Many plants simply can't fix carbon in the extreme heat unless there's an abundance of water, the patterns of which are also changing. Some plants have evolved strategies to deal with this but most haven't had the need, including the trees of the boreal forest. Not only is that the largest land biome it's a shit ton of carbon, and shits on fire, yo.

These people pitching this never cared about truth. Pretty soon they'll hit the bedrock of "dying in the heat is noble" or some shit.

Next time they do damage less than $5000 (this threshold varies by location, so whatever it is), take them to small claims. It costs almost nothing to file and attorneys generally aren't allowed. If it's a bunch of retired folks someone will have the time to go down there. Even if you lose it will cost them a lot more than the damage.

You'll have to prove you tried contacting them normally and they ghosted you, so have a few emails or certified mail receipts.

Just got a $400 bill for the blood work for my yearly physical. Routine stuff, should be almost totally covered by my insurance (which isn't cheap). In the past, it has.

Naturally the bill is due within days of me receiving it, despite the visit being months ago. It just takes that long for anything to wind through the labyrinth-like entrails of coding, billing, and negotiation. Also I get the sense there's some high-pressure tactics here.

I waited until business hours then I spoke to an AI voice agent. These things now include small breathing sounds and "background noise" that sounds like they exist in a call center instead of the bowels of a data center that is deafening and poisoning everyone within a quarter mile. It still responds too quickly and too cheerfully to be human, though. This thing finally directs me to a person.

She sounds like she is in India. She also sounds terminally bored, which is good. That is the proper response and anything else puts me on guard. Turns out the bill was submitted with my middle initial, while the name on my insurance card is without my middle initial. This is a pretext, of course, the insurance company could easily make that connection (and hundreds of other services do). But they are hoping I would just pay the bill. She resubmits. Now I wait another two months for another bill, or perhaps nothing gets changed and the first bill is now overdue, with fines, or going to collections. Whatever.

What a fucking privilege to live in this system. I'm more insulted by how much of my doctor's time this wastes, since her time is so much more valuable than mine.

IMO it comes down to the actual clients and work. Like you said, there are legit reasons for digital forensics.

I assume in your country that there is some judicial process, including challenges and appeals, involved in searches and that those phones are allegedly being used in specific, articulated crimes. If that is the case then I think there's justification for trying to get into the phone. However if that judicial process is absent or a sham, there are no crimes being articulated beyond hand-waving like "terrorism" or "national security", or the entire apparatus is rotten to the core, then it becomes immoral.

I know people who have had similar jobs and when a bad job comes down they refuse. So far, they haven't been fired, but they were willing to be fired. If you were cracking the phones of child molesters and human traffickers then you're doing good work. If it's people protesting climate change you'd have an ethical duty to refuse, and be prepared to walk.

Yeah when I was watching all the traffic piling up inside the gulf I was thinking of Mohammed Aisha who, because of the quirks of maritime law and bad luck, was basically marooned on a vessel off the coast of Egypt all alone for years. Then there's the Yellow Fleet, stuck in the Suez for 8 years.

Tucker is trying to position himself ahead of whatever neoMAGA movement is forming.

There's still a nucleus of Romney Republicans who can't stand Trump, and will probably vote Democrat in the midterm, but what they hate is the crassness and obvious corruption. They would prefer a return to when fascists calmly used big words. They think secret police slamming abuela's face into the curb outside the Piggly Wiggly is too much and would prefer a return to the time when that practice was reserved for young black and Latino men.

Then there's former MAGAs who, turns out, were true believers in the whole pedophilia being bad thing. Or some were true believers in isolationism. The Thomas Massies and MTGs. They're like Orange Man Bad, but nothing else in their beliefs has changed. Currently homeless.

If it wasn't for the anti-Israeli spending streak in this movement Israel would be funding it already.

Actually one of my most favorite memories because the simplicity of the solution using recursion blew my little mind. It was like discovering a magic spell.

Gnutsak

I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation—an integral part of this aggression—and instead speak with those who have visited Iran. Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants... Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?

Sorry is there an Adrian Zenz-like figure I can ask instead?

Seriously though I admire that, despite all we've done to them, he still responds with a dignity that we certainly don't deserve. Of course we're totally deaf to this as a people, but I respect the gesture.

There's no way they want to eliminate bot traffic, it would kill 2/3rds of their traffic instantly. So this just means, "bots that aren't paying us."

His health was so fucked it has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Charles_Darwin