I’d be rather surprised if there was a permit issued for these pipe bombs.
I don’t expect that he’s been arraigned (formally charged) with it yet because that usually takes a couple days, and today is a holiday. Prosecutors will likely file a superceding indictment once they’re back to work
First paragraph of the article:
A Virginia man was arrested this month with what federal prosecutors described in court papers on Monday as the largest cache of “finished explosive devices” ever found in the F.B.I.’s history.
You don’t let something like that get to the point of killing people; you stop it before they set them off.
He killed one of the rich instead of a minority
The environmental movement asked the same thing for subsidized hydrogen production
Power use by the Washington/Oregon data center cluster was almost entirely covered by a local surplus of hydropower until a couple years ago. That might be why it looks different from elsewhere.
If you’re doing a massive load increase, build out emissions-free generation to match. Some mix of wind, solar, batteries, nuclear, and geothermal would do fine. Otherwise, don’t do the big load increase.
Flood insurance in particular isn’t run by business in the US; it’s underwritten by the federal government, and has been operating at a loss for quite a while. The example in this story is somebody who while they signed up for it, experienced damage before the policy went into effect (there’s a 30-day waiting period to start)
Homeowners insurance tends to actually pay out when you have individual uncorrelated failures (eg: house burns down due to electrical system failure) which is what’s it’s designed for. Having that around makes buying something as expensive as a house practical.
It’s more that you can’t be assured of being able to buy the necessary insurance for 30 years, let alone the time you’re likely to live in the house after paying off the mortgage. Changing the rules to require that insurers commit to renewals for the duration of the mortgage might make it more doable, but would likely result in large areas becoming impossible to sell homes at anywhere near currently-prevailing prices.
It’s a gift link. If you’re not stripping off the access token from the URL, you should be able to access the article without needing somebody to do that.
The Senate could of course do the right thing and refuse to confirm Kennedy or any of the people in his orbit. Not that I expect the Republicans who will be in the majority to do the right thing.
Exactly. Insurance handles low-probability high-impact uncorrelated disasters really nicely, and is worth paying for to protect against those.
Correlated disasters require public policy and shared infrastructure to lower their risk and the extent to which people are exposed to them.
What’s going on here is that Sheldon Whitehouse, the Democratic Senator, held a hearing which made data about insurance drops and rate increases public. That’s creating a news cycle about it
You probably can’t pay out of pocket to replace your house if it burns down.
This article is about homeowners insurance, not health insurance
They do occasionally enforce the signal jamming laws. Do it with any regularity in a way that messes up police radio, and they will work to catch you.
I’m using Firefox with ublock origin and no problems. Maybe Voyager strips out the access token from the URL?
There’s a fairly small list of names it refuses. Almost all names are ok; the author’s is not.
Mostly because really messed up state on your device can keep Javascript from running.
It’s a gift link. You won’t hit the paywall during the next couple weeks unless at least one of the following is true:
Light pollution hasn’t really changed (though it does increase in December every year)
What has changed is a social phenomenon of people taking photos of ordinary stuff, such as planets, stars, or commercial aircraft, posting it to social media, and telling others that it’s nefarious drones. This creates social contagion of the idea and action, as others do the same.
Since “mysterious object in sky” gets a lot more social media engagement than “Here’s a not-very-good photo of Jupiter” the whole thing spreads.
Stuff unlikely to kill and not made from materials likely to kill is generally legal. Pipe bombs don’t fall into that category