Agreed. Even if it's a shitty, cheap standing one on top of a metal plate. Anything's better than nothing (unless you really cheap out and burn your house down) in my experience. I'm so glad I have a fireplace, it's not perfect and I rarely use it, but I like having the option and spare wood just in case.

> I’m not sure where you heard this, but it is terrible advice to start a fire inside your car.

Holy shit, yeah, not a great idea. If you run out of gas and the batteries dead with zero ability to restart it, maybe? I guess if you have candles/one of those little stovetop things. Even then it's a huge risk, and living in an area like that you should have hella blankets/spare jackets prepared for weather like this. I don't live anywhere that gets severe weather and still stock up for seasons just in case.

Were they talking about a stovetop/candle, or just literally lighting random shit on fire in your car? Sounds like a great way to die from the toxic plastic fumes and such quickly at least.

Blows my mind why anyone would even be out. Fuck work, parties, seeing friends, etc when it's literally your life. Not being fired doesn't help when you're dead, or missing limbs/extremities due to frostbite. Was reading about how this was going to be a rough storm for places like that a few days ago and decided to stock up then just in case we got hit, hopefully most people did that as well.

I also wonder how much extra energy is "saved" through winters due to heavy population. Heavily populated cities like that tend to stay warmer due to all the heat bleeding from vehicles/electronics/buildings, right? Not to mention I'd imagine it's cheaper heating x25 apartments in one building than say, 20 or so separate houses.

Depends on who owns those properties. If say, a major CEO who could decide the pricing/availability of a new contract with the state or something owned one or a few, it can certainly influence decisions. The examples unlikely, but stuff like that does happen.

> There is a ton that can be done just by knowing what websites someone has accounts on.

I'm waiting for that mass "oh shit" moment when the larger populace actually begins to understand how much you can do with large amounts of meta data. It's scary.

>A lot of people in Maine have generators and wood stoves but a lot of others do not and right now

It's probably going to become as "normal" as a fridge or HVAC in housing for some areas in the future. Climate's changing, and expected temperatures/extremes are changing. Not much else someone can really do when you effectively know you're going to get weather like this and the infrastructure isn't going to handle it anytime soon. I know many people who already had their own large generator/solar installed to their houses due to that, many people know it's going to be something they want and don't want to wait until everyone's rushing to have theirs installed.

Plus, it's a sport utility vehicle, obviously it's meant for this weather!

Picked a few choice paragraphs for info, this isn't the entire article.

>More than 40% of street drug samples tested in Rhode Island contained the animal tranquilizer xylazine, according to a new analysis out of Brown University. It’s the latest sign that the drug, which causes sedation and can lead to skin infections and overdoses, is continuing to spread through the illicit drug supply in the United States.

>Xylazine, often referred to as "tranq," concerns public health experts because it causes such heavy sedation, which can leave people exposed and vulnerable for long stretches of time. It’s not an opioid, so Naloxone — which can help treat opioid overdoses — doesn’t work to reverse its effects. Xylazine has become increasingly involved in overdose deaths in the U.S.

>The drug was common recreationally in Puerto Rico and then started showing up in Philadelphia in the early 2010s, Shover said. For the last decade, it’s been mostly confined to Philadelphia, she noted. Over the past few years, it started appearing in other places — like in Massachusetts and New York City.

Anyone know more about this drug? Curious as to what the draw is considering it's not an opioid, is it something more like Ketamine? I'd have to guess a cheap, accessible drug like that could certainly do some damage, although not sure how many people would go with that over something like heroin/fent.

That's interesting with how it specifically isn't working in the cold (your video). I wonder if they simply went without a dedicated heater, or tried to rely on internal resistance for heat. Or if they just cheaped out on the heater and it can't handle wind/cold together or something. That is assuming heating/cold is the issue here, but if so it's a pretty simple thing to overlook.

Solar's the way to go IMO. Wind's good too, but I just have a heavy aversion to moving parts when it comes to maintenance/repair.

