scoobdog

Want to know who those "people" are?

That motherfucker is living under an assumed name somewhere in Alabama.

You don't really suck it out of the atmosphere, you capture it at the point of combustion or release.

It's not so sad for any of us. I'm sure its sad that that her entire family has to play out their grieving in front of the entire world.

You're calling him a collaborator. That's an extremely fraught, if not outright offensive, claim.

We’re starting to see clouds from Kay.

Shut the fuck up.

You're not too far away. I'm kind of in this not-so-sweet spot right between Long Beach and Fullerton along the county line at the mouth of the "valley" between the West Coyote Hills and La Habra Heights. We tend to get hotter temperatures than our neighbors across the border immediately due east or due south.

What's your general locale? Here near Long Beach, getting a 108 or 109 is rough business.

Continuing from this: I saw somewhere that at the peak use time, 10% of our power is renewable compared to 30% when the sun is up. It really makes you wonder what kind of damage happens as we fire up gas generators to stave off blackouts,

Often looking for below average temperatures in some places, particularly in the Midwest, can give you a magnitude of climate disasters.

https://apple.news/A92FwdYUAR7ecMUOMYP7z8w This somewhat frames heat wave in terms of the larger Issue of climate action. One of the issues with heat waves is that many of the things we need to survive tend to contribute to climate change. For instance, the highest demand for power to fuel air conditioning during the hottest time of the day is also at the time when renewable sources are a fraction of the demand.

This is kind of the new norm. These heat domes more or less reflect how changes in ocean temperature have shifted climates.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/republicans-mock-california-over-power-grid-woes-amid-heat-wave/ar-AA11zjMs

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-07/a-text-asked-millions-of-californians-to-save-energy-they-listened-averting-blackouts Just goes to show that people will try when they really need to.

Today it was 98 with the sun partially obscured by a fire burning to the south. Fun times.

For those wondering, this is a bit of an experiment. The tag indicates that this thread is entirely devoted to news items for events related to the heat wave. If you want to have a discussion about it, go here.....

Post here for stories from the places currently affected by the heat wave that has blanketed the entire western part of the United States.

Feels really good to say that, doesn't it? And totally agree with the loan forgiveness not going far enough. Still forgiveness doesn't fix the problem of what amounts to the next version of the sub-prime loan. You can't keep forgiving and then allow banks to turn around and fund new bad loans. Furthermore, all higher education needs to be more affordable.

Yes it was across the board, but the limitations on who could get it based on wages and loan type meant that the people that benefitted most were from that group.

And, most of this is irrelevant. We’re not in a crisis because of students paying $100k plus to go to an Ivy League school no matter the degree, we’re in this crisis because of loans that paid for education at for-profit technical and vocational schools.

Well, you're missing the point. Any degree you get in a Tier 1 university generally follows two tracks... they're either springboards to a higher degree that is itself valuable, or they're springboard to a professional track. One does not go to USC to get an English Degree just to become an English professor. In fact, most students in those tracks tend to be there because they're either on scholarship or they're angling to get in a professional degree track of some type. People don't spend tens of thousands of dollars to get a degree in women's studies (if your school even has that) because most people that knowingly take on that loan are fully aware of what their job prospects are. That's why the whole worthless degree discussion tends to be a red herring when discussing the college loan crisis.

Not topical.

I'm going to correct you there. It's not a STEM degree that has those benefits, it's a professional degree. Specifically, engineers and architects tend to get that higher earning point because both of those degree types are explicit requirements for licensing. Mathematics, and sciences degrees can be valuable as launching points for lucrative careers but are not guaranteed. Educational degrees are also a requirement for what amounts to an extremely low paying line of work. In fact, most STEM degrees are not much different than an English degree, because the English degree is the most common springboard for one of the most lucrative careers out there.... law.

@katt_goddess, that just sucks. If you're already immunocompromised, COVID can just fuck you up.