Speaker Mike Johnson is facing an extremely narrow majority in the House and tough vote math as Congress confronts upcoming battles over government funding, aid to Ukraine and Israel and border security....
I’m guessing you weren’t alive or old enough to remember when it happened in 1995-6?
While it will hurt the party in charge (R’s in congress), it can also fuck up a bunch of things; Social security, health department, education department, the EPA, FDA and USDA (I’m assuming you eat food here in the US).
Some effects of the shutdowns included the government, tourism, and airline industry losing millions of dollars in revenue during this period, with disruptions made towards the processing of passports and visas, and work on medical research and toxic waste cleanup being halted. Wikipedia
It can’t be helpful for federal trials of insurrectionists either.
We haven’t had very many storms in New England this winter. The last big storms in a row, were back in 2013-15 and they were still late February storms. Our first plowable storm was Sunday, and we’re scheduled for 2-3 inches of rain tonight.
I used to work in the ski industry, but it was already a low paying job, when the season starts 1+ months later and ends sooner, it’s barely worth the gas money to get there.
TLDR: incumbents (largely conservatives, but some democrats as well) oppose rank choice voting and appear to be trying to either block it where it’s on the ballot, or reverse it if it’s already passed.
Oregon appears to be in ok shape to pass and implement it, Nevada sounds like a shit show.
I think he admires the words of Hitler (and the unfettered power it briefly afforded him), but there’s a possibility Trump’s too senile to realize he’s now using Hitler’s words directly.
It think above -20C or so, cold weather heat pumps are still way more efficient than resistive electric heating.
Good R-factor insulation is probably the most important upgrade in OP’s case. There are people where I live in the Northeast who heat their homes almost exclusively with the waste heat from cooking, electronics or old incandescent lighting. They have like R-30+ homes and really neat ventilation designs for cooling in the summer too.
I had plans to build a tiny home with Vacuum insulated panels and a small marine stove for heat, until we had a child and plans changed.
Now I’m looking at a solar battery setup with geothermal heat pump that will probably cost nearly what the whole tiny home was gonna be.
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it claimed to be removing the judiciary from the abortion debate. In reality, it simply gave the courts a macabre new task: deciding how far states can push a patient toward death before allowing her to undergo an emergency abortion....
I always assumed the windows key was a late attempt at copying the “Apple” keys on Macs. then Macs stopped using that, and switched to the clover (called command), then to actual Command text.
Enter Maestro, a unix-like monolithic kernel that aims to be compatible with Linux in order to ensure wide compatibility. Interestingly, it is written in Rust. It includes Solfége, a boot system and daemon manager, maestro-utils, which is a collection of system utility commands, and blimp, a package manager. According to Luc,...
The downfall of Harvard’s president has elevated the threat of unearthing plagiarism, a cardinal sin in academia, as a possible new weapon in conservative attacks on higher education....
Ours was the opposite. The whole family had a crazy cold the 2nd week of December. And my kindergartener (virus vector, for short, we love him), recovered in time for the last week of school before vacation. But he was in school until the Friday before Xmas and then went back yesterday. So we reached around trying to get all the things we normally do in 1-1/2 weeks, in about 5 days.
My son has finally learned to get himself some breakfast on weekends (just turned 6). It’s made Saturday mornings just that tiny bit more relaxing, until ski season started anyway.
Maybe as the world has leaned in even harder on the absurd, that the Far Side absurdity doesn’t land anymore. Or it could be that we’re all older and realize how absurd the rest of reality is. Sorta like how The Onion has to hit pretty hard now to manage satire in the last 8-10 years.
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WLS) – Eight migrant buses were in route to Chicago Sunday morning after a plane from Texas carrying over 300 asylum seekers landed in Rockford overnight....
Yeah, finding out how much crap comes out of those stoves really makes me upset about all the shitty landlords I had over the years that didn’t bother installing working vents over the stoves.
Speaker Mike Johnson faces narrow majority and tough vote math in looming government funding fight (www.cnn.com)
Speaker Mike Johnson is facing an extremely narrow majority in the House and tough vote math as Congress confronts upcoming battles over government funding, aid to Ukraine and Israel and border security....
GOP Secretary of State Melts Down When Asked To Explain Bid to Throw Biden Off Ballot (www.rollingstone.com)
Jay Ashcroft flopped when faced with the most dreaded predicament amongst grandstanding blowhards: a follow-up question...
Experts: Jack Smith’s “dramatic new proof” so “overwhelming” reluctant witnesses may decide to flip (www.salon.com)
Elon Musk's drug use causing turmoil for Tesla, SpaceX execs: WSJ (finance.yahoo.com)
Don’t Be Fooled, Snow Is Becoming a Thing of the Past | the long-term trend is warmer winters with less snowfall (www.bloomberg.com)
Trump Calls for ‘Giant Dome’ to Protect the US ‘From a Hostile Source’ (themessenger.com)
Hope that clears things up (lemmy.today)
Which 2024 elections are flying under the radar? (abcnews.go.com)
The under-the-radar elections to watch in 2024.
'Try not to let moose lick your car,' warns Parks Canada, as more moose flock to highways (www.cbc.ca)
Obama urged Biden to beef up campaign amid worries about Trump strength in polls: report (www.usatoday.com)
Meeting face to face (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10344116...
Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (-13F) outside. (i.imgur.com)
That massive spike of 50c/kWh at the left looks tiny compared to today even though that’s already insanely expensive
A Far-Right Court Just Admitted a Truth That Abortion Foes Want to Hide (slate.com)
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it claimed to be removing the judiciary from the abortion debate. In reality, it simply gave the courts a macabre new task: deciding how far states can push a patient toward death before allowing her to undergo an emergency abortion....
Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 (arstechnica.com)
Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.
Florida State Surgeon General Calls for Halt in the Use of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines (content.govdelivery.com)
Got this in an email from the Florida Department of Health today. Someone get me out of this crazy state.
Maestro, a Linux compatible kernel written in Rust. (blog.lenot.re)
Enter Maestro, a unix-like monolithic kernel that aims to be compatible with Linux in order to ensure wide compatibility. Interestingly, it is written in Rust. It includes Solfége, a boot system and daemon manager, maestro-utils, which is a collection of system utility commands, and blimp, a package manager. According to Luc,...
Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism (apnews.com)
The downfall of Harvard’s president has elevated the threat of unearthing plagiarism, a cardinal sin in academia, as a possible new weapon in conservative attacks on higher education....
Back from the holidays (startrek.website)
2 January 2024 (sh.itjust.works)
Happy New Year Coders. (lemy.lol)
Texas plane, 300 migrants land in Rockford; 8 buses in route to Chicago drop off migrants in suburbs (abc7chicago.com)
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WLS) – Eight migrant buses were in route to Chicago Sunday morning after a plane from Texas carrying over 300 asylum seekers landed in Rockford overnight....
CNC Kitchen Made 3D Printing Filament from Plastic Cutlery (odysee.com)