Stop with the RawStory links. It’s sensationalized garbage pandering to progressive values.

Somewhat dependent on budget, but don’t forget about FB marketplace. It’s pretty much the only reason I still go to that godforsaken place.

He’s concerned about the FUCKING OPTICS. not about the murders, or brutality or illegal activity. This is such a bullshit story.

Remember to vote in your primary elections please.

It might even be worth that big glass of milk, followed up by some ice cream for that kind of occasion.

I really don’t think that Trump is taking these orders from Putin. Trump is jealous of Putin’s power and wants to seem stronger so he needs a land-grab to make his pee-pee seem bigger.

Money isn’t a thing. I saw that Musk is at 700B now. He can spend a million dollars a DAY for nearly two thousand YEARS.

But also 100% predictable. Sad, but not unexpected.

For reference, I could absolutely take a job in the next couple weeks with a $50k signing bonus where I get to shoot people in the face with impunity, but I also know that the Nuremberg Trials were a thing. Also, I’m not a horrible human.

That’s the old Slashdot model. It does change how echo-y the chambers become when you limit how things get amplified. Those with higher engagement get to push things a lot harder and I’d actually fear the opposite. An Ai model would certainly be able to echo the general feeling of a place and then slowly turn the dial toward a goal, and do it more effectively in that case as it can comment on everything anyway.

Honest reaction to a serious question. The American military complex isn’t about specific fighting doctrine. It’s by far the world’s largest logistics organization. The airlift capacity of the military likely means that a carrier group wouldn’t have to stick around.

I have mental images of carpet bombing paths through sea ice. Ice is tough, but 500lb dumb bombs do pack quite a punch, and there is a big fleet of bombers that would operate with relative impunity once air dominance is achieved with the aforementioned carrier group.

Back in the late 90s, at a seedy bar with my tech-head buddies, we snagged a booth/table with a crappy half blown speaker that was pumping music so loud you couldn’t hear ANYTHING. My buddy whips out his multi tool and proceeds to stand up and snip the wire going to the speaker. An amazing idea that I’ve really never had the chance to replicate, but inspired me to carry a multi tool a lot more.

If you offer enough odds, someone would take it just to make you shit your pants and prove it. A one penny bet with $10,000 payout? Maybe you forget about it and come 2026 some idiot takes you for a wad-o-cash.

In the daycares (multiple) that my kids attended, the doors were always locked, and the staff all learned my name before I did theirs ( along with hundreds of other parents). I was checked in for that first week just to make sure I wasn’t some weird person and congrats to this school for doing the basics right.

Obligatory f Trump, but I’m GUESSING that current ticket prices aren’t cheap now. Lee Greenwood “9 shows only” tix are probably gonna be… inexpensive. Also, most armed branches have a band. I foresee a lot of that.

Can we ban rawstory links? Every single one is sensationalized crap.

Since 1982 Pennys are zinc with a thin (2.5%) copper cladding.

Uh, the food at both those restaurants is considerably worse. It’s all just microwaved crap as far as I can tell. You CAN get a beer as either tho, which has them generally winning in my book tho.

There always seems to be plenty of money to support a failing pillow grift.

Their voters don’t care. They’ll pay through the nose since it’s going to get sliced off to spite their face that is being eaten by a leopard.

You’re not an edge case. My family isn’t that large but we still have challenges with this exact thing.

There’s a screen device that my wife gets incessantly advertised to her that is probably a better option than it being built into a fridge that has been engineered to last 3 weeks longer than the warranty.