silence7 @ silence7 @slrpnk.net

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I didn't find either group on social media. Real groups have some other way to reach them.

Pick an activity. I'm into the outdoors, so looked at local Sierra Club chapters and cycling clubs. Joined a couple. Met a lot of people.

Haven't done it using an app. Pick an activity. Find a club that does it. Meet in person

Only way to find those people is to get out and interact though

Some level of socializing is important though; you end up with a not-very-functional society without it

That depends on whether the virus starts spreading human-to-human with each infected person infecting more than one other person.

If it does not, then things look like the SARS outbreak in 2002-2004, where a few people get sick, and a few people die.

If it starts spreading with R₀ > 1, then pretty much everybody gets it, and a significant number die.

We could reduce the risk of the latter with measures like:

• Actively test all dairy herds
• Vaccinate dairy workers, and regularly test them for infection
• Quarantine those who are infected
• Ban the sale of unpasteurized milk and crack down on existing black-market distribution of it

However, it seems really unlikely that we'll actually do so.

There is a window, but it requires a vote by both houses of congress. Offshore drilling bans are popular, so there's a decent chance of peeling off a couple of Republicans and preventing it from passing.

Yes...that oil increase is largely on private land, which means the President has had limited power to do anything about it

He could have, but didn't need to; he could simply choose to not issue leases in these places.

No, the law here allows the President to designate areas as off-limits, but doesn't provide for the President reversing such a decision. It would take either Congress changing the rules, or the courts to invalidate the rule.

So it's a bit more than posturing.

And he didn't need to four years ago, because he could simply not issue new drilling leases in these places.

Besides, it's not like Biden will ever run for office again. Posturing is worthless to him right now.

I don't see that in the list, but Hawaii has a very different geology which makes oil much less likely there

Yes, and state waters (those less than 3 miles from shore) where the federal government isn't the one making the management decisions.

Mind you, if we actually stop burning all fossil fuels, end deforestation, and stop dumping a few trace gases into the atmosphere, the CO2 concentration will drop, resulting in temperatures coming something close to stabilization.

This doesn't mean the overall system is stable; there will still be ice melting (albeit more slowly than if we kept on burning stuff) but it's a vast improvement over the alternative.

Stuff unlikely to kill and not made from materials likely to kill is generally legal. Pipe bombs don't fall into that category

Under federal explosives law, it is illegal to manufacture, store, distribute, receive or transport explosive materials without a federal explosives license or permit (FEL/FEP).

I'd be rather surprised if there was a permit issued for these pipe bombs.

I don't expect that he's been arraigned (formally charged) with it yet because that usually takes a couple days, and today is a holiday. Prosecutors will likely file a superceding indictment once they're back to work

First paragraph of the article:

A Virginia man was arrested this month with what federal prosecutors described in court papers on Monday as the largest cache of “finished explosive devices” ever found in the F.B.I.’s history.

You don't let something like that get to the point of killing people; you stop it before they set them off.

He killed one of the rich instead of a minority

The environmental movement asked the same thing for subsidized hydrogen production

Power use by the Washington/Oregon data center cluster was almost entirely covered by a local surplus of hydropower until a couple years ago. That might be why it looks different from elsewhere.

If you're doing a massive load increase, build out emissions-free generation to match. Some mix of wind, solar, batteries, nuclear, and geothermal would do fine. Otherwise, don't do the big load increase.