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[Article] USPS will now have a decent portion of their new fleet of vehicles as electric
[T]he service said that “at least 50 percent” of its initial order for 50,000 next-generation mail trucks will be battery electric vehicles. That’s quite a change from what USPS leadership announced in February when they said that only 10 percent of the service’s new fleet would be electric.
The USPS proposes a new mail delivery fleet that’s 40 percent electric, The Verge, https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/21/23272161/us-postal-service-electric-vehicle-40-percent-goal-initial-order
[Article] Don’t give in to Doomerism yet
“Polluters count on, and exploit, that cynicism. They want young folks in particular to be disengaged, and they actually fan the flames of doomism hoping that folks will fall into that trap,” Mann said. “We’ve witnessed the absolutely devastating consequences, when it comes to gun policy, a woman’s right to choose, and taking action on climate, of voter apathy. The Trump-appointed justices have tipped the balance of the supreme court so far to the right that we’re all losing key rights, including the right to a livable planet.”
This trap of cynicism and despair is something I’m certainly guilty of falling into. But despite the alarmist and fatalistic headlines that sometimes border on scaremongering, we need to remain clear-eyed about the path in front of us.
Fighting Through Climate Despair, I Hate It Here And Never Want To Leave, https://neverleave.substack.com/p/fighting-through-climate-despair
[Video] Who needs the gym when you live in a (real) city?
Not Just Bikes, https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes, https://twitter.com/notjustbikes
[Essay] Spend some time outside, you candy-ass, losers
“Getting on a bike or into a canoe is not something I do to impress anybody with my toughness or masculinity. It’s what I do to escape those kinds of domestic and cultural stressors.”
[Essay] Nick Offerman’s Call of the Candy-Ass, Outside, https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/love-humor/nick-offerman-column-thoreau-candy-ass/
Who we’re following: Web3 Is Going Great.
The bad and the goo…well mostly the bad about the world of Web3, crypto, NFTs, and decentralized finance. Follow for nearly daily updates. Have a laugh. And maybe cry if you’ve gotten yourself financially invested in this world.
https://twitter.com/web3isgreat
https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF
[Opinion] YOUR “MODERATE” “PRAGMATISM” ISN’T WORKING AND NEVER WILL
Which side is being unrealistic here? The failure to understand that solutions must match the scale and severity of our problems leaves us, inevitably, with problems that never get solved. Problems that never get solved, in these cases, translate to the mass immiseration of millions of people for generation after generation. This state of affairs is considered acceptable by the moderates, primarily because it already exists. Inability to imagine a better world is a hallmark of wise moderates. People who can see what must be done are told, more than anything else, that doing such things is unrealistic, because it would be hard. Rarely does the political establishment reckon with the fact that the only thing harder than doing these things is not doing them.
Radical Is Now Rational, In These Times, https://inthesetimes.com/article/radical-is-rational
