halcyoncmdr

I did say it wouldn't even be considered.

Looks like a group of shady men wearing masks intended to hide their faces around an unmarked van threatening civilians with weapons to me. Call the police, maybe hyperbolize it a bit. Make them either abandon their spot or waste their time justifying their existence to the police instead of whatever bullshit they're there to do.

The simple solution, and thus the one that won't even be considered, is to tax the rich and fund the IRS to actually enforce those cases instead of low hanging fruit. Reinstituting the 90% top tax bracket with no exceptions and it fills a lot of that gap immediately.

And there's the grift. Because that cannot happen. It's a blank check for the corrupt.

Big experimental thing that's still being developed. Explosions are expected, just not usually at this point, usually during the hard parts after liftoff. That's where they expect to still have issues, explosions there aren't failures as in something fucked up, they're expected and provide data to learn where the current design limits are to make the next version better.

This is the part that was generally figured out. Going to be interesting to see what the root cause is since this should have been routine.

AmTrak is designed to suck. Freight lines own most of the rails, and while they are required to give priority to passenger trains, they avoid this in several ways. Like having the freight trains too long to fit on side rails so the passenger trains are required to stop instead to make way.

They're referring to the shifting variance between political sides and the range expressed between them. The Overton Window usually.

The Overton window is the range of subjects and arguments politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse. The key to the concept is that the window changes over time; it can shift, or shrink or expand. It exemplifies "the slow evolution of societal values and norms".

Outside of this window you still have Left and Right, but they're the more extreme beliefs that the general populace doesn't currently accept. The window shifting over time means something that would have been considered absolutely insane 20 years ago, could be entirely mainstream now.

A current example would be federal deployment of the military to handle local protests when there is no declared State of Emergency and local government doesn't need or want assistance.

It doesn't even require belief.

2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2.

While a facetious statement in general, it is factual if those values derive from rounding. Significant Digits must be maintained.

Buying in preparation for your normal defense forces is different than buying for a currently active armed conflict.

Switzerland insists on trying to remain neutral in conflicts, this is part of that.

9/10 people I saw in the store when I worked retail repairing phones never setup any sort of backup for their photos. Never plugged it into their computer never setup Google Photos or iCloud photo backup, nothing.

99% of those phones with issues were out of storage space because the phone was filled with pictures that existed nowhere else.

Yeah fuck 'em. The venn diagram between those drivers and MAGA snowflakes is almost a circle. Shaming the one thing they hold dear to their mental stability is the least I can do to fascists.

I'm 6'4" as well and I fit in just about everything that's not clearly a compact car. I fit fairly well in Honda and Toyota sedans, and drove a Civic until 2018, when I bought a Tesla Model 3. That was okay, I fit but it's low, too low for my tall legs really getting in and out Traded that in recently and got a Polestar 3, which is a larger SUV.

Big work vehicles aren't the issue, as long as they're used for that purpose, it's the pavement princesses that are the problem. The ones that rarely or possibly even have never seen a day or work. They're all over the place.

There are a lot of owners of these pickups that use them as their primary vehicle and grocery getter. Then they try to justify needing the truck because of the two days a year they actually use the bed to bring something back from Home Depot or towing a trailer. Both of which have daily alternatives available either through a rental company or from the store itself.