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silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•The Tick Situation Is Getting Worse. Here’s How to Protect Yourself. As temperatures rise, ticks of several kinds are flourishing in ways that threaten people’s health.1·10 hours agoIt shouldn’t be for the next 30d. Common causes of hitting the paywall:
- turning Javascript turned off
- having a device where Javascript has stopped working because you need a reboot
- running a browser extension which removes the access token from the URL
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•The Tick Situation Is Getting Worse. Here’s How to Protect Yourself. As temperatures rise, ticks of several kinds are flourishing in ways that threaten people’s health.11·14 hours agoThe notch is the useful part; it lets you lift the tick off your body without squeezing it. Skillful use of good tweezers does the same. (The ones on a Swiss army knife dont really work for this)
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•The Tick Situation Is Getting Worse. Here’s How to Protect Yourself. As temperatures rise, ticks of several kinds are flourishing in ways that threaten people’s health.3·14 hours agoMind you, they’re sometimes happy to burrow in even when they have hair around them. It really takes a friend and a comb to be sure.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Lessons for protesters from Standing Rock | The events following the 2016 protest are urgently relevant to our current political moment.7·15 hours agoMore that the combination of corporate violence, victim blaming, and infiltration and blackmail of vulnerable individuals is something people need to prepare for
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•The Tick Situation Is Getting Worse. Here’s How to Protect Yourself. As temperatures rise, ticks of several kinds are flourishing in ways that threaten people’s health.9·16 hours agoThat’s New York Times style. Headline Has Every Major Word Capitalized. Subheading looks normal.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•The Tick Situation Is Getting Worse. Here’s How to Protect Yourself. As temperatures rise, ticks of several kinds are flourishing in ways that threaten people’s health.161·16 hours agoIts definitely not fact. Its a naturally occurring disease which used to have a more geographically limited distribution.


silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•The Tyrant Test | A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern.6·19 hours agoThe only pattern that can work is to elect only Democrats in the mid-term so he can be ousted via impeachment




silence7@slrpnk.netto politics @lemmy.world•Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions1·24 hours agodeleted by creator


silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump | Our unofficial estimate is that around 4-6 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.3·1 day agoThe ones I was with had voted early, and were out canvassing. The kids were under 18.
That said, a lot of people are sufficiently disconnected from the news that they didn’t get how much worse Trump would be this time.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•Vance Boelter, suspect in shooting of Minnesota lawmakers, taken into custody in Sibley County32·1 day agoHe wasn’t going to stop with two. Had a list of ~70 people he wanted dead for either being Democrats or providing medical care to women. Thr guy’s plan didn’t involve getting away; just a lot more dead people.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows1·1 day agoThey’re deployed in the hope of producing a massacre that can be blamed on the victims. I do not recommend counting on their leadership ordering a surrender
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump | Our unofficial estimate is that around 4-6 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.27·2 days agoThe movement is getting larger and louder each cycle. Protests like this dont bring down the government directly, but are demonstration that a movement has support
From what I could tell, only few were outside the US. This was largely Americans, in the US, objecting to Republicanism
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto politics @lemmy.world•"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump | Our unofficial estimate is that around 4-6 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.5·2 days agoLots of kids joined their parents at the one I was at. These were by design peaceful events. Cops and haters did things at a few, but that was it
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows41·2 days agoThey’re trained and equipped in a way that you are not. I do not expect this to succeed unless you’ve already convinced them that they want to surrender.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPMto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Climate Change Warps Brains in the Womb, Scientists Discover2·3 days agoI dont think that has been well studied.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•Brooklyn Park [Minnesota] police searching for suspect in ‘multiple targeted shootings’ involving lawmakers12·3 days agoThe assassin also appears to have had use of a police car. Decent chance its a cop from another agency or jurisdiction.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•Brooklyn Park [Minnesota] police searching for suspect in ‘multiple targeted shootings’ involving lawmakers8·3 days agoIts not impossible, and situations like this tend to be ones where the facts aren’t certain until afterwards
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•Brooklyn Park [Minnesota] police searching for suspect in ‘multiple targeted shootings’ involving lawmakers4·3 days agoNot sure what the evidence is, but the police gave a press conference saying so
Or he didn’t know how to do it without that. The match-as-best-approach was conventional wisdom for a lot of people for a long time