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CombatWombat

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  • Sarcasm is a whitewash way to be mean.

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  • I think unfortunately we’ve lost a lot of that older meaning as it’s been crowded out by a more racially charged usage.

  • Sarcasm is a whitewash way to be mean.

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  • The word sardonic used to mean what we now use sarcastic for — verbally ironic. Sarcasm comes from the Greek "to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer" and meant “bitterly cutting or caustic” when it first entered English. For me, although I understand that hypothetically you could have sarcasm that doesn’t have this inherently negative bent to it, the word still retains a fair bit of its original connotation for good reason.

  • Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates?

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  • Marvel Preview: Moonstar #1

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  • In her first appearances with the new mutants in the 80s, the most fun thing about her was her inability to avoid manifesting her teammates deepest fears.

  • Marvel Preview: Moonstar #1

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  • She’s one of the new mutants. Her best storyline is the Demon Bear storyline from the 1982 New Mutants, starting with issue 1 and going through number 20.

  • Judge sides with salmon against Trump administration in hydropower ruling

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  • Just a little good news:

    His order generally sustains the status quo, returning reservoir and flow levels to what they were last year with some small increases. The groups that sued for the injunction celebrated the order, and said the ruling was needed to prevent salmon extinction in the basin.

    “Salmon need help now, and we’re encouraged the court has granted immediate, commonsense relief that will help protect imperiled north-west salmon and steelhead,” said attorney Amanda Goodin, who works for Earthjustice, an environmental law organization that represented the plaintiffs.

  • Pacific Northwest - OR,WA,BC @lemmy.world
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    Judge sides with salmon against Trump administration in hydropower ruling

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/feb/26/salmon-dams-trump-admnistration-oregon-washington
  • Comic Books @lemmy.world
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    Marvel Preview: Moonstar #1

    aiptcomics.com /2026/02/27/marvel-preview-moonstar-1/

  • Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library

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  • The whole movie is included in the article and is under a minute. Worth a viewing, imo.

  • movies @piefed.social
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    Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library

    blogs.loc.gov /loc/2026/02/lost-19th-century-film-by-melies-discovered-at-the-library/

  • The AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

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  • I really liked this one. I think I really could see our current ai in the antagonist:

    “I think that it’s inherited our worst attributes,” said Verbinski of the film’s AI antagonist. “It’s much, much worse than wanting to kill humans. It wants us to like it. It demands that we like it. I think part of that has to do with being tasked in its formative years to keep us engaged. A lot of people talk about, what is AI doing to us? But there’s not a lot of conversations about what we’re doing to it. This entity being born, it’s being tied and bound and manipulated and told, ‘Let’s look at the humans and what do they want, what do they need? What do they respond to most? What do they hate?’ All those things are going to be hardwired into its source code. It’s going to have mommy issues, we’re going to have to put it on a couch.”

  • movies @piefed.social
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    The AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

    arstechnica.com /culture/2026/02/the-ai-apocalypse-is-nigh-in-good-luck-have-fun-dont-die/

  • 11% of Northwest Residents Live in Fire Country; 100% Pay the Price

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  • We need to build so many more homes, but can we please do it where they won’t immediately burn down again?

    For now, though political will for these types of changes is lacking. Oregon, for example, repealed its wildfire hazard map and related building codes after backlash from property owners. And, if California’s experience is any indicator, less than a year after the catastrophic 2025 fires in Los Angeles, city leaders moved quickly to rebuild in areas with very high wildfire risk and continue to push back on statewide defensible space requirements.

    If comprehensive reforms remain politically infeasible today, policymakers can still lay the groundwork for them by giving northwesterners access to honest information about the rising risk of fire. This means helping renters and homebuyers know the hazard wildfires could pose to their homes and allowing insurance prices to adjust (both up and down) to reflect actual risk of a property burning down. All the while, legalizing more homes in safer parts of the Northwest can ease some of the pressure pushing people to move into harm’s way.

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    11% of Northwest Residents Live in Fire Country; 100% Pay the Price

    www.sightline.org /2026/02/26/11-of-northwest-residents-live-in-fire-country-100-pay-the-price/

  • How to Replace Air Conditioning? Passive Strategies for Addressing Global Warming

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  • Huge benefits for small cost if we design with this in mind:

    It is incredibly easy to press a button on the remote and watch the room temperature drop by 10 degrees Celsius in a matter of minutes. However, perhaps we would not be so reliant on this sudden cooling if our cities offered high-quality and accessible urban design featuring vegetated surfaces, shaded areas, or water elements that help reduce overall urban temperatures. The revitalization of the Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul is a practical example of how we should approach our cities. Following its revitalization and integration into Seoul, it was observed that temperatures along the river decreased by between 3.3°C and 5.9°C compared to a street just a few blocks away.

    In addition to urban considerations, when it comes to architectural strategies, passive mitigation of high temperatures relies on several well-known yet perhaps equally underestimated measures. These include shading (via vegetation or built volumes), reflective surfaces, generating thermal mass through materials, proper solar orientation, and cross ventilation. Research suggests that combining these passive strategies can result in an average internal temperature decrease of 2.2°C, a 31% reduction in cooling load, and a 29% energy savings.

  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    How to Replace Air Conditioning? Passive Strategies for Addressing Global Warming

    www.archdaily.com /1015113/how-to-replace-air-conditioning-passive-strategies-for-addressing-global-warming

  • Find Out Exactly How Much Downtown Highways Cost Your City

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  • Hint: It’s more than you think:

    In Chicago, for instance, reimagining those right-of-ways could open up nearly $8.3 billion in redevelopment potential within three miles of the Windy City's epicenter; in Boston, it's $16.3 billion.

