The key problem is his vessel: a giant floating hamster wheel made of buoys and wire, self-propelled by Baluchi running inside.
Baluchi, who lives in Florida after being granted asylum from Iran, was taken in by the Coast Guard last week aboard his vessel, following several days of back and forth with the authorities.
The following day, a second Coast Guard cutter, named Campbell, arrived and sent a small boat to Baluchi to deliver food, water and word that the hurricane was expected.
He was also the focus of a short documentary from VICE about Baluchi’s 2014 and 2016 attempts to travel from Boca Raton, Fla., to Bermuda — a distance of more than 1,000 miles — by running inside his homemade floating bubble.
“We referred to it as the hamster wheel of doom,” Coggeshall remembered, adding that temperatures could get up to 120 degrees inside the bubble, and that Baluchi was more likely to get pushed to England or swept into a swirling eddy in the middle of the Atlantic than make it from Florida to Bermuda.
“A day or two later, a cold front knocked the bubble on his side, so [Baluchi] set off what’s called a spot device,” and the Coast Guard went and rescued him.
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If you block spam SMSes or assholes and spambots on chat services, it’s basically that. No matter how much the other person tries, they can no longer get through to you on that service. In most cases, it’s as if they no longer exist.
Sure, and while we’re at it, let’s just skip all meals to save money! These fucking people, man. Anything to shy away from the fact that we the people are getting fleeced.
But seriously, why are we letting these dragons hoard wealth for no real reason other than bigger number makes them feel more important.
Economies work best when money is moving fast between the lower and middle classes. Wealth tax the fuck out of the obscenely rich and give incentives to raise wages, suddenly people are able to spend more and whatdoyaknow the economy grows.
“Beyond the shadow of a doubt, the state will violate the injunction through no fault of its own, and despite its best efforts, because the provision of 90% of [private-duty nursing] hours to 2,750 children in the midst of a nursing shortage is simply impossible.” the state argued.
“It’s not our fault we’re breaking the law, we simply can’t be expected to follow it!”
I wonder what Ron Desantis thinks of the alleged budget and resource shortfall that makes the adequate care for medically vulnerable children “simply impossible.” Probably not irrelevant that the FAHCA lost another court battle a couple months ago preventing them from prohibiting gender-affirming care to trans patients.
Awesome to see this getting some media coverage. I hope the writers strike ends in time for Oliver to be able to do a segment on his show about all this.
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