Content? Hardly.

Disinformation. Lies. Etc.

Shocker.

Not a week ago, wife and I had a conversation about whether we did the right thing voting with our feet when we GTFO that state about 18 months ago

She mentioned the general risk to herself from laws surrounding abortion, whether or not she happened to be pregnant at a given moment

Now this. Seems we did, in fact, make the right decision. Didn’t even have to go all that far, around an hour NW got us to the first medium sized city west of the IN line and changed the legal landscape significantly.

Elsewhere, someone suggested that it would be necessary to take the rebuild down to the dirt to handle plumbing and the like for individual units, but I’m not sure I agree.

Generally there is significant excess ceiling height in these commercial spaces, no reason the floor couldn’t be raised throughout the space to accommodate plumbing and the like in a way that’s easily accessible for future maintenance. You still end up with 8’ ceilings (or probably rather more) throughout.

Over the years, I’ve watched a number of retail chains and malls die, sometimes suddenly and sometimes slowly. It’s continuously seemed like a huge waste to me, when conversion to residential space would be relatively easy, relatively affordable, could be funded by local gov or nonprofit, and would make a significant difference in net housing costs in a given area.

When ‘traditional’ residential developers are competing with that, and with the ability to slap down standard-sized (AKA easy) risers/walls/etc. within commercial spaces of defined sizes, a further reduction in local housing costs is likely.

1. Ties to Giffords.
2. im not convinced Cooper is someone we can collectively rally around yet.
3. His career makes a significant statement, and one that the right would have difficulty rebutting

I distinctly remember that, and the associated horror. Not to mention the risk of fatigue, health issues, and a thousand other scenarios.

Am I reading this correctly that the Court held first that the Crown had failed to uphold their obligations, and second that the solution was to return to negotiations with the referenced First Nations to sort out prior and future obligations?

If that high-level understanding is correct, I’d be quite surprised if this did not later have to be re-litigated. Prior bad faith negotiation/agreement do not set the stage for future good faith.

As an American, I’m curious - is this general sort of holding fairly standard, wherein there is an acknowledgement of wrongdoing, but it’s left to the parties to sort out how to fix it? We’d generally expect there to be an award of equity that alleges to resolve the wrongdoing financially, where feasible, stateside.

We can’t pass an equal rights amendment, and we are, if memory serves, ONE state away from a convention of the states. This unfortunately isn’t going anywhere.

Doesn’t mean there isn’t value in introducing it, of course. Just that it’s not a serious, practical proposal.

Yes, but it’s much easier to claim ‘rigged’ after the fact when done electronically. Mail-in ballots are harder to push back on. This isn’t about voting, it’s about covertly excluding votes from certain groups of people. They just can’t say that part yet out loud.

Seems like it would be a nightmare to purify. Perhaps useful for agricultural applications, but for drinking and household use…. Most water supplies don’t have e.g., human bodies floating in them.

Not a scientist, happy to be proven wrong here, but that’s my gut.

Or, try limiting one’s actions such that they match the average American’s level of criminality, and just don’t be a fascist dictator asshole aiming to deport the people who produce food and… Yeah.

Are you seeing a family doctor, or a sleep specialist? You want the latter, and a sleep study.

The classes of drugs that might help are imperfect at best, I’d be partial to a benzo before e.g., Ambien or related, given the inherent risks of sleepwalking and worse with those drugs.

Good. Now someone will come up with profitable, but less predatory, products or find ways to reduce costs.

Capitalism finds a way, three digit interest is not the way.

That source is garbage.

Seems to be based on what amounts to a single “does not currently appear that the procedure itself killed him” statement from MGH, which is generally respected.

I will wait for the actual journal article that (I sincerely hope) is yet to come.

Five years, and an additional two months following consent from a highly experimental and unique procedure that he appears to have given informed consent for because he would otherwise have died sooner beats the hell out of five years without the two months.

I could make a hell of a lot of amends in sixty days, knowing it was all I had, that I’ve had trouble making in four plus decades…. Which would make the end exponentially more peaceful and pleasant.

Anything that gives me that much time is a net positive. Not going to bother with some of the usual surgical recovery stuff if I am fully informed at that point but… Don’t want to die wishing I had had time to make that one phone call or txt that I didn’t quite get to make because we don’t get to choose the moment.

Ten yrs from now hewill be a hero for undergoing the procedure that leads to real progress.

Some of this - and I speak exclusively from a layman standpoint of having worked extensively with quite a few Indian colleagues - has to do with whether an education system (or culture) prioritizes rote memorization vs critical thinking. India tends towards the former, the West mostly tends towards the latter.

Much simpler to persist the practice across many years when the majority of folks are explicitly taught to accept what they are told and not to actually consider it.

Context, I’m an American working for a large public company whose execs appear to have actually realized they got too aggressive with offshoring in recent years and are actually reversing the practice to a relatively sensible degree.

There is shareholder value in workers who come from e.g., a caste system, but there is also a significant risk to shareholder value when too many levels of decision-making are sent to places where that mindset is common.

Are we asking normal humans, or Noem?

Seems to be something about the link rewrite, from where I sit - I can copy and paste the link and get exactly the expected page, but if I click it, it’s broken. Seems like a Lemmy issue, if anything, as the pasted link opens just fine.

Didn’t even occur to me that it was missing - I can find the cruise control buttons to turn it on/off, and set or change speed, with my eyes closed. Which is the whole idea. Eyes nowhere near the buttons, muscle memory takes over.

Woah, if he wouldn’t touch it, that’s a bill of goods no one can sell.

Nor do I, but I certainly see how this could become a shitshow quickly. See, e.g., bar closing times, concealed carry permits, nuances around medical decisions, and a host of other things individually legislated by fifty-two jurisdictions (incl fed and dc) - consequences of an accidental trip one exit too far down the interstate can be devastating.

And most anywhere else in the world that they’re geographically practical.

Even Charlotte merits one. And Pittsburgh. And basically the entire country of Afghanistan, which is kind of interesting in and of itself.

Not all are “highway” standard, but the concept is kind of universal.