“Reportedly!?” Like there’s a chance they bought it for funsies?

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Why would they vote for Democrats when “Republicans are better for the economy” (says every poll since forever proving that Americans have no fucking clue what is “good for the economy”)?

Does.

Not.

Matter.

When I was a kid, I watched Ayrton Senna drive a McLaren F1 car. Not long after that, my dad showed me an AC Cobra.

It’s all fun and games until someone you know loses their freedom. Good thing Christian leaders have now figured out that empathy is bad. Weird that they just now came to that conclusion.

They tend to draw recruits from the same groups of people, though. Difference is firemen don’t have to put handcuffs on anyone, write tickets, or take people to jail. The nature of their job pretty regularly puts them in a position to be the savior. It’s possible that those experiences with their communities can make firemen more empathetic, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn most of them are at least MAGA-adjacent.

I think 3-days. Just to see if I could and how it would feel. Felt fine. Could probably have done at least another day, maybe 2. Was sort of starting to feel hungry around the end of day 3.

One of Liz Taylor’s husbands ran a construction company, I think? Can’t remember the details. There are a handful of current stars dating or married to people in finance. Amal Clooney wasn’t exactly “famous” before she got married.

It happens, but like any relationship, you have to run in similar circles in order to meet before any relationship can form.

Famous people tend to have somewhat closed circles around them because fans can be crazy.

Oh we should totally call it a “loony” like the Canadian coin!

Be the chaos you want to see in the world.

Something I dealt with a long time ago that has become a sort of rule for me, regardless of how true it might be: Scientists, and University researchers (the tenured ones) hate learning new programming languages and methods. There’s decently good reason behind it, as far as I can tell. I used to support an archive of weather satellite data. Whenever we had a software stack upgrade come in, the scientists grumbled because it meant they had to revalidate large swaths of their data with the new versions to make sure all results were reproducible. One thing they never did, if they could help it, was change the base code they used to generate those results. That would mean much more work. Also, if they wanted to to come up with a new subset of the data, they wrote it in what they knew. Usually Ada! Supporting this is how I learned that we couldn’t get an Ada compiler that would produce 64-bit binaries. The compiler binary itself was 64-bit, but that was it. From what I could learn, SGI had produced a 64-bit compiler for IRIX (I think - which ironically we were migrating from to x64 Linux clusters), and PGI gave up on theirs for “lack of consumer interest.”

AFAIK, the only involvement SCOTUS has in a presidential impeachment is the chief justice presides over the hearing in the Senate. That’s the procedure that would remove the president from office.

I have far less issue with that than I do clipping nails at one’s desk!

Could be. If he read.

Need to do it the old fashioned Russian way. Get the military heads behind you, overthrow the despot, put him and all his cronies up against the wall, and then the next “strong leader” takes power.

As she, and anyone else with a brain, should. This bullshit amounted to a ~10% tax on their shady business practices. Less than what they should already be paying in income taxes. If anything it’s incentive to find more ways to dick over their customers. One can only hope that either:

• If a Democrat, Hell even a proper capitalist who understands that strong regulation is paramount to capitalism’s lasting survival, ever gets a chance to sit in the Oval again she, or someone with her ideals, is nominated to lead FTC, FCC, SEC, IRS, etc…
• After the current regime is overthrown and democracy is restored, see previous bullet-point.

One hopes.

You can also purchase it at bookshop.org. I believe the eBook is still DRM’ed but buying the physical book can at least support a local (to you) book store.

I’m not a lawyer, but I thought this kind of NDA was declared illegal. Like for sure you can’t share legally protected data (copyright, trade secret, and the like) but talking disparagingly seems like a pretty obvious first amendment violation.

And I know that protects you from the government, but who’s enforcing the stipulations of such an NDA?