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California moves toward ban on gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com/california/story/2

"The new law applies to any engine that produces less than 25 gross horsepower, including lawn mowers, weed trimmers, chainsaws, golf carts, specialty vehicles, generators and pumps."

"...[California] state requirement that portable generators be zero-emission."

How the fuck do they expect to get zero-emission portable generators? The energy density of batteries doesn't even come close.

Lebanon left without power as grid shuts down - BBC News
bbc.com/news/world-middle-east

You know, if solar actually works as well as many people think it does, this should be a good time to showcase it's potential...

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Controversy erupts in Welsh Parliament as Vaccine passport is adopted by single vote.

Speaker of the Senedd in Wales, Elin Jones refuses to allow a conservative member of Parliament to cast his No vote against Vaccine passports. The measure proceeded to pass by one vote.

https://twitter.com/RWTaylors/status/1445445022535413762?s=20
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I saw this on Instagram and it had a content warning making sure I wanted to see it...

...yes Instagram, I want to see the tyrants swing.

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@pete Really, the only thing the vaccine is good at is to keep your vaccine passport valid.

...and all this risk for a vaccine that is proving to be nearly totally ineffective at preventing infection after just a few months: nature.com/articles/d41586-021

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Myocarditis after Covid-19 Vaccination in a Large Health Care Organization | NEJM
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM

"10.69 cases per 100,000 in male patients between the ages of 16 and 29 years."

Pfizer only according to the study. Quite concerning as Moderna appears to be even more dangerous than Pfizer.

WSU to lead $125 million USAID project to detect emerging viruses – WSU Insider
news.wsu.edu/press-release/202

Emerging from where, wet markets? Or labs?

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The big alcohol study that didn't happen: My primal scream of rage
dynomight.net/alcohol-trial/

Don't worry though: you can totally trust research on covid.

Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States | SpringerLink
link.springer.com/article/10.1

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As #Signal has had severe problems recently due to its centralised nature, here are some decentralised libre alternatives with Fediverse accounts:

➡️ @snikket_im - Initiative to give XMPP a consistent look and feel on instances and apps, to make it more attractive to new users

➡️ @xmpp - XMPP standards foundation

➡️ @delta - Decentralised messaging through email

➡️ @matrix - Best known for the Element client

➡️ @briar - Peer-to-peer encrypted messaging

➡️ @Jami - Peer-to-peer Skype alternative

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The U.S. should have 53 states because it's a prime number and can't be
divided. Then we would truly be one nation, indivisible.
-oisdaman, Nov 2014
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