These pressures are all gauge pressure, not absolute pressure. 1 bar gauge pressure would be about 2 bar absolute.

The current tunnel is a relic from a long time ago when trains were slower, and there were competing train lines that had to try and fit through baltimore where they could. If you look at a map of the train line, it actually sharply curves out of the way of that currently Black neighborhood to go under the currently white neighborhood. This means the top speed is 30 mph. Under the new plan, they could hit 100 mph.

There are other problems with the current tunnel, mainly just down to being old, and those you could fix by redoing it in the same spot, but that wouldn’t fix the speed issue, because the speed is governed by the curvature (and grade).

Yeah, definitely. Baltimore also has a good record of combatting that in the case of highway 70, too. In this case, though, it’s just tunneling under that neighborhood, not carving a path through it. Oddly enough, further down the track, there are ~20 people getting displaced (might have already happened), but that’s in a different neighborhood, and I think that would have happened no matter where the tunnel was moved.

This project is exclusively electric. But overall, yeah, I think trains are way way less worry than the cars that are already there

The problem is that the current tunnel has a sharp curve, and to make that curve less sharp, they need to increase the radius. That puts the path of a good new tunnel under a new neighborhood, which happens to be Black because most Baltimore neighborhoods are. Those 14 options are likely all under the same neighborhood.

That doesn’t appear to be good journalism. The article does not mention that the reason they want to move the location of the tunnel is to remove the biggest bottleneck on the northeast corridor, and redoing the current tunnel location keeps that bottleneck. Removing that bottleneck would have huge benefits to public transit on the eastern seaboard.

Additionally, they mention “train emissions”, but don’t mention that the trains that would use the tunnel are all electric. The only time there would be any emissions would be in the case of a fire, which is very uncommon in passenger trains. The highway and other busy streets in the area are a far bigger problem.

Overall, it seems like standard nimby-ism.

In America, the government doesn’t technically have the right to know where you live. You don’t automatically get to vote without registering because the government doesn’t necessarily know where you live. You have to give your address to get a driver’s license, so often that government office also does voter registration.

Before our elections, we have primaries. That’s where each party picks who the candidates are from that party, but they are a state-run event. Technically a party doesn’t need to do this, they could just submit their candidate to the final election. Every state does it a little differently, but in many states, you need to declare which party you are a part of in order to take part in the decision for who that party is sending to the election. In some states, it’s optional, and when you go to vote in a primary, you tell them which party you want to select the candidate for, and they give you that ballot. Other states are weird and do what’s called “caucusing”, where everyone from a particular party within that voting district meets up, and they try to come to a decision on which candidate to send forward. In those states, it’s not a blind vote, but you essentially get a sort of instant runoff, at least in my understanding.

It looks like in Ireland, since you have multiple parties, you have more options at your elections, so you don’t have to help the parties pick their candidates?

It’s all part of this and this. They’ve failed to control Washington and Oregon, though, so they want to pull back the political borders to a state they can control.

Slight addendum: they own small parcels of land surrounded by public land that pay miniscule fees to use as they please for ranching.

Yes. It cooks faster with the fan. Btw, it’s also referred to as a “convection” oven as opposed to a “conventional” oven. Air fryers are just small convection ovens.

There was an app called Buycott that lets you join “campaigns” of things you are either for or against, and when you scan something, it tells you which positive and which negative campaigns apply to that product and the company as a whole. Koch was on there. Seems like it may have been abandoned years ago, though.

Cloud seeding is a form of solar geoengineering, but it’s not the only type of solar geoengineering. The type that seems most likely, and most likely targeted by this legislation, does not involve clouds.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection

Something is fishy, if you look up the bills that supposedly did this, they don’t say anything about this topic.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 39; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 55; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69, relative to environmental protection. Environmental Preservation - As introduced, decreases, from 180 days to 150 days, the time that the air pollution control board can have more than one vacancy after an appointing authority of the board receives sufficient information to fill the appropriate vacancy before the board is required to report to the government operations committees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 39; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 55; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

Edit: looks like I missed the amendment in the mobile version of the site. What’s funny is by the wording of the amendment, it’s perfectly legal to use airplanes to disperse mind control chemicals, lol. They are only banning efforts to combat climate change.

AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to prohibit the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight.

If you read the article, it’s not really about cloud seeding, it’s about solar geo-engineering, which us also a real thing

It’s essentially a measure of income and race. San Francisco has high incomes, and high Asian population. Obviously richer people live longer, and Asians have lower rates of obesity and longer lives in average.

Brownsville is much poorer, and pretty much entirely Hispanic. Obesity and poverty rates probably much higher.

It seems like it was intentional by the authors not to control for it, which I think is fair depending on what you are trying to show, but it’s irresponsible not to mention it.

If this becomes a common method, there’s going to be a lot more police instigated house fires. Tear gas cannisters are basically a smoldering ember

he charges his clients anywhere from $5,000 to $20,000 depending on the case.

He’s not “helping”, he’s running a business. Also, only the ultrawealthy have homes like those he has removed people from, and you can tell from his YouTube channel that he’s certainly targeting a specific audience.

This guy just found a niche job as the bouncer for the 2nd/3rd/nth homes of the ultrawealthy, and he’s trying, and apparently news outlets are helping to promote it as a good thing. Most people don’t have a problem with squatters because they actually live in the house they own.

I think that’s usually the case. Yeah, a squatter could be waiting in the bushes for you to go to work so they can break in and set up shop, but they’d know that would lead to a fight, so they’d aim for unoccupied houses where they’d be left alone

I mean, that’s every farm animal