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Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

I've said it before, I'll say it again. I wish I believed in hell so I could believe that everyone involved in the one-ply toilet paper supply chain would experience sandpaper on their butthole for eternity. It should not exist. If you buy it or produce it, you are a terrible person.

I haven't actually read the proposed amendment and obviously I don't trust anything that came from MTG, but since AOC herself said it'd cut defense support I'll accept that as true unless shown otherwise. If the amendment was only that then the broken clock just happened to be right that time.

It sounds like "stop funding their defenses" did exist and while that's not as good as "stop all funding" it's still something.

Their defense systems are what they hide behind while being bullies, every dollar we give them for that is a dollar of their own they can put towards offense.

I love roundabouts. Not only are they effective for both safety and traffic calming, they get bad drivers to self-identify. Just post about putting one in anywhere in America and watch the worst drivers in the area start tripping over each other to complain about how "hard to understand" they are.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

It doesn't surprise me, the venn diagram of "people who are willing to pay Elon Musk hundreds of dollars a month in 2025" and "people who get annoyed at the fact that other languages exist" has a LOT of overlap.

When I was younger my family had a house with a "geothermal" system, which I've since learned is just a ground-source heat pump, and it was always presented to us as a weird and unique system most techs didn't know how to work on. My dad always said it was absurdly cheap to run though.

You are absolutely right, an air conditioner is just a one-way heat pump and the difference as far as I'm aware is little more than a reversing valve and a bit of extra control logic.

Since I learned this I've found it incredibly frustrating that they're not the universal standard.

Split systems aren't super common here, though they are definitely gaining popularity, and most nicer ones are reversible but there are a bunch of cheaper ones that aren't.

Central systems are almost exclusively cool-only.

That's right, they are a rare thing for really stupid reasons. Even many electric cars either don't offer heat pumps or only have them on certain models.

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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

Skateboarder walking across the road being pummeled by smoke bombs by ICE

Heroes carry skateboards. Assholes wear masks and toss bombs at American citizens.

As a general rule I would say that for divided highways the answer is raise the limit, where obviously roads with houses and driveways and such you change the road to reduce speeds.

Germany provides a strong case that certain types of divided controlled access highway do not need speed limits.

If the majority of traffic on a road is violating the speed limit, that means the road as it exists does not match the posted speed limit, and either the limit should be raised or the road should be changed with traffic calming measures to reduce the natural speed people drive on it.

I would argue that in fact enforcement tends to be the strictest on the roads with the least reasonable posted limits, because obviously those will be the ones where the majority of traffic is violating the unreasonable limit.

This comment implies that every speed limit is in fact reasonable and correct for the road as built. That is absolutely not true. I am 100% in favor of strict enforcement of reasonable speed limits, but there are many roads in the US that have incredibly unreasonable speed limits.

RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

This has always been the GOP's strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.

2) Explode the deficit.

3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.

4) Repeat.

They're trying to get away with it again.

A standard shot is 1.5oz, a standard can of beer is 12oz, that is slightly over a 12 pack of beer at a rate of a can every four minutes. I think the sheer volume of liquid over 50 minutes would be harder to handle than the alcohol with most beers. Well over a gallon. (~4.4L for the sane world)

I can not put in to words how terrible Quickbooks is, not just as a piece of software but also their support. I absolutely despise when one of my clients calls me having a problem with it, as I know it's going to be a headache.

Xpeng is fine IMO, but as you even make a point of in the article their model naming is either intentionally confusing or unintentionally idiotic. If P7 and P7+ are two entirely different vehicles aimed at entirely different customers that's a problem regardless of region.

I will say that I have not experienced a lot of stop-start systems, but my limited experience draws a very sharp line based on the type of starter. Start stop with a 12 volt starter does kind of suck. With a 48 volt or high voltage starter as in most hybrid or phev implementations, it's great.

One has to always temper expectations though because the inherent nature of the job means the person has to be prone to magical thinking, believe in obvious bullshit, and not have problems with one of the most patriarchal power structures to ever exist.

Can any UI programmers give me reason why focus-stealing should be a thing? I have yet to see it be a good thing, where it's regularly an annoyance.

Note that I'm not against focus *passing* where app1 intentionally gives focus to app2, just when app2 steals focus from what I'm interacting with.

Counterpoint: A two-door hatchback is equally practical for me to drive solo or with a single passenger but I'm less likely to be chosen to drive for a group trip.

Only real downside would be long doors in tight parking spaces.

Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives Firm will later add “curated drive compatibility” lists after testing.

This officially puts @synologyofficial.bsky.social on my "never buy" list and I will be sure to make anyone who asks about NASes aware of it: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...