atx_aquarian 1d ago • 93%
This is exactly how I used to see things when I grew up in a conservative echo chamber.
And now that I recognize a person's right to choose and tend to think capital punishment should probably* not be legal, I'll add that it's not that my underlying beliefs changed, just how I now understand things. Some people do deserve capital punishment. And innocent people should be protected. But personhood doesn't start at conception, a person conceiving has a right to decide what happens to their body, and the state can never be trusted to administer capital punishment.
*I say "probably" because I also think it might be necessary to allow it in extreme cases. My reasoning is that if people don't believe the justice system will adequately punish, they have incentive and no ultimate detergent for taking justice into their own hands.
atx_aquarian 7d ago • 100%
Just to be really clear, too, they're looking at local effects (they say "urban microclimate"), not overall climate.
atx_aquarian 2w ago • 100%
Whether we voted is not anonymous, but how we voted is anonymous. It's just that our political leanings are pretty transparent in our personal data.
atx_aquarian 2w ago • 88%
Gotta rtfa to get the full context.
Even so, at least three county jails in Florida that sit within mandatory evacuation areas have decided that detainees will ride out the storm. These jails — Pinellas, Manatee, and St. Johns counties — have a combined incarcerated population of more than 4,000 people. Recent analysis from The Appeal found that more than 21,000 people are locked up at facilities in areas with evacuation orders ahead of Milton. An earlier investigation by The Intercept found that across Florida, 52 jails, prisons and detention centers face major to extreme flood risks over the next 30 years as such climate-driven storms intensify, the most among any state.
Florida has among the largest populations of incarcerated people in the country, more than 84,000, according to federal data — exceeding the jailed populations of entire countries, such as France, Germany, Malaysia, or Venezuela.
“With that number of inmates it’s not really possible, feasible to evacuate people out of there, and it’s unnecessary because we can go up,” said Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri on Wednesday during a press conference. He said the Pinellas County Jail, which has a population of about 3,100 people, is prepared to move people from the first floor cells to the second floor in the event of flooding.
“We have plenty of staff there, everything’s safe, it’s under control and I’m not concerned about it,” he said, adding that around 800 deputies and jail staff would be on hand. The jail sits within an area deemed Zone A, the most severe tier among evacuation areas, and is located next to a waterway that spills into Tampa Bay.
There are still systemic problems here, but it's not like they just locked everyone on the ground floor and peaced-out, as the headline made me think.
Edit: I just want to add that the rest of the article goes even deeper in, in my opinion, undoing my outrage induced from the headline. It talks about facilities being weather-ready and built on higher ground, it mentions procedures for ones that aren't, it consults a former FEMA official....
atx_aquarian 2w ago • 100%
I want someone to project that map onto a globe to illustrate how ridiculous it was. The elegantly circular arcs of the north sides of those storms would look bizarrely teardrop-pinched, if I'm not mistaken.
atx_aquarian 3w ago • 100%
One of them (Zoom I think) at least used to be able to pop up a request for attendees to turn on their mics. I was glad to see it required permission, and I was not glad to see the host must have clicked that request.
atx_aquarian 4w ago • 95%
Are there still places that legally mandate car refueling operators? That seemed like a job that literally only existed to give some people a job.
atx_aquarian 1mo ago • 100%
Might have just found out about another?
Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-planted-explosives-hezbollahs-taiwan-made-pagers-say-sources-2024-09-18/
atx_aquarian 1mo ago • 94%
blancat
atx_aquarian 1mo ago • 100%
If you're on a ".gov" site, it's safe to expect that it is a legit site of the US government.
atx_aquarian 1mo ago • 100%
And primaries are the "real" elections to get us there. General elections will continue to be major party A vs. major party B, with a "this is the most important election ever" backdrop, while primaries are where we have to try to get our important issues (like election reform) carried by generally electable candidates to get those issues injected into the parties.
And the amount of money spent on primaries confirms how influential they are capable of being.
atx_aquarian 1mo ago • 100%
Nice
atx_aquarian 1mo ago • 100%
Sun Tzu nods, wisely.
atx_aquarian 1mo ago • 97%
I'm under the impression there are more votes to lose by not appearing to stick with Israel than there are votes to lose by not attempting to intervene. At least, that's what the party appears to have assessed.
atx_aquarian 1mo ago • 100%
It's absolutely not enough time. Those are serial killers in the making.
atx_aquarian 1mo ago • 90%
Fuck is wrong with you?
atx_aquarian 1mo ago • 100%
I support this new saying. What's wrong with people literally fitting the original label? I think we generally appreciate those people, right?
atx_aquarian 1mo ago • 100%
Perfect new name for a "love blanket", lol.
atx_aquarian 1mo ago • 100%
Yeah, good point, but that article isn't talking about what's in this picture.
Store-bought sandwich bread usually can be kept in the fridge without much change in texture. That’s because it often contains additives and preservatives that keep it fresh longer.
This faceted structure that I think is sound baffling always catches my eye when I go to concerts there. The angles catch the stage light in different ways. I wonder how many others stare at this stuff.
I've got a community of white-tail acei, mixed peacocks (mostly dragon/strawberry and o.b.), and yellow labs. The acei and labs are running families, and the peacocks seem to be trying. (I didn't heed the all-male recommendation. I hoped I could give a more natural environment.) These two blue dolphin cichlids tend to get pulled into the peacocks' aggressive bouts. One has developed and sustained unilateral pop-eye, coming and going, for what seems like at least a few months. I'm finally isolating those two and starting with a mild salt treatment in hopes that eye just needed peace, time, and water params to heal on its own. I've got them *both* isolated because I just intend to re-home them once Mr. Popeye is healthy. The other three families are populating the tank with their lookalikes, while these two might be getting singled out more and more. **tldr: I'm wondering if this looks like a possible pair I should try to keep together** or whether they might do just fine going to a community tank at my LFS. If there's a chance they've bonded, I'll try to re-home them directly to keep them together.
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Hi, Lemmians, I wanted to share my experience messing with an old Dobsonian-style scope. My parents had a Coulter Odyssey 10.1" covered by a trash bag since somewhere around the early 90s. We used to have pretty dark nights back then, but the light pollution crept up over the years, and it probably went a couple of decades without any use, so they sent it with me after a visit. It didn't take long before I was shopping for eyepieces and realizing the original focuser was a sore spot, as it was only a locking sliding tube--no knobs or gears for smooth, precise adjustment. I started thinking about what else I would change and, with their blessing, I decided to have a little fun changing it up. Not all my changes were improvements, but it was rewarding to tear into it and put it back together with some of my own taste applied. Full album: https://imgur.com/a/I9Mj1kT ![before](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.io%2FtuEmE2f_d.webp) ![after](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.io%2F5ZPyLpO_d.webp)