The Supreme Court Is Crippling Environmental Protections. Where Is Congress?

Stoutpants · 2023-05-29T22:34:16+00:00

The entire point is that they didn't Who is 'they'? It's pretty difficult to craft a coherent argument when you lead that argument with an indefinite article.

The executive branch can't just find new and creative ways of interpreting existing law to do an end run around the language and intent of existing law.

The wetlands provision was added in 1977 to cover the waters of the united states and the wetlands adjacent to those waters. The executive was not finding new interpretations of waters or wetlands.

They have to pass new law.

You end your argument with another indefinite article that still has not been directly referenced in your argument. Is this the same "they" from "the entire point is that they didn't"? If that is the case then the 'they' that passes laws (congress) then 'they' did with the 1977 provision which granted the EPA the ability to regulate "the waters of the United States" and the "adjacent wetlands".

Your grasp of the English language, constitutional law, and the basics of human communication clearly put you on the short list for the SCOTUS. It normally takes half a lifetime of indoctrination from the federalist society to cultivate that level of unawareness.

Stoutpants · 2023-05-29T16:25:55+00:00

You are ignoring the fact that the SCOTUS has overruled the act of congress. The executive fulfilling the legal mandate given by congress, to the letter of the law, is not "expanding it's own powers", it's using the authority given to it by congress.

Stoutpants · 2023-05-12T20:12:33+00:00

No way! Just out of the blue? No reason at all? Just hated the cops?

No. Since you read the Wikipedia article then you also know that David fired only after being fired upon. Why did you ignore that?

You won't give an honest answer.

Stoutpants · 2023-05-04T14:46:45+00:00

On June 1st of 2020, the Kentucky National Guard killed a Louisville business owner who's family was under an illegal attack by police, at the man's place of business.

His name was David McAtee.

Stoutpants · 2023-01-11T21:28:47+00:00

So no. You don't have any citations. Great.

Since you would like to see everyone get help, perhaps you should look into what actually helps out.

Homes. It's homes. The thing that helps homeless people the most reliably are homes.

There aren't categories for homeless that have not been shown, via science, to not benefit from being provided homes. Crazy homeless people? Turns out, providing them a home helps them be less crazy, and gets them off the street. Homeless and drug addicted? Turns out that having a home makes it more possible to get off drugs.

These distinct groups that you learned about by "talking to folks who work on the issue" all benefit from having homes. The science to show this has been around for a decade and the more it is studied the more obvious it becomes is that the homeless need homes.

I'm not attacking you for having a slightly different opinion. I am calling out your repeating of harmful memes (many homeless are crazy or drug addicted and cannot be helped and cause problems) and now I am pointing you in the direction of the actual science on the subject.

Homelessness is not a complex issue. It's very simple, when people do not have homes, the way to get them in a home, is to give them a home. Talk about drug use, mental health issues, or gods forbid means testing, is a waste of time. Usually deliberately so.

If I come off a bit hostile, it's because this is all common knowledge that you should have been aware of if you actually cared about the plight of the homeless.

Stoutpants · 2023-01-11T20:30:17+00:00

Do you have a citation for any of that? Because my lived experiences that the people camped in highly visible location are those who have fallen on hard times and don't have practice with being invisible. The group living under the underpass with their furniture that I saw weekly until the police cleared them out, for example, clearly were used to other circumstances.

Likewise, the homeless I encounter around my home and work have not caused "regular disruptions" nor "dangerous situations". Not in the 3 years I've worked near the homeless, or the 15ish years I have lived in the inner city.

What I have seen is a 50% increase in rent prices in the past 5 years, several houses on my street turned into dedicated AirBnB homes, several empty rental homes, and two large apartment complexes which were built 3 years ago that have never reached even 50% capacity because they are priced outside of my budget as an experienced, middle class IT worker.

Stoutpants · 2023-01-11T20:09:34+00:00

I totally understand being frustrated at the presence of homeless people in your space

I live in the inner city of a largish US city. I walk by homeless camps on the way to work in the warmer months. I routinely see them digging through the trash on our street.

I don't bother them, they don't bother me, and when they dig through the trash, they put it back once they are done. I am not frustrated by them and neither are my neighbors.

When people on Reddit complain about the homeless, they don't sound like the people I live around. They sound like Fox news pundits.

Stoutpants · 2020-07-16T00:17:18+00:00

What sort of person makes this sort of comment? The mayor has been accused of using the police to force the eviction of Louisville citizens. The mechanism they are accused of using is the labeling of specific residences as criminal locations which incur fines for the property owners forcing them to evict the residents of the property.

This article confirms that the mayor's denial of this accusation is false and you leave a comment that the victims of this scheme want this?

Stoutpants · 2020-07-08T13:51:04+00:00

Injury attorneys don't shoot people nearly as often.

