krayj @ krayj @sh.itjust.works

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I had no idea they are still pulling up remains.

The US has already spent millions on search and rescue (it surpassed 1.2 million even before the wreckage was found).

Anyone else love that the ultra rich can book quarter million dollar trips on ridiculous vehicles and then still cost the taxpayers millions.

If you are wealthy enough to book a trip into space or to the bottom of the ocean, then you need to be paying (in advance) for whatever resulting expenses might come out of that....or be required to carry the insurance that will cover it. It's stupid that taxpayers have to pay for this and that the Coast Guard is STILL AT IT...racking up more costs.

There is no need to suspect conspiracy theories.

It's not possible for a moderator to delete a post without it showing up in the modlog. Admins with direct access to the filesystem and databases could theoretically do that, but that's unheard of for any well run and organized instances.

More likely, you didn't post it to Lemmy World, but to a community on some other instance and it was removed by mods of that other instance community for cause.

Lemmy.ml also has a big and popular world news community, I checked their modlog, and sure enough there are two recent posts of yours removed from c/WorldNews@Lemmy.ml. They were removed for violating the community rule of posting links to articles that are more than two weeks old.

https://lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemovePost&userId=1071995

I assume you mean "CO" detector. CO2 is Carbon Dioxide and I don't think you went out and purchased and installed a detector for that.

High humidity levels can absolutely cause a false alarm on a CO detector. Example: https://safeinhomeair.com/carbon-monoxide-humidity/

I'll also point out that not all CO detectors are created equal. There was a lot of news about this earlier this year where a number of CO detectors sold on Amazon simply did not work, or did not meet published safety and detection standards. Here's an example of some of the serious warnings that were published: https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2023/CPSC-Warns-Consumers-to-Immediately-Stop-Using-GLBSUNION-and-CUZMAK-Digital-Display-Carbon-Monoxide-Detectors-Due-to-Failure-to-Alert-Consumers-to-Deadly-Carbon-Monoxide-Sold-on-Amazon-com#:~:text=The%20CO%20detectors%20were%20sold,on%20www.SaferProducts.gov . Following that announcement, there were several other brands and models that were flagged as being non-compliant. If you haven't done so already, find your make/model and verify that it's not one of the sub-standard units that were pawned on Amazon for years.

CO detectors also need to be replaced (they don't last forever). Most use chemistry to detect CO levels, and that chemistry begins degrading as soon as the unit is built. Some last just a couple years, some are designed to last up to 10 years, but the point is - they all go bad eventually. How old is your detector?

Smoke detectors can also be fooled by high moisture.

I usually don't buy smoke/CO combo units (I prefer separate detectors for each thing), but I do have a combo unit in a hallway in my upstairs - and it's got a great feature where it announces by voice what is triggering the alarm ("smoke" or "carbon monoxide"). Does yours do that or does it just sound the same alarm regardless of what was detected?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67044182

Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas spokesman, meanwhile told the BBC that the group had direct backing for the attack from Iran.

What are you getting at here? The people who executed the attack said Iran helped plan it.

Bullshit. He's not 'out of money'...he's 'out of the money he's willing to part with'. Big difference.

They need to find his secret stashes of cash and make sure it goes to the people he owes.

I guess the smart move, then, is to wait until the court case is over. If the court rules their was no fraud (which means the property valuation was accurate), then Florida should be ruthless about collecting back taxes. If the court rules that there was fraud, then Trump is subjected to whatever penalties the court hands out, but won't have to pay any additional back taxes.

Either way, Trump owes a debt - either to the court for fraud, or to the State of Florida for unpaid taxes.

The Florida statute of limitation on collecting back taxes is 3 years.

Rep Moskowitz's idea is so fantastic, that I'd propose they look back 3 years and collect back taxes also.

Somehow I completely missed that from the article. Thanks for pointing it out.

So the repeated (ad nauseum) Trump claim "I only hire the best people" isn't accurate?

For those wondering what the actual issue is (because I was):

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says that: "under normal driving conditions, the engines can lose power due to catastrophic engine failure related to allegedly faulty valves"

It's not evident from the article, but I did some additional digging to find additional details.

