This years temptation island is being dragged out sm (wasn’t even as good as the older seasons) it’s now making me think it’s a planned distraction for us
I just learned about Maria Lorena Ramirez, a native woman who won a 50 mile and 500 person ultramarathon in handmade sandals. Nike the shoe company tried to give her shoes and she said "the people who wear them are always behind me" and won the marathon in her own sandals instead
It really sucks that we could’ve had useful versions of AI that conserved resources, doing the labor of tens of thousands of humans running computers for hundreds of hours in minutes, but ended up w plagiarismic chat bots that drink lakes as they tell kids to kïll themselves
There is no invention or innovation that will solve climate change for us. All we have to do is stop over-extracting resources, creating waste thru over consumption, and reestablish our habitats thru acute and long term stewardship practices. That’s it.
AOC: Why isn’t this moving? Republicans support it. Democrats support it. So what happened?
On December 15th at 415am, Elon Musk began firing off a barrage of social media posts opposing pharmacy benefit manager reform. All of a sudden, something that had almost unanimous support fell apart. We had nearly 435 members on board with it—he tweets, and it kills drug pricing reform that would save people money on their insulin, asthma inhalers, and everything they need.
And to top it off, five days after he kills pharmacy benefit manager reform, we get this tweet from Elon Musk: What is a pharmacy benefit manager?
The problem here isn’t a substance issue or a process issue—it’s an oligarchy issue, a power issue. And this room is where the power of the people resides. Everyone here was elected to be accountable to the people—not to be governed by tweets, but to be governed by their duly elected representatives.
So we can get this done; there are more of us than there are of him.
Crockett: I know that facts hurt you all, and I wish we could get on the same page, but we do know that during the presidential election, Trump would not go and participate in anything if fact-checking was involved because he didn’t want to be fact-checked. We know that Vance got upset during the debate when he was fact-checked.
There used to be a time in this country where we as elected officials thought that it was okay to just tell the truth.
Natives back in the day used to bring salmon eggs from one river to another to keep populations up. People with colonialism on the mind assume everyone is just destructive but that's not true. People generally took really good care of their ecosystems until everything went wrong