“We don’t want to be bought by the federal government, thank you very much,” a resident said. “We’d like the federal government to stay out of Kerr County and their money.”

While the county ultimately kept the funds, they allocated the majority, about $8 million, to sheriff’s department upgrades and public employee stipends

I… what? “We don’t want your stinking money. We’ll still take it tho… We just won’t spend it on what we said we would. That’ll show you dumb idgits!”

Plus it’s not even real. It snowed just last winter.

The area that camp mystic is on is literally called “flash flood alley” because of the possibility of this happening. The area has thin soil that doesn’t really soak up much water and bedrock that keeps it on the surface. Combine that with a bunch of creeks that all converge to a river in the area and you get what happened this weekend.

What a strange and wild coincidence.

I feel like it’s very strange to not even mention the fact that many, many of these researchers have completely lost, or will lose the grants for the research that is the entire reason for their being in the field in which they are. They literally cannot do what they are there to do anymore. in addition, many additional folks are no longer allowed to work on or publish their projects because they are centered on or use some of Trump’s no-no words. There is way more than just salaries causing the brain drain out of the US right now.

You just aren’t thinking big picture. This will need time to play out. $90 million over 50,000 years and those tax cuts are gone! Be patient.

“To fund improvements and enhanced experiences across the park system, I’ve just signed an executive order to raise entrance fees for foreign tourists while keeping prices low for Americans. The national parks will be about America first.”

Oh thank god! After slashing over $1 billion from the nps budget and firing over 5,000 of its workers I was beginning to think this guy maybe didn’t care about the national parks. What a relief!

Oooh okay cool. It’s totally fine then. Surely that single example is representative of every single election past, present, and future, and a great reason to abolish any sort of caps on donations.

“There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orbán. He’s fantastic. He’s a noncontroversial figure because he said, ‘This is the way it’s going to be,’ and that’s the end of it, right? He’s the boss and … he’s a great leader, fantastic leader. In Europe and around the world, they respect him.”

Donald Trump, predictably

Lol it’s so hard to listen to.

Ooop looks like we just ran over a small child but you know what the car didn’t even hesitate and they say that really, it’s safer for the driver and the traffic around to not hesitate so, kudos to Tesla for taking the safety of everyone in mind. Also, with that adaptive air suspension system, I hardly felt the body. This is like riding on a cloud. And there’s NO driver! I mean this is incredible guys, really.

It’s not even a negative question really. It boils down to “what do you say to the people who disagree with what your are doing/planning on doing?”

Oooooh the horror of confronting the very idea of people disagreeing with you. What a nasty question.

Studies have consistently shown that atheists/agnostics are also as knowledgeable or more knowledgeable about world religions and even Christianity than Christians themselves, especially in the USA.

Not OP and certainly IANAL but as far as I know there is NO law that forbids the use of masks for ICE agents. However, hiding their ID or refusing to identify themselves during detention or arrests IS illegal. However, the law states they have to show ID/identify themselves “as soon as practical and safe to do so," so they could theoretically just say they thought they’d be in danger by showing ID as flimsy of an excuse as that sounds.

However, it is rather hilarious that they are pretty much all wearing masks while the political party parading them around is currently on a very real rampage to stop pretty much anyone in public from wearing masks for any type of public demonstration or event.

It’s theatre. Plain and simple. They just want the spectacle of unruly violent riots and the whether that happens or not, they will make it look like it happened. Nothing makes a protest look like a warzone like the literal military being there.

Bad times for science intelligence with Trump

Totally agree. It’s super important that we remember that people, all of us, are kind of stupid and when we hear things repeated we remember them. None of us are immune to propaganda.

Repeating something simple, and false, that appeals to emotions is going to have a bigger impact than something longer and complicated.

This is exactly what some of the biggest manufacturers of cars in America are thinking of doing. They manufacture in America but a lot of the parts are imported and would cost them a fortune to import. It’s cheaper to move factories to China, build the full part, and then ship it over because the tarrifs are higher on the individual tech parts inside the assembly than a finished product using those parts.

Completely agree. There are some things ai clearly struggles very hard with but the rate at which it is improving in just about every single facet is insane. I mean just take a look at this, this was unimaginable like literally months ago. That thing is 100% ai generated. Sound, visuals, script… everything is made from a prompt in a few minutes. And we’re still basically just at the infant stage. Just imagine what the hell these things will be doing in 20 or 50 or 100 years.

That was my first thought too. I guess they mean like bigger as in impactful or more serious?

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