TheVat

Given that the Constitution only asserts a right to peaceful assembly for the redress of grievances, it poses no obstacle to banning firearms (or other weapons) at public demonstrations. In fact, six US states already do so. It may be seven now, as IIRC Washington recently passed a new law on this. Several other states allow their cities to ban weapons at demonstrations within their jurisdiction. This should be a trend, given the polling results posted earlier.

Wait, MigL repeats my infrared herring joke (made in the post previous to his) and he gets the plus ones for it?? Do not quite follow the pecking order here, but it's not my cup of tea.

The thread topic is how albedo levels impact warming, and not on the CO2 aspect of it. So it is not about greenhouse gases and infrared re-radiation but rather about visible light being reflected and never heating surface in the first place. I could be wrong but I think the perception was you were bringing in an infrared herring. If not, then sorry to waste time on this.

I suspect MigL was being sarcastic about the standing one's ground. Wisconsin law, among its many flaws, is an "in that moment" interpretation of threat and what created it. Which means that any negligence and provocation leading up to a threat situation is somewhat ignorable. You still get defense points for responding to a credible threat of harm even if you yourself created the threat situation. It is a horrible festering turd of legislation.

He had it coming...

A classic logical phallus-y.

And the phrase "excuse me for injecting some science, " should come from someone well acquainted with three distinct aspects of radiative forcing. Absorption, reflection, and longwave re-radiation. From wiki... Radiative forcing on Earth is meaningfully evaluated at the tropopause and at the top of the stratosphere. It is quantified in units of watts per square meter, and often summarized as an average over the total surface area of the globe. Radiative forcing varies with solar insolation, surface albedo, and the atmospheric concentrations of radiatively active gases - commonly known as greenhouse gases - and aerosols. Almost all of the energy that affects Earth's climate is received as radiant energy from the Sun. The planet and its atmosphere absorb and reflect some of the energy, while long-wave energy is radiated back into space. The balance between absorbed and radiated energy determines the average global temperature. Because the atmosphere absorbs some of the re-radiated long-wave energy, the planet is warmer than it would be in the absence of the atmosphere: see greenhouse effect. The radiation balance is altered by such factors as the intensity of solar energy, reflectivity of clouds or gases, absorption by various greenhouse gases or surfaces and heat emission by various materials. Any such alteration is a radiative forcing, and changes the balance. This happens continuously as sunlight hits the surface, clouds and aerosols form, the concentrations of atmospheric gases vary and seasons alter the groundcover.

An entertaining look at human energy - mood, motivation, mitochondria, and everything else. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/08/energy-and-how-to-get-it

Bingo. And this observation was the core of the Huber family's statement on the verdict.

This may be a Canuck v USA slang issue. "Ya think, " in US parlance indicates agreement, with an undertone of "seems pretty obvious!" Which was in response to your saying something like "having ideological people carry open firearms" to such an event was a bad idea.

What is the evidence that Huber was doing anything but trying to disarm an emotionally unstable teenager on a shooting spree? How was that raising hell or breaking the law? Huber responded heroically to a clear-cut public danger and was murdered. Police, who were, contrary to sanity and any valid procedure, herding the crowd towards the vigilantes, did nothing when Rittenhouse gunned down the first victim. And nothing when Huber tried to stop him. And nothing when he maimed the third victim. And then allowed Rittenhouse to walk away. Who are the real lawbreakers here? Ya think??

Especially Wisconsin, which has very permissive laws regarding both carrying a long-barreled rifle and the standards for self defense. Though we can rightly condemn his actions, his provocations, and that an immature teenager was provided a gun, the law of that state provided reasonable doubt on his responsibility for what happened. What needs to change are the laws that smooth the way for RW vigilantism.

I learned today that an American teenager can illegally arm himself with an AR-15, then go out in the streets and act out his cowboy fantasies by taunting, goading, and then killing two people and wounding another, with zero legal consequences.

The maxim correlation is not causation seems pertinent here.

The sister website to this one (same URL except it's dot com) has several new JP threads started. Mostly some guy named Victor who posts a video and says look at this great video! Really sad that people waste their time on this dude's verbal flatulence. The main virtue of this thread is that it spins off other discussions that are not about JP and his misinformation factory.

Synopsis: the earth seems flat to a person because it is very large and you don't notice the curvature. How do you like my thinly coated spam?

