Haha, I just remembered that the worst insult Elon Musk was able to come up with for Mastodon was calling it "Masturbadon."

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I don’t have access to Big Oil’s internal emails about this. But they sure look wildly desperate to dodge the growing array of lawsuits over the damage caused by their decades-long scheme to deceive the public about climate change. Oil companies are doing whatever they possibly can to keep the plaintiffs in these suits (cities, counties, states, and Native American tribes) from having their day in court —and as some of the most powerful corporations in the world, there’s a lot they can do. They’re pushing Congress to pass a blanket waiver of liability for climate-related damages. They’ve deputized the Trump administration to threaten states that are bringing suits. And they have tried—again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again—to get the Supreme Court to step in and dismiss the cases against them, based on an often contradictory set of legal theories claiming that the state laws they’re being sued under are preempted —i.e., nullified by federal law. Big Oil has tried five times since 2021 to get the Supreme Court to step in and dismiss these lower court cases, and so far the court has rejected them all. But now the industry is trying once again, petitioning the justices to take up a case filed by the City and County of Boulder against ExxonMobil and Suncor. Last spring, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that, after seven long years of delay tactics by the industry, this case could finally advance to discovery and trial. https://newrepublic.com/article/203669/coney-barett-oil-climate-alito-conflicts

The biggest mistakes are the ones leaders don’t see coming. Waiting for perfect clarity leads to missed opportunities. Meanwhile: the problems keep reproducing like gremlins eating after midnight. Doing something—anything—is better than standing still. Problems left unaddressed don’t just disappear; they grow, quietly undermining your team and your future success. Look at Kodak. They had the chance to buy Xerox. They hemmed and hawed. That indecision reshaped industry. Xerox had a revolutionary computer but never capitalized on it; inaction turned innovation into a missed opportunity. Small mistakes are papercuts, they grow into sledgehammers. Great teams know that moving forward—especially in uncertainty—fosters a growth mindset and strengthens resilience. Protect the future by taking action. Because the biggest risk isn’t taking action—it’s choosing comfort over change. Spotting unseen challenges early takes practice. If you calculate the price of status quo is worse than the price of growth, what are we still doing here?