Hah, I figure I do bother some people with my block of posts, but 1) I put all my posts up and breakfast so people have all day to ask me questions and I have all my down time at work to answer them so you get quick replies before you forget you even asked something, and 2) if seeing 3-5 owl photos is a row is that big a deal, congrats on having no real problems! 😜

I really do feel that way I do it is an advantage for anyone who develops a real interest in the content. It works for me in a way that it isn’t a burden to do it every day, and you get my mostly undivided attention to reply to you.

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This one is equally good.

They’re available a bunch of places, but I didn’t see any from the actual NPS. There’s one site that looks somewhat official, but it is not.

Aww, you edited it.

He does run with the herd more than I’d prefer, but that’s just how he is.

I’d vote for Joe Bison for president. Love his initiative.

Lol, couldn’t find that, but I did see this one:

Yay! Validation! 😁

It lets me feel like my time here is being useful if I get the upvotes. I try to limit myself to positive/fun/helpful posts or adding additional facts from other articles to someone’s post of I feel more info is needed to get a full story, so if people reply or at least upvote, it feels like it was worth adding my contribution. If my humor/help isn’t needed or wanted in a place, I don’t want to both waste my time and annoy people.

Nah, then they’d remember the East India Company.

It just takes enough time to go by that society forgets about this kind of thing and it can rise up from the ashes again.

The Pinkertons or military being deployed on strikers wasn’t all that long ago historically, but long enough that most of us don’t feel it could happen now.

I don’t know if I need this, as I felt everything was done pretty well as it was in 0 and Kiwami 2, but since all the characters and actors are so good with these roles, I definitely want to see it.

I’d be a bit annoyed if this isn’t eventually a free patch to the PlayStation, and I don’t know if I’d pay for it, but having this a Nintendo exclusive permanently seems an odd decision.

It’s the WomensStuff community. It looks like a really good group, but it’s women only allowed to post and comment I believe.

Guys like Felder have been really repulsive to me as it seems to be a regular occurrence anymore. Running as a Democrat and then flipping Republican after the election. With local elections being so small and such little info on candidates typically available, it’s a real slap in the face of every citizen.

I just voted in my state’s primary yesterday, and most candidates I could barely find what their political affiliation is, as we can only vote for our registered party’s candidates, but people can file to be on both tickets. Most people aren’t going to be doing even that much research, which is also a huge issue.

Sutton’s website has very little actual info on him. The vague statements on his policies page reads centrist-republican, but accepting of green energy. I hope he can make positive changes to his district though.

That’s disappointing. I’m really hoping this isn’t the next presidential candidate we’re going to get.

Someone better check on this guy, he seems to have had the same type of stroke that Fetterman had.

I looked it up again. It started a bit before the Magna Carta, the concepts were established a butt better in the Magna Carta, but the Writ of Habeas Corpus, is from an actual in 1679.

There’s a ton more in the main Habeas Corpus wiki entry, but I’m at my limit of reading legal stuff for the day!

Tldr, any time we’ve suspended it has not been a good time for anyone! 😒

Best I can do for you right now is a slightly used Kamala and a Newsom. (sad laughter)

I was somewhat pleased the other day to see Andy Beshear being mentioned. I’m not an expert on Kentucky politics, but I used to listen to a show from Cincinnatti during Covid, and Basheer seemed to navigate issues in a largely red state well, and he seems to be on what I feel is the right side of many issues. Skimming his wiki page quickly, I don’t see any controversies, and actually a few more good things I wasn’t aware that he managed to accomplish.

There are still many powerful people with a lot to lose that I don’t think are interested in seeing the US go fully off the rails, plus the head of the MAGA cult of personality is an old and unhealthy person, so we may yet get to see the movement run out of steam naturally before it is too late. I’d like this BS stopped yesterday of course, but I don’t want a violent leftist government any more than I do a violent right government. I’m neither rich nor well connected, so either would be bad for me and the people I care about.

Constitution.congress.gov

Article I, Section 9, Clause 2:

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

Link has some discussion of previous court cases involving the second part of that clause: who can suspend it and for what reason.

I was reading the other day it is based off centuries old British law, originally created so a king couldn’t just stick you in the dungeon for no reason.

The problem now is we do have someone acting as king, and all the king’s men have spent the last 10 years calling these people outside “invaders” and with guys like Miller who exist purely to milk these legal vagaries, that language is most likely very intentional for that reason.

I really don’t want to see people crossing the line to war/terrorism. I guess it would be the fastest way to get impactful change, but likely at a high cost. Destabilization also seems much easier than establishing a new system that enough people are happy with without fracturing again. That’s also assuming the side we’re on comes out on top.

We don’t necessarily need something catastrophic to build back. We just need to seriously learn from the mistakes we’ve allowed, not just to smooth things over with words and by ignoring transgressions.

The compromising of things like voter data and social security databases has really disturbed me. Even if we have the best president in history next, how can we ever trust those systems again when an unknown number of people potentially have backdoor access to that info? I think a lot is going to need to be scrapped and rebuilt from zero if we’re supposed to have confidence in it. It’s not like the normal stuff like when we get a crummy EPA or FCC person and we can just roll some policies back or what have you, we have been severely exposed to unknown parties about many of the most private and personal levels.

Summary for you:

The Energy Star program falls under the division of the EPA in charge of climate change and energy efficiency. EPA head Zeldin, under instruction from Trump, is eliminating that whole wing of employees as their function is not something mandated by law to be done.

This is to support the initiative for more powerful toilets, showers, and other appliances, and also to further crush the federal workers unions, who were barred from participating in the discussion of eliminating all these jobs.

Trump had already tried and failed to kill Energy Star in his first term. In more of his stellar business sense, while this program cost $32 million, but saved consumers $40 billion in energy costs.

Glad you enjoy all the different owls!

I did join up with the local rehab center this year. After promoting it every day, it didn’t feel right if I did not participate directly myself. Last year I also had another commenter tell me the community got them to join their rehab center, so we’re making a small positive change in the world.

I’ve been learning a lot there and get to see many adorable animals up close. Here is our newest owl patient: