Getting rid of the heat is going to be an issue for that… along with the massive pollution from the many launches required to get this in orbit.

This was done by Merrick Garland. He is a registered Republican, so what makes this a “both sides” story?

It still is 100% centralized.

All “teams” or clubs are just franchise licenses. All players are actually employees of the league, not of the clubs themselves. The league can also dictate which clubs are allowed to sign which players. It’s kind of wild.

Holy fuck, I was only joking when I said crazy eyes. I had no idea I was actually talking to a genuinely crazy person.

How much, in your mind, would have been a sufficient budget to come to a conclusion that you trust?

In my mind, $3M is roughly $2.9M too much since I could see with my own non-crazy eyes what caused the collapse of the buildings.

Maybe because most people have never even heard of a Totenkopf until now and wouldn’t know what one looks like. The dailykos story about it called it the 2nd or 3rd most recognizable symbol of Nazis, but I’ve never seen the symbol before and had never heard that term before today. Is it really that well known?

The US imports 7% of its beef from Brazil, 5% from Australia, 4% from Canada, 3% from New Zealand, 2% from Mexico, and 4% from the rest of the world.

That’s 25% of our beef from the global market… and you are saying there is no global market? Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand aren’t exactly close neighbors. Brazil just got slapped with a 50% tariff, so what barriers to entry does Argentina have that Brazil does not?

I’m torn between upvoting the TIL part of this because it’s something I know a ton about, and downvoting OP for such a wildly stupid take of “LOL go work somewhere else, hurr durr.”

A) You only have to fill it out once every 5 or 10 years, depending on what level of clearance you are going for. And when you go back to fill it out again, nearly all of the stuff you filled out is unchanged.

B) It takes a few hours to do in order to be eligible for very high paying jobs.

C) You do realize, don’t you, that tons of private sector jobs ALSO require you to fill this out? Working at Lockheed or Boeing or Booze Allen Hamilton or Microsoft or Google or… you get the picture. Any company that does business with the federal gov will have jobs with the possibility of needing this.

D) Private sector jobs can also be impacted by the gov shutdown, since many of them are on contracts with the gov that don’t get paid when the contracting officer is furloughed.

EDIT: E) Private sector companies will pay a HUGE bonus to people who already have a TS clearance. Back in 2018-ish, Raytheon was paying a $50,000 sign-on bonus to new employees if they already had TS.

Why is nobody suggesting the thieves just really love jewelry? All they want is to put them on and feel pretty.

No, it isn’t supply and demand. The supply is the same. They aren’t producing more beef that didn’t exist before last week. You could always buy Argentinian beef in the US, but it wasn’t imported more because of the price. So if you want to say that the localized supply increased, then it is because it was purchased by the government and either given away for free or heavily subsidized in price.

Subsidies is why this will make beef less expensive. Except now the subsidies are going to Argentinians instead of American farmers.

The current philosophy among parents is heavy early exposure. All the parents I know give their young kids Bambas, a peanut-butter based snack, as soon as they are able to eat solid foods. I had always been slightly allergic to cats until I got cats.

My issue is you, and many others, trying to justify serving a rapist because they are legally required to follow orders. We’ve been through this: if your justification for an atrocity is “I was just following orders” then you are a monster.

No, I’m trying to justify him NOT serving a rapist. You seemed to be angry that he chose to stop serving a rapist. Now you are saying I’m a boot licker because I am happy he is no longer serving a rapist and isn’t doing stuff that is oppressing people??? He is no longer “just following orders,” so why are you angry? Your anger is kind of all over the place.

You also never answered my request for what concrete steps do you want him to do other than retire. You are one of those people who get all angry and complain but then don’t have any recommended solutions.

Admirals, while extremely high up, aren’t the top of the food chain. He was being commanded to do bad stuff. His choices were to A) follow orders, B) not follow orders and be fired with a dishonorable discharge and all of his benefits for his family removed, C) follow orders but in a bad way that still kills innocent civilians while also slowly makes things slightly worse for his boss, D) retire honorably.

Or: the moment he had to consider doing something that was against The People, he honorably left. You seem to have this rather naive and ridiculous notion that some colonel has access to some network of willing soldiers who will gladly become a ragtag group of unstoppable superheroes against a million strong military that for the most part loves what the President is doing. Yeah, there are a lot of individuals who hate what Trump is doing, but those are mostly officers who have a stronger sense of duty than the people whom they command. And colonels don’t wield all that much power, either.

Also, since you seem to think he should have done something to “serve” The People in his role, what concrete ideas do you have for him to have done?

While in service, he is bound by duty to follow orders that are legal… and the Supreme Court said anything the President does is legal. Once out of service, he can choose to follow his own conscious and fight how he sees fit.

Wait, what are you going on about with religion? What does that have to do with hate crimes against disabled people? Nothing in this story is about religion.

She likes making wishes come true… for the right people.

If they can’t find violent criminals in Chicago, then they are looking in the wrong areas. The vast majority of Chicago is completely safe and pretty awesome. But let’s not pretend there aren’t violent parts of the city, it’s just that those dangerous areas don’t correlate to areas with high rates of undocumented immigrants.

Their point wasn’t that they didn’t care. It’s that polls don’t matter to a president that is trying to take over the country as a dictatorship.

I look at all the insane shit that has happened in just over 9 months and think about what things could still happen in the 13 months before the midterm elections. I don’t have much hope that political momentum is going to matter.

Also, polling doesn’t mean everything, especially not this far away. Trump was losing the polls in two of his three elections. He won both of those times.