sockpuppet2
20hr ago
Well, where does it explain the bounds of "patently illegal?" All illegal orders direct the commission of a crime, inasmuch as carrying out an illegal order is itself a crime.
sockpuppet2
2d ago
My interior lighting is bright enough and Standard Time has an earlier sunrise than DST - the tradeoff of DST is a later sunrise for a later sunset.
sockpuppet2
2d ago
So my first question to you is this: Do you accept that these are substantially accurate descriptions of the documents that James signed?
Can you show us the documents that James signed?
sockpuppet2
2d ago
Aren't building code requirements for windows partly based on the assumption that they can be used as a means of emergency egress?
https://www.thegreategressco.ca/pages/british-columbia-egress-requirements
sockpuppet2
2d ago
Are you willing to pay for a web-developer's time to fix/maintain it?
sockpuppet2
5d ago
proxy frontend: inv.nadeko.net - give that guy your money, instead of Google.
sockpuppet2
5d ago
I dislike DST, but it'd be nice if sunsets were an hour later in Winter...
Annual cost of daylight saving time (DST): peer-reviewed and policy-analytic estimates for the U.S. range roughly from a few hundred million dollars to several billion dollars per year depending on which effects are counted.
- Narrow, direct estimates (increases in heart attacks, strokes, workplace and traffic accidents) ≈ $0.4–0.8 billion/year (Chmura-type estimates
$672M/year). - Broader estimates that include lost productivity, sleep-related chronic health impacts, reduced educational outcomes, and wider economic effects range from about $1 billion up to tens of billions per year; some academic work (and media summaries of sleep-cost literature) point to much larger figures when chronic sleep loss is included (hundreds of billions for all sleep-deprivation impacts, though not all attributable to DST).
- Bottom line: if you count only acute, measurable harms from the clock shifts the cost is on the order of 10^8–10^9 USD/year; if you include broader productivity and health-channel impacts the implied costs can approach 10^9–10^10+ USD/year (and different studies disagree).
Cost to extend daylight by 1 hour using space‑borne mirrors (back‑of‑envelope):
- Technical concept: a mirror in space would need to redirect sunlight to a region on Earth to extend usable daylight. For a continuously illuminated 1‑hour extension over, say, a midlatitude city (10^6–10^7 m^2 effective populated area) the delivered extra solar energy is enormous.
- Energy requirement example: solar irradiance ≈ 1,000 W/m^2 at noon. For 1 hour over 10^7 m^2 that’s
1e3 W/m^2 × 1e7 m^2 × 3600 s ≈ 3.6×10^13 J (10^10 Wh ≈ 10 GWh) of additional daylight energy delivered to that footprint. *Mirror size and launch/placement costs (order-of-magnitude): - A perfect flat mirror reflecting full-disk sunlight to that footprint would need an area comparable to the footprint projected to the mirror distance and geometry. Realistic space mirrors would be many km^2 for city‑scale coverage. For Earth‑orbit mirrors the required reflective area likely ranges from 1 km^2 to 10^3 km^2 depending on orbit/beam shaping — i.e., 10^6–10^9 m^2.
- Manufacturing, launch, deployment, and operations costs for lightweight space mirrors today scale roughly $1,000–$20,000 per kg launched (variable), and large-area thin-film structures still require many thousands to millions of kg or advanced in-space assembly. Conservatively, building and deploying a multi‑km^2 mirror system would cost at least tens of billions to hundreds of billions of dollars; more realistic/optimistic engineering might still be in the low trillions if you require durable, steerable, and safe systems.
sockpuppet2
6d ago
I don't keep track of their branded educational content (though IIRC, they contribute to PBS Space Time, which is good), but I've seen that it's SJ-influenced enough that I'll presume there's a kernel of truth to the sports thing, for our purposes. The politics-politics Hank Green has done, that I know of, are:
2008 primaries: Endorse Obama - I'm calling this "normie," because, Green being a college educated then-20-something, endorsing Obama was as basic as Starbucks and fleece.
2015ish: Accepted a WH invitation to be one of a handful of youtubers interviewing Obama - so did Destin from SmarterEveryDay, who tacitly said he wasn't a supporter; who wouldn't interview the sitting POTUS, given the chance?
2018: Interviewed Steve Bullock - Green is a Montanan and Bullock was then the sitting governor, so this is similarly not something that indicates a great deal of political engagement, in and of itself. (I rewatched this, to check if I remembered it correctly - he doesn't come across as being knowledgeable)
2022: Something with a state legislature candidate - like endorsing Obama in 2008, college educated middle-age people wanting politics to be more local in 2022 was pretty basic.
He's been a public figure for almost 19 years, so he of course has done stuff, but I think paying attention to nuts-and-bolts governance is as good as any distinction between "normie" and wonkish, making Green's burgeoning wonkishness an example of these issues getting increasing attention by the masses.
sockpuppet2
6d ago
Or 7, which had a pretty similar user experience. I like the Cinnamon UI, but I'm sick of Ubuntu crashing and lack of professional software - it's so bad, I'm considering getting a Mac. :'(
sockpuppet2
6d ago
A normie made a video about the Trump administration declaring the necessary quantity of pennies minted to be zero. (proxy frontend for youtube)
Not just any normie; Hank Green, OG vlogger, educational youtuber, serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and novelist, with 4 million subscribers to the channel he shares with his brother (where this video was posted) and 2.8 million subscribers to his "personal" channel, plus however many followers on however many other platforms. He's been fairly transparent about his politics, in the past, but only in generic "good mainstream liberal" ways, so far as I know; I don't know of him showing deep curiosity about the "nuts and bolts" functioning of government, before 2025. Him making a video contrasting Obama saying he couldn't discontinue penny production, without Congress, and the Trump administration doing it through executive policy processes, titled "The End of The Penny (and of Congress??)" suggests the topic has legs with smart people and this particular smart person has a big, very engaged audience (the Green brothers run an annual philanthropy event based on viewer participation).
Is this good or bad? Green raises the point towards the end of his video that Congress refusing to legislate can legitimize strongman-style claims about the Presidency. As these issues get increasing recognition among progressively less engaged voters, will those voters want to restore the role of Congress or will they accept claims from Presidential candidates that "Only I can fix it?"
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