John W Simmer

It's fine. Everything's fine.

[John W Simmer @jwsimmer]

Roll Tide, people; Roll Tide.

[Prof. Peter Strachan @ProfStrachan]

Sir #DavidAttenborough

“Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get."

#ClimateEmergency

https://t.co/EfMrZh9RGB

[moose @mooseincrisis]

just in case anyone thought i was kidding.

[Willie Nelson @WillieNelson]

To whom it may concern and to everyone else as well,

[John W Simmer @jwsimmer]

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[KackisHD @RickKackis]

Holy crap the Official Change•org account just tweeted that the Petition to make Destiny 3 has over 400k Signatures!

Remember the petition for WoW Classic Servers had 270k Signatures and it was a MASSIVE success.

Clearly D3 needs to be Greenlit.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Every school should have a greenhouse, a native plant garden, and fruit trees. Memorizing dates is cool and all, but kids should also learn to grow food, watch pollinators at work, understand how soil actually works, and grow up knowing that they can actively help the environment.

[Hernan Cortes @CyberPunkCortes]

Forest fires and aurora borealis in Canada’s Yukon.

[I Dissent @DissentFu]

I would just like to point out a couple things first,

1. 70% of all wildlife has been killed off in my lifetime (52).
2. The 6th largest mass extinction of animals since Earth began is happening right now.

[John W Simmer @jwsimmer]

https://t.co/eSyVMVGSIF

[🫶🏼💖 @SunshinesDeluxe]

Seeing one of gods most majestic and divine creatures, fight so valiantly against the destruction and rampaging of his home should do untold psychic damage to your psyche. We should be radicalized by this.

[J. J. Ellis @jjellisart]

I said this about AI well over a year ago. Using it to diagnose and fire people with medical conditions so they lose their insurance AND their income is somehow even more heartless and evil than I’d predicted.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Movies still come on Blu-ray, music is still pressed on vinyl and books still fill store shelves. But as Sony moves to phase out physical PlayStation releases, many gamers are asking why video games should be the first major entertainment medium to go all digital. https://t.co/FagoUG3JVU

[tern @1goodtern]

I don't think Americans know what is being done to them.

[Maximizing @iMaximizing]

One of my personal favorite things about Destiny was it’s skyboxes..

Nearly every destination in the game has a full Day/Night cycle with near scientifically accurate lighting and orbits. I recall finding Europa moving in Io’s skybox before Beyond Light and being blown away.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

Nope! I always say there is no such thing as self-made. It’s a myth.

It took millions of people - from my parents to mentors to friends to competitors to fans and voters - to write my success story. I did not write it alone.

That’s the American Dream - not a lie about going it alone - but the truth that none of us do, and there is always someone with their hand out to lift us up.

[Surajit @surajit_ghosh2]

Coney Island's sandstorm looks like a scene straight out of an apocalyptic movie

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot larger than 1,500 square meters.

The law took effect in July 2023. Large lots over 10,000 square meters must be 50 percent covered by solar canopies by July 2026. Smaller lots have until 2028.

Exemptions exist for lots with genuine technical or environmental constraints, and for lots already shaded by trees.

France didn't just issue a mandate and walk away. The 2024 Finance Law introduced a Green Industry Tax Credit covering 25 to 40 percent of eligible solar investment costs.

Small businesses largely won't be impacted by the law. It more targets shopping centers, supermarkets, stadiums, and large commercial lots, not Le P'tit Bistrot.

Critics said businesses would just get rid of their parking lots. Carrefour, France's largest supermarket chain, is actually enthusiastically installing solar canopies across 350 stores, covering 180,000 parking spaces. It's expected to generate 450 gigawatt hours of power annually, enough to run the stores themselves, and it's using the canopies as a selling point - shaded parking makes stores more attractive to customers.

The projected energy output is expected to be up to 11 gigawatts, equivalent to roughly 10 nuclear reactors, without using a single additional acre of land.

The US has approximately 800 million parking spaces, most of them uncovered asphalt baking in direct sunlight. Should we do this too?

[John W Simmer @jwsimmer]

Largest U.S. power grid PJM escalates emergency actions to avoid blackouts https://t.co/Iycg2eZfub

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

Remember when Netflix was a straight up $7 a month for every subscriber and Hulu was free with ads, and we actually had a $1 value menu at every fast food chain, and you didn't have to spend $100 on five bags of BASIC groceries?

This simulation sure is fun.🫠