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Matthew Yglesias
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You can apparently do a lot to mitigate urban heat island effects
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David Wallace-Wells
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“Medellín’s temperatures fell by 2°C in the first three years of the program, and officials expect a further decrease of 4 to 5C over the next few decades, even taking into account climate change.” reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corridor
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Conor Sen
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When I was in Phoenix a couple months ago the lack of artificial shade really surprised me. Seems like something they should work on.
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John Goetz
@GoetzItSold
I'm still betting on the fact that most of what we call climate change is simply poor planning and has little to do with the climate
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Sac Cityzen
@SacCityZen
If the urban cooling is to come from trees, it assumes enough water. Also: what effect does the shading have on "eyes on the street"?
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Rayven Vinson
@RayvenVinson
Yup! A lot of cities actually have this. I live in Baltimore, and there’s been a concerted effort to expand the urban tree canopy specifically to address air pollution and increasing temperatures. You can even make a request for a tree for your yard!
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Armand Domalewski
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ever since I learned the American Medical Association actively fought for and won a restriction on the supply of doctors because they said we’d have a “surplus” I’ve become instinctively suspicious of all doctor guilds
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McKay Coppins
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Insane to me that we as a society looked around and basically said, “You know what younger men need? Another massively self-destructive vice that they can easily access from the phone in their pocket.”
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YIMBYLAND
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Ban sports gambling yesterday. Jesus.
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do not fall for the american association of anesthesiologists! blue cross is cracking down on shady billing practices & the anesthesiologists are trying to generate outrage to maintain their hyper lucrative racket
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More Perfect Union
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Blue Cross Blue Shield in Connecticut, New York and Missouri has declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries. It the procedure goes over a certain time, anesthesia will not be covered for the duration. asahq.org/about-asa/news
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This post is directly from the American Society of Anesthesiologists. This change follows medicare billing practices. cms.gov/files/document… Anesthesiologist providers very often have been found participating in surprise billing, and this change attempts to close this loophole. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
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TracingWoodgrains
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congratulations to all the outraged leftists who successfully protected the right of anasthesiologists to keep medical costs high and prevent the Medicare cost model from expanding and congrats to the anasthesiologist society PR for securing a reversal by tapping populist rage
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BREAKING: Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield reverses decision to put a time limit on anesthesia apnews.com/article/anthem
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