We need a national anti-child marriage law… Otherwise, none of us can say jackshit about this happening in other places.
Move to a computer based economy, they said. It’ll help fix the environment, they said… /s
DeSantis administration trying to turn multiple Florida parks into golf courses and pickleball courts:
Even members of the GOP are against it:
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/22/desantis-parks-plan-00175920
my thought is that MoRon is trying to burn it all down before he slithers away like the invasive snake he is.
ETA: it is not only tourists who use the state parks, floridians frequent theses areas for the nature they conserve - not to play pickleball.
i live right on the edge of a state park and use it often. it is where i dock my boat. it is the starting point for many adventures on the water, or on the nature trails winding through it.
and florida does not need more fking golf courses!
Right? Needs them like hole in the head. Like 18 holes, hey.
I do not love the habitat destruction, the ridiculous overuse of pesticides, etc. that conventional golf courses so often require. Some suck less than others.
Residential developers can and do use golf courses for more than golf–they specifically irrigate with “reclaimed” water as a way of solving where to put wastewater from the development:
Golf courses are important users of reclaimed water in Florida.
DEP’s 2001 Reuse Inventory reported that 419 golf courses were
irrigated with 110 mgd of reclaimed water. This represents an
average of 0.26 mgd/course. These 419 golf courses accounted for
about 19 percent of all reclaimed water usage in the state.
Unburdening freshwater aquifers by using “reclaimed” or “recycled” water is not altogether a bad thing, and in areas where droughts endanger public water supplies, hey maybe just go ahead and water the golf courses with treated effluent or whatever needs to get disposed of anyway (after it’s been “used”)…1, 2… as long as it’s being done properly and not polluting clean water bodies 3:
Irrigation of golf courses with recycled water has not yet caught on in America. Only twelve percent of all golf facilities use recycled water. The number has not increased since 2005. On the contrary, after the share of recycled water had increased significantly by 2013, it decreased again by 25 per cent. This is according to the Water Use and Management Practices study. The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) released it mid-August. According to the report, 55 percent of the water used in 2020 came from wells, lakes and ponds, thus the main supplier. According to the survey, the main reasons for not using recycled water were a lack of sources of wastewater (51 per cent), enough other water available (31 percent), or a lack of infrastructure to transport the recycled water (14 percent).
Recycled Water generally refers to treated domestic wastewater that is used more than once before it passes back into the water cycle. The terms “reused” and “recycled” are often used interchangeably depending on where you are geographically. Reclaimed water is not reused or recycled until it is put to some purpose. It can be reclaimed and be usable for a purpose, but not recycled until somebody uses it.
Recycled water is highly treated wastewater that has been filtered to remove solids and other impurities as well as disinfected by a water treatment plant. It comes from various sources such as domestic sewage, industrial wastewater and stormwater runoff. The quality of recycled water depends upon the source water and the level of treatment. Several other terms are also used for recycled water, including reclaimed water, effluent water, treated effluent water and treated sewage water. Compared to potable drinking water, recycled water often contains more total dissolved salts and nutrients which currently limits its use to sustainable landscape irrigation or to recharge groundwater aquifers.
- It’s tricky, in weather extremes, but it can be done with proper monitoring and engineering. Most of the time.
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The fast and simple version is that it’s a gambling website where users place bets on various events using crypto. The complicated answer is that it’s a website with VC funding, a newsletter, a comments section, an AI content generation deal, and a plan to pitch itself as the future of news. All of that is built around betting on stuff with crypto.
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See, Polymarket sees itself as something other than just a gambling website. It wants to be the future of news. Shayne Coplan, Polymarket’s founder, has not been shy about this. “People understand what’s going on in the world better because Polymarket exists,” Coplan said in a post on X in May. “Enough of the talking heads and news-by-algorithm. We’re in a misinformation pandemic, and Polymarket presents a novel information format that is driven by financial incentives for truth, rather than engagement baiting. People want unbiased information. Polymarket delivers.”
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They’ve just resurrected the “terrorism prediction market” proposal that got dropped back in the early 2000s. Back then, people were divided on whether it was idiotic or morally outrageous or both.
Whaddaya mean, “just”. They added cryptocurrency!