LoL the revised Maslow hierarchy.

This is a case where US justice is more performative than anything else. There is abundant evidence that he is mentally ill and his condition allowed others to use him as a tool for their ends. Interesting that the Far Right plotters would make a mentally ill man their standard bearer. He would be better off in treatment rather than a cage, but that doesn't satisfy the felt need to make prominent examples.

Thank you, Yoda!

Haha! And when all else fails, reference MS-13. Whatever your critic stands for, make sure it includes rolling out the red carpet for Salvadoran murder gangs. And make sure your nearest Murdoch owned media outlet runs a continuous feed of MS-13 horror stories.

https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-American-Model-United-States/dp/0691172420/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50&_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to those who have insisted that there was no meaningful connection between American and German racial repression, Whitman demonstrates that the Nazis took a real, sustained, significant, and revealing interest in American race policies. As Whitman shows, the Nuremberg Laws were crafted in an atmosphere of considerable attention to the precedents American race laws had to offer. German praise for American practices, already found in Hitler's Mein Kampf, was continuous throughout the early 1930s, and the most radical Nazi lawyers were eager advocates of the use of American models. But while Jim Crow segregation was one aspect of American law that appealed to Nazi radicals, it was not the most consequential one. Rather, both American citizenship and antimiscegenation laws proved directly relevant to the two principal Nuremberg Laws―the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law. Whitman looks at the ultimate, ugly irony that when Nazis rejected American practices, it was sometimes not because they found them too enlightened, but too harsh....

I'm always a little skeptical that people are fully accepting of mortality and concomitant view that biological death is the termination point. Though any evidence otherwise, like the people whose hearts stop in the OR and claim to witness events outside, seem to be apocryphal. No rigorous study, controlling for normal sensory information paths, has found any credible indication of people leaving their bodies. But most of us, I suspect, hedge our bets a little. Sometimes with exotic parallel world theories, quantum immortality theories, matrix theories, morphic resonance, panpsychism, etc. Stuff that lives along the fringes of science. And I think a similar dynamic drives the whole uploading "singularity" movement, folks like Ray Kurzweil and Vernor Vinge. Sometimes derogatorily referred to as "geek rapture. "

Studio -- the latter just a wee joke. As in, gas can leak from pipes or from flues, but flowing electrons don't generally leak from wires and fill your bedroom or ignite. Was just a way of nodding to the safety factor for non-combustion sources. If heatpumps are viable in Scandinavia, that is encouraging. I will look into that. The principal objection you hear around here is that heatpump air is not as hot as furnace air, so you don't have the delicious fountain of hot air coming from the grates. This is part of the psychological aspect of comfort, I suppose.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/11/12/1053509795/long-covid-causes-treatment-clues So far there are more theories than clear answers for what's going on, and there is good reason to think the varied constellation of symptoms could have different causes in different people. Maybe, in some, the virus is still hiding in the body somewhere, directly damaging nerves or other parts of the body. Maybe the chronic presence of the virus, or remnants of the virus, keeps the immune system kind of simmering at a low boil, causing the symptoms. Maybe the virus is gone but left the immune system out of whack, so it's now attacking the body. Or maybe there's another cause. "It's still early days. But we believe that long COVID is not caused by one thing. That there are multiple diseases that are happening," says Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology at Yale University who is also studying long COVID-19. But Iwasaki and others have started finding some tantalizing clues in the blood of some patients. Those include unusual levels of cytokines, which are chemical messengers that the immune system uses to communicate, as well as proteins produced by the immune system known as autoantibodies, which attack cells and tissues in the body instead of the virus. "We are finding elevated cytokines in long-COVID patients and we're trying to decode what those cytokines mean. We're also seeing some distinct autoantibody reactivity and are trying to find out what those antibodies are doing and whether they are causing harm," Iwasaki says.

I live in South Dakota, which has bitter winters with regular blasts of Arctic air, so heat pumps still seem problematic here. I doubt the external air has much available heat at minus 20 F. (-29 C.) I have recently considered switching to electric furnace, since this state is now 70% green energy on its grid, and rapidly adding more (I think we are rated the second windiest out of the fifty states). And I generally dislike forms of energy that can leak in catastrophic ways, both in the household and in the field. Very few die in their sleep breathing electrons.