[-] Lyrl@lemm.ee 54 points 6 days ago

The driver's license thing is misleading - he had an Arizona license, so "didn't have a Washington license", but was still legal to drive.

The department is legally not able to issue any discipline until the investigation concludes, and they are not able to conclude the investigation while the appeals process on the fine plays out. Due process is slow. Hopefully in the end he gets everything coming to him.

[-] Lyrl@lemm.ee 18 points 3 weeks ago

Alabama tried that and managed to screw it up. You have to remove the carbon dioxide in the exhales to prevent the feeling of suffocation, and they didn't provide enough nitrogen flow to do that. Took like twenty minutes of clearly desperate gasping and convulsions for the guy to pass.

[-] Lyrl@lemm.ee 24 points 3 months ago

Beds predate language. Non-human apes build "nests" - beds in trees - to sleep in.

[-] Lyrl@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago

Haha, but batbugs and birdbugs - bedbug cousins that prefer the blood of bats or birds - are a thing. Bedbugs and their preference for specifically human blood evolved alongside primates starting to build sleeping structures.

[-] Lyrl@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

I live in the Midwest, and had a coworker with a banana plant (I think a Cavendish). He cut it down and dug up the root ball to bring inside every winter. Every few years, the weather was warm enough long enough the thing actually made bananas.

[-] Lyrl@lemm.ee 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It is sad that while there are so many interesting banana varieties all around the world, only two of them ship for crap. In addition to cool-sounding fruity varieties, one variety is so starchy it used to be the base starch the diet of local people instead of a grain, how neat is that?

[-] Lyrl@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago

The ozone hole size is influenced by the strength of the polar vortex, the Antarctic temperature, and other things in addition to the concentration of CFC molecules. It's barely shrunk, but CFCs are so long-lived that was expected - the critical point is it stopped growing over 20 years ago. I believe they expect to start seeing shrinking within the next decade.

https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/topics/in-depth/climate-change-mitigation-reducing-emissions/current-state-of-the-ozone-layer

[-] Lyrl@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago

This is more like you measure the fragment speeds with both a laser and with radar, and get different readings off the same fragment.

[-] Lyrl@lemm.ee 19 points 5 months ago

It reduces bone density. Not to unhealthy levels in teens, but there are concerns the lower baseline will increase osteoporosis risk when the patients get to old age.

They can also only be used for a couple of years. Some non-binary people want to be on them permanently, but doctors won't prescribe that. Some kids want more time to decide, and unfortunately there isn't anything safe to use through the full teenage years.

[-] Lyrl@lemm.ee 38 points 8 months ago

Eh, witch hunts are a big risk in the immediate aftermath when crowd tension is the highest. It has been three years, at this point I expect the sleuth work on suspect identification would be all upside.

The bigger security concern is sleuths figuring out all the camera locations and, by deduction, the blind spots. Johnson is setting up the next Congress to be much more vulnerable to violent attack.

[-] Lyrl@lemm.ee 69 points 8 months ago

This article totally misses the point: they didn't care about the judges. They were trying to run out the clock to prevent subpoenas of major conservative donors to the Supreme Court from getting out of committee.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4335581-senate-gop-stages-hearing-walkout-to-protest-supreme-court-related-subpoenas/

[-] Lyrl@lemm.ee 70 points 10 months ago

75% of women killed by intimate partners are killed when they attempt to leave or after they have left. Getting away is in no way, shape, or form a path to safety.

https://domesticabuseshelter.org/domestic-violence/#:~:text=On%20average%2C%20a%20woman%20will,have%20left%20an%20abusive%20relationship.

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