That also means it can’t display temperatures above 99.9 – which it hasn’t had to do in the dozen or more years I’ve had it.
To add a bit more to the cold weather fun: Consumers Energy, a big supplier of natural gas for home heating in the Detroit area, sent out a notice yesterday saying there had been a fire in one of their substations. They were getting concerned about making sure everyone had a sufficient supply of gas. They didn’t think the cause of the fire was related to the cold, though the timing was quite inconvenient. The big auto manufacturers shut down a couple shifts and CE asked all of us residential users to move our thermostats down a few extra degrees. CE sent out another notice saying we can resume normal heating at midnight tonight.
After the nasty guy held government workers hostage for 35 days there have been several bills that propose ways to prevent further shutdowns. Democrats stopped supporting them when they realized what could happen. If bills to fund certain parts of the government are not passed, the shutdown would be prevented by funding at previous levels. So what if the GOP keeps doing this for several years? This mechanism wouldn’t be adjusted for inflation so the affected departments would effectively see budget cuts.
Chris Vickery, in a Twitter thread, is hesitant to point out what bots – robots in the internet – are capable of. But we need to think about defenses. With so much of your info out there here are things that evil people might do: Put your name on hundreds of college application forms so your phone won’t stop ringing for weeks. Emails designed to evade spam filters pour in, hundreds per hour. Faked pornography of you sent to everyone you’ve friended. Your credit score is requested repeatedly, which tanks your score. Voice powered bots call your landlord, boss, neighbors, and friends with stories of how you beat your wife.
And here's the kicker- You don't know why you are being targeted. You don't know who *exactly* the adversary is. That is part of the strategy. You were chosen to be targeted because an algorithm believes you are the right combination of destroyable with effective chain reactions.
You see, they don't need to target everyone. They only need to target the right people, with the right technique(s), at the right time to cause cascading failures which destroy you and everyone else within, or allied with, your nation. That is one coming storm. We need defenses.
Tuxedo Mask has a Twitter thread with a series of charts that explain things – or at least explain why something is wrong – in one chart. He has charts that show the problem with for-profit healthcare, gun violence in America, income inequality, the student loan debt crisis, and who benefits from the 2017 tax scam.
Melissa McEwan of Shakesville is puzzled and highly annoyed that the nasty guy is still in office. What are we waiting for?
http://www.shakesville.com/2019/01/the-time-is-now-get-trump-outta-there.html
What we can observe, in public, on Twitter, every day, is enough to justify Congressional action to begin the legal process for removing Trump from office. There is no reason to wait, and every reason to be urgent and decisive.People insist we need “proof.” Proof of what? asks McEwan. Things we can see happening every day?
We have the agent of a foreign government sitting in the Oval Office. What greater motivation could we possibly need to take action?McEwan says this isn’t just a call to House Democrats to speed things up. She also calls on the GOP, even though she knows how improbable that is. And we’re called to action too.
I feel like we exist in this weird half-space, where most people are somehow simultaneously in denial about the gravity of what's happening and also already resigned to whatever happens next.
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