Captainant

This isn't the thread to talk the policy but I did link the law a few posts up and pointed out my specific issue is that the signed law in the books explicitly gives the teachers immunity for violating the establishment clause. That's a pretty goddamn clear statement of intent.

their CEO recently remarked that it was an "accident" that portion sizes had been getting systemically smaller. It started out as a meme that the company brushed off, but they eventually addressed on an earnings call

lulz maybe they drank all the coolant on the TU-22 Apparently most of the soviet aircraft were raided for their ethanol working fluids

Man you'd think even with using child labor they'd be able to eke out better than losing money

Surprise surprise, the workers cleaning it up are getting poisoned and NFS is working to cover it up! https://www.wfmj.com/story/51217066/hidden-report-reveals-how-workers-got-sick-while-cleaning-up-east-palestine-derailment-site The creeks around East Palestine, Ohio, were so badly contaminated by last year's disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment that some workers became sick during the cleanup. Workers who reported headaches and nausea — while shooting compressed air into the creek bed, which releases chemicals from the sediment and water — were sent back to their hotels to rest, according to a report obtained by The Associated Press about their illnesses. The findings were not released to the public last spring, despite residents' concerns about the potential health effects of exposure to the long list of chemicals that spilled and burned after the disaster. The workers' symptoms, as described in the report, are consistent with what Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers going door-to-door in town had reported shortly after the Feb. 3, 2023, derailment. Since then some residents have also reported unexplained rashes, asthma and other respiratory problems, and serious diseases including male breast cancer. Researchers are still determining how many of those health problems can be linked to the derailment and how the disaster will impact the long-term health of residents in the area near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. Many wonder whether there will be cancer clusters down the road, which of course won't be clear for years. In the meantime, residents have until Aug. 22 to decide whether to accept up to $25,000 — as part of a $600 million class action settlement with the railroad to compensate them for any future health problems. Accepting that money though means giving up the right to sue later, when the cost of health care coverage and specific treatments needed will become more clear. Norfolk Southern spokesperson Heather Garcia said none of the workers who got sick during the cleanup “reported lingering or long-term symptoms."

And it's beyond the scope of this thread, but the new Texas 3rd grade curriculum is explicitly teaching the Resurrection Story. It's so bad that the law to use the curriculum explicitly provides the educators immunity for violating the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution on the fifth page!

On the other hand, russia is not the recipients of a shitload of American bullets beans and bandages like they were back in WW2. Plus, putin doesn't have near the power that stalin did in their respective eras of control. I don't think they'd produce the same result, especially when they're not in a war of annihilation like was happening against the nazis

It really is amazing that you are continually allowed to post these nakedly racist and political actors. Just because the one thing you're posting is borderline ok, doesn't meant you're not amplifying a fucking awful person. That last dude you're posting prong LOVES to call the brown women of Congress the "Chief of staff of Hamas" and other racist slurs (click his profile and scroll down like 5 tweets). Real classy. I'm certain he's giving you a good and informed dose of poison

I bet you wouldn't feel that way if it were an elective on the Koran, or some other non Christian religious work. Point being, this is literally the state respecting one establishment of religion over another. I'm not sure how you're not more concerned about the 1A violation, considering your previous zeal for that portion of our constitution

Call me jaded, but I just don't trust this abbott directed admin to not be attempting voter suppression in some form with this move

I had the same problem - click your name then click on the "manage followed content" page, and then the very bottom under the 2019 and 2020 recruiting page links (maybe @immamac can clean that up luz) there's "members". You probably have someone followed there, that was the case for me

this is all stuff we've known through other reporting for some time. If Butch and Sunny stay up they'll be replacing two crew who've been training for a year or so for their planned mission and maintenance. It'll be a load of learning on the fly, but they're a couple of the most veteran astronauts NASA has

There's small scale open source versions that are fully 3D printable for the structure https://www.instructables.com/3D-Printed-Robot-Dog/ I'd imagine those incredibly technically proficient folks in Ukraine could do quite a lot of they wanted to

If those are anything like the Boston dynamics machines, those are really a crazy augment for a battlefield. It can run supplies or advance scout a route, and doesn't really give a shit about frag blast as long as the structure survives. The brushless motors are super durable and they're reinforced to hell, I'd bet those things make great ammo gophers Edit: just to underscore how durable these things are, one is stationed at the base of each Starship test in Boca Chica to go visually inspect things before people approach. That's CRAZY durable to take being in the blast wave of an orbital class rocket engine assembly

Bible study, coming to a public school near you! https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2024/08/13/496540/cy-fair-district-board-of-trustees-voted-unanimously-to-approve-bible-focused-elective-courses-for-2025-26-school-year/ Hope y'all like taxes paying for Sunday school! It's only gonna keep happening at a faster clip Edit: and just to be clear, this has been happening for some time as they've been purging their board and setting extremists in place. Even banning books and curriculum that are "anti Christian"

Being the commander in Chief of the armed forces, I would think he could order the Air Force to clean up their mess

Honestly, I'm surprised Biden isnt stepping in on this. But I'm sure Alito could convince Roberts that it would be illegal for Biden to do so

Reposting here for CR discussion of repercussions of Chevron getting ripped down: The Guardian: US air force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing supreme court’s Chevron ruling The US air force is refusing to comply with an order to clean drinking water it polluted in Tucson, Arizona, claiming federal regulators lack authority after the conservative-dominated US supreme court overturned the “Chevron doctrine”. Air force bases contaminated the water with toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” and other dangerous compounds. Though former US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials and legal experts who reviewed the air force’s claim say the Chevron doctrine ruling probably would not apply to the order, the military’s claim that it would represents an early indication of how polluters will wield the controversial court decision to evade responsibility. It appears the air force is essentially attempting to expand the scope of the court’s ruling to thwart regulatory orders not covered by the decision, said Deborah Ann Sivas, director of the Stanford University Environmental Law Clinic.

Its too bad all the folks who were CERTAIN firing all the engineers wouldn't have any bad effects aren't posting much on this thread anymore. Very fine people don't seem to like to read about elmos antics like they used to

An uncommon occurrence of the market actually punishing a dogshit business https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-media-truth-social-revenue-b2594507.html

IIRC they use mail-in voting along the same lines as deployed service members

"Oh don't sit in that seat. You'd rather not have your butt near what happened there." There's just too many yikes around that for me, dawg.

And we HAVE to take this bullshit seriously, otherwise we're just as bad as the fascists!![/surlylawyer]

Wild, that sounds like a proto-texturing acceleration layer for texture mapping. Giving me flashbacks to linear algebra and vector cal lol Are you gamedev for your day job or just as a passion project? You're really diving into the metal if you're rediscovering new registers! What do you develop on? A MiSTer or actual hardware?