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youkha<p>Mood of the day.</p><p><a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/watercolour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>watercolour</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/watercolor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>watercolor</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/aquarelle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aquarelle</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/acuarela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>acuarela</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/aquarell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aquarell</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/acquerello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>acquerello</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/aquarela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aquarela</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artist</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>painting</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/drawing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drawing</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/paint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paint</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/draw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>draw</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/corbeau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corbeau</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/crow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crow</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/mood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mood</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/raven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>raven</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/wary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wary</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>After a brutal 2023, the vibes around <a href="https://c.im/tags/self" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>self</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/driving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>driving</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cars</span></a> are improving. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Cruise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cruise</span></a>, the industry leader whose vehicle was involved in a <a href="https://c.im/tags/horrific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horrific</span></a> San Francisco <a href="https://c.im/tags/crash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crash</span></a> last fall, has <a href="https://c.im/tags/rebooted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rebooted</span></a> under new management, </p><p>while rival <a href="https://c.im/tags/Waymo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Waymo</span></a> is <a href="https://c.im/tags/expanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>expanding</span></a> to serve broader swaths of the Bay Area and Los Angeles<br> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> is promising a new <a href="https://c.im/tags/robotaxi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>robotaxi</span></a> service.</p><p>Although Americans say they remain <a href="https://c.im/tags/wary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wary</span></a> of autonomous driving, <br>boosters insist there is nothing to fear. <br>In fact, they foresee roads full of self-driving cars that are both <a href="https://c.im/tags/safer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>safer</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/cleaner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cleaner</span></a> than the status quo, <br>a tantalizing prospect in a country where transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and residents are several times more likely to die in a crash than those living in other rich nations.</p><p>Enticing though they are, such arguments conceal a <a href="https://c.im/tags/logical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>logical</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/flaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flaw</span></a>. <br>As a classic 19th-century theory known as a <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jevons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jevons</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/paradox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paradox</span></a> explains, <br>even if autonomous vehicles eventually work perfectly<br> — an enormous “if”<br> — they are🆘 likely to increase total <a href="https://c.im/tags/emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emissions</span></a> and crash <a href="https://c.im/tags/deaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deaths</span></a>, <br>simply because ⭐️people will use them so much.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/2/24232386/self-driving-car-jevons-paradox-robotaxi-waymo-cruise" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/2024/9/2/24232386</span><span class="invisible">/self-driving-car-jevons-paradox-robotaxi-waymo-cruise</span></a></p>
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p>When You <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GetInBed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GetInBed</span></a> With <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bigots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bigots</span></a>, Please <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Reconsider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reconsider</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MuslimAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MuslimAmericans</span></a> who don't want <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> to see <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/content" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>content</span></a> should be <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/wary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wary</span></a> about teaming up with <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/antiIslamic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiIslamic</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Xenophobic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xenophobic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/rightwingers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rightwingers</span></a> to get there.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Women</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Extremism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bigotry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Violence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discrimination</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Homophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Homophobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EmptyThePews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmptyThePews</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/07/when-you-get-in-bed-with-bigots-please-reconsider/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">metroweekly.com/2023/07/when-y</span><span class="invisible">ou-get-in-bed-with-bigots-please-reconsider/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>How will America's looming <a href="https://c.im/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abortion</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ban</span></a> change society?<br>
Romania’s abortion ban between 1966 and 1989 caused <a href="https://c.im/tags/maternal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maternal</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/mortality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mortality</span></a> rates to jump and left <a href="https://c.im/tags/people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>people</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/wary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wary</span></a> of one another</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/09/15/romania-exposes-how-abortion-bans-kill-women-rip-society-apart/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/made-by-his</span><span class="invisible">tory/2022/09/15/romania-exposes-how-abortion-bans-kill-women-rip-society-apart/</span></a></p>