It's one thing to decide, "Hey, I'm still willing to buy almonds but not bourbon," to help support a small farmer in a blue state. It's something else entirely to be willing to be snatched off the street and sent to an overseas concentration camp in order to "help" the underpaid hotel, restaurant and entertainment workers (but in reality just handing more money to the billionaires).
More stuff in lower resolution, and focus on less-popular (or less-collectible) material.
The internet isn't going to go out just for you, it's going to go out for everyone (at least in your region). You're going to be without it for the long-term, so you'll want variety in what you can watch and listen to. But your friends and family will also be looking for entertainment, so you'll be providing for a range of tastes over a long period.
You want to focus on less-popular / less-collectible material because trading networks will spring up, and the less-popular material will be the stuff that's in demand. There'll be plenty of people with a full collection of Star Trek or all the Best Picture winners, that kind of thing. But there'll also be people who suddenly realize that they want to re-watch all of Law and Order or they've always meant to watch Miami Vice and now is the perfect time.
I'll also point out that you've hypothesized that it's just the internet that's gone down. There would still be broadcast tv and radio, and I think people would re-adapt to broadcast viewing and listening.
"Subject has no criminal history.". Fuckers.
At this point, most school shootings occur on the anniversary of some other school shooting ...
Considering Musk's multiple phone calls to Putin, it was started by a Russian asset.
when the final decisions were being made to distribute the shuttles 15 years ago, the Houston community dragged its feet on putting together a competitive proposal.
You snooze, you lose.
Space Center Houston, which would be responsible for hosting the shuttle, was not even told before the legislation was filed.
That seems an important detail to ignore.
The short answer is that it is all political, and the timing is due to the reelection campaign for Cornyn, who faces a stiff runoff against Ken Paxton. The goal in Cornyn's campaign is to use the bill as a way to show Texans that he is fighting for them in Washington, DC, against the evils there.
Ugh.
The administration was not only keeping the AP out of the press pool — the daily rotating group of reporters who get access to Trump in tight spaces that cannot accommodate the entire press corps — but removing the permanent “wire service” spot as well. That means there will no longer be a spot guaranteed for one of the wire services: the AP, Reuters and Bloomberg.
I have a friend who has to keep going in there to re-correct bad data and bad relationships that people keep re-adding. They think they're helping, but they're not, they're just contaminating the data and the site keeps letting them do so.
Guess that explains the videos of doordash drivers stealing deliveries and stuff ...
I tried to prevent this, and I'm fine with the damage this is doing / going to do. I don't blame anyone who decides not to come to the States, wants to buy non-American products and services, wants to divest from US stocks and bonds. I wouldn't trust us, either.
We've already seen the creep: first it was violent illegal immigrants, then it was any illegal immigrants, then it was immigrants waiting for due process on their case, then it was green card holders - not necessarily a lot of them, but enough to establish precedents and see how far they can get.
Now they're saying "violent US citizen-criminals" - but they run the state that determines whether you're a criminal and how violent your crimes was. Remember all those videos of non-resisting people being screened at by the cops "Stop resisting!"; remember bills in Florida and other states to label trans people sex offenders - that's what we're up against. Any resistance or non-conformity can and likely will be punished.
"First they came for ... "
The first agencies he targeted were all the ones investigating his companies or limiting his companies: DoD was trying to limit exposure through SpaceX due to Musk's multiple conversations with Putin; the NLRB was investigating both SpaceX and Tesla; the EEOC was suing Tesla; DoT was investigating Tesla over both Smart Summoning and "Full-Self Driving" accidents; the FAA called for both 'radical reform' and Musk's firing at SpaceX after repeated launch violations; the FEC was investigating him for repeated elections violations; DoJ had an open lawsuit over SpaceX hiring practices (now dismissed, and anti-Tesla actions are now "domestic terrorism"); the SEC had an open complaint of his Xitter takeover; the FDA was limiting his ability to pay around with NeuraLink; the EPA has repeatedly fined bitch SpaceX and Tesla; he's been pressuring NASA to retire the ISS and to use SpaceX for Mars exploration instead of their own craft; and the CFPB had limited his plans for a Xitter-based electronic payment system.
While they haven't always received a lot of press coverage, he's sent his goons after every single one of those agencies.
I think gutting the government and sowing chaos is part of his goal (he's fully bought into Zuckerberg's "move fast and break things" mindset), but he went after specific agencies pretty quickly.
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His situation: He's currently in high school, with the same people he's been with for years, with settled routines and everyday stresses. There's little there that he hasn't faced before: it's safe to leave him there.
Your situation: once you take time off from school, it takes a lot of effort to go back; even with a full intention to go back, life gets in the way and people will often put it off "for just another year". It's also perfectly valid to not want to go to college, but in that case you should have some other general life plan: "I want to apprentice at this trade" or something.
Assuming that you want to go to college, you should go directly to college; your boyfriend still be safe where he is, and this will give him time in a known environment to explore himself a bit, while you'll have time to settle into college and figure yourself out a bit. You can meet up over the various holidays, and then settle in together at college next year, assuming that's what you both still want.
Recession is decreasing domestic tourism and fascism is killing international tourism. I doubt we'll need the hotel workers for long.
Because the US government and a large percentage of their people (especially in Florida) suck, because insurance there is becoming unaffordable (and will certainly become even more so under Trump), and because climate change (now set to get Even worse with the current administration dismantling all climate policies and increasing oil and gas pollution and cutting down national forests) will all combine to make living there an absolute hellhole.
has revived long-dormant plans to open a Tesla-themed restaurant in Los Angeles
.... Oh, this can only end well ....
Trump imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China by declaring illegal migration and fentanyl constituted a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the National Emergencies Act. [Under] the NEA, Congress has the authority to move quickly to terminate that emergency declaration. [...] The section reads, "Each day for the remainder of the first session of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act with respect to a joint resolution terminating a national emergency declared by the President on February 1, 2025." Source
Which means that the only people (afaik) who could have ended the 'national emergency' that he's using for a lot of his declarations, signed that power away for this next year. Meaning he's going to spend this next year dismantling the rule of law and ensconce himself as emperor.
How do I prevent PMs?
Sorry if I'm in the wrong place. Is there a setting where I can turn off people's ability to PM me? The spamgirl is annoying me, and I'm sure more will follow in her wake.
On other sites with spam issues, I'd turn off the ability for people to PM me and, if they asked on a thread I was on, I'd either re-enable PMs or add them to an approved users list. I thought I'd seen that ability here (I'm on the plain web version of fedia.io), but may well have been confusing it with some other site.
Thank you!
N.J. AG will determine whether Trump can keep his liquor licenses at his golf clubs after felony sentencing
The New Jersey Attorney General’s office says that Donald Trump directly benefits from the liquor licenses at two of his NJ golf clubs in potential violation of state law after his felony convictions.
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Have you done your Strikle?
There are five games to play, including a strike-themed take on Wordle.
A Pennsylvania woman whose absentee ballot was returned to her instead of being counted said she flew from Berlin back to her home state to vote in person.
A Pennsylvania woman whose absentee ballot was returned to her instead of being counted said she flew from Berlin back to her home state to vote in person.
Colin Gray, whose son is charged with the slayings of 4 people at Apalachee High School, asked a judge to be separated from other inmates behind bars.