    And in both cities, the annualized household costs of maintaining infrastructure over its lifestyle and paying the costs of driving are north of $23,000 a year — a price so few residents are willing to actually pay that local governments are struggling to fill their potholes.

    "What we typically hear in the press is that congestion costs us billions of dollars a year," Kennedy adds. "But whatever the number might be, it's usually a scare tactic that's multiplied by the entire population. When you start breaking that number down per household or per capita, the number is actually not that big — and it's dwarfed by the overall costs of having to own and operate several vehicles per household, as well as all the infrastructure to go with it.

    "We need to get some numbers out there that [show] why our municipalities are effectively broke, why the roads are so bad, and why we have to continually cut services and raise taxes just to tread water as a municipality," he continued.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Find Out Exactly How Much Downtown Highways Cost Your City

    usa.streetsblog.org /2025/12/15/find-out-exactly-how-much-downtown-highways-cost-your-city
  • Los Angeles @lemmy.world
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    Ride The D Unisex Heavyweight T-Shirt

    shop.metro.net /products/ride-the-d-heavyweight-t-shirt
  • Seattle @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Dive into ‘90s Nostalgia with KCLS Rewind

    kcls.org /news/dive-into-90s-nostalgia-with-kcls-rewind/
  • movies @piefed.social
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    Mortal Kombat II | Official Trailer II

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Car dependency ≠ Freedom

  • QueerDefenseFront @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The Trans Continental Pipeline

    tcpipeline.org
  • The Onion @midwest.social
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    Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making?

    www.mcsweeneys.net /articles/being-a-luddite-is-cool-and-all-but-have-you-seen-the-hilarious-tapestries-these-new-looms-are-making

  • Tukwila Becomes Latest Puget Sound City to Impede ICE Expansion

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  • Somewhat reassuring:

    “There is no permit pending with the City of Tukwila. There has been no application, nor has the federal government awarded any type of facility to operate within the city of Tukwila or within the a city in the greater Seattle area,” Brandon Miles, Tukwila’s Director of Strategic Initiatives and Government Relations, told the Council Monday night.

    And also:

    “This is a first step. What else we can do? I don’t know. We’ll find it, because, you know, one council member does not have the power to make change. It takes a group of us, but I know as one person, I am committed to making sure that this doesn’t happen under my watch,” Tukwila Councilmember Verna Seal said ahead of the vote. “I am more than in favor of us passing this tonight, and figuring out what else we can do, because it’s not going to stop here. It’s not going to stop here, so we just have to keep it up.”

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    Tukwila Becomes Latest Puget Sound City to Impede ICE Expansion

    www.theurbanist.org /2026/02/25/tukwila-becomes-latest-puget-sound-city-to-impede-ice-expansion/
  • Tesla @lemmy.zip
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    It’s Official: The Cybertruck is More Explosive Than The Ford Pinto

    fuelarc.com /news-and-features/its-official-the-cybertruck-is-more-explosive-than-the-ford-pinto/

  • Projected PWHL standings

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  • 14% is not a lot of percents, but it is not zero percent.

  • Women's Hockey / PWHL @reddthat.com
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    Projected PWHL standings

  • The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis

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  • Also somewhat reassuring:

    Higher margins increase retained earnings and investment capacity. If output rises and real GDP increases then by national income accounting identity something must be rising on the demand side: Consumption, investment, government spending, or net exports must be increasing (more here). A scenario in which productivity surges but aggregate demand collapses while measured output rises violates accounting identities.

  • Economics @lemmy.world
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    The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis

    www.citadelsecurities.com /news-and-insights/2026-global-intelligence-crisis/
  • Astronomy @mander.xyz
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    Annular solar eclipse seen from space

    www.esa.int /ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/02/Annular_solar_eclipse_seen_from_space
  • Seattle @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Seattle Social Housing Staffs Up, Nets $115 Million

    www.theurbanist.org /2026/02/22/seattle-social-housing-staffs-up-nets-115-million/

  • The Macroeconomic Effects of Tariffs: Evidence From U.S. Historical Data

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  • Unsurprising findings, but particularly frustrating given the pro-tariff crowd continues to cite increased manufacturing activity and output as a benefit of tariffs.

  • Torrent's Olympians welcomed home, address Trump controversy

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  • Rapinoe addressed the controversy in her congratulatory speech: “You know I’m not going to let (that phone call) slide, obviously. What was so clear to me about that phone call was that it had nothing to do with you and said nothing about you. The thing that I took (away) was immediately, I was like, ‘Oh, I know how I feel about (the men’s team), though.’

    “I think everybody who saw that clip or who watched that moment said, ‘Hell, no.’ You might not be for everybody, whatever, but you are for us. You are ours here in Seattle, (and) you are ours here in America. Thank you for just this incredible moment that you gave us that will be memories for the rest of our lives.”

    She added later: “You are a champion now, and nobody can say [expletive] about that.”

    I love Pinoe. Go off, queen.

  • PWHL Playoffs: A Too-Soon Look At The Gold Plan

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  • Unfortunately it is my Torrent setting the 64 point playoff cutoff line :(

  • Laura Stacey Reflects On Olympics And Relationship As Only A True Leader Could

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  • I love Stacey and Pou and will never not post Stacey and Pou features.

  • What do programmers and dentists have in common?

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  • They both have to be careful about bites (bytes)?