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No.

Yeah, I figure as soon as he is out of office he will vanish to somewhere without extradition.

What a great site!

I added them to my reading list. It’s not mentioned on the site AFAIK but the RSS feed is https://www.nationhoodlab.org/feed/

When I was stationed in [the former West] Germany in the 80s one of the guys in my platoon was an avid & considerate traveler. He never claimed to be Canadian but

• he had a Canadian flag patch on his traveling pack
• listened to the Dayglo Abortions and knew all the words to Proud to be a Canadian

He didn’t want to lumped in with “Ugly American” a-holes. And he wasn’t. Probably more due his considerate behavior than flag patch but who knows.

Other proof of his excellence: he took me to my first Fields of the Nephilim, Sisters of Mercy, and Nitzer Ebb shows.

Do most Americans vote… without any thinking…

Yes. It’s rare for a US citizen to be in a different political party or religious denomination than their parents. <- not happening by accident

Also, most people I try to have good faith discussions with speak solely in soundbites they heard in their favorite news ecosystem. No critical thought occurring at all.

Questions with my BOFH answers when I’m annoyed. And I’m often annoyed.

• Q. I downloaded [whatever]. Where is it?
• A. Wherever you told that dialog box to put it. I wasn’t there.

• Q. What’s “any key”?
• A. It’s any key on the keyboard. Pick at random, or pick your favorite letter if you have one. [note: this isn’t exactly true but I’ve never seen anyone pick CapsLock or some other key that might not result in continuance.]

• Q. Why isn’t my computer working?
• A. It’s not turned on.

• Q. Why can’t I run a microwave, air conditioner, and blowdryer off a walmart marine battery in my campervan?
• A. Because math.

• Q. how big is a millimeter?
• A. It’s a unit of measurement, so a millimeter is exactly 1mm. You can see them as small hashmarks on most rulers. One inch is roughly 25mm, if that helps. (narrator voice: “It didn’t help.”)

• Q. What time is it?
• A. [/me, the 8-12 substitute teacher, turns to look at the classroom’s wall clock. I point to it.] The clock is right.
• Q. What does it say?
• A. Well, you might remember that [/me visualizing the sweet nothingness of death or at least a tequila & NyQuil blackout] the short hand shows the hour and the long hand shows minutes.
• Q. [dead teen eyes staring at clock, jaw slackening, brain melting] So… what does it say?
• A. [existential crisis]

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Even if that person has their ID, and proof of citizenship, ICE will just tell them their ID is fake and confiscate it.

or kidnap them until the voting window has closed

Be careful about trusting flash drives. I’ve had several crap the bed. My understanding is the data is still there but the internal controller has fallen over.

I agree with others that say make multiple copies in multiples places on different media types.

Unless it’s been autoclaved or packaged in a “clean room” I don’t assume anything’s sterile . I would say that mass produced paper products like that are closer to sanitary.

You use too many unnecessary acronyms.

TMUA

My own experience is that there are “special” classes for the learning impaired. Never heard of any “genius” schools unless it’s fiction

Special classes for “gifted” students within a school is/was common in larger districts. FWIW I never heard anyone in the programs, student or teacher, describe the students as geniuses .

half of My polycule says that magnet schools are all fake

US magnet schools are real, although controlled by the local school district rather than the federal govt. They tend to be organized around subject (STEM, performing arts, etc) rather than cognitive gift per se . One might argue that a pre-law/pre-med magnet could have substantial overlap with cognitive ability.

Services for the cognitively “gifted”, to the degree they exist, tend to be located within a given school. They have a special curriculum, the flipside of one might have for kids who are cognitively challenged.

and only serve the rich. There’s no way a low income white boy

I assure you that isn’t true, both from direct experience and from working in magnets. Rich folks can likely influence any situation but magnet != private school for rich kids.

it doesn’t have any dumb jock types

They typically don’t have competitive sports teams so any jock-ness is individual rather than collective. Kids geographically local to a magnet can often attend automatically so there is a subset of Normals at a magnet, including jocks.

I find YT a valuable resource for my geeky/tech interests. My approach to avoiding time suck is:

• use RSS rather than browsing to catch new vids from creators I value
• download with yt-dlp
• pull down “talking head” vids as audio-only and add them to the podcast queue instead of video queue
• work around the house wearing headphones for most vids, looking at the screen only when something visually important is happening.

While I’m writing this yt-dlp is pulling down the day’s video queue and storing it on the media server for later consumption.

I’ll spend time clarifying a point for person who

• seems to be asking/arguing in good faith
• seems to be capable of understanding an answer

When it’s not immediately obvious what kind of commenter is asking I glance at their posting history and annotate the account with a note/tag so I remember.

I was imagining a Little House on the Prairie bonnet.

self-absorption

xtreme defender… can be a good option for weaker calibers like .380,

That’s my use case. I load the 68gr defender over 4.1 grains of Win 231. These chrono 1,181fps out of the LCP’s 2.75" barrel. Feeds flawlessly, which surprised me a bit.

A couple months ago American Reloading had 68gr Defender pulls for 27.6 cents each which is about half price and in the ballpark of top-tier hollowpoints.

The relevant case law may be found in Molotov vs. New Construction .

The randomness of mod assignment could be a good thing. A mod with no subject matter expertise (real or imagined) would be less likely to be biased by their personal opinion.

They do this by running a script/app that sends the user’s comment history to OpenAI with the question “analyze this content for evidence of specific political ideology sentiment.

To me the problem is what they are looking for not how they are doing it. Thought experiment: in what way would it be qualitatively different if they hired a team of people in Upper Elbonia to do the same thing?