I'm in Colorado and my house already has been within a mile of a wildfire due to increased drought from climate change, as well as being within 10 miles of catastrophic flooding.
Climate is everywhere.
Shifting precipitation patterns.
Drought in moist regions, floods in arid regions, massive shifts in farming methods that would be necessitated by famine/crop failure, drying of wells and rivers that provided drinking water.
I love sumac too!
They do grow fast- sumac can give shade in a sunny spot in a single year.
The way light comea through the leaves is so soothing.
Out west, country folk fucking love ranch. Especially with pizza.
You're completely missing the point of the trolley problem:
Do you take an action that causes a direct harm, even if it's in service to reducing harm?
It's a valid moral stance to decide you will not personally perform a harmful action. That's not walking away from the trolley, that's refusing to throw the switch.
Your framing of the situation is false. Voting for Harris is throwing the switch and dooming Palestinians. Voting third party/not voting is not throwing the switch: you are not condoning the system that runs people over, you are not taking an action that directly harms people.
To be clear, throwong the switch is also a valid moral stance.
Personally, I believe voting for Harris prolongs our faulty political system. I voted for Kerry, then Obama (first willingly, then let myself be guilted into it). The Democrats have only gotten worse with time, and I won't vote for a party that represents me less with time instead of more.
When you make this shit your identity, you're looking for public validation of your shitty values. It's why the guy was mentioning Alex Jones and Gavin McGinnes (sp?)- public figures that are about these values make them seem more mainstream/acceptable.
Probably easier to just stop giving Israel weapons.
The content's gone
He doesn't have a dog. He didn't choose to pick up poop.
Are you swapping between like 5 pairs? As my single pair of shoes, Vans lasted me 5 months when I stopped wearing them 8 years ago. Docs barely made it past a year.
I got Irish Setters for work and am taking proper care of them, and I'm thinking they'll make it to three years.
The limit wasn't set at "definitely get poisoned," but "noticable risk." There was also the statistics saying the vast majority of people move before then or that the lines fail and need to be replaced anyways.
This was meant to balance safety with not bankrupting every small town for the poor decisions of the previous generation.
As this is relevant to my job, here's the score:
This process has been coming for a few years now.
Some old houses had small sections of their "service line"- the pipe between the main and the internal plumbing of the house - made of lead. The amount of lead that leaches into the water depends on the chemistry (the Langelier Index) and the contact time. There is currently a requirement for regular testing to see if water that sits for 8+ hours leaches enough lead (& copper) to be dangerous if someone drinks it for 20 years.
The difficulty of replacement is that records from before the 60s are spotty and may not note the material of the line. This will require potholing in front of every house to try to determine the material.
My town was already planning this out, and was starting to get prices from contractors.
Switched to netrunner instead of magic, now I'm 10x more intolerable
The first book was a Roald Dahl ripoff, and I enjoyed it for that. Everything was downhill from there.
"Utility is when left side of head go brr"
Economics in this country is such a fucking joke. I don't envy the neurologist who had to try to explain this thing to such dipshits.
My understanding is that the rest of the time peasants were trying to grow their own food and cloth and... you know, survive. This is a bit disingenuous.
That said, I would survive a lot better with 200 days off a year
But college textbooks are absurdly expensive. Can anyone point me to some options for digital textbooks that don't have stupid drm?