There’s a barcode, if that’s what you mean. Do we know that’s a part of it? I know it’s scannable in stores when you buy alcohol so I can’t imagine its contents are a secret

Right, REAL is basically a set of compliance requirements for issuance. My point is that states can do their own thing for the most part regarding their identifications, like driving restrictions and documents that would, in theory, prove citizenship… If that were in the jurisdiction of the state government. It’s determined at the federal level, and while federal regulations determine REAL compliance, those same compliance requirements don’t require citizenship. So there is a gap to say REAL ID -> proof of citizenship

Is that slightly different ID not REAL compliant? If your state decided to make a citizenship determination when issuing some kind of ID, fine, but I don’t think that’s part of the requirements by DHS so I would still say the title is a bit misleading.

He was deposed by Congress and the video was released yesterday. No doubt Bondi will try to do yet another retaliatory made up charge in retribution, so he’ll be in the news regardless.

Where does it show citizenship? I think the part you quoted may mean “proof of citizenship or [other means of] lawful presence”

To be fair, REAL ID was never meant to give citizenship. Its purpose is identity and lawful presence. I have friends here on visas. They’re obviously not citizens, but also they’re here legally and have REAL IDs.

For this same reason, people trying to say proof of citizenship to vote is no big deal because everyone has a REAL ID is full of shit in multiple ways.

That’s not quite it either. From the transcript:

The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without [Trump]

It’s all relative. I live in Denver and don’t think the Nebraska border (almost 3 hours away) is particularly close. But when I drove home from Minneapolis a few days ago, I was thrilled to be in the home stretch

The seat was previously Democratic too, for what it’s worth. The split was about 70/30.

Ditto Department of Defense

So kind of like saying “I am 14 yeared” (the same way a shirt with stripes is a striped shirt)? That’s actually kind of interesting.

Wait until you realize where the word verano comes from

In my first language (English) a 14-year-old would day “I am 14 years old” which means “I am 14 years old”

In my distant second language (Spanish) they would say “tengo 14 años” which, like Italian, means “I have 14 years”

The judge dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning prosecutors cannot refile the same charges.

You know, unless SCOTUS gets rid of the double jeopardy clause of the 5th amendment. Which, looking at the actual text, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised if someone tried

nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb

Sounds just as settled at Roe v. Wade

The thought counts

Was there even thought though?

Energy is not created or destroyed, it only gets transformed from one form to another. Fuel represents a storage of energy. So when you burn fuel, you are taking the energy contained in that fuel and using it to create heat energy, harness it to make a car move, generate electricity (which you seem to agree is energy as well), or whatever.

Think about high school physics. Bring a 200 pound weight to the top of a tower, and it has potential energy. Nothing happens, just as nothing happens to fuel without a spark, but if you drop it out turns into kinetic energy. Let it hit the ground, and the sidewalk will absorb some of that energy as it breaks, it gets absorbed into sound energy, the whole process repeats on a smaller scale as it bounces, etc. All energy, and not in the hippy “the universe is all energy, maaan” kind of way.

The first part of this Technology Connections video also shows how propane is stored energy that gets converted: https://youtu.be/OOK5xkFijPc - just because that spark was needed to convert the energy in that propane to heat, doesn’t mean the spark is the source of the energy. If you’re going to be pedantic enough that I have to explain that.

I never said it would happen immediately 😉

Gas isn’t energy

It absolutely is. Do I need to explain why that’s a ridiculous take, or have you had enough coffee by now to realize it?

Yeah, I was honestly wondering what an election conspiracy theory could possibly be coming from Kash Patel’s FBI.

Just don’t die there - it’s illegal