What are the cables going into the bag for?

Shai Haluud

If outspoken MAGA Republicans need to talk about these issues to get ahead, I’ll take it. That still tells me that their base is getting disillusioned by the administration’s actions. It’s still going to push them more left.

Do you have any sources for those claims? It seems crazy to me that the majority of European air travel is American companies flying consultants. That can’t be true.

She is now talking about women’s issues, worker’s issues, leaving the GOP, and calling the genocide in Gaza a genocide. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I see hope for her.

The MAGA mindset comes to people who become contrarian. They accept the first narrative that counters the established narrative. Maybe the MAGA movement has gained so much acceptance that she is now finding left-wing views more contrarian than her old views. Maybe this is copium? Guess we’ll see.

This is what the White House thinks the average American scraping by gives a shit about?

No. Much of what the current administration does is to feed Trump’s ego. This isn’t aimed at the public. It’s aimed at Trump himself. Look at the way world leaders are dealing with Trump. In Ukraine, they’ve switched from “many civilians are dying because an expansionist power is invading a sovereign European nation” to “Putin is mocking you”. They know Trump is much more likely to respond to attacks to his ego than appeals to his humanity.

Only 3.5! You can do it!

That’s not true. Some of the original libertarians were socialists. I had a libertarian phase once upon a time. One thing that was very apparent was that nobody could agree on what libertarianism meant. The only thing they seemed to agree on was that the government should be smaller. The maga movement has adopted the libertarian label for some reason. Despite the government, especially the authoritarian elements being expanded. In the current climate, anybody that proudly claims to be libertarian is either pretending the meaning hasn’t changed, or is a maga idiot. Even Penn Jillette, one of the most outspoken libertarians, has since shed the label.

My old car’s CEL was the interior ambient lighting. It was a dim warm tone and it was just an evap leak so I didn’t want to fix it

Agreed. I read the book right before watching the show. The show seemed to add a whole bunch of characters and filler arcs just to pad things out.

There are often nation-wide or region-wide advertising campaigns that proudly display a price. If individual cities have different sales taxes, that would make it hard. Personally, I still don’t find this to be a good reason. Just charge a single amount anyway and eat the costs in the high tax area. Price it in.

Edit: now that I’m thinking about it, many chain businesses are franchised. So each McDonald’s (for example) is independently owned. So they couldn’t just eat the cost in those areas.

It’s only spineless if he actually wants the files released but is crumbling under pressure. I suspect he doesn’t want them released.

My weather app uses that for weather data. I’ve found it more reliable than other people’s apps.

As a fighting game fan, this one shows promise. The devs are the Cannon brothers. They are the guys that founded Evo, the biggest fighting game event. They also created and freely licensed rollback netcode, the gold standard for fighting game netcode. the core of the game will likely be excellent. The f2p model hasn’t really been done at this level in fighting games. Most games are sold at full price and they sell costumes and characters as dlc. I’m hoping this game will get more people to try fighting games and hopefully it doesn’t become a loot box simulator.

“this one house has perfectly consistent power usage. That’s suspicious”

That’s like 3 beers worth. I’m not saying you can’t burn significant calories by exercising but the effort needed is way more than simply not drinking 3 beers. Also most exercise isn’t going to burn 800+ calories. The only way an average person is hitting those kind of numbers is if they have an intense manual labor job.

Having a calorie deficit is the only way to lose weight. Everybody knows that. Exercise actually burns very few calories. There are many other health benefits to exercising but weight loss isn’t really one of them.

In my experience, a calorie deficit is much easier if you eat better foods, rather than try to eat smaller portions of unhealthy foods. More fiber keeps you feeling full for longer. Find ways to incorporate lots more vegetables in your diet. I keep apples around for when I want a snack. I make bean tacos instead of chorizo (maybe I’ll mix a little chorizo in), etc. Find sauces and ways to spice up veggies. Don’t worry if your sauces and dressings are the most healthy. Just getting the vegetables is the most important.

Also cut back on drinking of you do that a lot. Lots more calories in alcohol than people realize.

“The South will rise again” folks were right. They just had a much longer timeline than we imagined.

I use mint that I haven’t updated in years because one time I tried and it failed so I stopped trying. It’s my old work Thinkpad that I now use exclusively to run weekly events. It’s old and heavy and I needed a more lightweight OS than windows.

Brics is basically an alignment against the west, rather than for something. Each of the members has ambitions that are, at best, completely different from one another, and in some cases, contradictory. It reminds me of the cold war era non-aligned movement.