It’s neither here or there, but there’s no “D” in “consequences” either….

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There is a big difference between fearing you’ll lose your job vs. fearing you’ll lose your house with children possibly inside.

Regardless, these GOP members are fearing violence from the far right side of their party.

I mean, yes, that is bad… but the biennium budget for 2011-2013 was around $60 Billion, which means this project represented about half a percent of the overall budget. The current budget deficit is around $60 Million, but the kicker from 2024 was a record $5.6B in unexpected surplus.

The Oracle debacle is a good representation of why government contracting can be a mess, but I don’t think that project caused such a big long-term financial problem. Putting a toll on the I-5 bridge into/from WA is a massive issue, I agree with you there.

I was at a military industry conference a month or so ago, with several flag level officers giving talks. The total amount of lost years of experience and senior leadership in the military and intelligence agencies is staggering. It is going to take generations to recover.

The same Congress that let Trump unilaterally levy a tax on every American business and citizen?

Ducking is a fairly sacred community thing among Jeep owners, most specifically with Wranglers and now Gladiators. Ducks are always gifted as a random act of kindness, so a Jeep with a lot of ducks suggests that person has been rather active in the community.

This is a monumentally dumb and deadly idea. Want to watch the US cease to exist as a global super power? Good luck maintaining our nuclear arsenal without paying people.

I live in Portland, this image from today pretty well sums up what’s going on here.

Oregon has been entirely state-wide mail-in voting for decades. Good luck shutting down an entire state’s mail for more than a month.

I hear what you’re saying, but it’s worth noting that Newsom is far from an opponent to the trans community. He is the governor of CA, which is famously a strong trans sanctuary state. He was the major of San Francisco, and supported LGBTQ+ rights to the point that the city was issuing marriage certificates before it was federally recognized.

As for his other recent stances, I think him saying transgender athletes playing in women’s sports being deeply unfair is, unfortunately, a popular and nuanced opinion. I don’t paint with such a broad brush that I think him saying women’s sports should get careful consideration with trans athletes as being the same thing as him saying trans people shouldn’t exist.

“We need to put the Warfighter first inside the DoD…”

Votes to confirm a TV personality as SecDef.

For those who don’t know what this is from, it’s a 2021 Netflix special that came out during COVID lockdown called “Inside” by Bo Burnham.

If you haven’t watched it, go do that immediately. Also, a bit of a warning, it deals with some heavy concepts that were very relevant a year or so into lockdown. I rewatched it recently and had to fight off some PTSD feelings.

That would be a pretty big security hole in iOS if that was allowed, but it isn’t. Notification and other UI elements are rendered on top of the underlying app, which does not have access to or cannot see the full screen’s canvas. We can see practical implementations of this “snapshot” test feature in code:

https://github.com/uber/ios-snapshot-test-case

To counter the first theory, a contact cannot change the physical biology of the photon detecting cells (rods and cones) in the back of your eye. Nothing can, short of modifying your genetics.

So you can either become part mantis shrimp, or shift the wavelengths into the spectrum your biology already can absorb and interpret.

Nah, they are going to say, “this is perfect evidence why we need even less government”

They will almost certainly change the rules once the injunction finalizes. Call your representative and tell them what’s going on.

Everybody in this thread needs to read Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.