The law exists. Technically she should be detained because the police should follow the law.

It’s an illegal law that should be struck down but the normal process is for someone impacted by it to bring it to the courts and get a ruling. There is no protection from Immoral legislators creating anything into law, and it is on the victim to pursue it.

I suppose following the lack of conscience theme it could be all bluster. I imagine they understand it’s an illegal law so they can only keep using it if they don’t let it get to court or if they can steer it to a judge beholden to them

Aside from the illegal detention thing, and depending on numbers, I imagine they could have taken turns - keep attendance below quorum while bringing each legislator back by turn

The silver lining in the solid wall of roiling black anvil clouds of our storm. At least we helped Canada avoid their own Magat regression

They’re welcome to say that, as long as their ruler doesn’t enter the political or policy arena and have the moral depravity to act despite a conflict of interest. As long as corporations don’t have undue influence on politics from lobbying or donations.

We don’t have to listen.

Our representatives should be representing us. …… alright alright you can stop laughing now

I completely agree with this article. As someone who has lived with varying amounts of transit most of my adult life, I definitely see the strong correlation to inertia limiting my transit use.

When I lived downtown, hit that “discontinuity” they talked about, transit became a habit, an indispensable part of my life and my freedom. I didn’t understand people living without it. While I keep my car, it was mostly an annoyance I needed for occasional road trips and visiting the boonies

However now that I live in a suburb

• when I worked downtown I could have walked or cycled to the train station but weather and potential inconvenience stopped me. I got back Into the car habit to get to the train station and needed another discontinuity to break me out of it. I walk past there a couple times a week for relaxation so there’s clearly no challenge
• now that I work in the next town over there is no transit but it’s nearby so has a solid argument for cycling or electrified personal transportation. But again I’m back in the car habit (plus free charging!). It seems inconvenient with the weather, hills, no safe route, but I wonder if it’s more the habit. I’d there was a discontinuity to help me break that habit, would I better enjoy a non-car commute?

I grew up near Binghamton. Back then we had several IBM complexes with thousands of well paying jobs. I don’t think any were in Binghamton itself but it lifted the economy of the entire region. Then IBM left. The jobs were gone and nothing ever replaced them. Young adults moved away to places with better economies. My younger brother was the last one left, talking about flipping properties with a credit card. Those towns directly affected may never come back.

But Binghamton was more diversified, the center of economy moved to different towns, the university has been doing great and incubating local business. It does have some culture, some sports, some nightlife. Property values have gone back up. The new local economic centers have new construction and new infrastructure, even if the older sections are still fading

I wouldn’t want to move back to the town I grew up in, but I can see moving to the area.

Yet more cool tech from NASA, a great example of international cooperation with the fast rising India space Industry, to track information action vital to modern life on earth. A real contribution to humanity

Yeah, waiting for it to be shut down as “woke”

While I agree on the basic economics and even taco can’t hold back time…

• he can and has slowed down EV adoption
• he can and has slowed down buildout of renewables, costing thousands of jobs
• his lack of enforcement certainly means some polluter will pollute more
• if he succeeds in permanently neutering EPA, we’ll all suffer for a generation
• he can and has blocked renewables, battery, EV manufacturing in the US
• he can and has invented automakers to backtrack to yesterdays technology, leaving them with a precarious future unable to compete that will potentially cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and a regional economic base

Thanks. Is there a common way to de-apple such a link or did you have to search for the original article?

Depending on what you mean by upstate ny or Maine, some of these areas are short on jobs so make sure you have enough opportunity. If you’re looking for small cities, Albany is great. I think Binghamton is coming back but I don’t know about Syracuse or Rochester. If you’re talking really upstate …. I haven’t been back in years and really miss that l. I don’t know as much about Maine but they’re more tourist oriented, which is a problem this year

It really seems like we get a lot less snow than when I was a kid in upstate ny. It makes not be as much a change as people are claiming

Now I live near Boston, close enough for weather to moderate, and we only get a couple snowstorms a year. We never get accumulation lasting through the winter anymore. This summer I had my AC in non-stop for the heatwaves and humidity, so I very much see the desire to head north

Not Taylor Swift but my older kid is really into retro music devices. He has a Walkman, a separate tape recorder, a record player and a boom box, and buys vinyl and cassettes

Yes 5% is still big but we needed it a decade ago. We’re running late and need to make up for lost opportunity

…… and I live in a country that seems determined to reclaim our place as the top polluter, and to throw away any hope of building for the future

Those “tipping points” however can be walked back

They really can’t. They’re called tipping points because they’re likely irreversible, in society terms.

• if the Greenland ice sheet melts, raising sea level by 23 feet, nothing we can do will bring it back for longer than civilization may exist
• if AMOC collapses, radically changing the climate of Western Europe, there’s nothing we can do to restart it
• if melting permafrost or rainforest devastation enters a self-sustains collapse maybe that’s conceivable to halt but very unlikely.
• if West Antarctic ice shelf collapses, how can any remediation make up for one of the driest climates on earth where even using ideal conditions it would take many centuries for snowfall to possibly be enough, then even more centuries for a glacier to extend a new ice shelf. And we have no way of creating those ideal conditions

As we approach these tipping points we’re quickly running out of things we can do, and the scariest part is we can’t even predict when it’s too late and probably won’t until well afterword

I have to say, I feel some regret for doing that to my kids. I understand it’s not really my choice and height is a shallow characteristic, but I’m 6’3” and my sons ended up 5’7” and 5’9”. Sure it’s about average but the one physical plus I could have given them, and I married someone 5’2”

That graph has a really optimistic looking downturn on fossil fuels as a percentage of energy production … until you look at the labels on the y axis. Dropping most of the way would be a damn huge improvement. Dropping from 80 to 75 is a nice improvement but too little too late unless we speed it up.

I’m calling lying by statistics

We’re rapidly approaching several possible tipping points that will “rapidly” (over decades or a century) make many of the most populated parts of the world much less livable, disrupt agriculture on a global scale, cause mass die offs, disrupt water supplies and weather patterns.

The only thing “saving” us is the uncertainty: we’re not good at predicting them yet (since they’ve never happened in the history of the earth) so we don’t know how desperate we need to be

The guy monetizing the presidency? Turning the White House driveway into a car sales lot? The guy manipulating crypto to launder bribes, even trying to make the us treasury guarantee his profits? Surely you jest

Look over there: There are no Trump/epstein files.

Those are indeed much better examples of changes we need but we are rapidly approaching the point where those changes are too late. Given the severity of the likely impact, we need the urgency to act in greater desperation. By all means we need to go all out with renewable energy, net zero, walkable cities, and so many more transformation of modern society. It is the only sustainable approach. But is it too little, too late? At what point do we need to take more desperate measures?

We need to at least develop a better understanding of terraforming earth because that may quickly become our best hope

Yeah, having kids has given me lots of hope and optimism. I could always see opportunity for improvement. Even if I can’t improve the world, they can. …… it’s getting tough to hold onto that optimism.

It helped that I thought we were pretty well insulated from some of the worst actors, but especially after being hit with financial aid changes affecting their education, their future, the hope of someone able to build a better tomorrow

As a jet of energy, assuming you haven’t actually crossed the event horizon