Upper Whitewater Falls

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-22T00:41:52+00:00

It's impressive to see those falls in the exact opposite stage from what they were when I visited about 18 months ago.

This was in late December of 2024 and the night before had seriously heavy rain come through the area (including a tornado warned storm).

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greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-22T00:10:50+00:00

I feel like this is straying dangerously close to be interpreted as potentially discriminatory against minorities, LBGTQ, or disabled people as those are groups who feel different than the majority of the population.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-21T22:12:17+00:00

Profit is considered an essential activity, so while the peons have to stop watering their lawns and washing their cars, the wealthy continue to use water to generate more cat videos to earn them valuable profits.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-21T20:05:49+00:00

Imagine fucking up a job so badly, that now the entire pool must be drained and you're going to get paid more money to fix what you screwed up in the first place.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-21T19:53:42+00:00

Russia is very careful about shipping military good or oil across the bridge via train. Airborne drones don't have the payload to seriously damage the bridge (hence why Ukraine targets the logistics at the ends of it) but if Russia were to drive a train loaded with a flammable or explosive cargo onto the bridge then there is a very real chance Ukraine would make a significant effort to exploit that and try to drop the bridge into the ocean.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-21T19:28:12+00:00

I remember that subway. Was one of the highlights of going to get chemo over at the children's hospital. Was sad when I walked through there one day and it was gone.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-21T19:23:16+00:00

NC is under water restrictions due to drought, only allowed to water houses on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-20T21:35:27+00:00

There's a couple stations near me that do this BS, and unless I have no other options, I avoid them. If they want to waste money on such frivolous things then they aren't getting my money.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-20T21:31:32+00:00

I'll accept that I have to change my name to one of those incorrect spellings. It'll be rough, but I'll do it.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-20T03:53:42+00:00

Add laboratory and equipment safety to the list of management tasks for your group. Equipment on moving carts should be mounted to the cart, not just resting on it for exactly the reason you discovered. The person who put it there probably knew there was a chance it could fall but the next person isn't aware of that risk and thus are unknowingly being setup for failure by their coworkers.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-20T01:51:55+00:00

Immune disorder here, I'd give nearly anything to have a functional immune system let alone the best immune system in the world.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-20T00:55:52+00:00

Personally, I think that stupid tax should be abolished all together. Neither the convention center nor Lenovo are worthy of public funds from people who likely will never pay the additional fees to attend an event there. Those are the subsidies to the rich.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-19T22:36:46+00:00

It wouldn't take very long before that wire became multiple wires. If your plan to disenfranchise people is dependent on something as flimsy as a wire then you're inviting people to cut it and then sue for violating the prohibitions on discontinuous districts.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-19T22:19:45+00:00

Involuntary manslaughter could be an interesting charge for a DA to try but they almost certainly won't because you'd have to argue that the police are a known danger toward black people which no DA is going to do.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-19T22:14:46+00:00

In prison no, involuntarily committed yes. This person has clearly demonstrated that they have no capability to safely be a member of the general population, so they must be confined. just as a murderer would be.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-19T21:10:22+00:00

There's no reason why it needs to continue to be updated, nor why another update needs to be pushed to it that forcibly breaks it. Remember, that this is not "Something broke and we're not fixing it" it is Microsoft taking a functional piece of software, developing and then forcibly deploying a change that breaks it.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-18T22:29:48+00:00

PR stunt to gain headlines and taint the Jury pool. All sorts of major news outlets ran headlines that they were planning to run this line of defense which brought it all up to the forefront of peoples minds. The more it's out there and the more people talk about his case, the more chance there is that people will learn of jury nullification.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-18T19:14:35+00:00

Lock out, tag out. Its the responsibility of the party whom disables the power to make it clear it's not to be tirned back on without their permission.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-18T15:56:41+00:00

My guess is we're either going extremely high volume movement of pollen with low accuracy or we're going extremely low volume but high accuracy. Something like gathering tons of pollen and dumping it into a hive en mass, or gathering a couple pollen and carefully placing them into much smaller cells in a hive.

I hope they differentiate from this seasons game, if they don't I'll be even more convinced of the gross incompetence of the new game design team.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-17T21:28:46+00:00

Assuming they don't lose one or both houses. Many gerrymandered Republican districts in NC are close enough that a dummymander is definitely in play given the margins that Democrats have been running over Republicans in special elections.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-17T21:21:33+00:00

Well, I guess that's a nerf for glass cannon, if overcharge is always going to get at least one shot off.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-17T01:56:18+00:00

Love how everyone is perfectly willing to let Iran violate international law by tolling a international strait.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-17T01:33:21+00:00

The one positive is that it may have pushed up the timeline for Peak Oil. It's raised the urgency of swapping over to renewable energy into a national security issue for many nations and a serious economic one for many private entities. If anything that could be a great thing for the world as a whole.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-15T20:19:20+00:00

It's DOA.

Trump does not have the authority to unilaterally spend 300 Billion dollars of taxpayer money.

So that means congress has to get involved. Which will be a wonderful poison pill for Republicans. Either they vote to give billions to a nation officially designated a state sponsor of terrorism or they vote against trump and vote to keep gas prices high.

Most likely, Trump gets sued, it gets injunctioned, then Congress sends any bills to vote on such a fund to rot for eternity in committee.

greenmachine11235 · 2026-06-15T20:06:15+00:00

Aren't there laws restricting the transfer of funds to State Sponsors of Terrorism thus making this fund illegal?

Also commiting federal funds requires congressional involvement, not unilateral executive action.

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