I would love to know how much of a roll that meme played in her choice of degree. Like, in the parallel universe where everything is identical up to this fire, but this picture wasn’t taken (ie, the camera didn’t work or something), did she still choose that degree?

I mean, OP provided a source link.

I close my eyes, take slow deep breaths, and with each breath slowly count up and down from 0 with the high number increasing by one on each cycle. Eg. 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 3 2 1 0… It requires just enough concentration to keep my brain from drifting off to other thoughts (usually), but is boring enough that I rarely get to 9 without falling asleep. If find my mind does wander, I just try again.

They’ve broken the system and want to say “look at this broken system, we can’t trust it!”

This has been their process for… ever. They cut funding to government agencies (eg. FEMA), then when said agency has a hard time doing their job. they point a scream that the agency can’t do it’s job and should therefore have it’s funding cut. Rinse, lather, repeat. And right wing voters fall for the sham every 👏 single 👏 time 👏.

fire its owner

Ummm, pardon? How does that work?

SCIENTISTS CAN’T EXPLAIN BrundleFly2077’s hyperbolic discourse

An Invocation for Beginnings

That means you’re waiting to use the bell until you’re right behind people. That’s missing the point of the bell entirely. You’re just grasping for excuses to have music regardless of how rude it is to other people on the trail.

I’ve got a bell on my handlebars for that.

People around where we live mount Bluetooth speakers to their bicycle and ride around on nature trails sharing their music with everyone because who the hell goes out in nature to experience nature?

Also, the paper casually mentions how rooftop solar reduces the cooling load of the building. What I didn’t see acknowledged was that that extra cooling load (presumably traditional A/C) on a building without rooftop solar moves the heat out of the building into… (drum roll), the surrounding environment. So… the heat still got to the surrounding environment, it just took a longer path to get there.

That seems like a perfectly reasonable place to build that’s not obviously at threat from hurricanes. But sometimes shit happens that couldn’t be easily foreseen, and THAT’S what insurance is for.

My point, however, is that insurance is NOT to make other policy holders foot the expense of someone repeatedly repairing/rebuilding after completely foreseeable/inevitable events.

To anyone that insists on having a house right on the beach on the Gulf Coast, I say, “Insure thy self.”

If people don’t have the common sense to not build houses in places that are guaranteed to be destroyed by a natural disaster sooner than later, then I shouldn’t have to subsidize their rebuilding costs through my insurance premiums.

Truth Social seems to be a target-rich environment for people who are easy to con.

Ya don’t say.

Brand New Key by The Dollyrots

and the original version by Melanie

!fakebandnames@lemmy.world

This was exactly my thought as I read and reread this paragraph several times trying to figure out if I was getting it wrong.

“She was in there, she was still strapped into her car and the water was actually rising and getting up into the car itself, so she was about, almost neck deep submerged in her own car.”

I don’t think so. There should be a period after “again.” That’s the end of that sentence.

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s former chancellor has lost his job again University of Wisconsin regents on Friday fired Joe Gow.

Is there an editor in the house? Anyone? Hello?

Dammit. Thanks.