You right.

>The United flight comes a day after severe turbulence on a Hawaiian Airlines flight led to dozens of injuries. On Sunday, at least 36 people on Hawaiian Airlines Flight 35 were injured, according to Honolulu Emergency Medical Services, sending 20 people to emergency rooms.

Was going to say, the other flight had a lot more injured IIRC, so this must be a different one. I imagine the mix of already-warm air mixing with really cold incoming air is causing some unpredictable weather. Could be wrong of course, but hopefully this doesn't become a pattern.

> This is an effort to characterize the zodiacal light, the solar system's illuminated dust, along with the galactic background and any light in darkest areas, by a massive reprocessing of raw data from Hubble, which is just underway.

Was my first guess, random small stuff like dust, ice, possibly some gas molecules reflecting light as they orbit/hang out around the solar system. I do wonder how much of an improvement we'd have visually if we could somehow drag JWST or something like it beyond that dust/debris cloud into the bare, emptier space.

> It's the job security, benefits, and pension.

Don't count out connections/advancement. Getting your foot in the door even with a "dumb" job like security in a government position can be enough to have people consider you for something when they never would have before. As you said, it's rarely pay directly, but everything combined isn't a bad deal, especially when you consider government jobs are very hard to get completely fired from as well.

Some of the benefits can be pretty nuts too. Depending on organization, you can get paid $1,000 more per year, per language, provided you can pass a proficiency test. Doesn't matter if you use it or need it for your job ever again, they literally will (would?) pay you simply for "knowing" another language. Again, not amazing, but if you put in some work and play it smart, government work isn't terrible. Now, you want to talk the politics of government jobs, that's sometimes a very good reason to avoid it, although not like private companies don't have issues with that as well.

Likewise, I've known people with incredibly vulnerabilities/issues that managed to pass them. Even if you are a bad person for the job or have heavy disqualifiers, if you're confident and have no anxiety over the test, you still pass. Obviously it's a bit more in-depth than that, but as you said, it doesn't measure honesty, it measures anxiety and other sympathetic reactions that are impossible to tell by themselves if it's honesty or something else.

Effectively, yes. Sometimes it's by people who are straight up malicious. Sometimes it's by "innocent" people who genuinely believe the nonsense. Alex Jones would be a good example of the first, anyones parents could be an example of the second. Both dangerous, but with completely different intentions.

I just keep the thumbnails as small as possible, completely removed when just viewing the whole subreddit and such. It's quite often they're really not related, showing some random picture of a dude or something like this. At least in my experience.

I'd imagine wildfire smoke is probably a lot less worse than industrial/residential smoke as well, due to it mainly being burning wood/organics. With actual buildings and stuff, there's so many things not meant to burn, or off-gas some pretty terrible stuff just due to being plastic or some other commonly used material. Would be interesting to see a study on the differences over a longer period of time.

Just look towards cities that already regularly sit in the 250-500 range on the pollution maps, it's not good.

I'm sure you can have some impact through precautions and such, but without living entirely in a heavily filtered, airtight bunker, you're going to get exposed. Sure, living in the country is much better than a major city, but I'd imagine this is just one of those things most people can't afford to drastically change on a whim.

> In theory it should be consistently rule-based.

Yes, and in-theory a lot of things would be great.

Love how they specifically went for clothes, and nothing actually easily able to be resold or valuable. At least from the video, I don't see any actual boxes or valuable goods.

Well buckle up, we're about to enter what historians refer to as "The Cool Zone".

Would be nice, wouldn't it?

Press D-pad and other buttons when it's launching. IIRC you hold certain buttons and press D-pad for different options. So just pressing "left" on the D-pad will give you a different result than holding "B" and pressing "left". Just from memory, so could be wrong on the specifics.

The screen will instantly change to whatever filter you want. It was pretty cool when I randomly discovered this, a bunch of kids got confused and thought scratching the IR cover did it somehow.