Right, some positions are partisan and some aren’t. You can’t vote for partisan positions if you aren’t registered with a party in their primary. It’s not a big deal to register with a party if you really wanted to support a particular person, but hopefully the initiative passes and we don’t have partisan primaries anymore.
Are you taking about closed primaries? You can certainly vote for any position in the general election in Nevada, even without being registered with a party. I’ve been doing it for years
Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!
Stop using Twitter
I’m doing my part!
Abnormally normal
The farmers have the most senior water rights, so there’s a lot of legal hurdles to that solution. It’s definitely something that needs to happen though. Letting them go bust means the Southwest US needs to get food from somewhere else, most likely shipped in on trucks. It’s not as simple as people make it out.
Heat pumps are AC in reverse, so why’s that so much more efficient? And most new homes are built with good insulation and lawns are illegal for new homes. Most grass has been removed and replaced with rocks, only older homes are allowed to keep their lawns. There’s cash incentives to get them to remove it though. In fact, Las Vegas has actually decreased it’s water usage in the past few decades, while increasing the population.
More energy is used in the US to heat homes than to cool them, so I’m really not seeing why people should live elsewhere. At least not from a pure energy use standpoint.
I declared it!
It’s easy to passively cool things, as long as you’re okay getting them wet :)
If the Hoover Dam becomes inoperable, the entire Southwest US is in trouble. It provides water for farms and power, both mostly in California. Las Vegas would actually be the last to feel the effects of Lake Mead drying up because they’ve installed a deeper “straw” to draw water from, along with a pumping station.
https://www.snwa.com/where-southern-nevada-gets-its-water/our-regional-water-system/intake-no-3.html
At an individual level sure, it’s easy to throw on a blanket when it’s cold. But at a household level, much more energy is used to heat homes.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-10/why-we-always-fight-over-air-conditioning
What purpose does any city serve?
The largest water reservoir in the US is a few miles away. A large air force base was built on the, then, out skirts of town, the nuclear testing site, and the magnesium plant in nearby Henderson. All of which helped the US in WWII. That’s why Las Vegas isn’t a ghost town. It’s much more than gambling and debauchery. If that’s all it took, then why isn’t Pahrump (where prostitution is legal) a big city? What happened to Reno, which used to be the place to go party?
I think Lemmy users are incredibly ignorant of Las Vegas and should get a little bit of reading in before trashing my home town.
You also may want to let the 2 million plus residents know their city is not necessary.
Las Vegas grew out of being a train stop for water. Yes, water.
The laws of thermodynamics disagree
Edit: the downvoters may want to actually learn about this https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/why-does-it-take-more-energy-to-heat-a-home-than-to-cool-one.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-10/why-we-always-fight-over-air-conditioning
I grew up in Vegas. I’d hang out outside with friends all night in the summer. The nights used to be a break from the heat, now it’s just always hot. Plus the removal of almost all grass contributes to the heat island effect. The grass needed to go, but it wasn’t without consequences.
Early Mormon teachings included giving up all your property to the community. Maybe they took that to heart?