Spot

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[–] Spot@startrek.website 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I found this USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/04/10/fact-check-false-claim-15-minute-cities-lock-down-residents/11593351002/

From a snippet:

Moreno said the posts are inaccurate and misconstrue the nature of the urban planning framework.

"The 15-minute city is the opposite of lockdown," Moreno said. "The 15-minute city is an open and connected city, which balances the differences in access to services."

The framework does not limit residents' ability to leave their neighborhoods or access services in other areas of the city.

“All citizens are free to go where they want," Moreno said. "There are no constraints.”

[–] Spot@startrek.website 227 points 2 years ago (35 children)

Far-right influencer Rogan O’Handley went so far as to suggest that if the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, Swift and Kelce would trigger an apocalyptic chain of events that would kill millions. “You MUST defeat the Chiefs,” O’Handley wrote in an X post addressed to the San Francisco 49ers. “If you don’t, Mr. Pfizer and his girlfriend are going to tour the country as ‘world champions’ helping elect Joe Biden WW3 will likely follow in a 2nd Biden term and millions will die. The fate of the free world rests upon your shoulders”

Just wow. Only a tidbit of the crazy they are spouting in this article.

[–] Spot@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me a happy cat smelling flowers style: fantasy

[–] Spot@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If Dayton could have been a tenth as cool as Data, I may not have disliked it so much. Couldn't wait to move back out of there. Air force museum is neato though.

[–] Spot@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

Thankee sai. ...man, my auto correct hated that!

[–] Spot@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Haha! I forgot about those uses too! We live in the desert now but I grew up in grass and swamplands. Haven't had to think of a sump pump or dry-lok in forever. Very, very important alarm need if you want to keep things, that aren't moldy. Oh the memories. We started our first grow in a moldy basement!

[–] Spot@startrek.website 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The yellow lined area is not a parking space. The space is left open for ramps on vehicles that need an extra side space to get in and out of and extend the ramp.

[–] Spot@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

When I started calling the hardware store the toy store my family thought I was saying tool store. Then at one point someone paid attention to my excitement for a trip and what I actually said. Much eye rolling.

[–] Spot@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

If my girls' light goes out when it's supposed to be on, and they are on timed cycles, I want an alarm. Messing with those light and dark cycles can mess your flowers up. Same for the water pumps, fans, etc. depending on the setup. I imagine with some pets like exotic fish or reptiles you'll want extra notice if their habitat is going awry before they get ill.

Maybe something is tripping a breaker and they wanna know when it's happening while they track the cause and repair. Or an out building/shed/coop has issues with weather and shoddy power stability, needs that breaker flipped again.

Possibly a deep freezer that doesn't have it's own No Power alarm, or that function broke, and they want to have that peace of mind back.

I've known many a use for them. If ALL the power is out it's gonna be obvious whatever that's going to is out also. But, for something where you don't go to that space regularly, hard to tell quickly if powered, and has something sensitive needing power they are a nice peace of mind item (that usually costs less than whatever needs power that badly being replaced if you didn'tnotice in time).

[–] Spot@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

My little daydream is that thr judge's terms were something simple like "I want your statement beforehand so I can review it. But, you have to write it yourself, by hand. Your own hand." And he just couldn't muster up the gumption to do his own work.

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