Someone should invent some sort of energy storage device. We could call it a "battery". It would revolutionize the energy sector.

Somebody missed Y2K.

Housekeeping is not the guests job.

Hire a professional housekeeper to come in and clean thoroughly between guests.

Basic courtesy should be expected of guests: don't make things harder for the housekeeping staff than necessary, and don't break things. But cleaning and sanitization is part of the business of running a hotel -and that is the business an AirBnB host is in.

Yes. Soldiers shooting people with bullets see and hear what they are doing, and to whom. They should see and hear the dead and the dying crying out at the base of the wall they are defending, not just assume that what they are doing is harmless because it is invisible.

If you are going to be brutal, you should bear the emotional cost of that brutality. Every American should know how brutal you are being in their name so that they can decide honestly if they want it done.

We are cruel to others because we are insulated from the cruelty done on our behalf.

They are not stupid.

If you are already committing one crime (illegal immigration) you are careful not to commit other crimes which would draw attention to yourself and get you deported.

Illegal immigrants are careful to blend in and be good citizens. They are polite and helpful and hard working (to the point where they are often taken advantage of).

This sounds like a war crime.

It may not -technically- be a violation of any treaty we have signed, but it certainly fells like it should be a war crime to use an invisible, indiscriminate attack, against civilians, outside of a warzone.

As much as it shocks many of us: Trump has an 80+% overall approval rating among Republicans.

Many people (even Republicans!) hate some of the things he has done. But they are still overall in favor of his work as President.

Midterm elections typically go against the incumbent party as independents react, but if you are expecting a blue wave as Republicans suddenly vote Democrat -you are going to be surprised.

Get out and VOTE. In person, if you can. Mail in ballots may be disrupted.

Stand your ground. Make sure your vote is counted.

...don't let the door hit you on the way out.

These people are very likely talented enough that they will land other jobs immediately. It is no hardship on them to quit. They are sacrificing nothing, but they stood up for their principles -sort of.

The reality they will find is that any other employer that can afford to pay them as well as Google for work in their field of expertise will also have contracts with the US military. Perhaps they could take a significant pay cut and work for smaller, private companies where their objections to military service may better align with the company goals -likely on less interesting projects. Or they can work at another big company and eat their principles.

They got wealthy doing the work, but now object to the work? I know people change and grow and learn over time... but... it feels off. Insincere? Performative? Something.

Inconceivable!

...and now there is a database of snitches available to anyone looking for revenge.

Yeah, hard pass on the overpriced Xbox.

There are handheld retro-gaming emulators that come preloaded with every old game you would ever want to play for under $100. I have my mini-bookshelf pc hooked up to the tv in my living room for all of my steam games.

I haven't spent money like that on gaming since I kicked my EverQuest addiction...

of note: Tesla is pushing thru an "auto vote" measure in the December 3 2026 meeting. This means that all individual investors shares will be automatically counted as agreeing with the however board majority votes, unless an investor actively changes their vote on a particular issue.

Getting 50%+ approval to merge will be easy after this passes. Anyone who doesn't actively disagree automatically approved!

Custodial questioning is any time a person is being questioned while detained where a reasonable person would not feel free to leave.

He was being questioned by Border Patrol officers. He was detained. He was not free to leave.

Border Patrol cannot actually confiscate your devices if you decline to cooperate. They can retain them for a limited period while they inspect them or seek a judicial warrant to keep them longer. If they do not receive a judicial warrant to keep the property, they must return it to you within a reasonable time period. What the courts deem "reasonable" varies: courts have found 90 minutes waiting for a drug sniffing dog to check luggage to be unreasonable, and found several days to clone an electronic device to be reasonable.

Under the 5th amendment's protection, you are entitled to have an attorney present during any custodial questioning. If you are questioned without your attorney after clearly and unambiguously stating that you are invoking the right to have an attorney present, any responses you give are inadmissible.

His giving them the deletion-passcode would be inadmissible. They did not exist, for purposes of the law, and neither did anything resulting from them (fruit of the poison tree). He did not give them the deletion-passcode: because the conversation is inadmissible, it did not happen. Therefore no crime occurred.

That is the legal theory for his defense.