You never see spaceships and you only see how a single creature is defeated. The radio says the war turned around in the holy lands, which aren’t overflowing with water everywhere.

It’s faith that defeats them, not water.

I think the case with ICE is 5 years. Which isn’t a crazy time period for large incentives to kick in normally, but the odds of these ICE agents still being employed in 5 years isn’t great if MAGA goes down, and if it doesn’t then 50k won’t buy a decent pair of shoes in 5 years.

Tolerance is a social contract. Those who would not grant it to others are not protected by it.

We don’t have to tolerate the intolerant.

That’s almost all places in the US. And because of that, lots of people end up breaking federal laws without realizing it all the time.

Dad wants to buy his 30yo son a rifle for Christmas? Perfectly legal.

Dad wants to buy his 30yo son who lives out of state a rifle that’s legal in the son’s home state for Christmas? Perfectly legal.

Dad wants to buy his 30yo son a pistol for Christmas? Perfectly legal.

Dad wants to buy his 30yo son who lives out of state a pistol that’s legal in the son’s home state for Christmas? Felony.

I truly don’t understand that line of reasoning. At all.

Putting aside ideological stances on economic and social structures, how does someone reason that the country being broke makes socialism more achievable?

Fire Marshalls in many places are way too bust for random safety inspections. They’re reviewing plans, inspecting new buildings and remodels, and sometimes also doubling as the city’s arson investigators. And in some jurisdictions they’re also the fire chief.

Lots of the time it is a fire hazard, but unless the Fire Marshall knows about it nothing gets done.

Fire code is usually checked when the building is built or if there’s a remodel, but otherwise most places can go a long, long time without a fire inspection unless there’s a specific complaint.

Reporting suspected safety issues to the Fire Marshall or Building Official is okay. You’re not being a Karen. Building and Fire codes are written in response to avoidable tragedies and should be followed.

I like to say that peaceful protest is an opening offer, and it only means something if there’s a path to escalation when it’s rejected.

I think the difference here is that Twitter has basically installed a “child porn” button. If their reaction had been to pull the product and install effective safeguards, it wouldn’t be as bad. It’s a serious fuckup, but people screw up every day.

Instead, they’ve made it so you can pay them to have access to the child porn generator.

Vincent D’onofrio was in Men in Black.

Mark Ruffalo’s most famous role at this point in Bruce Banner/The Hulk in the MCU (except for the one with Edward Norton).

I love QGIS so much. I use it professionally every day. The city I’ve worked for has used it for years.

We are about to bit the bullet on a few ESRI seats mostly for interoperability with some of our consultants and easier use of REST servers and stuff, but we’re getting the absolute cheapest licenses because all the spatial analysis tools thay cost thousands extra per license are free in QGIS, and I can still use it.

The RAM for 2026-2031 hasn’t been produced. It’s the production capacity that’s been bought out.

If the AI bubble bursts, the manufacturing can be reassigned.

States arresting all federal authorities for being in the state would be an insurrection, even if it was in response to a bunch of illegal shit from the feds.

That sounds nice, but Trump would (correctly) declare that an insurrection and it would trigger an actual civil war.

The Zune software could be run on XP. Running that in a VM on a more modern system shouldn’t bee too difficult.

Not that I would mind.

Matthew 25:31-46 is when Jesus lays out the standards by which people will be judged. I don’t think MAGA would rate highly by Jesus’s standards, since it’s based entirely on the treatment of the poor, the sick, foreigners, and the imprisoned.

‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. Then the king will say to those at his right hand, “Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.” Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?” And the king will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.” Then he will say to those at his left hand, “You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.” Then they also will answer, “Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?” Then he will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.” And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.’

Sorry - miscounted frames. He shows up in the 3rd frame, but the same thing applies. Look at the window above his head in the 3rd and 4th frames and the trajectory of the car in the 5th.

He didn’t have to move aside. She drove around him. Her last action in life was making sure not to hurt the man who was going to kill her.

I went to an ER for some potential heart issues. They treated me on site in a few hours, but didn’t really diagnose anything - I had to go to my primary care doctor for that.

I had to wait 2 months to see him. Then I had to go get labs elsewhere a month later, and wait 2 more months to see my doctor for the results.

I w3nt to the hospital for a suspected heart issue, and didn’t get my lab results back for 5 months. Turns out it was stress, and things have improved with anxiety meds, but if I’d actually had a heart issue I would have died.

I live in Texas and have “great insurance.”

Oh - and they just dropped coverage for my doctor.