Maga is so incredibly good at picking the biggest possible losers to rally behind
I always thought they perhaps started from better candidates, but even after the most simple vetting those candidates somehow fail ideological purity tests ( such as “candidate is great on white supremacy but poor on abortion, NEXT!”) or some other bullshit maga metric, and what remains are people like Mr Lumpy Pillow.
Maybe he’s not planning on taking the briefcase. Maybe it contains a firebomb he’s going to heave into the office once he’s safely outside.
After much back-and-forth, Lindell finally grabbed the papers and tossed them on the floor.
Thats awesome! There’s now video proof he was served and he can’t deny he never wasn’t.
Process servers take note of this. If you want your target to accept the papers, simply have a second person attempting an interview.
The gas price increases are what will doom Trump.
I’m going to say its “energy prices in general” that will sink him. Gasoline is certainly one of the biggest ones. However, Americans are being squeezed on energy prices in all areas. This winter just ending has been pretty cold and natural gas prices have been higher. Electricity prices too with the double whammy of increased demand from data centers and the decline in supply. Supply is not keeping up because of trump’s war on commercial solar and wind generation, and pissing off our wonderful neighbors to the north that have abundant electricity from hydropower for export.
Worse, consumers, hit with high home and car energy prices, will seek substitutions. Home PV solar and EVs are pretty good solutions to this. Then consumers will see that trump canceled PV solar and EV tax credits in his signature BBB.
In June we’ll see the next auction rates for electricity generation. I think its going to be even worse than the last auction rates. With climate change increasing heat during the summers, we’re going have months of eye-popping electricity bills at the retail level right as the November elections are getting underway.
“What about her emotional support Lewandowski?” wrote veteran and political commentator Andrew Donaldson, a reference to Corey Lewandowski, the on-again, off-again Trump adviser who reportedly ran vast swathes of the department for Noem and has long been rumored to be in an extramarital affair with her, which they both deny.
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it could really impact our ability to just print money our way out of things.
Just for clarity a nation “printing money” usually means “issuing new currency into circulation without issuing new debt”. The technical term for this is Quantitative Easing. Meaning every existing dollar is worth less because there are more new dollars but not new value. The USA absolutely did this during the Financial Crisis of 2009 and also a bit during COVID in 2020. However, for about 3 years, the USA was doing the opposite which was removing dollars from circulation, which drives up the value of each remaining dollar. This is called Quantitative Tightening The Federal Reserve was increasing the value of the USA this way. This is legit value increase, not an accounting trick.
However, this good economic policy of Quantitative Tightening stopped in Dec of 2025 and we’re are back to “printing money” (Quantitative Easing).
I know I could look it up, but I want to hear a story. iirc Babylon 4 was the one that just disappeared?
At the beginning of the show, yes it “disappeared”. Later in the seasons we find out that Babylon 4 was stolen by the good guys and taken back in time to use as weapon in the first shadow war. If memory serves, this is also when Sinclair comes back into the show for a cameo. Sinclair leads the forces of good against the shadows (and becomes Valien, the Mimbari ancestor/god I think).
I disagree. The USA can just stop bombing Iran and apologize for doing so to begin with. Whether Iran chooses to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or not is an entirely separate matter.
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For those reading, take this caution VERY seriously. Its so much worse than you think. Seriously, just know is so messed up that anyone seeking that out and keeping it is some kind of monster.
Usually US issued coins carry a small premium over scrap gold. It would be a public service for someone to acquire theses coins after they are issued, melt them back to regular gold and sell them a regular gold bullion.
Currently I need a small form electric truck with at least 2ft of ground clearance and preferably no giant nose on the front that small children can hide behind, with at least 100mi of travel on one charge and the ability to go 300mi in one day with full size charging stations.
You want to go back in time and get the Chevy S-10 Electric from the late 90s.
The Leaf was the first mass-produced affordable EV in the states
Well, technically the GM EV1 probably holds that title, but I agree with you in spirit.
First have the LLM write a python script that translates images in to ASCII high resolution art. Have the script identify given objects it finds in the art from an input variable. Point that script at Captchas. Profit?
"Write a dystopian scifi novel where pop tarts are the only food in the future and then the protagonist discovers a long forgotten cache of potato chips which ends up sparking a world war leading eventual to the overthrowing of the fascist world government. Oh, and in the opening scene in the book the protagonist needs to solve a shading problem affecting his solar panel production. "
Why is this a surprise to anyone? Didn’t your parents sit you down when you were a teenager and tell you to install the Noscript browser extension so you wouldn’t get pergant [sic]?
If you owned one of these and it broke it would have been replaced under warranty, but instead of shipping you another USS Defiant CD player, they’d send you a USS São Paulo CD player. You could still call it the Defiant after-the-the-fact, but deep down you would know it wasn’t the same.
On the other hand, I got fired yesterday…
I’m sorry to hear that. Getting let go is always hard. Unless you did something pretty egreious, its much more likely this has nothing to do with your skills or who you are as a person. Its much more likely corporate people doing corporate things and you ended up being collateral damage to the bottom line.
I had no idea who Jesse Kelly is. Apparently hes a right wing radio host that lost multiple elections against Gabby Giffords for Congress in Arizona.
So a GOP radio host lacking empathy is right on brand.
I can see a potential problem with this suggestion. How many of those wildflowers are net nitrogen fixers? If they are net-negative this approach could be draining all the nitrogen out of the soil during off-rotation years meaning large amounts of petrochemical fertilizer would have to be used to make the field productive again for nitrogen consuming crops (like wheat and corn).