What happens when electricians need to do work but the lines are energized by these? This is a genuine question. It seems like a really difficult problem to solve

It’s a headline not based on the article for sure. There’s no question about it existing

God that article made me queasy. As a Texan, I hope for a day when we’ll have state leadship who is interested in protecting the people of Texas rather than lying and covering up to protect exploitative business leaders

Isn’t there evidence that the Canaanite gods El and Ba’al were merged into Yahweh, who remains to this day the Christian god and the Islamic Allah? These people are burning their own god

Edit: My Lemmy client is messing up and won’t let me respond to comments. Just wanted to add that yeah, the Muslim Allah is the same Abrahamic God that Christians and Jews worship. In fact, the name “Allah” is directly derived from the god “El”:

The majority of scholars consider[Allah] to be derived from a contraction of the Arabic definite article al- and ilāh “deity, god” to al-lāh meaning “the deity, the God.” Originally, ʾilāh was used as an epithet for the West Semitic creator god ʾIlu (the Ugaritic version of El), before being adopted as the proper name itself for this god

El, Ba’al, Yahweh, God, and Allah are all wrapped up in each other

It boggles my mind that they would issue a blanket 10-day no fly order when they were just doing a brief drone response. All of this drama could have been avoided

How are you on topic?

You have veered extraordinarily off topic

As someone who drives around downtown daily, I couldn’t disagree more. One way streets force you to move through multiple unnecessary intersections in order to get where you’re going and increase traffic. The two-way streets downtown are already much more free flowing (think 5th St and Brazos). If all streets are converted to two-way, it would be easier to circumvent a problem area.

This reads like even medevac helicopters will be grounded. Don’t have a medical emergency in a rural part of the Trans-Pecos, I guess

Every time I glance at her picture, I think she’s wearing a hospital gown and hospital band. Freda Jackson just looks like she should be in the hospital

Edit: I looked this story up, and her beef was definitely with the British travel agency that fucked up multiple aspects of her trip, not the people of Spain. This is just Daily Mail nonsense

Travel writer Rick Steves recorded a taxi driver in Tehran exclaiming “Death to traffic!” in English, explaining that “when something frustrates us and we have no control over it, this is what we say”. Steves compares the phrase to non-literal use of the word damn in American English.

There’s definitely a cultural translation issue here

First guy: “I’ve never been manic in my life. I’m not bipolar."

I’m just highly skeptical of this.

Second guy: That wasn’t the worst of it. At that point he had blown nearly $12,000 trying to create world-changing code. He became manic, and his concerned therapist called the cops to check in on him. He was institutionalized for nearly two weeks

Yeah that sounds right. Regarding “AI psychosis,” everything I’ve read indicates it exacerbates existing psychoses, it doesn’t create them. That’s not to say it can’t mess with people’s psychology, especially the stuff around suicide, but I think the “AI psychosis” the media portrays is not real

Mardi Gras in New Orleans is largely for families, there are daytime parades all over the city in the week prior. The most significant debauchery is localized in the French Quarter and at some of the late night parades

There are tens of thousands of people on the streets and in communities in Minnesota doing something about it

I’ll always support all vaccines. They’re preventive medicine that reduces healthcare utilization in the long term

This is awful news. An mRNA flu vaccine has the potential to provide more complete immunity vs the traditional flu vaccine

FDA for decades has allowed vaccine makers to quickly update their annual flu shots to target the latest strains by showing that they trigger an immune response in patients. That’s a far more efficient approach than running long-term studies tracking whether patients get the flu and how they fare. In an internal memo last year, Prasad wrote that the streamlined method would no longer be permitted – leading more than a dozen former FDA commissioners to pen an editorial condemning the statements.

Wait, what? They’re completely doing away with annual updates to traditional flu vaccines too? What the fuck

The concept of having Amazon drones incessantly flying around my neighborhood makes me ill. People aren’t going to let this happen, right? Surely Amazon has finally gone too far and governments will stop this, right?

That’s one of their attorneys per the newspaper. He’s making his money and is happy about it

The National Guard is a part time job, one weekend per month and two weeks per year. Unless you get called by your governor, that is, to patrol the streets of New Orleans indefinitely with no end goal. Also, no one around you wants you there. Not a surprise that a mistake like this would happen under these circumstances.

Also, going to the bathroom in the French Quarter can be an ordeal for anyone, honestly