It was in a place where it could have become one, with the first round of federal leases issued under Biden. A few on the east coast are actually finishing up construction

Look at the nasal mist vaccines for your kid. Slightly less protection, but no needle. And you can get them by mail order and administer at home so that you don't need to organize an outing around the vaccine

I think they're likely to taste dry and stringy due to a lack of food.

The problem is that it's 90% stories that don't really lend themselves to partisan outcomes. Their fascism comes out only once in a while, when Sulzberger thinks it's important.

Rural smoke doesn't stay confined to rural areas. It's worth getting rid of the pollution from burning fossil fuels; it just won't be enough to solve seasonal smoke in India

It probably did, though a big chunk of the seasonal air quality issues in India are a result of burning off crop stubble, which isn't visible to urban residents.

So far, they're only firing women. Men get to stay in the liquor cabinet

UI design sharply increases the probability of behaving in this way; it takes a real fundamental rethink of the UI in order to change that. For what it's worth, commercial platforms are increasingly pushing people away from providing a link, either by banning links like Instagram, or by having a feed ranking algorithm which discourages their inclusion (X, Facebook, others)

I don't blame individual choices for something that's largely a result of platform design.

How people treat the news is a result of how the UI on reddit, lemmy, and social media is designed. It's not appropriate to blame people who don't have control over that

Good guess, but no. The article is worth a click

The problem is that a huge chunk of the online audience only ever sees the headline. Click-through rates hover around 2% and of those who vote or comment, only about one in four has clicked the link.

It's not a crazy concern, but definitely should be expressed more clearly.

There is a reason I quoted the key paragraphs in the post.

The reality of a first-past-the-post system is that it is far easier to co-opt an existing party than to launch a new one. The latter approach usually means handing power to the people you dislike the most