already seen #ICE brands disappear as the #automotive industry has consolidated over the last century, so now that #EV's are no longer an exception, but becoming the regulated norm, will all the startups merge soon?