@SandDyLife@US_Stormwatch I can’t compete with your delusions. I simply have too many brain cells. Please continue in your fantasy of socialist bullshit. Don’t vote. Wear a condom.
Lake Powell, the 2nd-largest reservoir in the US, is over 80 feet lower than it was 8 years ago and 170 feet lower than the last time it was nearly full in 1999.
Spring snowmelt inflows are projected at just 13% of normal, the lowest on record. The lake could fall to 3,490 feet as soon as August, roughly 30 feet below the previous all-time low.
3,490 feet is "minimum power pool," the level below which Glen Canyon Dam can no longer generate hydropower for 5 million people across 7 states.
In a desperate move by the Bureau of Reclamation, up to 1 million acre-feet, nearly a third of Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Wyoming, will be released downstream to stabilize Powell.
This water crisis facing the Southwestern US will affect tens of millions of people, and it's not going anywhere.
@TheNimbusII@US_Stormwatch Ah yes, the great benefits to society. Not education, healthcare, worker safety, fair wages. Do you remember 25 years ago when it was the filthy leftists fighting against globalization and sending all our jobs overseas? Meanwhile the rich scrape chumps like you off their shoes.
@SandDyLife@US_Stormwatch No, you aren’t. The filthy asshole leftists have been responsible for destroying dams, BLOCKING dam projects, blocking nukes, natural gas pipelines, and any number of civic improvements in the name of their idiot religious beliefs.
@TheNimbusII@US_Stormwatch Yes, and the people who hate “filthy leftists” just love paying taxes for giant engineering projects. If you want giant engineering projects to benefit citizens then you may be a (checks notes) filthy leftist.
We HAVE the engineering capability to move vast amounts of water over long distances via aqueduct and pipeline. The problem is we have uneducated filthy Leftists who are selfish in the Nth degree valuing only their own feckless hides and anything that ISN’T good for Humanity.
California should have DOZENS of desalination plants but no why do that when the Homeless grift needs money, the “high speed rail” grift needs money, the Lering Centers and “Hospices” get money… HELL we even send money to the damn Terrorists trying to kill us! But water for drinking, food, and industry for OUR OWN PEOPLE! Nah.
The Trump administration should start looking into the radicals at the Bureau of Reclamation. Pretty sure they drained Lake Powell and Lake Meade to create a "climate crisis". We had record snow fall in the Colorado Basin 2022 and 2023, but if you look at the Colorado River flows downstream at Yuma AZ, they let that water pour into the sea of Cortez. They failed to capture the runoff.
Which is exactly WHY the Clvid lockdowns created such resentment and anger, because we alll understood they were unnecessary given the viruses lethality (or lack thereof).
There would be no real enforce.ent of a lockdown for a virus with a 40% mortality rate because it would be obviously necessary
I think people badly misunderstand how different lockdown measures would be in a pandemic with a 40% CFR.
This would not be "The employees at Chick-fil-A ask you to leave because you don't have a vaccine card."
@long_marci35581@JasonBassler1 In Canada it is used to kill the deciduous trees so the conifers have less competition and they are easier to log. This really increases wildfire risk, since conifers burn more easily than a mixed forest.
@JasonBassler1 And then the conifers die and then they burn. Great management. Ecosystems work, plantation farms don’t. No salmon, no fertilizer for the forests…
🚨 California’s Forests Are Being Drenched in Glyphosate
A recent investigation found the U.S. Forest Service has applied over 266,000 pounds of glyphosate across CA forests in 2023, nearly 5x more than two decades ago, with new spraying plans expanding into ski resorts, campgrounds, trails and the Tahoe basin.
How did "forest management" become landscape engineering and ecosystem control for Big Ag profits?
@CBSNews@RamyInocencio Fear mongering dicks! You have to practically sleep with the person to catch it human to human. They are desperate to scare us and lock us down again to foil Trump. Do NOT bite.
