For anyone struggling with tying a truckers hitch knot, please see this instructional video

As long as this is opt-in (i.e. disabled by default), then sure. Otherwise, I’ll just have to find a new browser.

Fairly thin magnetized case and thin screen protector on S26 Ultra. The built-in privacy filter means I don’t need anything beefier for a screen protector. Also have an OhSnap on the back for holding, which also helps even out the camera bump(s)

I mean, 2 of the 3 pictures that show trays show the same trays. The rest are all takeout containers, which are the kind of consumable that makes sense to be just whatever Supply can requisition. And I’m more likely to believe different tray styles per class, I.e. submarines might have a more efficient (and therefore costlier) design for more cramped quarters that a carrier doesn’t necessarily need.

I completely agree. I’m just saying the insidious follow on effects to conning voters (while more serious and dangerous) are less tangible to average Americans than knowing whether to avoid meat or not, from where, and what the consequences of getting it wrong are. I’m slightly more concerned over whether my lasagna for dinner tonight is going to put me in the hospital than the GOP continuing to lie to the American people. The real answer is the 24hr media cycle absolutely has time to cover both topics in depth, and they should be doing so. The role of the media is to help hold those in power accountable, and we’re seeing a historic failure of that right now.

While I absolutely agree we deserve the truth about McConnel, didease-ridden mystery meat is far more likely to have an immediate impact on the lives of everyday Americans

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

Interesting when you think about the two most popular “American” sports, American Football and Baseball. Both of these games have large amounts of dead time built in that advertisers and broadcasters are used to taking advantage of. You have all the time in the world while teams are setting up for plays, taking the field, coming off the field, etc etc etc. Neither of these sports are constant action the way Soccer is. It’d be interesting to find out the effect the dead time in American Football/Baseball has had on the advertising industry over the years, as well as on the advertising culture in the US in general.

I mean, if all the harping about the Davidson Window we’ve been hearing for the last 5 years has any substance at all, choosing to get into a pointless war and wasting all our munitions needlessly is starting to sound a bit like treason…really does a good job setting us up to not be able to defend Taiwan if/when China invades the nation…

I’ve got my personal phone and a government-issued iPhone. The iPhone gets turned off as soon as I leave work in the evening and I turn it back on when I get to work. I only give out my work phone number, so I don’t get bothered when I’m off the clock. It’s pretty convenient tbh.