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[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

A physician "drowning" in student loan debt is still making bank, in my experience. Having a lot of debt doesn't automatically mean you're drowning, if you're making $300K+, you will have no problem paying down that debt and living well at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This survey only measured what teenagers were considering doing in the future. The headline is a severe overstatement of the results

[–] [email protected] 12 points 21 hours ago

The shade on the siding is helping, too. My siding gets hot af when it's in direct sun, and you can feel it radiating though the wall

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Diquat bonds strongly to mineral and organic particles in soil and water, where it remains without significant degradation for years. However, bound to clays, diquat is biologically inactive at the concentrations typically observed in agricultural soils.

Unfortunately, the "just don't eat it" idea doesn't work so well when it persists in the environment for so long

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

This isn't exactly a comprehensive literature review, and totally misunderstands what a LLM is and does

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Did you read the article, or is this just a hot take on the headline

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The federal government has been dismantling weather systems left and right. Those systems could have given valuable minutes of warning. Flash floods do happen, but even 10 minutes of warning can pretty much save everyone.

All this is true

The reason they did not have this warning is because of Donald Trump. And then after him every single republican politician.

This is not clear. What does a warning from the NWS look like? Because they issued them:

At 4:06 a.m. the National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio posted on X: "A very dangerous flash flooding event is ongoing." It ended: "Turn Around, Don't Drown!"

Then, at 5:15 a.m. the National Weather Service San Angelo posted on X that there was a flash flood emergency. The Austin/San Antonio office posted on its X account about the emergency at 5:23 a.m. This type of alert is "exceedingly rare" and used when there is a "severe threat to human life and catastrophic damage," according to the National Weather Service.

But how does this message get to people who are asleep? The best answer is the Wireless Emergency Alert system. I haven't seen any information one way or the other indicating whether this system was activated in a timely manner. If it wasn't, that was a serious mistake that costed lives.

Let me be clear that cuts to the NWS are going to end up costing lives. There is no doubt about that. But I think it's important to understand the reality of a situation rather than reflexively blaming Trump

Edit to add the NYT is reporting on specific vacancies at the local NWS offices that were dedicated to communicating with local officials. Probably a serious contributing factor here to the word taking longer to get out

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We switched from side-by-side to a pullout drawer freezer on bottom and could not be happier. Side-by-side really limits your storage space, whereas top and bottom units allow you to store larger or unusually shaped things. And having the freezer in a drawer is clutch, way better than having it on top

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I very much agree

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Unfortunately, even with better forecasting, it wouldn't have been possible to predict exactly how much rain was going to fall or where in a storm like this, but just two days before all this started, they were literally predicting sunshine this weekend in Central Texas.

There's a huge element of randomness in this kind of storm, where one area gets 15+" of rain while 30 miles away they only get 3", but a warning that excessive localized rainfall was a possibility would've been helpful.

I also blame the local government. Central Texas is flash flood central due to our geography, and all local governments should have emergency preparedness plans to send out push notifications to people in their areas. This all went down in the middle of the night and happened so fast that the local government got caught totally off guard though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They cut off the bluest part

 

Some of the proposed laws rejected by Abbott, including a ban on hemp products containing THC, will be the focus of a special legislative session he has called for July 21.

 

"I've got to get Israel to calm down now," Trump said as he left the White House. "Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before, the biggest load that we've seen. They've been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing."

 

Looks like Tesla is testing their autonomous vehicles in the neighborhood between Mabel Davis Park and Burleson Rd. Oh wait, Tesla didn't want us to know where this was happening...

 

But now I'm in bed questioning my decision.

 

so I turned on some lights.

 
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

wailing [ˈwāliNG]

  1. crying with pain, grief, or anger

  2. expressing dissatisfaction plaintively

 

Morning y'all, anyone able to identify this "weed?" It grows very low to the ground and has tiny blue flowers. Seems to be one of the first bloomers of the year

 

These were sold to me as Senegalia roemeriana, but really don't look like any pictures I'm seeing. Any ideas?

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