@__NightWriter__@gazoo32@BirdDinners Coronaviruses generally make you sniffly—until one kills 20 million people. Here we are six years in to an absolutely unmanaged pandemic—in which someone with SYMPTOMS gets unmasked onto a PUBLIC FLIGHT and people like you are rushing to minimize. Good job.
@gazoo32@BirdDinners I mask on flights also, but for the record, hantavirus is generally acquired by inhaling airborne particles from infected rodents, their waste or nests, not infected others, particularly not infected others in public settings.
Transmission between people takes intimacy and time.
This is why I will always wear an N95 on a flight. Because you could be seated next to a woman whose husband died of a mystery illness, who was also showing signs of illness, who got on a flight and then who collapsed in the airport and then died in hospital. Cool cool.
President Trump gives his opponents all of the rope they need to hang themselves and that’s exactly what King Charles is doing right now.
The city of London is the global homebase for the deep state and President Trump is systematically dismantling the control they’ve had over the world for a very long time.
King Charles is telling the United States government to prepare for a war with Russia by getting ready to defend Ukraine and “her most courageous people.”
He reminds Congress that they fought together through two world wars, the Cold War, and Afghanistan.
*The entire Congress clapped.
@PBakera31938@NoHolyScripture Don’t worry, the US almost has third world mother and infant mortality rates. And, in 2024, zero soldiers are listed as dying in combat but 649 mothers died. So with Trump math that is 650 million % more maternal death.
Interesting fact!
Maternal deaths (260,000 per year) significantly outnumber combat deaths (233,597 in 2024, which includes both men and women, combatants and civilians).
@USronaldcarter With satellite technology available, it can be mitigated to a certain extent. It's not ideal, but doable.
What the idiotic Iranians don't seem to realise is, they're just showing the world that Trump was right all along.
Nobody is telling you how FUCKED the internet situation actually is right now.
Iran just published a map of every undersea internet cable running through the Strait of Hormuz.
97 percent of global internet traffic rides on undersea cables.
Now watch the domino effect:
→ One cable cut: regional slowdown
→ Three cables cut: partial Gulf internet blackout
→ Five cables cut: Gulf banking, cloud, trading, e-commerce OFFLINE
→ Seven cables cut: the Gulf loses its position as a digital trade hub OVERNIGHT
THE MATH:
Gulf digital economy: over $1,800,000,000,000 per year.
Cost to drag an anchor across 7 cables: functionally zero.
Time to repair: weeks, if repair ships are even allowed in.
This is not a connectivity issue. This is a sovereign risk event hiding behind a connectivity issue.
If you have Gulf-exposed assets, bookmark this. Come back in 30 days.
I’ll keep sharing updates. Turn on notifications, this is VERY important.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirms undocumented children will be included in the city’s universal daycare program.
NYC is choosing “kids first,” even when the politics get ugly.
@RealHahaReal@AlexAndBooks_ Well a big key part is that I suggested that you—you—do some calculations before you just happen to wonder if the problem is immigrants. It is right there. You can sound out the words.
@SandDyLife@AlexAndBooks_ You're big on insults, but still fail to provide those "basic calculations" you mentioned! And please do elaborate on the "several key parts" I'm missing.
In 2016 Norway gave every 5-year-old child an iPad.
Within a few years, Norway's reading scores plummeted and dropped below the OECD average.
They ranked dead last out of 65 countries.
Now Norway is spending millions of dollars to reverse this trend and get people reading.
@AskLindal@planksdirect@AlexAndBooks_@sjakhaaheim So, take this for whatever you like, but your musings are also sloppy. We don’t live in a vacuum, we live in rising racism. Don’t clutch your pearls when someone asks the reason for your unsupported musings.
@AskLindal@planksdirect@AlexAndBooks_@sjakhaaheim It is not *necessarily* racist. Xenophobic may be more accurate but racism is fewer syllables.
If immigration can’t statistically create the problem, and you haven’t bothered to do some back of the envelope math, then your Cameroonian family may not like you.