I was driving home from the dealership after buying my last car, and the second I felt the wheel jerk out of my hands to take a corner on the highway differently than I typically do (I still stay in the lane, ofc), that shit got turned off and will never be reenabled. One of the most dangerous things is the car doing something unexpected while someone is driving and they try to correct/overcorrect for it out of shock/surprise and cause a crash.

Have lived in WA state. It’s super nice and convenient. They send a pamphlet with all the candidates names and BLUFs a few weeks ahead of time, and then a ballot shows up in my mailbox. I do more research on the candidates, fill it out and either drop it off at one of the many drop boxes around town, or put it back in the mail. Honestly it keeps me more involved in local elections, because I can’t really say I’d be remembering/prioritizing going to vote in person for the local races not in main election season.

Maybe not, but I think we can do better than this unapologetic Kremlin suck up.

Remind me, what does the R in BRICS stand for? What world could we possibly be in that this is within 100 miles of being an unbiased source? Pure Russian propaganda and lies, plain and simple, and barely even worth the effort to refute.

So the two systems are completely different. Classic steam cats use the steam generated by the propulsion plant to pressurize the catapults and propel planes off the carrier. EMALS uses the steam generated by the propulsion plant to generate electricity to launch planes similar to a railgun (as I understand it; might be wrong but the core concept is there). You can’t really have both, and retrofitting is costly and expensive, because now you need to be able to transport the steam to the right place, be able to contain the steam, etc. and that is not to mention any issues with whether or not the propulsion plant can produce the steam required to operate the cats. I have a hunch electricity generation is more efficient from a steam use perspective than steam cats.

This is firmly “fight everywhere” territory, which is what the DNC has been doing

Especially against the progressives in their own party. If they wanted to lead the progress, they should have gotten behind supporting the Democratic Socialist candidates.

At this point, if you are a Republican, you support pedophillia. Full stop, end of story.

I look forward to continue never giving EA money nor attention. This is going to do nothing good and they deserve to burn in hell.

Blatant whitewashing by trying to claim its just “rogue officers”. They’re using the tech as intended. The tech needs to be shitcanned immediately

I swapped to Qwant over the summer and have had no complaints at all! Their ai-overview is very easy to turn off (and it stays off permanently, afaik) and the results are pretty comprehensive!

Worth noting this is the reservation queue, which is the folks who got randomly assigned a number on launch day. Everyone who got put on the wait-list on launch day, in addition to those who jumped on since, will be waiting until 2027 (based on this announcement). Some folks may get moved onto the reservation list of someone doesn’t claim their reservation, and different regions fulfillment are moving at different speeds, but that’s the gist of the announcement.

I had a Surface Pro all through college, and used it for note taking in all my classes (pen on screen), which was fantastic. Haven’t really used the touchscreen function since though, and it’s been quite a few years.

Cost is a reasonable concern. How about we pass universal healthcare so this isn’t a fucking problem to being with???

Just gonna say that if it was actually efficient and possible to do this, the US would have done so decades ago. But the US just ships spent fuel to the desert to go sit in the ground forever.

Given that every accusation is a confession with these fucks, there is a 100% chance that this pastor and kegseth have engaged in some hanky panky once or twice

So you’re conflating two separate things. Sanctuary Cities are cities that have official policies in place prohibiting cooperation between local authorities and federal immigration enforcers. These have existed for quite a while. Some racist state governors and federal authorities decided “well if you like immigrants so much have some more” and started illegally rounding up immigrants in their cities, lying about destination, ignoring federal laws, and bussing these immigrants to cities that declared themselves to be Sanctuary Cities. Those cities responded appropriately and took care of the immigrants foisted upon them. Of note, these forced relocations occured with little notice to legal teams, meaning some immigrants were shipped multiple states away and missed important immigration court appointments.

I mean, not if these are state charges…fuckhead orange can’t pardon state crimes. Not to say musk won’t still bribe his way out of it, but state charges can’t be presidentially pardoned

This man is doing great work. In addition to the bills he signed so recently, I was interested to learn that Illinois bans libraries from banning books! That’s awesome! He’s making Illinois look more and more attractive to live in!

So I feel like I might have an interesting perspective on this…

All throughout college, I saw graduation similar to how you talk about it. I basically thought I’d show up drunk with my buddies, it would take half the day, and then it’d be over. Maybe I’d actually walk, maybe not.

For context, I graduated in the Spring of 2020, right when COVID first was becoming a thing. My graduation ceremony was cancelled, and replaced by a Facebook Live stream. Same speakers and similar speeches to what had been expected, but really none of the pomp and circumstance.

Now if you would’ve asked me earlier in my college career how I would’ve felt about my graduation ceremony being cancelled, I probably would’ve just shrugged it off. But it actually happened. And I find myself feeling like there is something missing from my time at college. Like there was no real sense of closure for the 4 years I spent there, the countless late nights in the library studying for insanely difficult exams, no real send off for the friends I had in the class outside my close circle.

So I feel differently about graduations now. There’s always going to be extremes, people who take them way too far. But I see the ceremonies themselves as the way for people (friends, families, professors, etc) to show how proud they are of the accomplishments of the students. And I feel like there’s wisdom in acknowledging that the ceremony is how they are trying to express that sentiment to you, and receiving it as intended.

This stunt actually has nothing to do with “fraud” in government spending, but as someone with experience in government procurement, contracting is where the waste is. The government actually doesn’t do too badly when we keep the work in-house. It’s these multimillion dollar contracts to some private company that are where the waste, fraud, and abuse are. Go fucking audit SpaceX. Revisit those contracts. Bet we can save billions every year on just one companies stupid fucking defense contracts. Then go after the rest of these contractors. Threaten to bring the work back in house and see how they react. Follow through and actually bring the work back in house, build the public sector engineering and manufacturing expertise, and see where we are.