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An african migrant from Mauritania entered our country illegally under Biden and claimed to be gay to get asylum in the U.S.
He then got a job as a corrections officer at a prison in Indiana.
There’s just one problem…
He married the Sheriff’s daughter!
He’s now in ICE custody.
If Salt Lake City families stopped using all water, would that save the Great Salt Lake? - NO.
That's only 4 days of GSL evaporation benefit.
If all farmers in the Great Salt Lake water basin stopped using water, would that save the Great Salt Lake? NO.
That's only 81 days of GSL evaporation benefit.
Demonizing families and farmers for water use will not save the Great Salt Lake.
Because 94% of Utah's water is not used by cities or farmers. We have a tree overgrowth problem from gov't planted Chinese Elms, Russian Olives and Salt Cedars.
Here's the water math - 8 billion trees x 5.5 gallon per day is 15 Trillion gallons out of 19 Trillion gallons (Utah's precipitation). That's 80% of Utah's water.
In 2025, Salt Lake City reported 73,000 acre-feet of residential water sales for Salt Lake City, Millcreek, Holiday, Cottonwood Heights).
50% is return flow. 50% evaporates (36,500 acre-feet). The GSL evaporates 3 million acre-feet per year (8,200 acre-feet/day).
We have a tree policy problem. Not a lawn water or farm water problem.
Better Policies for Better Living.
@JakeKAllDay@RichardHanania You might be reading something into it that isn't there. Can you clarify what you mean by "He’s pointing to data on consumption to make a point on market efficiency?"
I think he would agree that "The current water usage data does not show market efficiency."
@clashreport I don’t see anything wrong with it. You insulted a politician, you should be punished. These people give up their lives for citizens, they deserve nothing but respect
In Sweden, there is a spruce tree whose root system is 9,550 years old.
The tree is called Old Tjikko. The trunk you can see is only a few centuries old. The tree coppices: when a trunk dies, the ancient root system sends up a new one. It has done this repeatedly across nearly ten millennia, each new trunk growing from the same continuously living root system, on the same mountain in Dalarna province.
The roots alive today were alive before the first Egyptian pharaoh. Before the first written language. Before agriculture reached most of Europe. They were alive when the land around them was still emerging from beneath a retreating glacier.
The trunk standing there now is a recent development. The thing below the ground is among the oldest continuous living organisms ever documented. And it is still producing, still reaching upward, still making new trunks from an underground system that has been in continuous operation since 7550 BC.
#nature #forests #conservation
The trouble with your line of thinking is that it makes agreements impossible. Any agreement involves tradeoffs. Imagine that you had some kind of horizon of possible agreements and you had to make a decision that would make it marginally harder to cheat, but would also make it marginally easier to achieve world-ending ASI without cheating. What would you choose? In such a case, puffery about insisting on 1000% certainty becomes a liability.
@interminded@DavidSKrueger Actually, no. We can't be sure of that at all. We have no clue what the world will look like 100 years from now and certainly not that it will be dominated by the first party to cheat.