People just assume if you can walk up to a wild animal, it's tame.
To a bison, killing a human is like swatting a fly. Well, easier than swatting a fly. We're a bigger target
We're not a threat, we're not food, we're just a potential annoyance. Dumb enough to get close to a calf, and then you're really fucked. It's like picking a bare knuckle fight with a wrecking ball.
Did you mean to post to /noonedownvoteme instead?
Like, people answered yout question, what more did you want? A gold star?
We need money out of politics, but it's not going to happen because moderates Dems and Republicans both take advantage of it.
We won't be able to fix it till progressives are the majority, and we're having difficulty because dirty money goes into primaries too where it's even more impactful.
If you bring in lots of money (shady was doesn't matter) you get leadership positions.
That's why Jaime Harrison is is running the DNC despite not knowing how to win an election.
The system is built around money, not votes.
We're going to see both their numbers go nuts here in a couple weeks.
The dark money waits until it's too late to get tracked down before the election.
The sad truth is there's more ways around donation limits than there are around federal background checks for guns.
There's effectively zero limit if you put a little bit of planning into it.
Yeah, the basement is going to be colder...
You can circulate the air if you want to balance it out, but the basement is going to get colder again.
If you're talking about saving energy:
At about 3pm circulate the air. That's a little before your AC is going to start experiencing it's highest workload.
At around 6pm or when ever, stop.
Try it for a couple of days with just a fan. If it's a noticeable difference and you like it, you can get a vent installed that pushes up from the basement, and another somewhere else that just goes straight to the basement. You can put the fan/blower on a timer. I'd recommend one of those "smart plug" things, they work as a timer and you can also controll locally from your phone.
But if you're circulating air 24/7, it's just making your AC cool even more air.
So you just want to use it to dump a bunch of cold air when you need it most, and then let it naturally cool down the rest of the nigh/day.
Whether or not this adds up to more than negligible benefits for energy use...
I have zero idea.
But it's essentially just an inefficient heat pump. The theory behind it is sound.
I'm not trying to pick a fight, and I know I'm probably coming off like a dick.
But it's not just for your benefit, you're downplaying a serious danger and victim blaming. This can happen to anyone at an unmarked beach, which is why government agencies monitoring this shit is important.
You can go do what you want. But don't make people feel like it's not a big deal.
Especially when the Gulf has weaker rips than every other coastline in North America, because it's a gulf.
It's like me saying no one has to worry about drowning because I only swim in kiddie pools. When the whole ocean is behind a rip it's entirely different. There are still rips, and people do die from them in the Gulf. But they're just not as strong as elsewhere. And part of the reason people die there, is they don't take them serious.
There is zero reliable ways to tell if there's a rip from the beach...
The danger is under the waves, if there isn't proper signage you won't know until it's probably too late. And everyone is different. The teens were able to swim to safety, the parents weren't.
If you recognize you're in a rip current, what you can try to do is swim parrell to the shore and then try to come in. It's dangerous because the rip can't be overcome by swimming directly in, you have to go around it.
But even if you know that, you might not remember, and it might not help.
The people that often die from this, are overconfident people like you who think it can't happen to them because they're smart.
The humor left the situation as soon as I heard what the cop was shooting at was a confirmed unarmed and handcuffed person locked in a police car.
That piece of shit is in all likelihood riding around in a cop car right this second.
He's not saying it should be run by then, but "in cooperation" with them.
That likely means Israel does whatever it wants, that's their definition of "compromise".
A long with that bit about "re-education" this isn't a good thing.
Yeah, they're usually marked, but ocean temp changes a lot of shit and you can run across ones with zero signage.
I'd imagine Florida is especially bad because they refuse to believe in climate change and anything connected to it.
So I can see them defunding the organizations meant to keep this updated and people safe
How is a cop supposed to cop if they can't shoot people?
I mean, haven't we known for a long time women have better pain tolerance?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–Syria–Iran–Iraq_coalition
If the US joins Israel, that pulls in Russia, Iran, Syria, Iraq, and since Russia and NK just did their deal. Likely NK as well.
AIPAC has bought off enough of both sides of the aisle, that our politicians will say we join.
This ain't the same WW3 shit we've been hearing about since the 50s. This shit can pop off at any moment.
Israel isn't acting rationally and Biden has repeatedly said he will support them under any possible circumstances. So what the fuck is going to happen?
AIPAC aren't on anyone's side except Israel.
And they're not gonna hesitate to destroy American democracy if it gets "moderates" like Biden, Schumer, or Jeffries in office that are going to not only turn a blind eye, but defend their genocide.
They don't care if Dems lose and a Republican wins in the general. Because they bought off the republicans too.
And the DNC probably doesn't care that much either. Its easier for them to unseat a Republican than a progressive.
Progressives have been trying to play ball for decades, but these "moderates" never show any of that unity the constantly demand from us.
People want to keep calling being against genocide "single issue voters" which is just the same projection shit republicans do.
What kind of argument is that?
A bullshit one
Free trade is 100% important.
It's just a tired click bait title
Exactly what I was going to say, and a perfect example of one of the giant holes in our system
trump could have put all of his kids on the SC if he wanted too.
