but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

It's hard to find something that isn't a SUV or bus-like minivan if you want a family vehicle that can take more than 2 kids who need boosters or car seats. Fix the CAFE standards so that station wagons are legal and profitable again please!

Yeah, they all need to go to the Hague, but that will never happen...

It's in the name.

Summary of the entire silly discussion:

a) If one favors cats over birds, cats are pets, birds are food.

b) If one favors birds over cats, birds are pets, cats are pests.

Options not included in the discussion, but welcome to make things even livelier:

d) If one favors both birds and cats, both are pets and cats walk with bright red collars and bells so the cats can roam freely and the birds can survive.

e) If one favor neither, all are hunting targets.

f) If one favors dogs, they need come and say something offtopic.

g) If one's a fundamentalist Christian nutcase, all animals are automatons whose existence serves the sole purpose of pleasuring humans, and they won't be in Heaven because they lack souls.

h) If one's a Muslim, cats are clean and you're a sinner.

i) If one's...

Etc. etc. etc.

Good luck putting your life back together if you spend any amount of time in jail waiting for trial after you've lost your job and your housing. Hope you can afford to get your arrest expunged while you are living on the street with no job.

This is a good thing. The more expensive it is, the less spurious bullshit like the stuff in this article there will be. Fewer, more qualified cops = good.

Per the the 1951 Refugee Convention and later 1967 amendment which the US is a signatory to refugees have the rights to:

* not be expelled without due process

* not get punished for irregular entry

* gainful employment

* freedom of movement within the country

* access to the justice system

* be issued travel documents

Remain in Mexico and other restrictions on the entry of refugees and asylum seekers is illegal. Trying to get around and curtail these rights is why there are all these murderous campaigns in UK, Italy, and the US to turn around or sink boats in international waters before they gain land and get access to refugee protections. It's also why the US is working with Panama to make the Darién gap crossing more deadly to detain those that survive. If they never make it to the US, or die in the Arizona high desert because they were forced away from safer crossing spots, then they can't claim asylum.

It's a disgusting practice that is by no means unique to Trump or the US, although he's making things significantly worse.

It's not just white paint. Being highly reflective is only 1/2 the equation. There are certain materials with extremely high IR emmissivity which will actively cool the structure they are applied to. Not only that, but it must be a frequency of IR that the atmosphere is transparent to. Whether such coatings are ready for widespread use is up in the air.

This guy has several videos about trying to homebrew such a coating Making Infrared Cooling Paint From Grocery Store Items (w/Novel CaCO Microsphere Synthesis)

I use their Omada line of SOHO APs, controller, and managed switches. I find that they are quite solid and patches come out pretty regularly. I'd never trust their router though. Everything lives behind an OPNSense router/firewall running on a mini-pc.

You can't always disband a family group successfully. I know, because I've tried. I switched from Apple to Android, so I wanted to make my wife the admin. There is no way for me to elevate her, so we had to create a new family with her as the admin. Except I can't simply disband my family because my son is under 13. Once a minor's account is associated with a family, they must remain in some family until they age out. Until I have 0 minors in my family group, I can't disband it.

So the proscribed solution is for her to invite the kids to her new family group, which is supposed to send a message to me, which I then approve. Except I no longer have an apple device. It won't let you do this through a website, supposedly the notification shows up in the "family" tab of the settings app for some ungodly reason. I tried signing onto my AppleID through my work laptop, but the notification doesn't show up there. Thinking maybe it has to do with corporate endpoint security crap, I tried reviving my old iphone 6 but I get no notification there either, maybe because it is no longer active on my carrier?

Anyways, I've found no solution. Apple's software is just shit

Kinda. The US had no officially designed language from July 4th, 1776, to February 28, 2025. English was the most used language, but not a legal requirement.

Since March 1st, 2025, there's an Executive Order signed by Trump determining that English is the official language of the United States. Executive Orders are valid until a President cancels them, so we can presume that at least in the period from March 1st, 2025, to January 20th, 2029, the US will indeed have an official language. Coming January 21st, 2029, depending on who was elected for President, it may cease having one, thus going back to its traditional approach.

To make this truly a new default would require a more permanent law than an Executive Order, preferably a Constitutional Amendment. That's unlikely though. So we may well see a situation in which the US alternates having and not having an official language in timespans of 4 to 8 years each.

Let me get this straight: you're actually, for real, in favor of hidden fees, so a business can tell you that you owe them $x more than you agreed to pay for, and now you're obliged to pay?

The right-wing ones too.

On the bright side, most Chinese people, including those in the governing party, believe in some form of reincarnation. If that exists, here's to hope all supporters of such practices may enjoy being reborn in their future-proof schizophrenic autistic sleep-deprived blood-clotting-prone monkey-dog chimeras as those scream in agony while wandering the ruins of now extinct humanity.