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The abilities of some to twist and misconstrue almost everything is almost impressive. Anytime anything might be helpful to society, they come up with conspiracies and ways it must be for evil.

I don't have, and never planned on having, any kids but, I always vote for and push for education. It is scary what large numbers of ignorant people can accomplish.

I found this USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/04/10/fact-check-false-claim-15-minute-cities-lock-down-residents/11593351002/

From a snippet:

Moreno said the posts are inaccurate and misconstrue the nature of the urban planning framework.

"The 15-minute city is the opposite of lockdown," Moreno said. "The 15-minute city is an open and connected city, which balances the differences in access to services."

The framework does not limit residents' ability to leave their neighborhoods or access services in other areas of the city.

“All citizens are free to go where they want," Moreno said. "There are no constraints.”

Far-right influencer Rogan O’Handley went so far as to suggest that if the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, Swift and Kelce would trigger an apocalyptic chain of events that would kill millions. “You MUST defeat the Chiefs,” O’Handley wrote in an X post addressed to the San Francisco 49ers. “If you don’t, Mr. Pfizer and his girlfriend are going to tour the country as ‘world champions’ helping elect Joe Biden WW3 will likely follow in a 2nd Biden term and millions will die. The fate of the free world rests upon your shoulders”

Just wow. Only a tidbit of the crazy they are spouting in this article.

@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me a happy cat smelling flowers style: fantasy

Haha! I forgot about those uses too! We live in the desert now but I grew up in grass and swamplands. Haven't had to think of a sump pump or dry-lok in forever. Very, very important alarm need if you want to keep things, that aren't moldy. Oh the memories. We started our first grow in a moldy basement!

The yellow lined area is not a parking space. The space is left open for ramps on vehicles that need an extra side space to get in and out of and extend the ramp.

When I started calling the hardware store the toy store my family thought I was saying tool store. Then at one point someone paid attention to my excitement for a trip and what I actually said. Much eye rolling.

If my girls' light goes out when it's supposed to be on, and they are on timed cycles, I want an alarm. Messing with those light and dark cycles can mess your flowers up. Same for the water pumps, fans, etc. depending on the setup. I imagine with some pets like exotic fish or reptiles you'll want extra notice if their habitat is going awry before they get ill.

Maybe something is tripping a breaker and they wanna know when it's happening while they track the cause and repair. Or an out building/shed/coop has issues with weather and shoddy power stability, needs that breaker flipped again.

Possibly a deep freezer that doesn't have it's own No Power alarm, or that function broke, and they want to have that peace of mind back.

I've known many a use for them. If ALL the power is out it's gonna be obvious whatever that's going to is out also. But, for something where you don't go to that space regularly, hard to tell quickly if powered, and has something sensitive needing power they are a nice peace of mind item (that usually costs less than whatever needs power that badly being replaced if you didn'tnotice in time).

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Reliance-Controls-Reliance-PowerOut-Power-Failure-Alarm-and-Light-THP207M/316089944 This lil guy? Oh, or this? https://www.menards.com/main/electrical/electrical-cords-surge-protectors/outlet-adapters/sonicord-power-failure-cord-alarm/thp111/p-5239772154488552-c-6483.htm

My little daydream is that thr judge's terms were something simple like "I want your statement beforehand so I can review it. But, you have to write it yourself, by hand. Your own hand." And he just couldn't muster up the gumption to do his own work.

Just the one guy and his gang huh? Wow. Not another country, not a huge corporation, not one of the rich oligarchs of the world? A former president's secret club. K. Gotcha.

Just wish one of these groups of idiots somewhere was using their, powers of large numbers of stupid people, for some real good.

Amazing work! Thanks so much for your, and all who helped, time for this amusement. How it was still able to vary from the YouTube songs that were posted beforehand was great and had to have taken efforts!