Yes, this is basically the Riddle of Epicurus.
If God is willing to prevent evil, but not able, He is not omnipotent. If He is able, but not willing, He is malevolent. If He is both able and willing, then whence comes evil? If He is neither able nor willing, why call Him God?
I like to put it this way: Omniscient, Omnipotent, Benevolent - Choose any two. The evidence around us is ample proof that God cannot have all three properties.
The people that won were the only bidders.
And they may not even get it.
Federal officials did not immediately say if they would accept the offer. It was the only bid received.
The Fed could end up saying that the bid was too low and may not accept it despite there being no other offers. This is far, far less than they were hoping for, I'm sure. Per the article, the last successful lease in the area was "$793 million, or $1.10 per ton, for 721 million tons of coal in Wyoming." This bid is $186,000 to lease 167 million tons which comes to something like like $0.001 per ton. The last coal lease was worth 1000 times more than this bid.
Parente also offered to play an agent’s body-camera video that shows the shooting, noting that prosecutors did not show the video that he claimed disputes the government’s version of the shooting.
Parente said the video shows an agent turn a federal vehicle left into Martinez’s vehicle, after which an agent says, “Do something b----.” The agent then exits the vehicle and shoots at Martinez.
Sure sounds like attempted murder under the color of law to me.
Yeah, in retrospect, I guess I wasn't very clear there, was I.
I actually care about all the waste generated by all industries. I'm just particulary concerned with waste that will remain toxic for 1,000s of years. As for storing it all in "solid geological storage", yeah, good luck with that. That's been the dream since 1982 when Yucca mountain was chosen as the site for the nation's nuclear waste. But that wasn't stopped by nimbies, it was stopped by the state of Utah and many other states. Nobody wants train or truck loads of toxic nuclear waste shipped across their state for some reason. I can't imagine why...
You may be in luck though. A private company in West Texas, Interim Storage Partners, has agreed to start taking in that waste. Except that the state of Texas has said fuck no to that. Luckily for you, SCOTUS will be hearing the case in October according to this article. Knowing the current SCOTUS, I'm sure that we will all be wondering when and the first train or truck load of nuclear waste will get dumped, because it's not a matter of if.
Statistically speaking, nuclear energy is relatively safe per kilowatt-hour. But it’s also the only energy source with a non-zero risk of catastrophic failure and waste that stays toxic for thousands of years.
Thanks. I'll take wind and solar instead. Wake me up when all this is somehow cleaned up.
As of December 2024, there were over 315,000 bundles of spent nuclear fuel rods in the U.S., and over 3,800 dry storage casks in concrete vaults above ground, located at current and former power plants across the country.
Even reactors that have been decommissioned and demolished still have concrete vaults storing radioactive waste, which must be secured and maintained by the power company that owned the nuclear plant.
The Premium section at the front of these planes will have "ergonomically contoured seat cushions, reclining seat backs and a large headrest with four-way adjustment capability."
The 36 seats between the premium section and the rest of the cabin will, in turn, also have reclining ability, alongside extra legroom and slightly more space than the higher fare class.
There will be first class with all the bells and whistles, then a section for people who want to pay more to have a reclining seat and (allegedly) more leg room.
That will leave me with a regular seat to sit in, without an upcharge, and the asshole in front of me will not be able to recline. I'm good with this.
That's a tough one. There is a spray you can get, Bitter Apple. Most cats hate the smell and will avoid it. In your shoes, I would get some and spray a little on a wash cloth or similar and tuck it in the sling. That may keep him from crowding the sling and stepping on your injury. Don't spray yourself or your sling directly though. If the odor is too offensive and makes him stay away entirely, you can toss the washcloth in the laundry and try something else.
Bitter Apple Spray - Note, this talks about the spray as a chewing deterrent, but in my experience cats will avoid areas where it's been sprayed. Just remember to start small. You wouldn't want your boy to start avoiding you completely.
Did you notice that Trump called them "unlawful combatants" in this article? That phrase may ring a bell.
George W. Bush's cronies invented the phrase during his reign of terror, or as he called it, his war on terror. He said that there were people who were neither enemy combatants, nor civilians. They were a third category: Unlawful Combatants. The conventions that protect prisoners of war did not apply to such _unlawful _ combatants. Such people could be arrested, indefinitely detained, tortured, or even killed without charge or trial. This was the justification for G. W. Bush's extraordinary rendition program that had U.S. agencies kidnapping people off the streets of the US and other nations and shipping them to black sites where they could be tortured indefinitely.
The repeated use of the phrases unlawful combatant and narco-terrorist tells me all I need to know about where they plan to go with this.
Poe's Law. Without a clear indicator, a lot of people took it as OP believing this.
Yep. Quick image search found it on Reddit six years ago.