Wasn’t just the song that slaps, then.

The best dessert drinks are served in a martini glass though.

Most domesticated bee species aren’t native to the US. It’s quite possible they are just getting bee-ported.

Which mainstream media?

The left describes mainstream media the same as legacy media.

The right describes mainstream media as media that follows the main stream of consciousness (i.e., anything to the left of Fox)

I don’t know…this mightve been a believable outcome by like 2002 or 2003 or so…W in power, USA PATRIOT act in effect, ICE replacing INS. A few years later and Sarah Palin has a legit shot at veep and kicks off the tea party movement.

Democrats had also just recently (as in, 2000) lost the presidency due to a SCOTUS decision and environmentalists who thought Gore wasn’t good enough (Nader’s vote count in FL was higher than Bush’s official final margin).

Or go with a two-way switch in the wall and get off your lazy ass.

(Edit, this is totally tongue-in-cheek. My washing machine just told me it’s time to switch the load)

They’ve been saying the quiet part out loud for the better part of a decade. Polite conversation is dead.

There’s a bit of nuance tho…

Technically the executive branch is the sole authority over classification. Ipso facto, the president can unilaterally decide if something is classified or not.

Historically, declassification is something that’s not handled lightly. It needs to be thoroughly analyzed, and generally speaking the president likely doesn’t know enough detailed context as to what may be okay or not.

The president using this power to save face…let alone to get out of trouble…is historically unique. And absolutely fucking moronic. Not to mention critically short-sighted.

I work for a lab in the US. We do a lot of things, but among them space and defense. Literal rocket scientists. A lot of old-school hackers. Like not Hollywood movie “hackers”, I mean the type of people that take great pleasure in making something functional out of miscellaneous junk.

Among them, there is a surprisingly large number of licensed hams. Myself included.

Idk where I’m going with this. But there’s an overlap between “space nerds”, “radio nerds”, and “tech macgyvers”, so they find a way.

You can get a house working in McDonald’s.

You just need to be the sole heir of someone who owns a house and either be patient, or proactive.

We helped pay for Sesame Street in the middle east because it’s super effective pro-Western-Culture propaganda. Seriously can’t have a better investment than we had there.

Oh the other children’s programming is funded by generous support from…the Taliban…soooo, good job giving them a monopoly on kids minds? How you think that’ll play out in 5-10 years when they are old enough for war?

Ah, -screte/-screet. Motherfucker.

As someone with size 14-wide (US) feet, this is how I shop for shoes. Don’t even look at styles or price, I just look for the pairs that are in stock in my size and that narrows the other factors down for me a lot.

My first job was at a restaurant that was on DD&D. It was definitely the latter lol. Very definition of a greasy spoon.

Good food. Probably skirted a lot of health codes. But good food nonetheless.

Peaches come from a can.

You want increased birthrate? This is step 1.

Of course I think that if Musk controlled a government dating site, it wouldn’t show white people any non-white matches. And wouldn’t support anything except two person, male/female relationships.

Dude they fucked up Ctrl+S and Alt+F in paintbrush and it still fucks with my workflows.

Security and messaging is tricky to get right. Government uses a lot of COTS stuff because it’s easier to have someone to sue when shit goes south.

That’s not to say that everything involved here isn’t a flagrant violation of every protocol and procedure involved in protecting classified information. It is.

On my car, the actuator that unlatches the door is electronic and apparently can get “stuck”, keeping the door from opening more than a crack.

Fortunately this most recent time I figured out how to fix it, by jamming a screwdriver in there and prying it open. But even then I had to disconnect the battery for a few minutes after to reset the door system. Why things gotta be so complicated? Why can’t the latch mechanism be cable driven like, ya know, every other car.

Also there’s nothing to grab hold of to shut or open the door from the inside. So I think a manual door conversion isn’t possible. But worth looking into for the future.

Ah, the Alex Mack technique.