Rivalarrival @ Rivalarrival @lemmy.today

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Fuck. That. Shit.

#GuillotineParty.

I experience the "search box deselected after starting to type" problem on Amazon pretty much every time I use it, even if I have the page up for several minutes before starting to use it. Its like the search box.is specifically designed to fuck with me.

Multiple platforms, multiple browsers, it's like they dont have anyone actually looking at their UX.

I dont know how DD stays in business. I'd rather have Hostess or Little Debbie donuts. Or Lender's bagels. Or Kirkland precooked bacon.

Do you smell toast?

The game ended years ago: https://xkcd.com/391/

You won. Congratulations.

We have the same problems in America, but with deer, and the same solutions to that problem.

But those same nutjobs who want to ban roo meat also want to ban deer hunting. Because they are idiots.

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Are you having a stroke?

There is no evidence that they didn't receive alerts. Frankly, it's rather ludicrous to assume nobody bothered to look at the weather.

I've seen some of the videos of the rising waters, showing locals out setting up blockades to stop drivers from entering flooded roadways, just as they do in every flood. Those locals knew the floods were coming. They've seen dozens, perhaps hundreds of floods before, and they responded to this flood just like they have always responded to floods.

The videos also showed those locals quickly moving their barriers to higher and higher ground: far higher than where they normally need to erect those barricades.

What most likely happened here is that the camp did receive their warnings and they took their usual flash-flood precautions. But, the actual flooding greatly exceeded the degree of flooding they usually see in severe storms, so their precautions were inadequate.

Government performs services, and acceptd payment for those services in the form of taxation. The thing that is missing is the recognition that the powers exercised by government are possessed by We The People. We own those powers. We "invest" those powers in the government, who uses those powers to provide paid services to its customers.

We are each owed a return on our "investment" of political authority. Our political authority should not be given to the government freely. We should be individually compensated for it.

We are shareholders.

Universal Basic Income is one possible method of compensating the citizenry for the use of our political authority.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag_limits

Increasing the bag limit on "billionaire" to something greater than "0" would have a much more appreciable effect on the climate than a thousand families forgoing children.

Oh, this one went somewhere, just not anywhere you wanted it to go.

You can say "billionaires harm society, literally". That's a literal statement that is true.

You can say "billionaires benefit society, literally". Thats a literal statement that is untrue.

You can say "billionaires are human, literally", so long as you are talking about individuals, and not corporate entities.

You can say "billionaires are steaming piles of shit, figuratively". They are not literally turds emitting water vapor. That metaphor is quite apt, but not literally true.

Likewise, they are not masses of mutated cells. That metaphor is also apt, bit is not literally true.

You can say "teratomas are cancer, literally". You can't say "this argument is literal cancer". It is figurative cancer, not literal.

I think you will see that OP is saying that "Billionaires are cancer" is not a figurative statement at all, but a literal one.

It is a metaphorical statement rather than a simile, but both metaphors and similes are figurative, not literal.

So, billionaires are not "literally" cancer, but "billionaires are literally cancer" is supposedly a correct use of "literally"?

That is my point. Literally can be used correctly in a statement that is not correct,

This is generally true, but in this particular sentence, the reason the sentence is false is specifically because of the meaning of "literally".

"The sky is literally purple" is a correct use of "literally" in a false statement. This is what you are trying to argue.

"Billionaires are a cancer" is a correct, figurative statement.

"Billionaires are literally cancer" is false specifically because "literally" does not mean "figuratively".

Watts are a unit of power. Regardless of voltage, if your appliance is drawing 3000 watts, it is heating up the same as any other device that draws 3000 watts.

Wires are not sized on the number of watts they can carry. They are sized on the number of amps they carry. If a wire is sized for 10amps, and you are using 12v, you can only get 120 watts through it. Increase the voltage to 120v, and you can get 1200 watts through that same wire. Increase to 240v, and you can get 2400 watts from that wire. The higher the voltage, the less copper you need to carry it. You need thicker insulation to handle that increased voltage, but insulation is cheap. It's more dangerous to humans who come into contact with the wires, but you can build in additional methods to restrict human contact, such as fancy plugs and sockets.

The UK and Europe had a severe copper shortage when they rebuilt after WWII. They standardized on 240V to reduce the size of wires they needed in their homes. Instead of dozens of, low-amp circuits, they installed only a couple high-amp circuits for their entire home. They designed their household wiring so that the same circuit that powers the alarm clock on their nightstand is also used for their 3000-watt space heater.

They further reduced copper consumption by using undersized wire in a "ring" circuit instead of properly sized wire in a "branch" circuit. Failures in ring circuits are extraordinarily dangerous, because there is no immediate indication that they have failed. Each outlet receives power from two sides of the ring; if one side fails, they draw all their power from the other side, overloading the ring.

The US solution to these problems is intrinsically safer household wiring. We threw copper at the problem, because we had the copper to throw. But what we got in return was a vastly safer system. We managed to get a 240v system that only carries the risks of a 120v system.

That would make sense if your GP or specialist was also taking shifts in the ER, but they aren't. They aren't choosing between your hip replacement and the lawn dart embedded in a college kid's spleen.

Your hip replacement is in line behind 274 other hip replacements. It is performed by a doctor who does nothing but routine surgeries, day in, and day out, and never touches an emergent patient.

Private clinics exist and have shorter lines for those willing to pay. The government could admit their own line is too long and start paying those clinics to take their overflow. But they dont. Better to let you rot for three years than pay a private practice doctor to do it in a week.

Fortunately, weather radio continues to issue EAS alerts throughout their broadcast area. Weather radios in the cabins would have alerted them.

Of course, WEA alerts are much more narrowly targeted. WEA alerts are for your own specific area, not the ~50 mile radius around the weather radio transmitter. An EAS alert might be for a tornado a hundred miles out and moving away, while you sit under clear, sunny skies.

Regardless, the speed and degree of flooding far exceeded expectations for dangerous storms. There is no evidence they lacked or ignored the warnings that were sent out. Their preparations were simply inadequate, because the flooding so greatly exceeded their expectations.

many people even have alerts totally disabled, because authorities got so spammy with the amber alerts.

At least amber alerts are actual emergencies. I can hear sirens for three different jurisdictions. They all test them on different days and different times, and then use them for routine weather conditions, so nobody actually pays any attention to them. Then they just fail to use any of them when two tornadoes do actually pass through town.

Obviously, YMMV. But in my experience, sirens are worse than useless.

WEA alerts, on the other hand, are extremely reliable.

I listen to the same ~30 songs, over and over and over again.