Tearing Down Really Big Stuff

Not surprisingly, it's almost as complicated as building really big stuff in the first place.

The Dangerous Art of Tearing Down Bridges, Dams, and Aircraft Carriers – Wired Science

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2 days ago

"Freedom Caucus leader endorses radical proposal for North Carolina to hand its electoral votes to Trump"

Hey, you know how to deal with voters in #NorthCarolina where #hurricane damage has impacted their ability to vote in November? You do whatever you can to get ballots to them or get them to the polls.

Or, you can just throw up your hands and say "Let's just give the state to Trump" by legislative fiat. Because FREEDOM!

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/25/trump-freedom-caucus-north-carolina-electors-00185520

3 days ago

"US elections live:Trump says he will fire Jack Smith within two seconds' if elected"

Of course #Trump will intervene in the #justice system out of personal animus if he wins. It's what autocrats do.

In fact, that's likely a significant reason he's running again in the first place.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/24/donald-trump-kamala-harris-us-election-politics-democrats-republicans?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

4 days ago

"Judge #AileenCannon, who tossed Trump's classified docs case, on list of proposed candidates for #AttorneyGeneral"

She has the one essential qualification for a #Trump AG: complete, compliant loyalty.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-tossed-trumps-classified-docs-case-list-proposed/story?id=114997807

7 days ago

And an amazing, unexpected, happy ending.

Three weeks ago, our 17yo, pudgy, arthritic Siberian slipped past me thru an open door, undetected. Her absence wasn't noticed until the next morning and there was no sign of her.

We had, frankly, lost hope.

This afternoon, a neighbor some houses away connected the dots between a poster I had put up and the cat that was hanging out in their window well, and contacted me.

And it was our cat, and she's now home (and getting much pampering).

Whew!

1 week ago

At the #ArvadaCenter for a black box performance of "Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really". Looking forward to it!

1 week ago

Yes, what we definitely need in this country is #rightwing citizen groups deciding by fiat whether a #library #book they disklike should be classified as "fiction" or "non-fiction."

1 week ago

Yes, #Missouri, #Kansas, and #Idaho are suing the #FDA because they haven't managed to *boost* their teen #birthrate now that they've made #abortion so difficult, arguing this will harm them by robbing them of precious seats in Congress, and the FDA is making all this happen by allowing medical abortions and birth control.

Madness.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/missouri-kansas-and-idaho-are-suing

1 week ago

See, most people would consider this "A sign of cognitive decline, lack of focus, and mental fatigue."

The NY Times apparently thinks it's improvisational genius on the part of a compassionate #Trump ,

(Think I'm exaggerating? Imagine if *Biden* had decided to turn a campaign rally into a piped-in music-fest, complete with awkward, swaying "dance moves." The #GOP would have had a field day.)

1 week ago

A rare bit of IP sanity, from a German court: if you license your copyrighted images to a wallpaper company, you can't sue if someone uses pictures of their wallpapered room without your permission.

https://petapixel.com/2024/10/16/german-supreme-court-rules-against-photographer-in-landmark-wallpaper-copyright-case/

2 weeks ago

I, too, use the #InternetArchive extensively for research on quotations. There is literally no other resource like it. Here's hoping their DDOS recovery is swift.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91208935/internet-archive-outage-breach-wayback-machine

3 weeks ago

"Ron #DeSantis’ Administration Is Threatening to Prosecute the Media for Airing Pro-Choice Ads"

Authoritarians 'R' Us!

#Florida #freespeech #freepress #abortion

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/florida-amendment-4-ron-desantis-administration-prosecute-media-airing-pro-choice-ads.html

3 weeks ago

#Trump plays the #racist "Anti- Woke" card, promising to restore the names of military bases to celebrate slave-holding Confederate generals.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/04/trump-rename-army-confederate-general-00182606

4 weeks ago

A very happy 100th birthday to #JimmyCarter a man who I admire enough I'm willing to overlook his use of the mispronunciation "nucular," even though he was an nuclear engineer in the US Navy and was a critical resource in the emergency cleanup and repair after the meltdown of the National Research Experimental (NRX) nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Canada.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jimmy-carter-nuclear-meltdown/

4 weeks ago

"Trump makes false claims about federal response as he campaigns in area ravaged by #Hurricane #Helene"

I.e., #Trump *lies* to victims of a natural disaster, to somehow make himself look good.

What an asshole.

https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-donald-trump-hurricane-helene-3097f1706455929adf5a4eb67f9cdf0f

4 weeks ago

How I am looking at voting for the ballot propositions this year in #colorado

#election2024

https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2024/09/30/colorado-ballot-initiatives-2024-and-how-im-voting-on-them.html

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