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Concede to the surly lawdawgs on ownership, but you cannot shoot or otherwise bring down drones.

No, you cannot. Drones are considered aircraft and shooting at them or trying to use electronic countermeasures or otherwise interfere with flight is illegal under federal law. You can’t own airspace.

Yeah what’s @hobbes2702. Usyk is in the size range of fighters from the golden age of heavyweights. He’s fighting and beating massive, athletic super-heavyweights. Joshua and Dubois are not scrubs and Fury is a fantastic fighter. At cruiser-weight the convo is Holyfield and Usyk and no one else. At heavyweight you have to leave him in the conversation around boxers like Holyfield at the heavyweight rank. The dude has incredible ring IQ, good power, footwork, and one of the best gas tanks ever on a heavyweight. No real gaps in his game. The one knock is that he doesn’t have a long record at heavyweight, but instead of fighting cans he was beating up excellent cruiseweights who would have been heavyweights in prior generations. He could compete in any generation.

Usyk is such a great fighter. He is in the convo as an all-time great. He should think about retiring, there’s no one left for him to beat.

A reminder that Roman emperors did not call themselves that (at least as we understand the word) and that they were persnickety about maintaining the trappings of republican rule. They accumulated sets of existing and newly created offices, titles, and honorific and cobbled together the structure of imperial rule with the assent of the Senate.

It didn’t even get close to 218. They blew up a bill they negotiated with Dems, then negotiated a new one with themselves, and blew that one up too. Whatever. Expected.

All about the Constitution till we get to . . . Article I.

Begging people not to overthink this, Elon repeats everything that’s helpful to Russia and he has huge business interests in the PRC. He’s not that dumb.

Everything the Founders did was illegal till it wasn’t. There will always be an excuse.

Fair enough I went to an office Christmas party and am a few in.

And what I am saying is the overarching principals are more important than the subordinate ones. Here is what principals look like in March 2024: ”It is clear to me that our constitutional system rests upon the right for the fee press to speak freely about former chief executives and candidates for the highest office in the United States. That right far outweighs the personal interests of any candidate or former occupant of said office. Accordingly I am dismissing this lawsuit on First Amendment grounds and higher courts may overrule me on their conscience.” The jet has been hijacked, dawg. We don’t need to give them a chance to comply with ATC.

Elon is a tool of America’s foreign adversaries.

I really like @TwiceHorn but this piece is exhausting. The simple fact is that a POTUS or POTUS elect should never sue a media outlet. The awesome power of the executive should exclude this type of stuff, if not on the pure legal side, then the principal side. No U.S. citizen should ever have to stare down POTUS or POTUS elect in a court of law because of something they said. The republic is dead and the courts played their role.

One of the stupidest things America has done to itself is to make aspiring doctors get a first degree in something not medicine before allowing them to study medicine. Especially as student debt costs became crushing, it’s an absolutely insane practice that led to all sorts of toxic follow on effects, not least the understandable battle to keep compensation high because of the tremendous sunk costs. And of course the end result of this is getting overwhelmed with people who got subsidized education in their home countries coming in and exerting that downward pressure anyway. In most places doctor is a fairly ordinary job. Every state legislature in every state should tell their public medical schools “you’ve got three years to work with your university to figure out how to get a bright 18 year old to ‘MD’ in 5-6 years, consult with your colleagues in Europe and figure it out.”

That’s a tell it’s not an English as first language account, a European would write 1.35 as 1,350. They use commas where we use decimals and vice versa. That plus a link to telegram? Likely Russian account.

Enrollees in FlyX will glide through security as Neualink seamlessly screens out anyone with malign intentions. Once you are boarded and in your seat, you will be placed into Flight Mode for your safety and comfort. Enjoy scrolling X’s top accounts or your favorite podacsters like Joe Rogan, Lex Friedman, and Joe Rogan, all without any need for inflight WiFi through Neuralink technology, which will also override your need to use the bathroom or feel cramped for the duration of your flight. Premium FlyX enrollees may choose to disable X scrolling or Joe Rogan and elect to enjoy GrokSleep. Say farewell to intrusive government security theatre.

Not a lot of mystery drone sightings the last few days because it’s too cloudy on the east coast to see airplanes.

Yeah, that’s near the Cleveland Park metro and is also really nice in NW, just a bit more of ride on Red Line to get to the mall and stuff.

I’d do DuPont or Adams Morgan. The mall area is fine but just not that fun after the buildings and museums close.

It depends on what you want to do. Downtown DC is pretty sterile and most of the hotels around the mall are for lobbyists on per diem. If I were getting an AirBnb and didn’t want to spent all my time on the mall I would do something near DuPont or Adams Morgan and metro to the Mall from DuPont or U Street. If you want to go upscale Georgetown is quaint but you’ll have to take a bus or Uber elsewhere as there isn’t good metro access. If you don’t want super hip nightlife and feel like saving some cash, look for places around Clarendon, Ballston, Courthouse, Virginia Square with metro access and stay in NOVA. Good mix of bars and nice restaurants that are for DINKS and singles who don’t want the edge of DC. It’s not cool but it’s fine. DC is divided into quadrants. It ain’t the DC of the 1990s but some places remain super sketchy. In general, addresses that end in NW are fine, SW has gotten mostly better especially around Navy Yard but you should check, and NE or SE are not no-go zones but do some good checking before booking, and your locale may not be contiguous with places you want to be.

Google Translate needs to add a “federal government official or spokesperson” button so that people can know when they’re being told that they’re being really stupid.

It should be strongly considered when the NSC and DHS Secretary say that’s what’s going on.

I love how the option of “it’s a combination of legal and normal drone flights and many more misidentified aircraft” isn’t even considered.