Or… They also remove the moratorium to drive the point home.

Well this guy was the Vice Chief from 2022-2023 and became Chief in 2023. So that’s under the Biden administration, for what that’s worth.

I get what you’re saying, but the more direct comparison would be to the Chief of Staff of the Army, not the President.

I gotta say, I spent a solid minute on Google Images trying to find a picture that made him look more badass than the professional headshot photo, but a good half of the images are him in readers.

That depends on your sorting preference. Several sorting options are very straightforward like top, new, etc.

Sex is a scapegoat for implementing surveillance and discrimination systems. The same as every “think of the children” law ever passed.

It’s not about the children, it’s about making it impossible for opponents to justify in the 10 second sound bite that the media allows with no further context whatsoever. And that’s all of the media that 90% of people consume.

They are as far as the shareholders are concerned if Amazon is telling them about different tiers of subscription. The bullshit the company spins is just as, if not more, important than the raw numbers. Especially when companies only report mandated info and the raw numbers they’re referencing aren’t disclosed for comparison.

Statistics is the art of making up a narrative you want to show via numbers, and finding a way to say it exists regardless of reality.

Shareholders are dumb panicky creatures. As long as the numbers aren’t terrible and you say some nice things most of them take it as gospel.

Spinning shit as a positive is a full time career in the corporate world after all.

Subscription info is definitely part of the information provided to investors. The raw numbers may not be in the financial documents, but revenue from subscriptions most definitely is and will give a general idea of changes even if the company doesn’t give the numbers directly.

You’re talking internal accountability. That doesn’t apply at this scale.

The accountability here is to shareholders. And they don’t care about why, just quarterly profits and growth.

Large Shareholders some care about how the line goes up, just that it does. Constantly. Every quarter.

Arming your "enemy’ immediately before attacking them seems like a very stupid idea. So par for the course with this administration.

Or it was intentional, of course. Losing a phone while travelling is a reasonable cover story.

I don’t know if it’s funnier that Miller is being called an aide as opposed to a handler, or that his name wasn’t even mentioned in the headline.

The Christofascists need Israel to rule the region as an ethnostate, it is a prerequisite for the Christian end times.

And YHWH declared to His “scattered” followers, “For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land…Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.” (NIV Ezek. 36:24, 28)

And the current events seem to be directly moving towards these various prophecies, likely intentionally directed by various State actors as well. World War 3 being based in the region is certainly a possibility looking more likely by the day.

“I will make Jerusalem and Judah like a cup of poison to all the nearby nations that send their armies to surround Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be a heavy stone burdening the world. And though all the nations of the earth unite in an attempt to move her, they will all be crushed.” (NLT Zechariah 12:2-3)

Imagine where we would be if Merrick Garland hadn’t taken 18 months to appoint the Special Counsel in the first place.

Yes. By necessity. The grid has to be kept in sync within a fairly small frequency range to operate. Every generator that is grid connected, is spinning at the same frequency. It is a small enough window that you can use it as a reliable clock.

Every time the power load changes they have to compensate with increasing or decreasing the power available to balance within the small frequency window. A deviation as small as 0.5 Hz can cause some protective relays to trip and bring down sections of the grid.

This is also one of the major reasons why it takes so long to bring the grid back online after a blackout. They have to balance power output with the load in each section as it is brought online so it doesn’t just disconnect itself again immediately from an imbalance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency

In many states postmark dates are used for verifying mail in voting deadlines.

Asia you under the impression that the Russian Shadow Fleet is flying Russian flags?

Or are you just curious which flags they’re using at the moment?

You mean the text that states the extremely obvious reality that children learn and understand without any issue on a daily basis? Any child that’s ever had a goldfish or a hamster knows this directly. All living things will inevitably die at some point.

The only people reading more into this are the people that think kids are somehow stupid and constantly need to be protected from reality.

Gotta love random examples pulled disingenuously.

Red+Blue also almost surely had Gary’s Raticate die after battling you on the S.S. Anne, and he goes to the Pokemon Tower on Lavender Town to lay it to rest. It isn’t expressly said in the text, but the Ratata that he loved and had from the beginning is suddenly no longer in his party and he’s in the tower asking why you’re there if you don’t have any dead Pokemon.