That is awesome. Glad to see it, and thanks for sharing! 😻

Precisely the first reference that popped into my head 🤣

Not quite walked away. Nobody died on the scene, but two adults and a child were critically injured. Here’s hoping they recover from their injuries.

As to the cause, I can only speculate until the flight data is available, but I suspect it had something to do with the wind conditions. They were recording gust speeds up to 37 mph which is pretty high and at the very least could cause an uncomfortable landing. If they got a higher gust or the wind direction suddenly shifted, it could cause the plane to experience uneven lift. One wing goes high and the other dips. If this happens just as the plane is touching down it’s nearly impossible for the pilot to correct.

Get some boinks. They’re straw-like tubes made from a mesh material that can be compressed to shoot them across a room (I think it’s a heat-shrink material originally made for bundling cables together). They’re super cheap and our cat that loves all things stick-like (straws, pencils, pens, etc) goes bananas chasing them around.

So basically, these people don’t understand what FEMA’s role is (rapid response to assess damage, provide assistance for immediate needs, and help direct and fund local recovery efforts). Instead, they seem to want some magic fairy to show up and pay for all the uninsured things they lost, no questions asked.

It’s sort of built into their belief system. Early Christian authors wrote prophecies that their followers would be persecuted for their beliefs. So any time they can claim it’s happening they get to say "see? Prophecy fulfilled!

But also, when your group has lived in a position of massive privelege for hundreds of years, equality feels like persecution. It’s the same reason groups like the proud boys have been so successful in recent years. It’s backlash over society heading in a direction where white men are not defacto leaders in control of everything.

There are some relatively powerful groups. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State was founded by a Christian minister and has always had religious leaders on the board of trustees. Maybe kick them some support if you want to encourage them to do more.

Maybe…

Organic Maps does everything Google Maps does (except traffic conditions)

I really doubt that’s true, but I’ll give it a shot… it doesn’t seem like they position it as a good tool for driving directions, which is my main use case. Lack of traffic data is sort of a big part of that. How well they keep up to date based on things like road construction and changes is important, too.

I’m not sure what your point is. That’s why there’s a trial. A murder trial. To decide if he’s guilty. Nothing in the story claims otherwise. In fact, they go out of their way to point out that he has only been accused, not convicted.

Multiple parties are already doing that, but until the outcome of those lawsuits is known, they would still be taking that risk. Filing a lawsuit is not a magic wand.

Then why did Hobbes_Dent complain the list didn’t have enough examples of Caucasian issues?

I don’t care, and neither should anyone else. The fact that there are genetic propensities for disease that are more prevalent among ethnic groups is not relevant to the substance of the article.

That’s a nice list of red herrings. Those are all facts supported by evidence gathered through research. The point of the article is that RFK Jr has made, and continues to make, claims of fact that have no evidentiary basis, and in many cases directly contradict the available evidence.

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What makes you think anyone that would be willing to do that has physical access? I don’t have access to the server room at the office I work in, and we don’t even keep any really important data there. It’s mostly just networking equipment. Anything really sensitive is kept on cloud-based resources that are housed at an off-site facility that is only physically accessible by the company that owns and runs it.

On Friday, speaking about his plan for federal workers during a press conference, Trump stated: “It’s our dream to have everyone, almost, working in the private sector, not the public sector.”

They literally want to privatize every government function they possibly can. They’re saying it out loud, and have been for some time, and with control of all three branches of the federal government there’s absolutely nobody to stand in their way. So buckle up because things are about to get very bumpy.

That is likely very tied to where you live. Liquor sales laws vary widely from state to state, and sometimes county to county.

Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but just in case: they’re using this excuse specifically because the stations in question are publicly funded and their charter prohibits them from airing commercial advertisements. Of course, the fact that they have to take funding from corporate sponsors in the first place is a pretty good indication of just how insufficient their public funding is. And then there’s the annual pledge drives…

But yeah. I’m sure he’s real concerned that they might be violating federal law. So very concerned.

That seems like an easy fix though as long as people can visit a single website or get a brochure in the mail listing who all the candidates are.

I don’t know about Oregon, but we already do this in Washington. We are 100% mail-in elections, and when your ballot comes in the mail, you also get a voter’s pamphlet with information on all the measures and candidates. Or at least all the ones that bother to submit information. A few election cycles back, the Republican nominee for governor missed the deadline to submit a statement form, so the pamphlets mailed out to voters had a blank page for him. The campaign blamed it on a fault with their email server, but based on the level of competence in their campaign overall, I suspect someone just fucked up.

All that said, you can lead a horse to water… but you can’t make a voter educate themselves. There are still plenty of people who don’t bother to read the voter’s pamphlets.

Again, that’s not how it works. You can disagree all you want, but the procedure is clear, and it has become highly partisan. Without a 2/3 majority in the senate there is no conviction. Without at least a simple majority in the senate, any articles of impeachment simply get dismissed immediately (which is what happened when the Rs tried to impeach Biden). Without a majority in the house, you don’t even get a hearing.

This session, the Republicans have the majority in both the senate and the house. There will be no impeachment of president Trump for the foreseeable future. There is no path to “tie up congress” with such proceedings. Maybe we can flip it with the 2026 mid term elections. But there’s about zero chance we can get the numbers needed in the senate to convict, unless a significant number of Republicans can be convinced to abandon their party and commit political suicide.

Any opposition to the current administration will have to be from another angle.