The plane was a 1966 Piper PA-23 (a 4-seater)....which means the plane was not being piloted by an unnamed 5th person but by either Doug or his wife (and probably by Doug, considering he was a North Dakota Army National Guard Lieutenant Colonel in command of the 112th Aviation Battalion).

Every pair of boots I've owned have needed breaking in before becoming comfortable, and then they remained comfortable for the duration of their life.

It's critical to point out the primary scenario associated with the survey and chart data in that article.

"Given the scenario of irreversable brain injury".

That changes everything.

If our eyes had the concept of shutter speed, then there would be shutter speed amount of delay before our brains could process the collected image (keeping the analogy of how a camera works). The penalty of a delay before the brain can process the image would be way worse than what we currently experience, which is degraded night vision.

Perceiving and reacting to motion quickly is way more advantageous than perceiving a high quality image (for survival).

5 times total in the past 2 years...and the latest 3 times were because of posts like this in the past month...so basically, almost never.

Im a little shocked and in a bit of disbelief that some people think about it daily or even weekly.

If you think the only topics of conversation we need are Politics, World News, & Technology, then we don't need more people here.

Personally, I don't like having to keep going back to Reddit for everything else. For other communities to be successful on Lemmy, we need about 2 orders of magnitude more users.

Are you content to have meaningful activity in just a small handful of generic topics? I'm not.

So, yes, we really do need more people here. A LOT more.

Oh yeah! I forgot about the ranching culture. That's a great point. I've actually been to the Calgary Stampede (decades ago).

I've always heard that Alberta is the 'Texas of Canada' (presumably for the oil & being politically conservative). But since Canada only has 10 provinces, I guess that would mean each province needs to represent 5 different US states.

If Alabama and Texas are two of them, what are the other 3 for Alberta?

My story, and my motives, will probably be different from a lot of accounts posted here.

I started smoking in 1988 and ultimately quit in 2009...so a run of about 21 years, which means I've been free from it for 14 years.

My Story: My tobacco of choice was 'Drum' and I hand-rolled and smoked without filters. I liked Drum because it tasted great to me, I liked the idea of hand-crafting each and every cigarette I smoked, and it was a pretty cool party-trick to be able to produce perfect hand-rolls out of tobacco or whatever - where ever I was, I was always the designated roller. It was also WAY cheaper than traditional cigarettes - I could buy a can of Drum that would produce 250 cigarettes for $12 - and that was due to a loophole in the state's cigarette tax. Prior to 2009, the state only heavily taxed cigarettes, but not the individual supplies to make cigarettes (like loose tobacco). That loophole got closed in 2009 and the cost of a can of loose tobacco went up from $12 to $49 over night. I'd known for a while that I should probably quit, but I just never got to that mental acceptance of doing it, until this new tax came along. Ultimately, I decided I just wasn't going to pay that new tax and so I didn't really decide to quit smoking, I decided I was going to quit buying tobacco (which has the same end result). At first, I started cutting back, to make my remaining supply of tobacco last as long as possible. The lower my stock got, the farther back I cut down. At first it was limiting myself to 4 a day... then 2 a day (that I would smoke over 4 sessions), then 1 a day that I'd light and inhale a few times and put out and save for later. I stretched this out for months....and then one day it was gone. I didn't use any medical aids, I didn't use any substitution with something else. I just quit. I should also mention that I'd also always enjoyed cigars...and typically enjoyed about 6 cigars a year, but I'd decided to cut that out also. Shortly after quitting, I told myself that I'd treat myself to a cigar only after I could go 1-full-month without thinking about smoking. This went on for months, and I actually thought about smoking all the time. At first, several times a day...and then several times a week, and then eventually just once in a while. It actually took about a year after quitting that a friend and I were talking about it (he was quitting also) and I realized I hadn't thought about smoking for several months. Finally, I seemed to have fully broken both the physical and mental addiction. It was about six months after that that I decided to treat myself to a cigar. These days, I have about 3 cigars a year (all on special occasions) - which is a small enough number not to re-kindle my desire to smoke more.

It's nice to be escaped from the habit, the financial burden of it, and the negative health aspects. The other great side effects: lower life insurance premiums, whiter teeth (and easier/quicker dental cleanings), clothes that don't smell like smoke.