Ehh this is a single battalion with about 300-700 members total, with only a fraction of those being up for reenlistment. That's not going to result in a large number of soldiers "officially" out on leave. Any other passes handed out for that timeframe will have a quota informed by the knowledge of how many of these 4-day passes are claimed. Considering they're stateside, they're also probably focused on routine maintenance and training, i.e., predictable workloads and relatively low urgency.

There is no such thing as proper English. Language evolves through use. Both capitalizing a word and inserting full stops for emphasis are relatively modern innovations in the written language and both are, at this point, thoroughly established in meaning. Attempting to be prescriptive in the age of rapid international communication is doomed and has been for decades.

"The countries most negatively affected by MAGA's blind co-signing of Trump's policies definitely think Trump and his allies are nuanced, savvy individuals." Yeah, okay pal.

It's a shame this is what passes for a clever counterargument among Trumpers.

Why do you think that negates Fox serving as an example of media in the mainstream? MSM does not refer to only broadcast networks.

I'm not sure I would call a large portion of university administrators, professors, and politicians overseeing education policy far removed from education.

The GPA thresholds used generally require a significant number of Fs to fall below. A threshold of "X credits attained toward your degree path" will get the same job done.

No Credit means the student failed to get credit at the end of the semester. The effect on employers when they pull transcripts is the same.

Mm I think you have to be very careful in claiming someone has exercised absolute authority; and I think Biden's hands-off approach to the DoJ and especially with regards to the various Trump cases shows him stopping well short of "absolute". Biden recognized some number of agencies and departments are supposed to operate independent of the white house. Trump's admin explicitly rejects that, and has attempted to overstep that independence. I'm not sure even then he has successfully exercised absolute authority but he certainly is trying, and frequently enough to flood the judiciary.

It does not take a highly-trained legal mind to read and understand the Seventh Amendment, as the majority pointed out in both oral arguments and their opinion. You did read the opinon, right?

And you're apparently a centrist who thinks "partisan" is a damning descriptor regardless of the position. Even the Bible has plenty of criticism for fence-sitters.

The billionaire oligarchs don't need much government to function, at least not in the sense most folks think of government. If the federal and state governments disappeared tomorrow, there would still be a demand for security services currently supplied (regardless of opinions of quality) by government law enforcement. The private entities that step in to fulfill that demand would still in turn have demand for these surveillance packages. The primary difference is in their relationship with citizens' constitutional rights and whether the remaining government would have the resources to enforce that new relationship. And that's just looking at the security angle; private corporations under our current status quo have shown a tremendous appetite for surveilling all of us as much as possible for their own purposes. Adtech doesn't disappear with a 99% reduction in government. Subsidies and regulatory capture disappear, but the natural monopolization factors only increase with that governmental reduction.

When you boil capitalism or any other economic system down, it's about which economic factors are allowed or enabled to convert to political power. Removing explicit political capital while ignoring the barely-indirect political capital available to (under our system) the grotesquely wealthy only reduces the number of people splitting that pie. It's all well and good to say that remaining 1% will be charged with keeping the economic elites in check, but that comes via regulation and enforcement, both of which require enough political power to both remain independent of the economically powerful and overpower it when necessary. It's no accident the loudest voices in the shrink-the-government movement place regulatory agencies and independent ombudsmen at the top of their hit lists.

The OED disagrees with you. It's been in use since the late '90s.

There are definitely a few projects in that vein, including webserver Miasma which infinitely returns poisoned training data with self-referential links to serve as a tarpit, and Nerpenthes and Iocaine which focus on the tarpit "labyrinth of links" using robots.txt prohibitions as bait for scrapers that ignore that guidance.

Is there a reason you're too scared to follow other users around with your screen name attached? Or are you just embarrassed martin-boundary won't reciprocate your crush?