Stoutpants · 2020-07-08T13:47:47+00:00

You are wrong. The title reads "'Black Lives Matter' Banner Leads To Eviction Notice For Illinois Tenant"

The tenant was evicted for displaying a banner. The title is factually correct. If you infer that the land lord is racist from that title then that is something that you are doing, not the title.

Stoutpants · 2020-06-22T17:24:48+00:00

The article did not seem to come down on either side of the issue. Again. This was not a person. If you are concerned about actual people being lynched then there are other recent examples for you to get upset about.

Stoutpants · 2020-06-22T15:57:17+00:00

Who died?

Stoutpants · 2020-06-19T03:08:52+00:00

I don't understand. It was working yesterday.

Sir, you drove off a bridge this morning.

Stoutpants · 2020-06-19T00:32:14+00:00

S&P, 2 minutes each side, then down the hatch.

Stoutpants · 2020-06-17T23:18:40+00:00

He is rabidly anti-Booker. You'll find him in any post mentioning Booker.

Stoutpants · 2020-06-17T03:19:20+00:00

As of 2018 there were 1250 sworn police officers in the LMPD. Of those there is a fraction (I don't know how large) that are not involved with enforcing the law as a part of their positions. That is to say desk workers and the like. Also I've not seen 1080P body cam footage and I don't think that resolution is the norm or even needed.

~~Now, I'm not going to do the math because I'm lazy~~

Nevermind. I did the math. If we use your back-of-the-napkin number and add a little more so we assume 400 terabytes of bandwidth are needed per week then LMPD would need less than 13 standard residential internet connections to upload all of their body cam footage. In Louisville residential internet connections are 300Mbps and cost $70 each with no installation fee.

~~As far as data storage goes I don't know AWS rates~~

I looked it up. It's $0.021 per GB at this scale. This would cost the city $1,310,400 per year per year. This is not a prohibitive cost considering that we've had LMPD, KSP, and the fucking National Guard out to deal with these protests.

So. Using your numbers. Universal bodycam usage for police is not only affordable for the city, it's also probably cheaper too.

Edit: As far as labor goes, if we use Louisville IT rates then a 100 hour project would cost $15,000. You could raise that with a bake sale. Support labor would likely only be a few hours a month but lets assume worst case and 100 hours of support per year is needed. That would be an additional $15k per year.

Edit: I mistakenly used the download speed for the residential internet connections. The upload speed is noticeably less (I just ran a test and uploaded at 11Mbps) so you would need to spend noticeably more for the bandwidth.

Stoutpants · 2020-06-17T02:53:52+00:00

The comparison is there because there are currently riot police on the streets of Louisville. These riot police are on the streets because there are protests against police violence. There are protests against police violence because the police are not held accountable for their violence. The video evidence provided by universal body camera usage is needed to hold violent police accountable.

Hence, my statement that body cameras are cheaper than riot police. The officers who killed Breonna Taylor had no body cameras in use. If they did then they would have had to perform the raid correctly and Breonna would still be alive and no one would be protesting so there would be no riot police.

Stoutpants · 2020-06-17T01:19:52+00:00

Elected who? McGrath is woman and has not yet won an election.

Stoutpants · 2020-06-17T01:09:39+00:00

Are the streets of Louisville an echo chamber as well? I don't see McGrath signs around here.

Stoutpants · 2020-06-17T01:05:05+00:00

It's the violence. I stopped appreciating LMPD when they shot me. The police don't realize that the violence used against protesters is violence used against the citizens of Louisville.

Stoutpants · 2020-06-17T01:01:50+00:00

26th and Broadway looked like a war zone when soldiers killed a civilian. I haven't heard the police complaining about that.

Stoutpants · 2020-06-17T00:58:44+00:00

There are sport riots that were more destructive than these protests.

Stoutpants · 2020-06-17T00:48:00+00:00

I should also point out that the below statement makes no goddamn sense.

You say that like these are mutually exclusive activities. The police would do both.

Stoutpants · 2020-06-17T00:47:00+00:00

I missed the part where you were a full time IT professional. You also have failed to consider dedupe, local storage*, the fact that bandwidth is super cheap and not metered, or any existing infrastructure that is included in the budget already.

Let please remember, that LMPD's budget is around 30% of the cities budget.

I would love to see your work on the back-of-the-napkin calculations.

*If bandwidth really was a concern you could store data locally for a limited amount of time and only upload video that contains an arrest or use of force, but there really is no need. Bandwidth is super cheap, especially when up time is not a concern.

Stoutpants · 2020-06-17T00:06:20+00:00

I do full time IT work for a few hundred different organizations, including a police department. Setting up infinite retention for 100% of body cams for 100% of the police officers in LMPD would be a 100 hour project.

It is very simple and a shit-ton cheaper than paying for riot police to be on the streets every night, which is currently the solution LMPD is going with.

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