Depends on which option would serve better to advance the plot

If your soda machine is not a Sodastream, you’re under suspicion.

They just need to carve out a religious exemption.

Israeli security industry: builds virtual CPUs out of memory overflows in image libraries to crack open iPhones, can McGyver data across air gaps by writing to RAM in a pattern that generates radio frequencies

also Israeli security industry: sells an app that archives Signal messages by emailing them in plain text

The good news is that the shutdown in Chinese container shipping will give them plenty of time to grind through Duolingo

That’s to keep in touch with his handlers in Moscow

There’s a Klaus Barbie joke to be made somewhere there.

Given that Boeing and SpaceX are planning to collaborate on designing and building the next Air Force One, which will be a novel design fit for the DOGE era rather than a workhorse like the 747, and Trusk want them to have it ready ASAP, your hopes may yet be rewarded.

With the right, it’s. Always. Projection.

Maglevs could revolutionise the future of inflexible point-to-point links (they’re mostly used for things like showpiece airport trains, and future plans are fixed single-line systems like the Japanese one). IIRC, unlike legacy double-rail systems, you can’t have switches for diverting trains between two lines at speed, meaning that the sorts of flexible railway networks that currently exist can’t be replicated with maglev.

I suspect Nicole is a similar sort of operation to Aidana the pretty lady dentist from Kazakhstan, only aimed at people who’d be more sceptical. So instead of stealing images from a fitness influencer, they got some from a more average-looking young woman and made up a story. If it’s like Aidana, there’s a guy somewhere (probably in the hinterland of Russia or elsewhere in the former USSR) whose day job is to string the people who reply along, lead them into believing they have a relationship with this lady, make sure they’re absolutely sure this isn’t a scam, and then pig-butchering them for all they’re worth.

Dems roll over at the promise of a belly rub

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I’m sure that a man as fond of Nazi dogwhistles as Musk will appreciate the fact that, given that a B looks like an 8, his losses are almost a Nazi codeword.

For that, America would have to believe in public goods.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he ended up being renditioned to Israeli military custody (justified as him being a“high-ranking terrorist suspect” or something)

It predates Illuminatus!, which came out in the early 70s. The foundational text of Discordianism, the Principia Discordia, was published (i.e. photocopied and sent out to fellow fringe dwellers) around the mid-60s. Illuminatus!, however, popularised it.

Real men bleed out

Great! The US will soon have an air traffic control system as modern and efficient as the Las Vegas subway

Do the super-rich have a hard time moving to the US as is? Given how many multimillionaires end up becoming US citizens, I’d have thought that it was doable if expensive, with most of the hassle easily outsourced to highly-paid specialist lawyers.