Oh wow. I had no clue there were so many that inexpensive now. Thank you!

I looked it up again. It started a bit before the Magna Carta, the concepts were established a butt better in the Magna Carta, but the Writ of Habeas Corpus, is from an actual in 1679.

There’s a ton more in the main Habeas Corpus wiki entry, but I’m at my limit of reading legal stuff for the day!

Tldr, any time we’ve suspended it has not been a good time for anyone! 😒

Huh… I watched a basic review on it and that seems somewhat intriguing. It looked faster than expected, decent basic features, and he says parts availability is good. I may have to put this on the wishlist… Thanks for the tip!

I check periodically, but I don’t see anything within an hour of me. It’s a shame, as I’m in the more populated part of my state, between the biggest and third biggest cities and I read about these places and feel I’d really enjoy them.

I have a milk frother for example, that burned out its stupidly non resetting thermal fuse because it got put on the base, something bumped the start button with nothing in and it burnt out. I’d love to have someone show me how to locate that bit and replace it, but I dunno where to go for that.

Same with the 3D printer. I can afford one, but at this stage of life I’d rather someone give me a hands on run through and give me some of their wisdom from experience than me playing around and getting frustrated until I get it right.

I try to make my jobs work for me as much as possible. I find things that annoy me, and see what I can do to change them. Big things I’ve encountered in a few jobs now that we’re solvable: moving physical paper things to electronic records wherever allowed, automating routine tasks, working out better workflows, improving usability of documents and forms.

All those things have multiple benefits. Time savings, uniformity/less confusion, and I learned new job skills to get better paying but still annoying jobs. It also sneakily molds the jobs into something that while I still find it largely pointless, it fits into my personality better because I took ownership of things and made them work in a way more compatible with me instead of them being things that someone that doesn’t do my actual work said was good enough and called it a day.

It’s near impossible to eliminate many of the stupidest aspects of a job, but inefficiency and having to redo things is one of my biggest energy vampires, so these things make it more bearable to me. No amount of bitching or bullet points will make a boss change the job, but invent a better solution on your own, and odds are they’ll let you do it if you show it has merit. Or just do things in secret if you’ve tested them. I do that plenty too, and as long as work is being done timely and correctly, usually nobody notices.

Also, I focus on things I can actually accomplish. There is a lot of special equipment I need, and you would never believe how rich our company is by the way they maintain things. If something is down, I try to not let it upset me. I just report it to my boss and move on. I used to pressure myself to come up with a solution, but that’s Management’s ordeal once I report it. Just find ways to let go where you can. Keep doing an honest job, but don’t sweat what work doesn’t enable you to do. That is their responsibility to you.

Also have activities you look forward to after work. Work may always suck, but if you’ve got something positive you know is coming your way after work, it goes better than if you just work>home>sleep>work.

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Sadly, I think the answer was “never.”

The wren finally gave up and took off, and naturually the woodpeacker left about 10 seconds later, finally giving way to the now non-present wren. Such is life.

Best I can do for you right now is a slightly used Kamala and a Newsom. (sad laughter)

I was somewhat pleased the other day to see Andy Beshear being mentioned. I’m not an expert on Kentucky politics, but I used to listen to a show from Cincinnatti during Covid, and Basheer seemed to navigate issues in a largely red state well, and he seems to be on what I feel is the right side of many issues. Skimming his wiki page quickly, I don’t see any controversies, and actually a few more good things I wasn’t aware that he managed to accomplish.

There are still many powerful people with a lot to lose that I don’t think are interested in seeing the US go fully off the rails, plus the head of the MAGA cult of personality is an old and unhealthy person, so we may yet get to see the movement run out of steam naturally before it is too late. I’d like this BS stopped yesterday of course, but I don’t want a violent leftist government any more than I do a violent right government. I’m neither rich nor well connected, so either would be bad for me and the people I care about.

Constitution.congress.gov

Article I, Section 9, Clause 2:

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

Link has some discussion of previous court cases involving the second part of that clause: who can suspend it and for what reason.

I was reading the other day it is based off centuries old British law, originally created so a king couldn’t just stick you in the dungeon for no reason.

The problem now is we do have someone acting as king, and all the king’s men have spent the last 10 years calling these people outside “invaders” and with guys like Miller who exist purely to milk these legal vagaries, that language is most likely very intentional for that reason.

I really don’t want to see people crossing the line to war/terrorism. I guess it would be the fastest way to get impactful change, but likely at a high cost. Destabilization also seems much easier than establishing a new system that enough people are happy with without fracturing again. That’s also assuming the side we’re on comes out on top.

We don’t necessarily need something catastrophic to build back. We just need to seriously learn from the mistakes we’ve allowed, not just to smooth things over with words and by ignoring transgressions.