There's literally nothing stopping republicans from getting that ridiculous with it except decorum, and that doesn't mean shit these days
Every language initially embraced words for black and white, symbolizing darkness and light, followed by red, associated with blood and wine. Subsequently, yellow and green entered linguistic lexicons, with blue consistently lagging behind as the last hue universally recognized.
I've never once in mynlife been afraid to ask a question about coffee...
I hate how people act like biased judges are a new problem in our system.
It's been a problem for the entirety of America, but we keep never fixing it.
We need actual progress to fix the system
The source of a single $64 million donation in 2020 used to help Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump remains a mystery.
Some of Hollywood’s brightest stars headlined a glitzy fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Saturday night.
No charges were filed against a Northern California second grade teacher who police said was teaching with a blood alcohol content level two times the legal limit.
>While the District Attorney’s Office agrees that it is highly inappropriate to teach while intoxicated, it is, unfortunately, not illegal.”
Israel’s dramatic rescue of four hostages from inside the Gaza Strip, in an operation that health officials say killed 274 Palestinians, comes at a sensitive time in the 8-month-old war.
A string of security, logistical and weather problems has battered the plan to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to Gaza through a U.S. military-built pier.
>Treasury secretary came out against the proposed global levy, which proponents say would stop the rich from shifting wealth into countries where they can avoid paying the tax
The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous. And let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security. ###
Full statement:
>The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous. And let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.
It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer on hold earlier in the month.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15415020
> >The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday. > > >It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer — consisting of 3,500 bombs — on hold this month. The administration has said it paused that earlier transfer to keep Israel from using the bombs in its growing offensive in the crowded southern Gaza city of Rafah.
It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer on hold earlier in the month.
>The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday.
>It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer — consisting of 3,500 bombs — on hold this month. The administration has said it paused that earlier transfer to keep Israel from using the bombs in its growing offensive in the crowded southern Gaza city of Rafah.
Legal doubts remain about the insurance company posting Trump's $175 million bond in his New York fraud case.
>"But the Trumpian part is that even though, or perhaps because, it may be part of a Trump scam, Knight now too may be on the hook for $175 million as it won't automatically get out from underneath its own proffered surety."
>Hankey, a billionaire, has already said that his company will be able to post the money for Trump.
>He was reacting to a comment on X by lawyer Dave Kingman, who wrote that Knight will not be able to post the $175 million.
>"Understand that Knight Specialty has a problem. This bond cannot be approved. Under the CPLR [Civil Practice Laws and Rules] the surety will remain obligated under the bond until a replacement bond is filed. Trump is unlikely to get a replacement bond. Knight Spec will be liable AND Trump won't have a stay [on enforcement]," he wrote.
Donald Trump has posted a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case, halting collection of the more than $454 million he owes and preventing the state from seizing his assets to satisfy the debt while he appeals.
The bond Trump is posting with the court now is essentially a placeholder, meant to guarantee payment if the judgment is upheld. If that happens, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee will have to pay the state the whole sum, which grows with daily interest.
If Trump wins, he won’t have to pay the state anything and will get back the money he has put up now.
Not sure if anyone can help, but there's a user I've tried to block I don't know how many times now, but I still see their comments and they reply to one of mine about once a week. Not just a single reply, they tend to reply to multiple comments each time they do it if I don't respond.
Which is really annoying because unusually don't pay attention to usernames.
Obviously the first thing I tried was unblocking and blocking again, but it never sticks
Not sure if it's related, but whether I have them as blocked or not, their profile always show 0 comments/posts.
Also they're from kbin if that matters.
Is this just a glitch? Any known ways to actually block that account?
Appearing in appeals court against special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday, Donald Trump argued he was 'presidentially' immune from criminal charges alleging he conspired to subvert the 2020 election.
The stark question was posed to Trump’s attorney John Sauer by Judge Florence Pan: Was a president immune from prosecution for any unlawful act, at all? Could a president order his political rivals to be assassinated by Seal Team 6 as an official act? Could he sell pardons at his pleasure if he saw fit and then face no consequences for his actions?
“He would have to be impeached and convicted first,” Sauer replied,
The respected Jewish leader in Detroit died in a random home invasion at her home near downtown in October, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Nearly half of Democrats disapprove of how President Joe Biden is handling the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The poll found 50% of Democrats approve of how Biden has navigated the conflict while 46% disapprove — and the two groups diverge substantially in their views of U.S. support for Israel. Biden’s support on the issue among Democrats is down slightly from August, as an AP-NORC poll conducted then found that 57% of Democrats approved of his handling of the conflict and 40% disapproved.
The judge said Chief Judge Markey gave her permission to disregard a court rule. That judge "has been dead for 17 years and has not been a member of the Court for 32 years," noted the council.
>Judge Newman has threatened to have staff arrested, forcibly removed from the building, and fired. She accused staff of trickery, deceit, acting as her adversary, stealing her computer, stealing her files, and depriving her of secretarial support. Staff have described Judge Newman in their interactions with her as “aggressive, angry, combative, and intimidating”; “bizarre and unnecessarily hostile”; making “personal accusations”; “agitated, belligerent, and demonstratively angry”; and “ranting, rambling, and paranoid.” Indeed, interactions with Judge Newman have become so dysfunctional that the Clerk of the Court has advised staff to avoid interacting with her in person or, when they must, to bring a co-worker with them.