Prosecutors are part of the executive branch. The judiciary covers judges and court staff.

There is also supposed to be a separation within the executive branch, but the Supreme Court has ruled that unconstitutional under the unified executive theory.

A bit of a historical correction. Killing all the Jews was never plan A. It was the final solution they came up with after realizing that all other solutions to the Jewish problem were unworkable.

Those solutions included the Haavara Agreement, which facilitated the migration of around 60,000 Jews from Germany to Palestine between 1933 and 1939.

When that program ended, they started talking about the Madagascar plan, which would relocate Jews ton Madagascar; although that plan never got off the ground.

Construction of the death camps wouldn’t begin until 1941, and the Nazis attempted to keep them secret under the guise of being a continuation of the earlier migration programs.

A) No it doesn’t. Where I live, it is entirely legal for a man to enter the women’s bathroom. Nothing to do with transgender folks; it simply is not a crime.

B) The UK has an official “gender recognition certificate” program. If you wanted to draw a line, I would think that individuals with such a certificate would fall on their recognized side of the line; however, under the new standard, a trans women with an official government issued gender recognition certificate is still considered by that same government to be a man for the purposes of using a toilet.

It is not so much that they expect us to be in charge, as it is that we were in charge, then suddenly pulled out without any warning or planning.

Other countries are trying, but the US simply erased the core of the global health system which took decades to build.

Onboard video ports aren’t really emergency ports anymore, they are low-end ports. High end CPUs don’t have iGPUs at all, so the onboard video ports are completely non-operational.

We’ve had nasal flu vaccines for decades.

Around here, emergency vehicles just drive in the shoulder when this happens.

They’ve been working on a vaccine since 2023.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-hantavirus-vaccine-is-in-the-works/

The reason we had a covid19 vaccine so quickly was because of all the work that was already done for a vaccine due to prior Coronavirus outbreaks (SARS in 2022, and MERS in 2012, with the latter seeing a resurgence in the past few years).

Not necessarily. There is no guarantee that the house will well for enough. Normally this works fine, but sometimes a loan can be underwater, and have a larger balance than the house is worth; or it could not have enough equity to cover the cost of foreclosure and flipping. This is why the US requires mortgage insurance for mortgages with less than 20% equity.

You could imagine a scenerio where banks find a loophole to skirt the PMI requirements causing a real estate bubble to drive up the purchase price of houses. Them a recession causes widespread defaults, further triggering a collapse of home prices, forcing financial institutions to be unable to recoup the cost of loans. Loans which, incidentally, were rated as very unlikely to default due to other financial schenenagans. We call this scenerio 2008

It does do that. I just had a door to door salesman stop by and ask for my parents. I’m thirty, and have always looked old for my age. Sadly, he still read me as a guy, but I’m still only a few months in.

Banks do not make a profit on foreclosure. If the house sales for more than the bank is owed (including foreclosure fees), then any surplus is given to the original owner.

It’s not a particularly satisfying answer, but contagious diseases jumping to humans and causing small outbreaks is not a particularly uncommon event. Most of the time, those outbreaks die out without becoming a large scale pandemic. This is due to both nature, and significant investments in global contagious disease response infrastructure.

Saying a given outbreak is probably not going to be as bad as covid is probably correct, because most aren’t.

I should also mention that the public health infrastructure that normally prevents epidemics has been significantly weakened over the past few years. This does tilt the table towards pandemic.

I did not get through the entire opinion, but don’t think it says what you think it says.

The question presented is whether the President, acting through the Secretary of State, has authority to revoke a passport on the ground that the holder’s activities in foreign countries are causing or are likely to cause serious damage to the national security or foreign policy of the United States.

The court was not asked to consider weather passports could be revoked on other grounds.

I don’t know. The stock market seems pretty strong …

checks market

WTF. That was supposed to be a joke. How have we already recovered from the Iran war crash? A crash so bad, it plundged the markets to lows not seen since September!

It is not about who violated the ceasefire. The US is still saying that the ceasefire is holding.

US here. I’ve only ever seen bi-weekly and twice-monthly.

Overtime is a given (legally required) for hourly work; however there are a lot of shenanigans employers do around timecards that does not get nearly as much enforcement as it should.

It also typically takes about a month from when you start working to when you get your first paycheck. Paychecks normally come between 1 and 2 weeks after the pay period ends; and your first pay check tends to be extra delayed. Having said that, the one time this was a problem for me, I was able to walk into the HR office and get a hand written check on the spot (no clue how common that is).

No need to look to Europe here. This is the black codes.

If you don’t have a UPS, just use a suicide cable to energize the circuit while it is disconnected at the breaker.

(/s, if the term suicide cable wasn’t enough of a hint; don’t actually do this)

When I was a kid, our family dog would drag his blanket to our fridge and spend the night bundled up in front of it (where the exhaust heat was)

I can get you half way there with a heat pump water heater.