Correct. They need 67 to impeach or override a veto. I am hoping democrats will understand this and not waste everyone's time with endless investigations, trials, impeachments, and so on. Unfortunately, it's all they can talk about lately.

Trump went on a retribution campaign in Jan 2025 that democrats complained bitterly about, and now they are going to do the exact same thing in Jan 2027.

And so the merry-go-round continues.

Biden deported more illegals than Trump did, and Biden only had 4 years.

Yep, it's going to be endless investigations and lawsuits and retribution instead of governance. The Democrats have been salivating over it for weeks. But you know what, that's fine, because at least they can slow down Trump's march towards fascism.

Would you believe, so they can be used as an energy storage system?

It's actually a pretty good idea, but only if you can keep the command-and-control system secure.

Alas, it's historically been easy for people to slip into a mindset of "no hacker would ever know or care about OUR little system, because [reasons]", and use that as a justification for ignoring security concerns altogether.

Of course that's never really been the case, but now that any bozo with $200 in their pocket can just pay an AI to find every possible security hole and report back, it's REALLY not the case.

Refrigeration systems have heaters on the evaporator coils to defrost them periodically. Telling the control system to turn on that heater and leave it on will easily accomplish that.

"As technology and job responsibilities evolve, accommodations may be reviewed to ensure they remain reasonable and workable."

Translation: We'll grand the accommodation for now while our lawyers figure out a way around it.

Outright hostility, you say? I can't imagine how that came about.

It's quite possible; OTOH having drones flying over our nuclear plants isn't something we should feel blase about. Maybe a drone swarm can't do much actual damage to a nuclear plant, but the fact that people are flying drones (deliberately or accidentally) in a restricted area is bad news all by itself; it suggests either complete ignorance of the law, or bad intentions.

Why not boost the ISS instead of de-orbiting it? Is it because it's just too old to keep safe for human habitation, regardless of what orbit it's in?

Closer to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tradition. All they need are the words "Don't Panic" on the front cover.

If it doesn't, it has no real value.

Almost nothing on Wikipedia is true, but all of it is "verifiable" in that there's at least one published source making the claim. Even if 99.9% of all other sources say the opposite.

(The Haka is not, for example, a war chant. Which is attested to, but because it's claimed to be online, it is "verifiable".)

The number of errors is huge, the number of "official editors" who know anything about the subject is extremely small, and this has always been the case. This is why nobody reputable cites Wikipedia. Wikipedia is where you go to find out what is potentially interesting, but you ALWAYS obtain the facts from elsewhere, if you've any sense.

This month: Everybody meet Paddy! He's going to use AI to rewrite all of our legacy software for practically free!
Next month: Our AI initiative has failed, entirely due to Paddy's incompetence. Please escort him from the building immediately and make sure he never works here again.