Meanwhile, in Florida...

[L'Emmerdeur]

Not Florida per se, but related to upthread discussion.







From twit machine.

[Sean Hayden]

[laklak]

It's the GOP equivalent of the Dems screeching "racism" at everything.

It's such a relief to know that screeching "you're a paedophile" is equivalent to screeching "you're a racist".

Some see pedos everywhere, some see racists. Both are wrong.

That said, being accused of racism can certainly get you fired.

[Svartalf]

Hey, I'd love to be a groom, if the bride be hot

[macdoc]

You missed by a few centuries ...besides you ain't a Laird

Droit du seigneur ('lord's right'), also known as ius primae noctis ('right of the first night'), was a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with subordinate women, in particular, on the wedding nights of the women.

[laklak]

Florida is now number 3 in the nation in education, thanks to Governor DeSantis. We just keep getting better and better!

DeSantis 2024! Make America Florida!

[Svartalf]

You missed by a few centuries ...besides you ain't a Laird

Droit du seigneur ('lord's right'), also known as ius primae noctis ('right of the first night'), was a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with subordinate women, in particular, on the wedding nights of the women.

the jus primae noctis is an invention of the anti aristocratic 'enlightenment' anyway.

[Svartalf]

Florida is now number 3 in the nation in education, thanks to Governor DeSantis. We just keep getting better and better!

DeSantis 2024! Make America Florida!

I assume the louse made you #1 like rump fulfilled his MAGA promise?

[macdoc]

Florida is now number 3 in the nation in education, thanks to Governor DeSantis. We just keep getting better and better!

DeSantis 2024! Make America Florida!

and drowning ....bye bye Miami....





Prolly all those well educated Snowbirds improving the edumicated pool.

[laklak]

Florida is one of those places where South is North and North is South. South of Tampa Bay it's almost all Yankee transplants and South Americans, north Florida has far more in common with Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Y'all can probably guess where my allegiances lie. There are worse things in the world than Miami underwater.

[Hermit]

There are worse things in the world than Miami underwater.

Not that Miami is going to be underwater by 2100 anyway. The Verge's prediction of a 4.3 to 9.9 meter sea level rise by then is ex recto material. The currently NOAA's figure for the most likely scenario is a rise of 0.6 meters. Assuming a worst case scenario it predicts a 2.1 meter rise.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/s ... eport.html

[macdoc]

2.1 likely make most of it unliveable anyway ..the US gov has a very large bill coming to move the Navy shipyards.
Our insurance in Cairns is likely to change within 10 years as sea level rises but Australia has a secret weapon reducing the impact around the continent.

Sea level along the U.S. coastline is projected to rise, on average, 10 - 12 inches (0.25 - 0.30 meters) in the next 30 years (2020 - 2050), which will be as much as the rise measured over the last 100 years (1920 - 2020). Sea level rise will vary regionally along U.S. coasts because of changes in both land and ocean height.

from your link.

Greenland and Western Antarctic are losing ice very rapidly so who the hell knows what it will be - the only near certainty is this collective group won't be around to see it....

https://www.newscientist.com/article/23 ... e-thought/

[Hermit]

2.1 likely make most of it unliveable anyway ..the US gov has a very large bill coming to move the Navy shipyards.
Our insurance in Cairns is likely to change within 10 years as sea level rises but Australia has a secret weapon reducing the impact around the continent.

Sea level along the U.S. coastline is projected to rise, on average, 10 - 12 inches (0.25 - 0.30 meters) in the next 30 years (2020 - 2050), which will be as much as the rise measured over the last 100 years (1920 - 2020). Sea level rise will vary regionally along U.S. coasts because of changes in both land and ocean height.

from your link.

Greenland and Western Antarctic are losing ice very rapidly so who the hell knows what it will be - the only near certainty is this collective group won't be around to see it....

https://www.newscientist.com/article/23 ... e-thought/

I was not disputing that climate warming is a global disaster in the making, Mac, so don't bother lecturing me. I was disputing the bullshit sea level rise figures quoted in the first Youtube clip you linked to. Care to comment on that?

[macdoc]

Verge was a puff piece, no source given and a joke for Lak....lighten up. Yeesh.

...we also don't know what it will be, but 2.5 m will do in most of the state.

If we follow a pathway with high emissions, a worst-case scenario of as much as 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) above 2000 levels by 2100 cannot be ruled out.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/u ... -sea-level

or we get a nuclear winter or another big bolide and walk to Cuba.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Damn activist judges.

'Citing Likely Racist Motives, Federal Judge Blocks Florida GOP's Voter Suppression Law'

Civil rights defenders on Thursday welcomed a ruling by a federal judge who struck down parts of a Florida voter suppression law, calling racism "a motivating factor" in the GOP-backed legislation's passage.

In a 288-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker blocked provisions of Florida's Senate Bill 90, a massive attack on voting rights signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2020. The law empowers partisan poll watchers, imposes strict voter ID requirements, criminalizes so-called "ballot harvesting," limits ballot drop boxes, and bans advocacy groups from handing out food or water to voters waiting in long lines.

"At some point, when the Florida Legislature passes law after law disproportionately burdening Black voters, this court can no longer accept that the effect is incidental," Walker wrote. "Based on the indisputable pattern set out above, this court finds that, in the past 20 years, Florida has repeatedly sought to make voting tougher for Black voters because of their propensity to favor Democratic candidates."

Cecile Scoon, president of the League of Women Voters of Florida—the lead plaintiff in the case—said in a statement that "for democracy to work, it must include all voices. A federal judge has ruled that the Florida Legislature has engaged in decades of intentional discrimination against Black voters with a series of voting laws" like S.B. 90.