mateomaui

https://youtu.be/-94Ebr019pM?si=qnpBYxmmgbDfrlDi

https://youtu.be/QXE358WewnQ?si=ReXKtdGvn87OCaq2

These videos were from 4 hours ago and there’s still torrential rain now.

edit: in case anyone is wondering, no, I am not mattweiss

edit: so this is how it’s been going… it rained most of last night, started the morning with flood warnings until 8:30am, then was revised to 11:30am, then again until 7:15pm. It is currently 7:22p, and no end in sight yet.

Part of the problem is a phenomenon called “training”, where instead of storms just passing through, they’ll get stuck on the mountain and will pass over the same areas multiple times like a train on tracks. You just have to hope something eventually changes to blow itself off and away from the track.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_(meteorology)

~~It’s worth noting that due to brilliant design decisions, the only way to put different tires on it is to replace the whole wheel.~~ edit: apparently this part was not correct, my apologies for the misinformation

Two good starting point threads:

https://bsky.app/profile/coruscating.tv/post/3khumij65rw27

https://bsky.app/profile/kilgoretrout.bsky.social/post/3khv4cu3wnv2k

Some real gems in there.

https://inspirobot.me

edit: to clarify, I don’t agree with any of this, I just thought it was funny.

Got my account, logged in and navigated the website at least once every two or three days to get a lay of the land before doing anything with it, still got deleted. At least I assume that's what happened.

Ah, yes, people at Walmart, the trusted demographic known for often being completely oblivious to their own brand of obstruction.

Reposting this as an article since my first one with just the court documents violated rule 1.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24179145/bianco-v-lamington-farm-club.pdf

I have never seem such unanimous disapproval in the replies. Almost everyone hated that.

Meta has received more than 1.1 million reports of users under the age of 13 on its Instagram platform since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint against the company brought by the attorneys general of 33 states.

Instead, the social media giant “routinely continued to collect” children’s personal information, like their locations and email addresses, without parental permission, in violation of a federal children’s privacy law, according to the court filing. Meta could face hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, in civil penalties should the states prove the allegations.