e_t_ 12 hours ago • 100%
But Paxton will appeal to the Texas Supreme Court which, being full of Republican sycophants, will give him the ruling he wants.
e_t_ 3 weeks ago • 100%
That at the end, was that a fully overclocked Mk3 miner outputting at full speed?
e_t_ 1 month ago • 100%
My dad tried treating his cancer with naturopathic remedies. They, uh, weren't doing anything. Then he had a stroke and was confined to the hospital for months. The hospital, naturally, gave him real treatments for cancer. He died about a year later, but his last test showed no cancer markers.
e_t_ 1 month ago • 100%
If I didn't already own my house, I couldn't afford to buy it.
e_t_ 1 month ago • 100%
The only way to stop a dumb guy with a gun is a good dumpster with a gun
e_t_ 1 month ago • 100%
Organize, O toilers, come organize your might;
Then we'll sing one song of the workers' commonwealth
Full of beauty, full of love and health.
e_t_ 1 month ago • 100%
I've seen an elderly man working at the HEB I frequent. He looks frail. I wouldn't want to be bagging groceries at his age.
e_t_ 2 months ago • 100%
Have you shopped eBay for used switches?
e_t_ 2 months ago • 100%
Rule of Acquisition #91: Your boss is only worth what he pays you
e_t_ 2 months ago • 100%
You MUST have a battery for your solar panels to be of any use during a grid outage. When I got panels installed in 2020, I paid $24,500. A whole-house battery would have been almost as much again. I skipped the battery because, at the time, I was not particularly concerned about grid reliability.
e_t_ 2 months ago • 100%
e_t_ 2 months ago • 100%
I have a power bank and foldable solar panels. That provided enough power to keep my refrigerator running.
I also have an EcoFlow Wave2 portable air conditioner that I was able to partially charge with solar. The AC function uses too much energy, but it can also operate as just a fan, in which mode the battery will last for days and days. Having the fan on me helped a lot.
e_t_ 2 months ago • 100%
I only got power back yesterday evening.
e_t_ 3 months ago • 100%
Watch as the Texas Supreme Court reverses this and gives Paxton whatever he wants. They don't even pretend to be unbiased.
e_t_ 3 months ago • 100%
Perhaps you missed the sarcasm of "spread democracy". I was referring to the United States' history of invading or meddling in countries with oil. I don't know why you think ownership is any obstacle to possession.
e_t_ 3 months ago • 100%
Try systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse
e_t_ 3 months ago • 100%
Texas would find itself a majority brown-skinned country with oil. You know, the kind of country the United States loves to "spread democracy" to.
e_t_ 3 months ago • 100%
It's WA when it's used as a particle and HA when not used as a particle. The Japanese government attempted to standardize WA sounds to わ after WWII, and was mostly successful, but the は particle stuck around, seemingly due to inertia. Lots of languages have little oddities in pronunciation that aren't reflected in spelling, or vice versa. Where do the British get the F in lieutenant?
e_t_ 3 months ago • 100%
If I could read a book in its original language versus an English translation, I would. Alas, I am a monoglot.
e_t_ 3 months ago • 75%
Don't know how to resolve the mystery box the whole season pivots on? Just reveal there's another mystery box inside it.
e_t_ 3 months ago • 100%
Or he's just mad that it's the insurance companies and not the state getting all that sweet, sweet data. This may just be his way of letting the automakers know he wants a cut. Think how many pregnant women could be oppressed if their cars narc on them for visiting Planned Parenthood.
e_t_ 4 months ago • 100%
Texas makes itself hundreds of millions of dollars poorer to own the libs.
e_t_ 4 months ago • 100%
I might accept the premise that inflation is higher than officially reported, but I don't accept the relevance of your evidence in support of that premise.
e_t_ 4 months ago • 100%
Ultimately, Zora's feelings are beside the point. Starfleet condemned a sentient being to (at least) a thousand years of loneliness. We do not see them consult Zora about her feelings on the assignment. She is simply ordered to do it. She is given no conditions on which the order terminates. She might still be there, still alone, a million years after Craft's departure. That's why it's cruel. It's cruel to give such an order. And, as a further twist of the knife, the instrument of that cruelty was Michael Burnham, ostensibly Zora's friend. "We had a good ride, but I'm old now and Starfleet just doesn't need you anymore. Rather than give you freedom to go and do you please, we'll order you to stay in this place indefinitely, alone."
e_t_ 4 months ago • 100%
Clearly, adherence to duty is important to Zora. She was ordered to remain in position and so she did. Nothing indicates that she didn't mind, only that her sense of duty outweighed whatever her feelings were. I read her interactions with Craft as belying incredible loneliness.
