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orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

C.M. Kruger posted:

Texas enabled the worst carbon monoxide poisoning catastrophe in recent U.S. history

The Texas Association of Builders reversed their stance when the International Code Council recommended them in all new and renovated construction in 2009, but a bill to pass them had not been introduced since.
They shouldn't have opposed them in the first place, because having a CO alarm is always better than not having one, even if there are questions about their reliability, because you literally cannot detect CO without an alarm. By the time it's making you ill it's nearly too late to escape, if it's not too late already.

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In light of the new standards, the Texas Association of Builders has changed its position, said Scott Norman, the group�s executive director. The group now supports requirements for carbon monoxide alarms in newly constructed and renovated residences, Norman said.

�Decades ago, there were questions about the reliability,� he said. �But the codes evolve.�

Granted yeah it should have been introduced again in 2009 after the ICC changed their recommendations, and then probably every legislative session after, but the Texas legislature as a body doesn't give a poo poo about people over property, and the Texas Association of Builders is not a legislative entity. They could probably take it upon themselves to basically de facto require new construction to include CO alarms, but without legislative muscle to back it up and put the force of law behind it, it won't do poo poo/is doomed to failure.

It still won't pass now because the folks with the power are the stupidest, loudest folks.

orange juche fucked around with this message at 10:17 on May 3, 2021

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orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

ded posted:

How can so many people not understand car fumes, burning coal without ventilation, or running a generator inside without ventilation can kill?

Co2 alarms are pretty much just idiot alerts if they ever go off.

A lot of the folks who were ill and died were folks from poor neighborhoods, PoC, and recent immigrants who may lack that basic knowledge that there's a colorless, odorless gas that can kill you without you even knowing it. If there's no public access education to the dangers of CO, then folks like that won't know about it. I know in GA when they changed the regs on CO alarms there were commercials on the OTA/local news channels about CO alarms.

It's not a matter of :911:

or dumb Texans, it's people being failed because the Texas legislature moved to protect home builders back when the law was introduced back then, and in the legislative scramble after the storm, nobody's giving a second thought to mandating CO alarms in new or existing structures, and without the legislative backing there's no money to fund an education campaign to reach out to poor and underserved communities regarding the danger.

orange juche fucked around with this message at 10:45 on May 3, 2021

# ¿ May 3, 2021 10:21

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

Laranzu posted:

Pretty sure he was role playing republican lawmakers

Poes law

# ¿ May 3, 2021 12:56

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

Someone mentioning a&w made me think about the old Amburgers & Wootbeer flash animation, rip old flash animations

# ¿ May 3, 2021 21:04

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

facialimpediment posted:

poo poo pillows must've really sold over time if Mike's blowing this much on private cloud server/services.

https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1389255156194320384

apparently rolling his own hardware was an idea to prevent "big tech" from "censoring" him for hate speech. Note there's no back ups in that order, nor firewalls. dude's server would have worked for about 30 fuckin seconds before getting absolutely wrecked, if it had ever gotten off the ground.

Also if he'd spawned a new hive of hate speech and insurrectionists then his colo would have just shut off power to his rack tile lol.

# ¿ May 4, 2021 00:10

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

PeterCat posted:

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/high-court-rejects-west-point-case-with-thomas-dissenting-1.672138

High court rejects West Point case, with Thomas dissenting

By JESSICA GRESKO | Associated Press | Published: May 3, 2021

WASHINGTON � The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a woman who says she was raped as a West Point cadet, with Justice Clarence Thomas alone arguing that the court should have heard her case.

The woman, who attended the U.S. Military Academy from 2008 to 2010, had sued saying the academy's leadership tolerated a culture that was hostile toward women and failed to provide adequate support for cadets who are assaulted, among other things. But lower courts said her lawsuit against the U.S. government couldn't go forward.

Thomas said in a dissent that the high court should have taken the case to reconsider a 70-year-old precedent that prevents members of the military from suing the United States when they are injured while doing their duties.

It is the second time in as many years he has noted his disagreement when the court has declined to revisit the issue. Thomas says the case the court decided decades ago has led to bizarre and surprising results, including barring the former cadet's case.

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"Under our precedent, if two Pentagon employees�one civilian and one a servicemember�are hit by a bus in the Pentagon parking lot and sue, it may be that only the civilian would have a chance to litigate his claim on the merits," Thomas wrote in a 3-page dissent.

