According to Bari, she pulled it because it merely duplicates stories ran by two other networks, months ago. She told her people that if they wanted to run it, it needed something new, something different. I've never been in charge of a news department, but that seems like an entirely reasonable stance to take. Re-running your competitors' story months later isn't exactly "new"s.

I can assure you that Fox News Grandpas are fully aware of CECOT. They overwhelmingly approve and wonder what it would take to get some of that here. Jeanette Marken probably wishes we had some CECOT here.

Meanwhile, El Salvador's decision to aggressively remove criminals from polite society is responsible for a 95% reduction in their per-capita murder rate.

Well, one of us clearly didn't understand it. I've made my case. What's yours?

Wait, what do you think other people mean by independent? You keep saying that people are getting it wrong, but then you link to a wikipedia page that says that it means what everyone thinks it means - that the President somehow magically lost control over his subordinates.

According to the Constitution, the President is the executive branch. Everyone else in the executive is his subordinate, using powers delegated by the one elected official. (Yes, I know, the vice president has a teeny tiny little sliver of power, but not in the executive branch.) It doesn't matter if the Supreme Court went retarded decades ago and invented a fourth branch of government that looks and acts like the executive branch but isn't under the control of the people (through their elected President) - that has never been in the Constitution.

How sad. Someone programmed the NPC to espouse the virtues of thinking for yourself and to call itself well rounded.

If I pull the string again, do I get a different line?

Metabolic disease doesn't turn on like a switch at a certain weight, it takes a while to develop. And when you fix your eating, it takes a while to undevelop.

Some of the NAND chips were ripped off and were not found. The ones that weren't ripped off were shattered - cracks in multiple directions. The dies inside were almost certainly exposed to sea water.

Exposed to sea water, the cells probably lost all charge very rapidly.

I had been hoping that someone would have made the attempt anyway. I'd have liked to read that report.

An artillery shell is subjected to one acceleration along a single axis of propulsion. It is a big acceleration, but not that big, and you mostly just need to organize the parts such that everything is supported along that axis.

Dealing with an implosion is different. Water with the density of concrete, moving around the speed of sound, bouncing everywhere and coming from all directions.

The SSDs look like someone put them in a pillowcase and beat them with hammers.

If you aren't dealing with the hassle of key management, you shouldn't consider your data encrypted.

The SD card was inside of a camera rated for the depth it was at. The camera looks like a thermos with inch-thick walls. The camera housing was dinged up by being adjacent to the sub's implosion, but did not implode itself. The energy of the nearby implosion ripped components off of the camera's PCB, but didn't harm the SD card. This makes sense, because the SD card is light and compact.

The sub's computer bay was a much different story. It was filled with air and when it imploded, everything inside was charred and crushed into a lump that mangled every PCB and cracked every chip with more than a few pins. They specifically looked at the PCBs of the SSDs, hoping to find some data, but those PCBs looked like crumpled up paper. I think the report called it, eloquently, "distorted on all axes"

A diesel engine runs at 14:1 up to 25:1 compression, and the heat of this compression is literally what ignites the fuel. The computer bay implosion was more like 400:1, which superheated all surfaces, but only for a few microseconds.

Unions were patient zero of enshittification. They did some good in the 19th cenutry and now mostly exist to convert dues into lavish lifestyles for the "leadership".

And because he is a fucking retard, his scapegoat is imaginary.

Every graph of school spending looks like this or this, a brutal reality that everyone who pays school taxes knows quite well.

Plastic packaging disposal is super easy for me.

My area has a waste to energy facility (an incinerator) that burns all of our trash. Our recycling goes through a single-sort facility, then all paper and plastic from that stream gets burned in the incinerator too.

At this point, I think of my plastic waste as natural gas that had been borrowed temporarily from the local power plant.

LOL. MAGA cities.

We have Rock solid evidence that approximately 7 million Americans got denied the right to vote using common voter suppression tactics last election.

I LOLd. What you have is rock solid evidence of 7 million fraudulent votes in 2020 when all 50 state election systems were in chaos.

This is known in the business as the Maddow Defense.