Huckledebuck

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[–] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nah i was trying to make a jokes about the US leaving a vacuum

[–] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Would there be a be election, or would he have to take out Jack Dick Vance, too?

[–] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The Rise of Trudeau

I'm serious about the mental health thing, though. I've had to develope a certain mind set to keep things from driving me nuts: incompetent supervisors and lazy coworkers. The unions really protect us, but the system most definitely gets abused and management is hamstrung to do anything about it i guess.

To me, work is a circus. People do stupid sit? I laugh and keep doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

[–] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Haha, i never served and this is just a job. It just happens to be one that i feel has some contribution to democracy and i try to hold on to that.

Thanks, though, if this isn't meant in jest.

Yeah, there's a lot a that here, too. But the way or post works is that no tax money goes to support it. It's fully supported by the customers that use it.

Even when the post office turns a profit, congress will take that money and/or downsize the labor force.

[–] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 52 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I work for the USPS. We took an oath to the constitution and it's very easy to understand why. The Postal Service is a necessary component of democracy as long as it remains true to what its supposed to be, which is a pipeline of information between any two points in the world. We can debate the legitimacy of that need after the internet, but there are vital services the USPS provides that the internet can't.

I don't like the direction things are going, but i still want to be a part of that. All i can do is make sure the mail I get is getting where it's supposed to be.

If you believe in what you do and that's important to you, then stick it out. If it's not, then that's fine, but you may want to get out for your mental health.

[–] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago

What the fuck follow up question is that? She makes a statement that there is something she doesn't like about Trump. Then she says nothing about why she didn't like Harris, and we are supposed to believed she weighed any two evils.

How about you ask why she didn't vote for for the other one.

[–] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 days ago

That has been happening here (US) for decades. The real problem is the escalation of stupid shit that Republicans do is on an exponential growth trajectory.

My thing is, how many of these stupid stunts have we forgotten about. It's been non-stop for 8 years now.

[–] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Wow, I've completely forgotten about her. That wasn't that long ago was it? Is she still hanging around outside the spotlight?

[–] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

One of the houses this year had a couple of signs that led you to "knock three times" on the door. It was pretty fun for the kids.

 

In making the case that the states have standing this time, the attorneys general contend access to mifepristone has lowered “birth rates for teenaged mothers,” arguing it contributes to causing a population loss for the states along with “diminishment of political representation and loss of federal funds.”

 

I genuinely want to understand this. Are the defense systems we are sending so advanced that we can't let anyone else operate them?

I know politics aren't allowed here, so i want to stress that I just want to know why this is happening.

 

I just finished reading 1984 and realized that the Rosetta Stone may have been created to preserve known history.

It had never occurred to me that an entire language and it's nuances are necessary to maintain historic integrity. We may have been able to decipher hieroglyphs without a translator, but could we do it with precision enough to learn anything truthful. Can we do that now is a thoughtful question as well i guess.

I'm certain this is not an original thought, and only want to talk about the book. I think i heard somewhere that the stone was created for trade purposes as well.

 

NoviOcean’s wave power technology, developed over several years, has been tested in wave pools and a real environment near Stockholm. A small version powers homes on Svanholmen island, proving the concept works at sea.

On one square kilometer, 15 wave power plants can generate 15 MW, compared to offshore wind’s 10 MW. Combined, they can produce 25 MW, sharing the costs of the sea area and transmission cable.

According to the firm, the hybrid approach delivers more consistent energy, as waves generate power for days after the wind subsides. Additionally, wave plants can be placed closer to shore without visually disturbing the coastline.

 

Changes to regulations in Great Britain mean more than 100 items are now allowed to carry more pesticides when sold to the public, ranging from potatoes to onions, grapes to avocados, and coffee to rice.

For tea, the maximum residue level (MRL) was increased by 4,000 times for both the insecticide chlorantraniliprole and the fungicide boscalid. For the controversial weedkiller glyphosate, classed as a “probable human carcinogen” by the World Health Organization (WHO), the MRL for beans was raised by 7.5 times.

The purpose of the pesticide MRL regime is to protect public health, wildlife and the natural environment. Campaigners said the list of pesticides included reproductive toxins and carcinogens and that the weaker MRLs reduced protections for consumers in Great Britain. Northern Ireland has retained the EU MRLs.

 

Fed up with school shooting threats in his community, Chitwood pledged to publicly identify students accused of making such threats.

 

Arkansas is the only state that has not taken the step to expand what’s called postpartum Medicaid coverage, an option for states paid for almost entirely by the federal government that ensures poor women have uninterrupted health insurance for a year after they give birth. Forty-six states now have the provision, encouraged by the Biden administraion, and Idaho, Iowa, and Wisconsin either have plans in place to enact legislation or have bills pending in their legislatures.

Nationally, 41% of births were covered by Medicaid in 2021. Federal law requires states to provide pregnancy-related Medicaid coverage through 60 days after delivery. But maternal health advocates say Arkansas often begins the process of moving women out of the program after six weeks, or 42 days.

In March, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a Republican, signed an executive order creating a committee of experts charged with improving the state’s dismal maternal health outcomes and better educating women about their health insurance options.

The committees tasked with making recommendations to Huckabee Sanders have been meeting this summer and recently prepared draft recommendations.

But missing from the list is an expansion of postpartum Medicaid coverage, despite widespread agreement by health organizations and the state’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee that doing so would reduce pregnancy-related deaths.

But missing from the list is an expansion of postpartum Medicaid coverage, despite widespread agreement by health organizations and the state’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee that doing so would reduce pregnancy-related deaths.

 

After a series of tests on mice, rats and pigs, Japanese scientists found the animals absorb oxygen delivered through the rectum, work that underpins a clinical trial to see whether the procedure can treat respiratory failure.

The team is among 10 recognised in this year’s Ig Nobel awards (see below for more), the irreverent accolades given for achievements that “first make people laugh, and then make them think”. They are not to be confused with the more lucrative and career-changing Nobel prizes to be handed out in Scandinavia next month.

 

It may not look like much on the outside but inside the Northwest Arkansas Community Corrections Center, women’s lives are changing.

“It’s priceless,” Kachia Phillips said. “That time in there for me was precious.”

Several volunteer groups work at the prison to give support and life skills to the women inside, who are state prisoners.

Washington County Justice of the Peace Beth Coger said the reputation of the center speaks for itself, mostly thanks to its low recidivism rates.

“When we had the Criminal Justice Assessment Study in 2020 by the National Center of State Courts, they said our NWACCC is a model of what a prison should be,” she said. “The reason that is, is because the women there actually get treatment.”

All of this is now coming to an end.

“The first time I remember hearing this was March 29th of 2024 when everyone on the Quorum Court got a letter from Judge Deakins that he was canceling the lease as of December 31st this year unless they can reach an agreement as to rent,” said Coger.

Right now, the Arkansas Department of Corrections leases the facility from Washington County for $1. Judge Patrick Deakins told us back in April that he wants to use the building to help with overcrowding in the Washington County Jail.

“Either we need to be adequately paid for that facility or we are going to use it as extra jail bed space to relieve some of the suffering we are having at our Washington County Detention Center,” he told us.

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