It’s funny, because alabama (or maybe a part of it?) has (had?) the highest density of Ph.D.s in the country because of research and government (I think a NASA facility). I wonder, with our current bullshit about research funding and our government’s anti-truth approach to things that don’t make companies money, if there is already a notable reduction in educated folks in these already education-barren locations.

solid minority, really. Isn’t the ‘revolution’ numbers often quoted at 1% fighting, 3% support?

Traffic tickets blur the line between the civil/criminal courts. Especially in my state, where both speeding and the lowest level of assault will put you before the same judge. Since the lowest criminal charges don’t carry potential for jail time, even in the effect they have it’s difficult to tease out their differences.

Well, that was the perspective of the people I spoke to and read of, so it’s how I interpret the stories I was told.

Closest analogous conflicts I could imagine would be when the us bombed eastern europe. Urban areas would be bereft of food and incoming supplies, rural areas would be bereft of most foods and incoming supplies, and everyone devolves into roving gangs and desperate attempts to fortify an area of ‘trusted’ neighbors.

Reading the first hand accounts of what people went through is enough to make me horrified whenever anyone talks about the possibility of a civil war with glee. They don’t have the imagination or the knowledge to comprehend what neighbor vs. neighbor really looks like.

They still need FEDERAL judges to even bring an indictment, WITH EVIDENCE OF A CRIME, in order to get a warrant, and then maybe arrest somebody.

Federal Judges absolutely hate having their time wasted, and this DOJ has done nothing but waste their time

Judges DO NOT have to keep wasting their time with the DOJ requesting indictments if they continue to prove in court that are acting in bad faith (mala fides). So maybe one or two tries at this, and the DOJ will never allow them to file for this bullshit again.

I’m sure they’ll just start taking everything to certain judges to get them rubber stamped. We already know there’s one out there who will publicly suck on trump.

You know, wild, insane conspiracy theory, but maybe the mental breakdown is more than just aftereffects from the stroke.

What if some republican patsy at a three letter agency has some serious blackmail on him? He’s a public figure, his actions easily scrutinized. As a senator his time, statements, and votes are public, and the government itself is doing the blackmail, so he can’t turn to anyone. If he resigns they release the blackmail. The only way to not have the blackmail released is to fake these issues. Or maybe the pressure is actually breaking him, who knows.

It’s at this point, the close range scans indicate not just some “organic gases” but trillions of organisms , all of them alien, and worst of all, possessing a chirality opposite to your own.

Your immune system and their pathogens, and your pathogens, are wholly incompatible. You touch anything, you get sick and die, and they get sick and die.

Organisms on earth use right handed chirality without issue. Even humans manipulate some. Eating an alien would probably go poorly, but interacting with one (all you mass effect fans out there can lose the burgeoning boners, creeps, I mean in something as light as a ‘handshake scenario’) wouldn’t be some terrible biological curse. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10851380/ I’m trying to scratch my head to remember because it’s been a while, but I think there are archaebacteria that use the D forms even more than the normal incorporation into peptidoglycan. It’s not a death sentence.

Completely agree with you, which is why I find myself tearing my hair out when a quote has punctuation inside of it that is necessary to convey the original meaning, but ALSO the outside text is being presented in a certain manner that needs punctuation to be read/understood correctly. For example, if the person who is doing the quote is yelling. Putting the exclamation point inside the quote makes it seem like the original quote was doing the yelling, but putting the quote earlier so you can put the speaker’s words last, and thus together with the exclamation point, sometimes makes the phrasing awkward.

the connection felt loose and it would charge unreliably, but changing out the cable has completely removed all issues.

Isn’t that because the attachments are placed on the cable side, purposefully, because changing cables is easier than replacing parts of the phone/device? I think that’s one of the more noticeable issues with the iIdiot lightning chargers: Once the grabbing parts of the port are borked in the device, no cable ever stays in.

The issue with that is the old cables had the same problem, they just were less noticeable because you didn’t expect them to do what the USB-C is capable of. I had some USB micro cables that would pass power only, and it drove me nuts if they ended up near my computer.

If the edge crust isn’t as much a pleasure to eat as the center of the pizza, you’re doing pizza wrong. There’s a local place that brushes an herb mix on, and I swear to god they could sell the edge crust as a bread appetizer and make more money than the pizzas. It takes you right to the edge, I swear to god.

In the same breath, I hate when people tell you they want to meet in the morning, or call you, and then wait until 1130 hours. Fuck that shit. We need terms to describe portions of the morning just like we do for afternoon, evening, and night.

I do get my evil grins on when they do that to me and then I call them at 0530 hours the next time we’re scheduled for ‘morning.’

No, it’s morphed into one of those pearls of wisdom that people pass down and truly believe. They all have their ‘true story’ of blipping the throttle and “suddenly the car that was moving over to smush me stopped!!!” The assholes who know it isn’t true can be discerned from the true believers by the humor they find in their tales of blasting people with sounds.

Legitimate? Sure. As good as other options? Hell nah, brother. I’ve got too many other delicious options that take up cheese space to waste on pineapple.

Spoiling milk is all about the ratio of the fat. It’s why cream is used in alcoholic drinks. The higher fat content of the cream means it can take more without spoiling. Try yours with skim milk vs. whole and taste the difference.

I definitely got the cornucopia from the saccharine depictions of ‘the origin’ of thanksgivings. I always thought the logo came from those.

The best thing about the fixed gear was the quick and sudden slides you can do with the rear wheel.

But most people would say that single speed has none of the disadvantages of fixed.

The incessant pedaling even as you’re slowing or cruising can be horrible though. The single speed definitely fixes that.

I think I’d prefer my preferred hand in the place of high precision, which is changing the gears… and especially the very precise twist of the volume knob if I’m messing with the radio. Honestly, the preferred hand is mostly training anyway, so by the time you learn to drive a manual without grinding your gears every other shift, you shouldn’t have an issue steering with your ‘off’ hand.

got a shower

That made me shudder. Are you a dog and being showered by someone else, or was it a gift granted to you for hard work that day? ;)