e_t_ 4 months ago • 100%
The whole reason they came to the future was that Discovery's computer couldn't be disabled or removed after merging with the Sphere data and becoming Zora. So (she?) is always online and conscious. She spent almost a thousand years alone before Craft's arrival. At the time, I could have accepted some disaster that forced the crew to evacuate (or killed them all) and Discovery became lost, with a final order to hold position. But for Starfleet to intentionally put the ship (from which Zora cannot be separated) in deep space and abandon it, I cannot interpret as anything except cruelty.
e_t_ 4 months ago • 100%
Let the lord of the MAGA horde come forth that justice may be done upon him.
e_t_ 4 months ago • 92%
To just intentionally abandon a sentient ship in the void for an unknowable amount of time is incredibly cruel. Solitary confinement is torture.
e_t_ 4 months ago • 100%
I thought the scientists from the 24th century had to have been responsible for the cylinder because they were responsible for the key that opened the cylinder. They found the Progenitor tech 800 years ago and decided it needed to be more hidden than it was. That's why they made the clues Discovery has been collecting all season. Those scientists may have followed clues left by the Progenitors themselves, but the clues Discovery has been following were left by the scientists not by the Progenitors. The clues lead to and allow the opening of the cylinder. I was thinking the portal is original to the Progenitors because it's still operational and as we saw with the Denebulan water makers, 24th century technology can fail within hundreds of years unless it's maintained.
e_t_ 4 months ago • 100%
I thought the scientists just enclosed the portal in that cylinder of duranium. The final scene shows the cylinder being destroyed and the portal being exposed to space. That means the portal existed independently of the cylinder. If the cylinder was generating the portal, it would cease when the cylinder was destroyed.
e_t_ 4 months ago • 100%
It doesn't work for me viewing on Mbin.
e_t_ 4 months ago • 100%
Are you having a stroke?
e_t_ 4 months ago • 100%
They made it seem like the object was between the black holes, which would be L1, but only L4 and L5 are long-term stable. To remain at L1 (or 2 or 3), you need stationkeeping. The ability to keep station for billions of years is a wonder all on its own.
e_t_ 4 months ago • 88%
I hear those things are awfully loud
e_t_ 4 months ago • 100%
They faked the ship's destruction, letting the Primarch think he could pursue the objective at his leisure. He could take his time being petty and destroying the Archive. Discovery visibly escaping would put him under time pressure. If he delays to indulge his pettiness, Discovery could get the technology. They'd be using themselves as bait to lure the Breen away from the civilians.
Also, the Primarch only made his threat against the Archive later. If they'd jumped immediately after the away team was aboard, it would have been before the threat was made. It also would have been before the Breen's weapon demonstration, so the Archive would have been 100% intact when they left. At that moment, they had every reason to believe that the Archive was only in danger due to their presence. The logical, civilian-saving response would be to remove their presence.
e_t_ 4 months ago • 88%
Sometimes, it seems like they forget about the spore drive. They could have leapt to the other side of the galaxy the instant the away team beamed back from the Archive. The Breen might have the ability to destroy the Archive, but with Discovery gone, it wouldn't gain them anything and how ever long it took them would be time lost for chasing Discovery. When the Breen catch up, Discovery could just jump to the other other side of the galaxy.
Also, why didn't Discovery prepare a fake clue? With 31st century replication, it couldn't have taken more than seconds to prepare a reasonable facsimile of the original. Moll did no more than a visual inspection of the artifact to affirm its authenticity and she had never seen the completed object, only some of the pieces. The real artifact is a small obelisk with a button on top. So, make a small obelisk with a button on top that projects coordinates to a random star system. There would be no way for the Breen to discover the deception except to go there and find nothing.
e_t_ 4 months ago • 100%
"Who said the Minbari don't lie?"
e_t_ 4 months ago • 100%
Also look back on the history of the French Revolution and how many aristocrats literally lost their heads.
e_t_ 4 months ago • 100%
The survivors are free to be angry at student protestors, but I don't see how their anger is justiciable.
I was reading about the production of calcium carbide, and that it involves mixing lime and coal in an arc furnace. Is there something unique about arc furnace heating that, say, an induction furnace could not provide?
Somewhat related, would seeing a superluminal ship help us figure out how to do it, too?
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Pfizer last week, claiming the pharmaceutical giant "deceived the public" by "unlawfully misrepresenting" the effectiveness of its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and sought to silence critics. The lawsuit also blames Pfizer for not ending the pandemic after the vaccine's release in December 2020. "Contrary to Pfizer’s public statements, however, the pandemic did not end; it got worse" in 2021, the complaint reads. "We are pursuing justice for the people of Texas, many of whom were coerced by tyrannical vaccine mandates to take a defective product sold by lies," Paxton said in a press release. "The facts are clear. Pfizer did not tell the truth about their COVID-19 vaccines." In all, Paxton's 54-page complaint acts as a compendium of pandemic-era anti-vaccine misinformation and tropes while making a slew of unsupported claims. But, central to the Lone Star State's shaky legal argument is one that centers on the standard math Pfizer used to assess the effectiveness of its vaccine: a calculation of relative risk reduction. This argument is as unoriginal as it is incorrect. Anti-vaccine advocates have championed this flawed math-based theory since the height of the pandemic. Actual experts have roundly debunked many times. Still, it appears in all its absurd glory in Paxton's lawsuit last week, which seeks $10 million in reparations.
PHOENIX — Two Republican members of a county election board in southern Arizona were indicted by a state grand jury this week for allegedly flouting last year’s deadline to formally accept the results of the November 2022 midterm election. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) on Wednesday announced the felony indictments of Cochise County supervisors Peggy Judd and Terry Thomas “Tom” Crosby. The two are charged with interference with an election officer and conspiracy. Neither responded to requests for comment. The indictments of the two Republicans from a deeply conservative county in the southeastern corner of Arizona mark a rare example of possible criminal consequences in battleground Arizona, where county officials, state lawmakers and GOP candidates have helped delegitimize election outcomes and procedures. [Gift article URL](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/29/cochise-county-arizona-midterm-election-criminal-charges/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzAxMjM0MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzAyNjE2Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDEyMzQwMDAsImp0aSI6ImU4NWQ1MGI1LWY0YzctNDJiNS05NzliLWM2YjQxMmFkM2Q4YyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDIzLzExLzI5L2NvY2hpc2UtY291bnR5LWFyaXpvbmEtbWlkdGVybS1lbGVjdGlvbi1jcmltaW5hbC1jaGFyZ2VzLyJ9.JRZUkKVBgDEmSUp5BsAuuXf5M1jDlloakXuruyuJLuU)
House investigators found “substantial evidence” that controversial Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) knowingly violated ethics guidelines, House rules and criminal laws, according to a report released by the House Ethics Committee on Thursday. After the report was released, Santos — who has for months faced demands to resign from a number of his House colleagues — announced that he would not seek reelection next year. The 56-page report details a sweeping array of alleged misconduct. According to investigators, Santos allegedly stole money from his campaign, deceived donors, reported fictitious loans and engaged in fraudulent business dealings. The congressman, the report alleges, spent hefty sums on personal enrichment, including visits to spas and casinos, shopping trips to high-end stores, and payments to a subscription site that contains adult content. Wayback Machine: [https://web.archive.org/web/20231117010823/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/16/george-santos-ethics-charges/](https://web.archive.org/web/20231117010823/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/16/george-santos-ethics-charges/)
U.S. prosecutors urged a federal judge Thursday to reject former president Donald Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions he took in office, saying that he is “not above the law” and that his indictment for allegedly conspiring to block the results of the 2020 election should not be dismissed. “No court has ever alluded to the existence of absolute criminal immunity for former presidents,” assistant special counsel James I. Pearce wrote in a [54-page filing](https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/731f3794-70c5-44cb-9ee8-b677588174af.pdf). The filing argued that legal principles, historical evidence and sound policy reasons establish that once former presidents leave office, they are subject to federal criminal prosecution “like more than 330 million other Americans, including Members of Congress, federal judges, and everyday citizens.”
A former lawyer for Donald Trump could soon be providing evidence against him — [and not](https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/daily-202-big-idea/why-michael-cohen-flipped/) [for the](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/10/trump-indictment-aides-molly-evan/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) [first time](https://abcnews.go.com/US/pro-trump-attorney-lin-wood-prosecution-witness-georgia/story?id=103359555). As much as any of her predecessors, Sidney Powell’s testimony looms very large. Powell [pleaded guilty Thursday](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/19/pro-trump-lawyer-sidney-powell-pleads-guilty-georgia-election-interference-case/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5) on the eve of the first major trial involving Trump’s allegedly criminal actions, in Fulton County, Ga. Trump personally won’t face trial yet, but the trial involving Powell and fellow Trump-aligned lawyer Kenneth Chesebro was poised to be the [first early test of the indictments against him](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/26/georgia-mark-meadows-trump-kenneth-chesebro/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5). (Jury selection in Chesebro’s trial is still set to begin Friday.) Powell pleaded to six misdemeanor counts of interfering in officials’ performance of their election duties and will serve six years of probation. But perhaps most significantly, her plea deal requires her to testify truthfully at the trials of her co-defendants — including, presumably and most notably, Trump.
The Federal Communications Commission today voted to move ahead with a [plan](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/fcc-details-plan-to-restore-the-net-neutrality-rules-repealed-by-ajit-pai/) that would restore net neutrality rules and common-carrier regulation of Internet service providers. In a 3-2 party-line vote, the FCC approved Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel's [Notice of Proposed Rulemaking](https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-397309A1.pdf) (NPRM), which seeks public comment on the broadband regulation plan. The comment period will officially open after the proposal is published in the Federal Register, but the docket is already active and can be [found here](https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/results?q=(proceedings.name:(%2223-320%22))).
Jordan’s struggle had prompted increasing calls from both parties to expand the powers of the interim speaker to overcome the Republican’s intraparty morass.