@dannyboy I'm with you-- I leapfrogged the cable era, going directly from antenna to a combination of antenna and streamed video. (And we only have the latter because my husband wanted it.) In most areas, a good antenna will get you enough stations to keep you entertained and informed.
from @jeanne-mayell
I know that many progressive oppose Vineyard Wind because of harm to fishing, migratory birds, whale migration and other sea life. But I believe it is a net gain. We must get moving with wind energy which I see as our biggest hope right now, in addition to tree planting.
I found this online:
"With climate change threatening many of the world’s species with extinction, a transition from fossil fuels is urgently needed. But some argue that the rush to replace coal power with wind could endanger birds that have a habit of flying into turbines.
While wind farms aren’t quite the bird slayers they’re often portrayed to be – one study found that they cause 0.4 deaths per gigawatt hour (GWh) of electricity generated, compared with 5.2 dead birds for every GWh generated by fossil-fuelled power stations – wildlife collisions with turbines and power lines are likely to be an unfortunate side-effect of any effort to ramp up renewable electricity supply.
But a recent study from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research might offer a solution. Researchers compared bird mortality rates over five years at a Norwegian wind farm and then randomly selected four out of the 68 turbines for a new paint job. They found that painting a single wind turbine blade black could reduce bird fatalities by 72%, and it was most effective at reducing collision deaths for birds of prey, such as white-tailed eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla)." (emphasis mine)
here is the link: https://theconversation.com/painting-wind-turbines-black-could-help-protect-birds-as-long-as-it-doesnt-disrupt-their-migration-145407
Another solution is to longer support the sponsors who sponsor Fox News and their special programs like Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and that Jeanine woman whose name I always have to look up because she's so abusive and hateful her name so forgettable.
Someone here could start a thread to show us who the current sponsors of various horrific talk show hosts and politicians and PACs that sponsor anti voter rights, the NRA, and other anti-progressive causes.
Last week i just happened to see some of that info on the sponsors of Hate:
"Tucker’s top 10 advertisers by airings, March 25-31, according to iSpot:
Of the 81 minutes and 15 seconds of Tucker Carlson Tonight ad time from March 25-31, My Pillow made up about 20% of those, Fox News Channel promos had over 5% and Fox Nation had nearly 4%. Relief Factor and Balance of Nature were the only other advertisers to account for at least 5% of the total commercial minutes during the show.
Nearly 50% of My Pillow’s total TV ad impressions during that final week of March came from Fox News’s primetime block of Carlson (27%), Hannity (13%) and the Ingraham Angle (10%), though the company is clearly all-in on Hannity more than anyone else.
Carlson’s other top advertisers once again read like… less of a primetime roster.
Ark Encounter, which has the fourth-most airings of any brand during the show, is a museum/ship with exhibits and a zoo in Williamstown, Ky. For Relief Factor, over 41% of their TV ad impressions in 2021 have come from daytime programming, and ALL impressions are during Fox News shows.
Among the brands that appeared during Tucker Carlson Tonight in January but weren’t there anymore in March were AliveCor, Relaxium, TaxSlayer.com, RockAuto, Gotham Street, OmegaXL, SlimFast and many more.
Yet these departures also opened the door for the likes of new advertisers too. That list included right-wing misinformation hub PragerU, Theraworx Relief, Hero Health, the Indianapolis Colts, Kubota and Bass Pro Shops, to name a few."
Both Costco and Bed Bath and Beyond quit carrying MyPillow after the Jan.6th coup attempt.
Here's the fireballs thrown from Cheney's hands https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-11-2021
I cut DISH off- after being a customer for 20 years this past November. Bought a smart tv and got Hulu for 1.99 a month, discovery plus for 4.99 a month and there are lots of free channels for streaming. Also, an Amazon Prime member so get books,movies and shows. Saves a lot of money and I get to see about anything I want.
Here's the fireballs thrown from Cheney's hands https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-11-2021
I sort of thought this was wishful thinking so I googled:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/us/politics/republicans-third-party-trump.html
I feel like this may just be bluster but the next week could be very, very interesting.
@dannyboy she just went on National TV , as she has been removed ,and said she is going to do everything her in power to insure the former prez never comes near the White House again.
Woman, thou art freed! Go get ‘em, Liz!
@dannyboy hmmmmm, a party split might help marginalize the cult and help the dems move forward. ?
This is my favorite quote about the Republican Party by a Republican he compares them to the Titanic.
We’re in the middle of this slow sink. We have a band playing on the deck, telling everybody it’s fine, and meanwhile Donald Trump’s running around, trying to find women’s clothing and get on the first lifeboat.”
They just keep sinking themselves. how much lower can they go…oh there is no bottom foe them to hit.
@unk-p. Thank you for posting that solution to saving birds from wind turbines by just painting a blade. Birds are very visual creatures, so I can see how that would help, and I love it!
@dannyboy hmmmmm, a party split might help marginalize the cult and help the dems move forward. ?
100% with you! But I'll believe it when they actually go forth and do it. I mean, we're still waiting on charges on the former guy. ?. Feeling a little saltier today, particularly because the Republican Party has sunk so low that I now empathize with a Cheney. This would have been unthinkable in 2020.
@coyote Thank you Coyote! Today I was pondering that exact question and now here is the answer. Light working! :)
On an uplifting note, below is an interesting article in today's NY Times which proposes a "Kinder, Gentler Capitalism" by one of the most elite: Lynn Forester de Rothschild...certainly one of the 1% of the 1% ...yet she maintains a clear moral compass and speaks out beautifully on the potential transformation of our conception of Capitalism and the responsibility Corporate America must acknowledge and take on.
May this be a harbinger of things to come.
The Mogul in Search of a Kinder, Gentler Capitalism - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Part of the Great Turning will be shift in how we define economic well-being. For years I have been bothered by the media's use of the Dow Jones Industrial Average as an indicator of our country's economic well being, which is it not. As the divide between the wealthy and everyone else has widened, using the DJIA as an economic indicator reflects a callousness insensitivity to the plight of working people. Recently the Boston Globe has written about this issue:
The Tyranny of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Re “All the news that’s fit for wealth” (Social Studies, May 9): A synopsis in last Sunday’s Ideas section discussed recent political science findings that newspaper reporting on the economy “was correlated with gains and losses for the rich but largely disconnected from [those] for the working class.” The researchers concluded that this was “because aggregate economic performance, which gets most of the coverage, had increasingly aligned with gains and losses for the rich.”
I would say, rather, that what we have been accustomed to think of as measures of “economic performance” have never been more than measures of returns to investors. We hear news reports daily, if not hourly, on the indices of the stock market. There is no analogous index for how working people fare from day to day or year to year — no Dick and Jane Average to compare with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, no index of living Standards of the Poor 500 to measure alongside the Standard & Poor’s 500.
Some enterprising economics or political science student should take on the project of constructing measures of the economic lives of ordinary people. As the saying goes, if you can’t count it, it doesn’t count.
Deborah Roher