We never know where the decisions we make are ultimately going to lead us. I never thought I’d be doing it either. It’s been one of the most rewarding things I’ve done so far. We do a lot of not great stuff to our little planet, and I love being able to do something so positive to make up for some of it.

I’m glad you took the time to help an animal that many don’t pay attention to. Last week we had some type of big fuzzy bee checked in! I asked the rehabber about it and she said some little boy found it missing a wing and his parents let him call. She took the bee in and gave it the same care any other living thing would get. He got a massive (for a bee) container with bedding, fresh fruit, and water. It looked fairly vigorous when I saw it last week but she said he didn’t make it.

She said she couldn’t do anything for bee wings, but she had mended butterfly wings previously, so I’d love to see that in the future!

The squirrels were still there this morning, trying to destroy my screen door, climbing all over it, and I gave them clean water and I’ll grab them some fresh veg on the way home. I’ve got a bag of rodent chow and walnuts too.

They were having a great time exploring the garden, digging in the dirt, and tasting everything. The leader I believe is a female from trying to look at her on my screen door, and she is very brave and adventurous. She’ll be a great addition to my slice of the woods. I wish I had looked at the chart to see which squirrels I grabbed and saw if I was getting males and/or females.

Thank you! I’ll have to keep that in mind! It seems like a thing that would be useful to have access to. There are always little things where I think it would be cool if the local library or hardware store had a printer for things that don’t seem like they’d be worth shipping but nice to have like pen refill adapters for instance.

They’re rescues from the clinic I volunteer at. I posted a quick thing about them yesterday in talking about my various adventures of the day.

A lot of squirrels are getting big and ready for release. I asked where were my free squirrels, and I got sent home with the 3 troublemakers from the end of our shift.

I am giving them a soft release, so their cage will stay on my patio for a week and I’ll leave them food and water, but the door is open so they can come and go as they please until they venture off to the woods.

I thought they’d flee right when I opened the door, but they didn’t move. One of them was out exploring the patio and eating random birdseed and climbing in my beets, but they’re all in the cage napping now.

I had a ton of fun watching them, and I hope they do well and mingle nicely with my pre-existing squirrels.

That was my first thought, but it seems easier to run a few thousand more off the assembly line and make the original part than I’d think to have at least one person develop an adequate 3D part for an items that wasn’t originally designed to be 3D printed.

Even for a relatively simple item like the trimmer guard shown, as someone who used those on their whole head for many years, they need to have decent rigidity coming from a number of angles so it cuts evenly, so someone needs to design a decent print, find what types of stock provide the right durability, flex, etc.

So it’s doesn’t sound that free for them or quick, but it’s much cheaper than distribution for a bunch of random parts that may never get used.

I’m curious to see long term effects if this catches on. Will more original parts be made with 3D printing if they need to design prints anyway?

The big downside is even if this were available, I don’t have a printer. I don’t know anyone with one. I don’t know where I could go to (?) rent time on one. So to me at the moment, this is as useful to me as no available replacement part! 😅

So tiny! 🥰

The offset stripe of speckles on the eggs is very unexpected and unique!

I’m still working on the fine tuning, as if it’s in focus with my eye, it’s not always the best with the camera, and then focusing the binoculars while the phone it then refocusing makes it a challenge to see when it actually is in focus, so some good shots get blurry. I’m working a little more on the parallax and testing if it works better with photos with the eye relief adjustment in/out. I’ve gotten some real great shots.

I was releasing some squirrels on my porch this weekend and was watching them get acclimated, so I was taking random photos while watching out the door.

The compromising of things like voter data and social security databases has really disturbed me. Even if we have the best president in history next, how can we ever trust those systems again when an unknown number of people potentially have backdoor access to that info? I think a lot is going to need to be scrapped and rebuilt from zero if we’re supposed to have confidence in it. It’s not like the normal stuff like when we get a crummy EPA or FCC person and we can just roll some policies back or what have you, we have been severely exposed to unknown parties about many of the most private and personal levels.

Beautiful!

Feel free to share at !superbowl@lemmy.world as well!

Summary for you:

The Energy Star program falls under the division of the EPA in charge of climate change and energy efficiency. EPA head Zeldin, under instruction from Trump, is eliminating that whole wing of employees as their function is not something mandated by law to be done.

This is to support the initiative for more powerful toilets, showers, and other appliances, and also to further crush the federal workers unions, who were barred from participating in the discussion of eliminating all these jobs.

Trump had already tried and failed to kill Energy Star in his first term. In more of his stellar business sense, while this program cost $32 million, but saved consumers $40 billion in energy costs.

Glad you enjoy all the different owls!

I did join up with the local rehab center this year. After promoting it every day, it didn’t feel right if I did not participate directly myself. Last year I also had another commenter tell me the community got them to join their rehab center, so we’re making a small positive change in the world.

I’ve been learning a lot there and get to see many adorable animals up close. Here is our newest owl patient: