There are also far far fewer of us. Peak user count I’ve seen was just over 400. I’d bet unique users was in the 10k range.

Place was seeing millions of users. Lot more competition going on for space.

Would it change your mind if I have a giant Shrek template? Was too late to the expansion to deploy it without going over stuff people were making.

Can you point out in this time lapse what flag you’re referring to?

https://sc07.tv/w/6XZFB8qQy8KCRgaF7UsuFb

Wait he bothers with teleprompters for these rambling sessions?

MAGA world would collapse from infighting to be the new figure head. So I know which outcome I’d have preferred.

0%

Would require the GOP to no longer exist to get this done.

It’s not terrible. I mentioned it mainly because getting through law school in the US costs about $200k. Becoming a lawyer is one of the most expensive fields to get into.

Public defenders make the list. Last figures I saw average salary is around $65k.

They aren’t. This opinion article sucks. It’s certainly a version of the story but it’s not a good one.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/7/why-are-kenyans-angry-with-the-imf

Kenya has budget shortfalls because the previous government borrowed from China and others like they never had to pay it back. The IMF extended them a small line of credit (compared to their existing loans) at I believe a 0% interest rate. It was to help them stabilize their budget temporarily and pay off other loans with interest coming due. Because helping Kenya is way more beneficial to everyone than letting them collapse.

The IMF made recommendations for a bunch of ways Kenya could start digging out of the hole they’re in. One of them was tax changes. Kenya’s leaders chose to simply increase taxes and say the IMF is making them to shift the blame. Instead of deploying a variety of suggestions IMF made.

That pissed people off of course. So now they’re going to try other suggestions the IMF came up with. Like eliminating government administrative waste. Such as no longer covering unnecessary travel costs and ending monthly allowances for spouses of politicians.

I should have added “compared to the air around it” because that’s what I was thinking in my head.

It’s hot as fuck down there because the canyon walls radiate the heat back out and there isn’t much airflow. Which makes it nice to go in the fall. But it’s hell in the summer.

I’ve been a few times. One of my friends was dumb enough to try hiking all the way down and up last August. Told them not to. They didn’t get back out until something like 3am because they had to stop during peak daylight hours.

Very normal in the canyon. On the rim it will be 90’s easily in July. But down in the canyon it’s way hotter. It’s recommended to hike only during morning and evening during the summer.

A ban and a fine? Fuck that. Throw the crook in jail. We know the NRA was the front for Russia to finance GOP campaigns. Which this asshole would have been in on.

Specific heat of liquid water is around 4. Steel is like .45-.50 or around there. So it would take 450-500 joules to increase 1kg of steel 1C. Would take around 4k joules to increase 1kg of water by 1C.

Lot of whatabout NATO is in there somewhere

It’s a good question. Steel is very good at absorbing and retaining heat. Water on the other hand isn’t. Metals in general have way better thermal conductivity than water.

Exposed to the sun at the same time, a piece of metal will warm up a few times faster than the water. I believe steels can be somewhere around 8-10 times less energy required than to heat a similar mass of water.

The water could even start out slightly warmer than the bridge. Evaporative cooling would also work here since there is plenty of ventilation around the bridge. But that can slow down based upon humidity level.

Also, Russia did like the exact opposite of that. They emptied out their worst criminals into Wagner because they knew they’d have no qualms about what Wagner does.

Yeah if Biden had promoted someone else starting a while back it would be different. But everyone calling for this now is playing with fire. They’re more concerned about not losing than rallying around Biden to win. Pushing him out at this point is going to cause enough disruption to guarantee Trump wins.

No one. Tons of people have been over this recently. Last time such a scenario happened was when LBJ walked away in 1968 and Nixon was easily swept into power. The parallels are uncanny. Anyone calling for Biden to walk away at this stage are completely ignorant or acting in bad faith.

Lots of people still have old caveman brain firmware that seeks tribal inclusion. The Right preys on those fears and easily wins.