Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉

Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or...

"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government.

“God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision...

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Well they kinda do, at least getting your opinion in front of lots of people who didn't ask for it costs a lot of money.

Trump announces he is sending hospital boat to Greenland: "It's on the way!!!" President Donald Trump said Saturday he was sending a hospital boat to Greenland, a territory that he has long coveted and threatened to seize by force. | TAG24

FFS, #NotTheOnion
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And a reminder that in addition to Iran, the US is simultaneously using its military and other power to (1) strangle Cuba; (2) continue to repress daily life in Minneapolis; (3) illegally detain thousands across the country; and (4) implicitly aid Russia by using up/not giving Ukraine more hardware.

Plus continuing to commit genocide by knowingly & willingly giving away a functionally endless supply of weapons & ammo, plus international political cover, to 🇮🇱 to destroy the Palestinian people.

In a just world, this would give them standing for a class-action civil rights suit against ICE.

Hmmmm I already have an IP, so this sounds tempting.

Further proof that NPR is completely right wing now; an interview with a cattle farmer about rising cost of beef contained zero mention of the loss of migrant labor.

Meat costs have gone up fifteen percent because it’s difficult to fill cattle care and butchering positions with undocumented workers

The criminals are running the prison!

someone pondering why someone eats so much rice and then immediately understanding (the person is asian)

i love bluesky

Also, living on austerity budget.
Preference for brown rice, if that matters.

...which one to get?
Note also being AuDHD, easily overwhelmed by too much data, especially if some of it is contradictory, & Need to make The Right Choice.

I'm sure there is a range of quality among a product so widely used by people of wide ranging income, family size, etc., & endless opinions on the internet, not sorted by how accurate their advice is.
Where does a single White Guy who's never been in arm's reach of one before start sorting out...

Bluesky FINALLY made their Notification settings MUCH more useful, so I can turn off Push notifications for almost everything without turning them off for the few things I DO want to see right away.
I wish they made THAT much more obvious first time opening it after the key update 🤨

...one public restroom & kitchen with maybe a dozen strangers, even in a great location.
These aren't Socialists doing the conversion for the public benefit - they're Capitalists motivated solely by personal greed.

For a living space that DOESN'T provide private everything, nobody is going to pay $3k/month for a 1-bedroom, & that's what these investors say they are banking on.
A guy recently wanted $1,700/m for a bedroom & bathroom, shading the rest of the house with him; $1,000 is a lot for sharing...

...advantage is that any filter should much diminish the Hot Box effect, so the whole room wouldn't have the max viral load at the end of an hour. If they're sitting next to you, that HEPA won't help-a so much though.

...per breath will be much higher, ESPECIALLY if they're unmasked; then everything depends on your mask seal being perfect at all times.

How much does a HEPA filter help, depends a great deal on how many air changes per hour for the room, plus relative locations of it, you, & the source; the big...

...only puts 5 or 10% as many virus particles into the room, if theirs is well fitted.
Worst case, now your odds are 0.2%, 1 in 500.
That's for of you're on the far end of the room, with the most diluted air.
If you're sitting next to the source & they're talking constantly, the viral load...

It can also cause a stroke years later, or eat away at your memory so slowly it's hard to notice.
So even 1/50 isn't great when the potential consequences are That Bad, and you need to roll again for each meeting you attend.

If you have "Respirators Required & Provided" for everyone, the source...

...increasingly likely that EVERY active infection will do long-term harm to your health; how long before that shows up & how severe it will be is highly variable. One thing is for sure, the odds of it making you Disabled in less than a few months increases with each subsequent infection.

So let's say the odds of getting exposed to enough virus to give your immune system a real fight is 1/10; that's another roll or 3 or better to keep it out.
Your overall odds of exposure are still 2%.
While the odds of getting an active infection depend on a lot of individual factors, it looks...

If the only protection you have is your own N95, the number of viral particles that get to your nose is reduced by 95% - assuming that mask fits perfectly for the whole event. Especially towards the end when the virus particles per cubic foot is highest, you could get a good lung-full if it slips.

NY's "Moderate" COVID level means there's a 20% chance that a room of 10 people, at least 1 is contagious.
If you're all in a conference room for an hour, nobody masking, no active air filters, you're Hot Boxing.
In RPG/d20 terms, roll a 5 or more to avoid exposutlre to a substantial vital load. ⬇️

The break isn't on ALL your pay for those OT hours, it's only for the "and a half" part of "time and a half"; 1/3 of the benefit the voters thought they were promised.
Politicians don't play 3-card Monte with tax breaks for billionaires like that!

lf you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets foryou. Lyndon B. Johnson On Southern racism

It's depressing how often I tap this sign lately.

stitch from disney 's lilo and stitch is making a funny face in a cartoon . Alt: Stitch from Disney's Lilo and Stitch is exasperated

Just as most of the snow is melting from the last storm, excepting big piles, now they're saying to expect a full-on blizzard for up to 29 hours, 20" of snow, & 55 mph wind guests blowing it all over the place at times for Long Island, & starting tomorrow so it's not going to get downgraded to NBD.

...which is an odd duck when all the other prizes are STEM-related.
Alfred Nobel was a chemist.

Fun fact - the Nobel Prize was funded by the guy who made a fortune off inventing dynamite, which made artillery & bombs much more deadly.
Someone published his obituary prematurely, & he saw a Charlie Kirk-type reaction.
The prize was his way of burnishing his legacy, especially the "Peace" one...

"What day is today?" asked Pooh "It's the day we b-rn this mothafuggah to the ground," squeaked Piglet "My favorite day," said Pooh

I'm waiting for this one.