TheHarpyEagle

Seriously, one need only read a single paragraph of that page.

Under RICO, a person who has committed “at least two acts of racketeering activity” drawn from a list of 35 crimes (27 federal crimes and eight state crimes) within a 10-year period can be charged with racketeering if such acts are related in one of four specified ways to an “enterprise.”[1]

So they need to name two crimes in that category. In the world of legalese, this is honestly so easy to understand.

Here in darkness, everything’s okay. Listen to the waves and let them fade away. Here comes a thought.

Here Comes a Thought from Steven Universe was genuinely life-changing for me. It’s all about mindfulness and allowing yourself to process negative thoughts without punishing yourself for having them.

This episode came when I was really struggling with anxiety, like multiple crying breakdowns a week. It finally lead me to getting therapy and I’m in a much better place now, but I still come back to it when I’m feeling overwhelmed.

The Tom Saab mentioned in the article, unsurprisingly, owns a lot of rental properties on that beach. So it’s asking the government to protect his risky investment.

Models suggest that the concentration of chlorine and other ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere will not return to pre-1980 levels until the middle decades of the 21st century. Scientists have already seen the first definitive proof of ozone recovery, observing a 20 percent decrease in ozone depletion during the winter months from 2005 to 2016. In 2019, abnormal weather patterns in the upper atmosphere over Antarctica dramatically limited ozone depletion, leading to the smallest hole since 1982. Models predict that the Antarctic ozone layer will mostly recover by 2040.

The mental health care thing is so frustrating.

Let’s enact some gun control laws because most guns used in mass shootings are bought legally.

“No, it’s a mental health issue!”

Well, then let’s fund mental health services and increase access to them.

“No, that’s not my problem.”

Played out again and again. I mean I know it’s all just deflection, but dammit at least try to have a consistent position.

Is this true? An article from 2022 indicates things are getting better, just slowly

Today, the ozone hole still exists, forming every year over Antarctica in the spring. It closes up again over the summer as stratospheric air from lower latitudes is mixed in, patching it up until the following spring when the cycle begins again. But there’s evidence it’s starting to disappear – and recover more or less as expected, says Solomon. Based on scientific assessments, the ozone layer is expected to return to pre-1980 levels around the middle of the century. Healing is slow because of the long lifespan of ozone-depleting molecules. Some persist in the atmosphere for 50 to 150 years before decaying.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220321-what-happened-to-the-worlds-ozone-hole

Knowing how easily someone could figure out who I am, I am very cautious to never say anything on the internet that I wouldn’t back up in real life. Keeps me honest, I guess, or at the very least consistent.

A game with a working version on the same platform and distribution program, no less!

They are trying their damndest with this and going after IVF, but so far it hasn’t moved the needle too much.

Sorry, I mistook you as indicating a casual relationship between the two. I do hope to find some data on the issue once I have time.

While I disagree wholeheartedly with the relevant law, this is an incredibly dangerous argument to make against it. It insinuates an innate propensity towards sexual aggression and ignores many other factors that might occur alongside such laws.

Texas makes up nearly half of the US’s domestic oil production, no way in hell they’d ever let that go.

Later article:

Ellreese Daniels, 47, faced a maximum of six months in prison after he reached a deal with prosecutors. That deal dropped the charges he faced from manslaughter to two counts of making false statements to investigators.

I mean getting 4 people killed isn’t that bad, right?

As a nude sleeper, I’ve honestly thought about this. In my head, I have an action plan for grabbing my robe on such an occasion.

I developed a deep interest in the Jersey Devil as a kid. Didn’t even live anywhere near it, but I was terrified of it.

Cursed with multiple accounts to this day for a stupid service they could barely force me to use.

It’s just self-fulfilling prophecy at this point. No one trust Google to keep anything around for more than a couple years so they don’t use it. Then it gets scrapped as a failure and everyone is proven correct.

At least on the bright side, people are becoming much more aware of accessibility. I’d argue that old sites were accessible mainly on accident due to most being restricted to fairly straightforward CSS and HTML. The advent of Javascript was a dark time…

Sorry, but if they didn’t test their hardware against swiping twice, that’s 100% on them. Obviously you can’t catch every bug but that doesn’t make it not your fault when something slips through. A responsible company doesn’t blame the user, it fixes the problem and then figures out how to improve development and QA practices so it doesn’t happen again.

It’s not the user’s job to QA your product. If the product allows them to do something without tampering with it, that might as well be its design.