"What’s behind that impulse to delete? When it comes to acts of violence, taking down profiles may help stem the impulse to try and build a logical case for an act where logic played no role. Distancing a platform from a senseless act of violence may be a public relations move, or a matter of taste, or maybe meant to discourage a profile from becoming a shrine for copycats. But the act has rare precedence in less recent history, and even carries negative connotations with non-online examples — say, if no one were allowed to read the Unabomber’s letters."
"Norms around social media are still evolving, and the urge to delete the profiles of wrongdoers has evolved over time. Surprisingly, the Twitter account of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers who bombed the Boston Marathon in 2013, was never taken down, even after he received the death penalty in 2015."
A simple 10% raise to forfeit voting rights for life doesn't seem like that good of a deal. If you make $50,000 a year, that's only a $5,000 a year raise before taxes, or maybe $150,000 over a thirty-year career (again before taxes). A life time after all is a long time.
That said, I would be willing to forfeit my voting rights if it meant that government was better operated on the basis of scientific knowledge without emotion and ideology. Too often public policy is done at the whim of the mob and special interests, not based on reasoned discussion or what the science says is the best course of action. Cutting out democracy in favor of technocracy could lead to better outcomes for society.
Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Next Tuesday is Tax Day . Poverty day after all the money is paid. Cloudy with a few patches of blue and 34 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind.The skies will clear around 6 pm. Dark enough this morning, that I will need the lights on when I get in the office. I think it’s snowing over in Rensselaer.
Today will have a slight chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy , with a high of 46 degrees at 3pm. 10 degrees below normal. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 9 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 81 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1922. 5.7 inches of snow fell back in 1961.
Not exactly a nice day buy even the coldest and grayest days aren’t that bad once you make it to mid April. I hope this is not an early sign of a coming cold and damp summer. I want some nice hot weekends at the Potholers this year.
The sun will set at 7:32 pm with dusk around 8:01 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. Nice long day. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies and 42 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 11 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be mostly clear , with a low of 27 degrees at 5am. Nine degrees below normal. Northwest wind 3 to 8 mph. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies, clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 58 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1874.
So today I’m bringing in my digital clock / VMS display I built to stick in my office. For now I’ve given up building a plexiglass case but I might use it for the next module I build. I figure if this one is in office I’ll have inspiration to build another one for at home. I have the parts but lack the ambition.
The upcoming weeks forecast is giving me hope for nicer days. Continued cold but still temperatures in the upper 40s and low 50s are better than the 30s and means I can keep the heat off at home. :DAnd despite the snow flurries, the snow keeps melting away as each day we get closer to May.
I was looking back at my dash cam videos of late, thinking about how much I miss traveling. I enjoy seeing the back roads of America, camping in the wilderness next to the fire. Eventually those days will return. Won’t be long but I’m impatient and there is still a ton of snow up north.
Continuing to work on my custom KML export plug in from QGIS. The dialog part is done and now I’m working on writing code inspired by mmqgis but using the QGIS 3.0 methods to export the KML. Its good because it’s teaching me more about how the rendering engine works. This will make it easier for me to build things for further automating map production going forward. That said, map making can never be fully automated because there are a lot of choices in design that have to be made in map making.
As previously noted, next Tuesday is Tax Day when the sun will be setting at 7:40 pm with dusk at 8:09 pm. On that day in 2017, we had rain, partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 66 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 59 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 2002.
. Poverty day after all the money is paid.
Cloudy with a few patches of blue and 34 degrees in Delmar, NY. 
Calm wind.The skies will clear around 6 pm. Dark enough this morning, that I will need the lights on when I get in the office. I think it’s snowing over in Rensselaer.
Nice long day. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 
and 42 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 11 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over yesterday.
, with a low of 27 degrees at 5am. Nine degrees below normal. Northwest wind 3 to 8 mph. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies, clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 58 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1874.
I figure if this one is in office I’ll have inspiration to build another one for at home.
I have the parts but lack the ambition.
I enjoy seeing the back roads of America, camping in the wilderness next to the fire. Eventually those days will return. Won’t be long but I’m impatient and there is still a ton of snow up north.
This will make it easier for me to build things for further automating map production going forward.
That said, map making can never be fully automated because there are a lot of choices in design that have to be made in map making.
