first two paragraphs should be enough to convince anyone that it’s not news, just a highly biased opinion piece

it seems like one of the key defining principals of the fediverse is platform evolution - mastodon, bluesky, and lemmy are just going to be footnotes in history.

good for them I guess? the middle class has been dying/shrinking for decades. it’s not that big of a brag

PR is far more geographically isolated from the mainland than anywhere other than Hawaii (and other outlying islands like Guam), and they also get a lot more sun than the mainland. going big into solar will result in more energy/less downtime when the next hurricane ravages their shores.

eh… yes and no. I’ve lived in southern Louisiana and have been to the bayou any number of times - for the most part, the people that live there have houses on stilts as they deal with annual flooding from hurricanes - they also, seeming each and every one of them, own multiple boats and/or other watercraft. no, they’ll be fine. the cities in southern Louisiana will be really fucked if they dont build seawalls, but they will - probably. eventually, and likely too late, but it’ll happen - the Port of New Orleans is critical infrastructure, vital for international trade.

ah, so if it’s entirely open water then it’s not wetlands any more. i gotcha. various species are going to need to adapt/evolve then

wetlands are in a state of drowning

isnt that what wetlands do?

probably just as soon as city sized arcologies are built and everyone moves into them

random man evades police, crashes car, breaks into someone’s house & threatens them. police then solved the problem.

Bernie’s retiring from politics then?

could still play out that way - but Nigeria isnt the most stable place, a hard shove or two would easily topple their house of cards

Rwanda is blameless then?

perhaps Brazil or whomever should stop burning it down?

get on a boat?

yes - but if there’s no enforcement then laws are rather meaningless.

They expect to be profitable in their first year, Torres said.

most businesses that cant turn a profit wont last that long. taking out a personal loan… may have been a poor decision.

I guess they didnt get the memo to gtfo?

Biden’s mouthpiece

did you not even look at the trade deficit numbers in the link you posted?

rofl the pics in that article. never change, Africa