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I mean, you can just buy lunar meteorites and not have to risk the jail term, if you’re that into the idea of “having sex on the moon”. Hell, you can buy Martian meteorites, or outer space meteorites for that matter. The small slices aren’t even all that expensive.

Honestly, I’m mostly wondering about the nutrition factor. Not that you expect much from butter, but we all know this will be slipped into other things, just like hfcs.

And they’re Black.

Also nightmare fuel: Will America’s Worst Wildfire Disaster Happen in New Jersey? [article is 6 pages long, sorry for the need to click-through).

Pols have been saying that, in various forms, since Reagan.

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Okay, cool. Hey, I’m now taking bets on how long until someone uses the ads to inject malware into a car or truck …

Oh good, more empty “factories” built in the middle of nowhere and left to rot …

It’s only starting. It’ll go up more now that the harvests are supposed to be coming in. And once the non-harvested wheat isn’t made into flour, and the excess veggies aren’t frozen and canned. It’s all going to go up this fall.

We’ve already paid for nationwide broadband, and the corpos took the money, did a fraction of the work, and called it done. I don’t see what this latest infusion of cash-to-corpos is going to do for the average Joe.

2/3’s of those on Medicaid do work, they just aren’t paid enough or given enough hours to get off Medicaid - and this is often a deliberate choice by employers to avoid having to pay benefits; they’d much rather have the taxpayer subsidize the corporation.

Most of the other third aren’t working due to illness, being in school, or because they’re taking care of other people, all of which are currently allowed.

You want to lower Medicaid and food stamps enrollment? For every employee a company has on Medicaid, food stamps, or other public assistance, the company has to pay that amount plus 10% as a penalty to the government. And if someone is working multiple jobs, then each if the employers has to pay in the full amount of assistance they’re getting. If you can’t afford to be in business without the government subsidizing your company, maybe your company shouldn’t exist.

Do a phased-in approach, hitting the companies with the highest number of subsidized employees (looking at you, Walmart and similar) first, then going for companies with lower numbers as time passes. Oh, and none of this bullshit like they pulled during the pandemic, where McDonald’s suddenly counted as a “small business” because they’re mostly franchises.

Start there with getting people off public assistance, then get back to me about sending people to work on farms.

FTA:

Paxton in 2021 won a state Supreme Court ruling allowing the arrest of legislators — Democrats by definition of the state’s partisan mix — who broke quorum.

You don’t have to do massive or big tournaments - go small instead! More fun and way less pressure. I’ve done a few ttrpg tournaments at GenCon and another few at my LFGS. My sister sometimes did small local puzzle tournaments like for KenKen and Sudoku.

I’m sure Susan Collins will be concerned and Lisa Murkowski will be disappointed that he didn’t keep to some nebulous standard she expected and trump will have learned his lesson …

Afaik, unless you have eye surgery, floaters are stuck in your eye forever, it’s just that many eventually sink out of your field of vision. If you have large new floaters, especially if there are multiple new ones that appear suddenly, I’d recommend seeing an eye doctor - it’s how I found out I’d torn my retina, which was at risk of detaching and possibly making me partially blind.

They should force him to repay the money being spent to renovate the plane.

Locals don’t want to work for what you want to pay them.

I’m not interested in anyone, unless they’re speaking out against the regime now. She’s not, so she can just step back.

In this thread, so many people who misunderstand the meaning of “Believe women”.

Brett Kavanaugh raped a woman in high school, and had three additional accusations of sexual assault, yet all of that was ignored to put him on the Supreme Court. Donald Trump has a 67-page Wikipedia article on all the sexual assault claims against him, yet he was still a reality tv star, a popular media figure, and now president. Allegations and rumors against Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein circulated for years before anyone took things seriously enough to bother doing something about it. Brock Turner raped an unconscious woman and was let off with six months because the judge didn’t want to “ruin such a promising future” (or similar words), served it in county jail, and was released after 3 months.

“Believe women” means taking each allegation seriously instead of doubting women with questions like “are you sure you want to report this”, “are you sure it wasn’t just a misunderstanding”, “are you sure you weren’t drunk”, etc. “Believe women” means stop trying to dismiss or downplay behavior with things like “why would he do that” (Trump’s assault on the plane), or “she’s not that pretty”, or “she was asking for it”, and actually investigating the crime instead of brushing it off as a college prank, or the casting couch, or someone trying to get 15 minutes of game by accusing someone famous.

“Believe women” doesn’t mean automatically accepting every claim, but believing it enough to accept that it might have happened and conducting a thorough investigation of the alleged incident.

Wikipedia has a 67-page article on sexual assault allegations against Trump.