[-] charonn0@startrek.website 125 points 8 months ago

The building manager should (and may be legally required to) have a fire department approved emergency plan that specifically addresses this question. Usually, the plan will be for you to await rescue.

A modern, up-to-code high rise building will have designated "places of refuge" that are designed to withstand heat and smoke, such as a pressurized stairwell with fire doors. In older buildings that don't have something like that, the plan might call for disabled people to go to the nearest (unprotected) stairway, or it might call for them to remain in their office/apartment and "defend in place". If possible, call 911 (or equivalent) to notify rescuers of your location.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 101 points 10 months ago

That's not exactly what happened.

Aaron committed suicide before his case went to trial, and so he was never convicted let alone sentenced. 35 years was never even likely; had it gone to trial there's every reason to think he'd have been acquitted outright, or at worst given a slap on the wrist. Not that he should have even been charged, of course.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 108 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

States have always had that power. Whether its age, naturalization, or oath-breaking, it's never been up to the federal government to decide disqualification.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 107 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Two days before the January 6 insurrection, the Trump campaign’s plan to use fake electors to block President-elect Joe Biden from taking office faced a potentially crippling hiccup: The fake elector certificates from two critical battleground states were stuck in the mail

Reminder that Trump's Postmaster General sabotaged the post office's handling capacity in order to interfere with absentee voting.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 96 points 1 year ago

Aileen Cannon is a disgrace, and her continued presence on the bench--not just overseeing this case--is fatally damaging the legitimacy of the federal judiciary.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 95 points 1 year ago

Cassidy was arrested and faces vandalism charges, which could carry a one-year prison sentence and a $2,560 fine. He has since been released

Why is he not being charged under Iowa's hate crime laws?

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 94 points 1 year ago

"Because the framers chose to define the group of people subject to Section Three by an oath to 'support' the Constitution of the United States, and not by an oath to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution, the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment never intended for it to apply to the President," Blue wrote.

By the same token, the Second Amendment doesn't say "guns".

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 101 points 1 year ago

"Deplorable" would have also been acceptable.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tuberville has drawn bipartisan criticism for holding up almost 400 military nominations in an effort to protest Pentagon abortion policy.

Does anyone actually believe that it's about abortion? He's clearly trying to weaken the US military on behalf of foreign adversaries.

I'd call that treason, but then I'm not on Putin's payroll.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 94 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This only leads me to assume that India really did have the guy assassinated.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 113 points 2 years ago

Why was appointing Eich as CEO so controversial? It's because he donated $1,000 in support of California's Proposition 8 in 2008, which was a proposed amendment to California's state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

Which is all the reason I need.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 94 points 2 years ago

2008 is not ancient. Nor is same-sex marriage some minor technical legal point.

Nor has he repented.

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