Well, Mongo likes candy!

Gojira desu!

"Mongo just pawn in game of life."

Well, damn, that's a cynical description. Not wrong, though, but the pols and pundits will continue beating each other over the heads with the constitution, on this subject and others.

"
Clause 1 Proscribed Powers

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
"

I'm not seeing anything about trade agreements.

Lots to unpack in that report. Here's a small part that I find curious:

"Crime rates and renewable energy production are similar in the two states despite very different policies."

Interesting. CA is #13 lowest in State & Local taxes at 9.7%. Texas is #42 at 12.5%.

Performative intimidation. Doesn't have to stick, adherents will have forgotten about it and the pundits won't bring up a fail.

Well played!

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Good luck! Before I started Oz I was losing a couple of pounds a month, largely by limiting fast food. People who saw me once a year mentioned the loss. I was happy enough with it, but had a lot more to go.

Oz changed that. People who see me every month are noticing a change each time.

I'm melting.

Perhaps. It's multi-causal and multi-generational. But one could say that it feeds into the problem.

I've noticed that on the occasional article. Eventually I found that a link is also in the title. In this case, the "bbc.com" linked directly to the story.

  Japan Restarts World's Largest Nuclear Plant as Fukushima Memories Loom Large (bbc.com) 42

I think that is there in the browser version, but you must be in the correct mode to see the button that leads you to the correct setting. Having said that, I too have had to reset settings on occasion. Once a month or so.

When on YT looking into cruises to Alaska, one video reminded me that most of the time teh auroras aren't that interesting, so when I clicked to the livestream I wasn't expecting much but was amazed by all the action. I'll see about booking a cruise during the next scheduled G4 event.

I find XKCD's graphs to be informative and easy to parse, and this one gives a good representation of the reality of observing auroras.

OT: My favorite, where he illustrates how companies would make a fortune if crazy phenomena were real, such as curses and hexes being monetized to support the military. https://xkcd.com/808/