It’s always so frustrating to see the same jokes and snark about Phoenix because most people will just accept that at face value, laugh, and move on. Phoenix gets hot, yea, but not like this otherwise it wouldn’t be newsworthy.
The summers bring heat but also usually rains, monsoons actually. They punctuate the stretches of heat bringing cooler temps and much needed relief. These usually start in June and occur regularly for the duration of summer but haven’t this year. People have lived in the area for thousands of years, this is abnormal and not as simple as “people live in hot area and complain about heat”.
Then in 2004, Reubens was sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor obscenity charge involving photographs of minors engaged in sexual conduct were seized from him
I think there was some vendetta things happening to him for some reason. Is he gay or something? I don’t even know but it really sounds like a set up if you look at the sources from his wikipedia page during that time.
It was the 90’s, before the internet and he had a thing for pornography. The pussycat theatre was specifically an adult theatre that showed pornography, three other men were arrested with him, presumably because that what people went to the theatre for.
No, he was caught jerking off in a porn theater and charged with public indecency. In my opinion the whole thing was blown out of proportion and a stain on his legacy that doesn’t deserve to be there. People just hear “sex crimes” and “children’s performer” and come to that assumption. (No shade to you, its a fair assumption. I more have a problem with how the media handled it at the time)
You should probably continue on with the quotes a bit longer.
“That mischaracterizes the art collection seized,” Reubens’ lawyer, Blair Berk said Friday. “If that means a black-and-white tintype from 1901 with a young man of indeterminate, 17- to 19-year-old age, laying on the beach after having gone skinny-dipping … then they got it.”
“It was clear from the start that we, along with the many distinguished art experts supporting Paul’s art photography collection, vehemently disagreed with the city prosecutor’s view of what constitutes art,” Berk said.
IIRC he never claimed to not own CP; He was charged and there was legitimate evidence of dozens of CP materials. His legal defense was that he buys bulk lots of kisch art and wasn’t aware the offending material was in there. He would later in 2004 (after charges were dropped in exchange for a obscenity charge) claim that he was aware of the CP; but he only owned it for as he also collected vintage Erotica; and he further claimed the CP was “innocent nudes” and in no way pornographic in nature. Not being charged doesn’t mean he didn’t actually own the offending materials.
Christopher Lloyd was in Nobody. At first I thought it was the actor that played Raymond’s father from Everyone Loves Raymond, though could have sworn I had heard he died years ago. I was sad when I recognized Lloyd partway through.
I had this exact same freakout when another posted said “I’m 40 and I loved him when I was a kid” I’m like yeah, he must have been around for a while beforehand then, this is reasonable… Then I realised I’m 38 1/2
I work in an industry working with other industrial businesses and we’ve seen so many of their employees get heat related injuries this summer. It’s very hard to get companies to view people as humans and not as a disposable asset.
A lot of times these companies won’t increase protections for workers without the government stepping in with laws and regulations.
I work in an open air factory on Long island. It’s gets over 90°F inside and whatever humidity it is outside is what we have here.
I’ve looked into the laws for factories in NY and the legislation is purposely vague… “all factories are to maintain proper humidity and temperature.” They then never define what proper temp and humidity is… My representatives don’t respond when asked about it.
I’m so happy it’s nice this week so far, last week was brutal…
Holy shit that’s really warm for working inside a factory all day. Thank you for sharing your insight especially since a lot of the news coverage is in places setting temperature records and not places where the heat index is through the roof. I suppose it’s f*kn hot all over this summer.
Most likely this drain of academics was an intended effect of the laws passed under DeSantis. The loss of academics hobbles institutes of higher learning while positions remain unfilled, resulting in a more ignorant populace. It also opens the possibility for far right extremists to infiltrate academia to corrupt academic thought and principles from within. The danger of ultra right wing, bigoted, nationalistic, authoritarianism continues to grow. How long before more right wing states follow suit?
My wife has extended family from Mississippi. They are some of the stupidest people I have ever met. They all, and I mean ALL, send their kids to private schools so they won’t have to attend alongside black kids. One of her cousins was just down visiting with us and I walked in while she was ranting about how “I know trump is blahbidyblah, but things were so much better under him… just look at the GAS PRICES screee scrawww hurr durr”. I did the ol’ Grandpa Simpson about face and checked tf out before I said something ugly and upset my wife (not that she actually agrees with her cousin or anything, I just need to be nice…)
The voters may not want the economy to suffer but DeSantis and his cronies do. It’s part of the GOP playbook. Damage the economy with tax cuts and other legislation, then blame the Democrats for the bad economy. Their voters always fall for it.
Conservatives have been gutting education for 40 years. Look at the educational outcomes in Republican run states. They like ignorant, meaning uneducated voters. Crippling higher education is definitely their goal.
This, like the rest of it, is on purpose. He wants to create a “they are hostile to me in SF despite my desire to stay in the city, so I will now relocate Twitter to Texas”. Ultimately, he wants to destroy Twitter as it was previously a place used to organize movements (Arab spring, Saudis are #2 investor in Twitter behind musk) and amplify information about the embarrassing failures and crimes of fascists like him. Destroy the validity (and even basic functionality) of the site, and less people hear those messages.
Chronically-divorced megalomaniac coward who’s daddy didn’t/doesn’t love him.
His dad was the first one to prove they weren’t a poor South African family because Elon, in his infinite assheadedness, put up a bounty for people to claim he wasn’t actually a poor.
I’ve been up there and spent time on two Rez’s and the Klamath river was so bad. The red algae and low levels were terrible for the salmon runs. The Yurok and Hoopa have relied on it forever and hate the dams.
Hydroelectric power was a dumb idea. Cool idea, but short sighted and reeked of manifest destiny.
No, because this sets an extremely bad precedent. The simpler answer is just not give bailouts like this. A properly functioning anti-trust department wouldn’t let these private companies get so big they are deemed “too vital to fail” … but here we are.
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