Yes, been a net fossil fuel exporter for a while.

So far as I can tell, no.

There really is about to be a major supply chain interruption

Fuels in the US are highly regional

Context for those who dont know it:

The absence of sparrows, which traditionally kept locust populations in check, allowed swarms to ravage fields of grain and rice. The resulting agricultural failures, compounded by misguided policies of the Great Leap Forward, triggered a severe famine from 1958 to 1962. The death toll from starvation during this period reached 20 to 30 million people

Yeah, I have an older model of that sitting around from before I replaced my main stove.

A large part of what they do is research. Taking away a couple billion a year that the government spends on that at Harvard is a big deal, even if the institution can ultimately survive it

That’s two of the big three sources of household emissions. There’s a third one though: which is heating and cooling.

I’d look at getting those off of fossil fuels next, and doing what you can to get electricity from renewables.

That’s the top 10% in the United States. They’re talking about the top 10% in the world.

Only after the Golden Toilet in the White House flushes

What if they actually use the nipple to…feed the baby

Only when they can performatively blow smoke in people’s faces. You can’t do that with a hot water heater.

All you have to do is click through to the lawsuit they link

STATE OF NEW YORK; COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS; STATE OF ARIZONA; STATE OF CALIFORNIA; STATE OF COLORADO; STATE OF CONNECTICUT; STATE OF DELAWARE; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; STATE OF ILLINOIS; STATE OF MAINE; STATE OF MARYLAND; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN; STATE OF MINNESOTA; STATE OF NEW JERSEY; STATE OF NEW MEXICO; STATE OF OREGON; STATE OF RHODE ISLAND; and STATE OF WASHINGTON

In short, most of the ones with a Democrat as Attorney General

The concerns are big enough that Waltz is being shunted off to the UN instead of being allowed to stay where he is.

Yes, it’s run by the national park service, and you can get a ferry ride to it and do a tour.

I’m not expecting anything like “up to standards”

Signal makes it believable by providing source code and reproducible builds. It doesn’t rule out the possibility that they’ve done something clever with the random number generator, or have the app store you use give you a compromised app, or provide any protection against endpoint compromise, but it’s about as good as you can get.

Third party apps derived from theirs, which explicitly promise to log all your messages to a server somewhere, like TeleMessage, are, for obvious reasons, far less trustworthy.

I wouldn’t go where you are; I can think of several examples of the NYT and US State Department agreeing about Ukraine in ways that turned out to be very right. It’s more important to look at what evidence is brought to bear to support a conclusion, and whether the conclusion is valid based on the evidence, and to look at more than one outlet to understand an issue, so it’s not easy to use paltering to mislead.

Media literacy means having a sense of which outlets lie about which issues and why. eg: the Wall Street Journal editorials and op-eds are used as a means of introducing lies for commercial advantage, and New York Times politics writers put out puff pieces to maintain access to wealth and power.

It requires a bit of critical thinking and knowing your sources. Eg telling when you’re looking at a puff piece written to gain access vs a serious investigation.

What definitely can’t work is just trusting what you see on social media.

Yes, but the stations in wealthier areas have enough donations that they’ll likely stay alive. Just poor rural areas will lose public broadcasting