Agreed, which probably means they were on it because of stuff like documented previous flooding (like when it flooded in the fuckin’ 80s and girls died) and that makes it all the more egregious that they worked to get themselves off of it. The camp owner is starting to seem less like a hero and more like someone feeling fully warranted shame and fearing divine judgment.
And in particular, this product is a vanity computerized exhaust that almost certainly has at least one setting that violates Singapore’s new noise restrictions, and possibly the emissions standards.
While even 6 days of actual jail for three motorcycles (and maybe that’s all they could prove?) hits me as a little harsh, it also seems like the sort of thing Singaporeans have always dealt with for offenses that affect the QoL for other people. Not saying it was “justice” per se, but this is not the hill to die on, and it seems this guy fucked around and then found out.
At this point the only way to realistically get that squeeze is to create more districts that are “very safe” versus “locked in,” and at least some Republicans will push back to save their own skin. Texas won’t need to go blue for this to backfire or at least be of minimal impact.
This is as close as I get to optimism about state politics though.
I’m not going to claim to fully understand the nuances, but the sea ice will melt at about -2C and glacial melt will deposit ~1C water into the system. If the deep water is steady at 3C or 4C, sending it up could accelerate melting of both.
Nope.
That is, instead of sinking into the depths, surface water is being replaced by deep water masses rising to the surface, bringing with them heat and carbon dioxide (CO₂) that had been trapped for centuries.
I had to look up that last part, as it seemed counter-intuitive, but apparently deep ocean water bottoms out at 4 degrees C.
Even this can use some aditional context. SCOTUS took away a tool, nationwide injunctions, that judges were using to pause executive actions by presidents in both parties. They said that a class action was more appropriate, and a District Court judge has already certified a class for people affected by the birthright citizenship EO, and its accompanying injunction should go into effect by the end of the week.
This SCOTUS has been insanely cowardly in not taking on this stuff head-on, but I do tend to think that that other than Thomas and Alito, they think much of this shit is unconstitutional, so they’re intentionally slow-playing it with narrow rulings, hoping the mid-terms and public opinion will save them from having to piss off Papa Trump and the MAGAs. It’s disgraceful because it’s hurting the country and real people, but hopefully it’s not unfixable in a structural sense.