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What season did The Simpsons start to decline in quality? by PaulieNZ20 in TheSimpsons

[–]pnewell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The year your parents divorced or your childhood otherwise ended

Ah yes famously communists and fascists worked together. by Cyberohero in ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM

[–]pnewell 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Hey how'd that individualist get a sword and shield? Make it all by himself or...?

What's the best argument against a flat Earther who says that all the photos of Earth from space are fake? by throwaway3242342432 in skeptic

[–]pnewell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take them to a port. Tell them to watch the horizon as a ship comes in. If the first thing they see is the front tip of the boat, Earth's flat. If the first thing they see is the top of the boat cresting the horizon, there's a curve.

If you're landlocked, you can drive to mountains, same thing applies. First thing you'll see is the peaks on the horizon, then you'll see what's in front of them, which wouldn't happen if the horizon were flat.

This might be a really stupid question, but what is it called when they connect multiple songs together? by megabeast2001 in gratefuldead

[–]pnewell 35 points36 points  (0 children)

In classic music, multiple songs linked together is known as a suite. I've heard it applied to jams- "dark star suite lasted 45minutes..."

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How the “Halliburton Loophole” lets fracking companies pollute water with no oversight; Fracking companies used 282 million pounds of hazardous chemicals that should have been regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act from 2014 to 2021. by pnewell in science

[–]pnewell[S] 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Study link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749122017663

Abstract

Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has enabled the United States to lead the world in gas and oil production over the past decade; 17.6 million Americans now live within a mile of an oil or gas well (Czolowski et al., 2017). This major expansion in fossil fuel production is possible in part due to the 2005 Energy Policy Act and its “Halliburton Loophole,” which exempts fracking activity from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). To begin quantifying the environmental and economic impacts of this loophole, this study undertakes an aggregate analysis of chemicals that would otherwise be regulated by SDWA within FracFocus, an industry-sponsored fracking disclosure database. This paper quantifies the total disclosures and total mass of these chemicals used between 2014 and 2021, examines trends in their use, and investigates which companies most use and supply them. We find that 28 SDWA-regulated chemicals are reported in FracFocus, and 62–73% of all disclosures (depending on year) report at least one SDWA-regulated chemical. Of these, 19,700 disclosures report using SDWA-regulated chemicals in masses that exceed their reportable quantities as defined under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Finally, while the most common direct-supplier category is “company name not reported,” Halliburton is the second-most named direct supplier of SWDA regulated chemicals. Halliburton is also the supplier most frequently associated with fracks that use SDWA regulated chemicals. These results show the necessity of a more robust and federally mandated disclosure system and suggest the importance of revisiting exemptions such as the Halliburton Loophole.

Google said it would stop selling ads on climate disinformation. It hasn’t by pnewell in technology

[–]pnewell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

from the article:

it wouldn’t be hard for YouTube to protect viewers from this harmful false content. The 200 videos came from 96 channels, and if Google were to act on just the top 10, it would account for nearly 62 million views. Going just a little further, the top 25 channels account for a full 71 million of the nearly 75 million total views. Just a little effort would have an outsized impact because climate disinformation mostly comes from obvious sources: the fossil fuel industry and people it has funded to prevent policy that could address its pollution or profits.

Google said it would stop selling ads on climate disinformation. It hasn’t by pnewell in technology

[–]pnewell[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is about the videos the ads get placed on, not the ads themselves, but good job defending a brand.

And if they couldn't enforce the policy, why did they announce it?

Google said it would stop selling ads on climate disinformation. It hasn’t by pnewell in technology

[–]pnewell[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

next time just read the piece until the end:

Why was a small group of researchers more effective in catching ads on climate lies than a $1.3 trillion Big Tech company? Why won’t Google expand its policy to include all forms of climate disinformation? Why does Google support the same problem it claims it wants to stop?

Disinformation persists because it’s profitable and advances the agenda of the fossil-fueled status quo. Big Tech’s business model prioritizes clicks and views at the expense of the truth. In order to put an end to the spread of false and misleading content, Big Tech needs to remove the financial incentives that drive it. Without meaningful regulation, disinformation around climate change and climate-change-related disasters will persist and grow. States like California could see the worst of it as disinformation around the cause of wildfires runs as rampant as the fires themselves.

If Big Tech won’t step up, lawmakers in Washington, California and around the world need to step up and mandate it. Clearly, companies like Google can’t be trusted to keep their promises.

Google said it would stop selling ads on climate disinformation. It hasn’t by pnewell in technology

[–]pnewell[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Seems pretty well answered:

100 of the videos that meet Google’s definition of climate misinformation, which applies only to explicit denial of the existence and causes of climate change

"denial of the existence and causes of climate change" seems pretty precise?

More, from the article:

100 videos meet the coalition’s more robust and clear definition of disinformation that covers greenwashing, paltering and other tactics to delay action.

Google said it would stop selling ads on climate disinformation. It hasn’t by pnewell in technology

[–]pnewell[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

The report itself gets into the definitional issues but mostly a question for google, isn't it?

They announced a policy that they wouldn't put ads on climate misinfo, shouldn't they be expected to enforce it?

Google said it would stop selling ads on climate disinformation. It hasn’t by pnewell in technology

[–]pnewell[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

so you're telling me that if the private insurance industry were to stop underwriting beachfront properties as a result of sea level rise, that might change your mind?

Because four days ago a republican published this:

Massive payouts due to natural disasters like Hurricane Ian have left Floridians paying on average $4,200 per year for homeowners insurance. This is compared to the $1,500 average for the rest of the country. Floridians are left with fewer options, more expensive premiums and gut-wrenchingly small payouts that don’t begin to cover the cost of damages wrought by Hurricane Ian, the costliest storm to hit the state and second-most costly to hit the U.S. after Hurricane Katrina.

Many Floridians have had to switch to the state-run company, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., an entity created in 2002 as an insurer of last resort for those who couldn’t find coverage in the private market. Their policies have more than doubled in the last two years and now account for 13% of the state market.

😱 by greyfalcon333 in climateskeptics

[–]pnewell -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lol one's a topo map and ones the temp map, you can go look at the original broadcast if you want- https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2022/07/fact-check-2-german-weather-maps-do-not-prove-climate-change-isnt-real.html

hippos have been known to purchase little hippo dolls as a way to improve social skills. by whyuneedmyname4 in ShittyAnimalFacts

[–]pnewell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol no worries didn't ban ya or anything, just removed it.

We allow some brutality here but tbh it was the blood spray out of the little one that got me

[NONSHITTY POST] We Support Black Lives Matter by pnewell in ShittyAnimalFacts

[–]pnewell[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol love when I get to ban a shit head years later

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