In the West Point case, lower courts said the woman's claims were barred by the so-called Feres doctrine, which comes from a 1950 Supreme Court case. In it, the Supreme Court held that the Federal Tort Claims Act does not give members of the military the ability to sue the United States for injuries that "arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to" their active duty service in the military.

Thomas wrote that "Feres was wrongly decided; and this case was wrongly decided as a result." Thomas gave one reason the court may be unwilling to take up the issue.

"Perhaps the Court is hesitant to take up this issue at all because it would require fiddling with a 70-year-old precedent that is demonstrably wrong. But if the Feres doctrine is so wrong that we cannot figure out how to rein it in, then the better answer is to bid it farewell," he wrote. Thomas cited about half a dozen cases where the court had overturned a precedent including the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, which outlawed segregation in public schools and overturned the court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision.

Some liberals are particularly concerned now about the court agreeing to revisit precedents. They're worried that the court, which now includes six conservatives and three liberals, might also revisit and overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide. Thomas has previously said that the court's "abortion precedents are grievously wrong and should be overruled."

In 2019, however, both Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal, and Thomas, a conservative, indicated they wanted to revisit the Feres doctrine. They said they would have taken a case involving a Navy lieutenant, Rebekah Daniel, who gave birth at a naval hospital and died due to a complication. Her husband was barred from suing because of the Feres doctrine. Ginsburg has since been replaced on the court by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

The Biden administration had urged the court not to take the West Point case. It noted that if Congress wants, it can change the law to permit lawsuits currently barred by the Feres doctrine.

Politics is fuckin hard, but I think I know why the administration is trying to get the court to leave Feres alone. The admin thinks they have a shot at getting legislation pushed through that would overrule Feres. They know however that they have not a single fuckin hope of pushing through legislation guaranteeing a woman's right to an abortion in Congress, cause that's the reddest of red meat to conservatives, and if the Supreme Court revisits Feres, and overturns it, then they go and say "hey that was pretty fuckin easy, wonder what else we can overturn" and then they shitcan Roe along partisan lines. Thomas is right (Feres should be gone), but for the wrong reasons, since he wants to revisit other poo poo too like Roe v Wade.

orange juche fucked around with this message at 02:39 on May 4, 2021

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orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

lightpole posted:

Thats what you get sailing non US non union. USCG demands we get paid in full with the option of check, cash, or direct deposit or they will hold the vessel.

Edit: Thats like the fire on the Norfolk Alliance when the company insisted on early entry verbally.

Two Finger's a Kiwi, so I don't think he can take advantage of that particular thing,

# ¿ May 8, 2021 05:00

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

Surely shooting nailguns at people is illegal, even if you're the cops, fucks sake

# ¿ May 12, 2021 06:43

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

BIG HEADLINE posted:

The reason I wonder if they're "deputies" or "militia" is that, by Israeli law, Israeli citizens are only permitted 50 rounds of ammo for their personal weapons for means of self defense.

My guess is nails aren't restricted.

Ah, so the ultraorthodox little green men then.

# ¿ May 12, 2021 07:16

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

mlmp08 posted:

https://twitter.com/vicbergeriv/status/1394797710083989505?s=21

Tim Pool just doesn't want everyone to see he's bald as gently caress.

# ¿ May 19, 2021 07:19

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

That Works posted:

lmao

https://twitter.com/coinerstakingls/status/1394899051171106817

I'm hoping graphics card prices start coming down in crypto continues to do poorly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tax/comments/motvov/made_capital_gains_on_a_crypto_website_not_legal/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

That dude's still at it btw

# ¿ May 21, 2021 06:32

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

PeterCat posted:

She probably can't pass the ACFT.

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gently caress off outta here.

# ¿ May 21, 2021 06:58

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

https://twitter.com/pbump/status/1395552233987657729?s=20

# ¿ May 21, 2021 07:31

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

That Works posted:

Man the person trying to tweet this as terrible really missed the point.

Click vid for sick burnouts

https://twitter.com/DeborahProudJew/status/1395451485790642181?s=20

https://twitter.com/twine3412x10_23/status/1395862622977896449?s=20

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orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

And thanks to Kentucky being Kentucky, there is no help/support

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