Going to bat for xbox or Microsoft right now is a death sentence on the internet so by internet law I have to downvote you. Sorry, it’s just the way things go…

That said, I agree. Being able to buy a $30 plug and play pack with rechargeable battery packs or being able to buy rechargeable AAs or just normal AA batteries is the best of all the current first party options.

Why not move back to the country you emigrated from? Assuming you still hold valid citizenship there? I would love the help trying to turn this shit around, but its too dangerous for you here.

In the field. We already addressed that. Humans pick the food in 104° weather in late June/July/August when the wet bulb globe temperature is 95+

Having grown up catholic in rural Illinois, it’s just a case of mixed messaging and infiltration. Think of it like this:

You inherited a chili recipe—representing your morality and culture—from your parents. Growing up, you helped make it every week, so you know the flavors well. In your family’s version of chili, beans—symbolizing religion—were always the most important ingredient. Peppers—representing politics—were known, but they were more of a background note, never central.

Fast forward a generation, and a certain group starts promoting the idea that chili must be spicy. They want to sell their own particular kind of pepper—a harsh, punishing version of God—and they push this idea aggressively. They use people your parents trust, who already like spicier chili, to reinforce the message.

Suddenly, everyone around you starts loading their chili with these peppers because they’re told it’s the only way to avoid bland chili—blandness, in this case, representing hell. The fear of tasteless chili becomes a powerful motivator.

See the funny thing about the English language is that they’re almost certainly implying that he looks like a specific person that they’re pretending exists. But to me it reads like they’re using a general description of all the subjects that they’ve already detained.

I think it’s moreso that people misunderstand what you’re implying. That making them “martyrs” is a good thing to help identify more pieces of shit that rally behind their martyrdom.

Yeah, let’s just keep taking the moral high road. Eventually shitty people will just stop existing. There’s no reason to actively work on removing them. 🥴

Shit will keep flowing into a sewage treatment plant if you don’t treat the sewage. In the end you just end up with a mountain of shit to deal with and the problem is much more difficult to manage.

Can people tell me why we keep using the stupid fucking “border czar” term? I want to know who the fuck these people are and what their actual titles are. It makes reading headlines such a fucking chore. I end up having to google the context of a headline like every 4th article.

For those curious, Tom Homan’s actual title is White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations

People have trouble separating the art from the artist. I don’t blame them. It’s tough sometimes. I used to really love Kanye before he turned out to be a nazi. Watch the Throne and Graduation are fantastically produced albums with some excellent songs. Same with College Dropout.

I still listen to them when they come up in my playlists but the magic is pretty well gone. I think that he was and is mentally ill so with the right people around him he probably wouldn’t have turned into such a piece of shit, but here we are.

What really pisses me off is that their anti-cheat forces me to use dogeOS

Yeah, but that’s my slice of untouched nature to visit in the summer…there’s so little left 🥲

Chernobyl was disastrous because design flaws were not relayed to the plant engineers. It took years of roadblocked research to find out what had happened. Even the man that had helped to design the RBMK reactor did not consider a meltdown was possible because the xenon that ended up poisoning the reactor would burn off under normal circumstances.

The meltdown could have been prevented if not for the soviet government inexplicably withholding critical information about the reactor from it’s own engineers.

I’m annoyed about this whole story, the guy claims to never have sailed before and is crossing the Pacific ocean in like a 25 foot boat. The ocean isn’t forgiving. A single storm would be more than capable of capsizing his vessel in the open ocean. What he’s doing is reckless, dangerous, and inconsiderate of his close friends and family.

It really doesn’t matter when the number is that large and its the ethics of accepting such a valuable gift anyway. My main concern other than ethics is that it’s going to cost taxpayers a significant amount more to retrofit the plane with defense systems, communications, and redundancies than to just build it that way from scratch. Plus they’ll need to verify security of electrical components and systems as well. All of that will be done on our dime since it will be the Air Force performing all of that.

At the very least you can mute the tab

It’s pretty difficult to kill/do harm to a sitting US president. There’s an entire agency tasked with nothing but ensuring that their life is never physically threatened. In addition there’s probably only about 500,000 people that are physically close enough at any one time. Most people just want to live out their life to the best of their ability. Take care of their kids, spend time with family, enjoy personal activities. Successfully harming the president comes with either a death sentence or life imprisonment. No matter the circumstance. It would set an extraordinarily dangerous precedent if the assailant managed to avoid consequences.

What are you not getting about this situation? She traveled with no issue for 2 decades before this. Why would you need to travel with expungement documents in the first place. That doesn’t apply to travel at all, which is why she was released to get them. Being detained by ICE indefinitely isn’t a “that sucks…but that’s just how it goes sometimes” situation. And that’s why there’s an article about it. But if you want keep licking boots, you might just get to the center. I won’t stop you.

So leaving a town to you is equivalent to the travel it takes to leave the country?

Other than distance traveled, the time afforded to travel said distance, and providing the requisite documents needed to cross a border(which she had), yes. The article doesn’t mention how often she traveled to Ireland. Maybe she went every other year to celebrate Christmas with her family.

Especially when you say “I never equated hometown and country. I merely used it as a metaphor” I never did… but did. Your two sentences directly contradict.

No, using a metaphorical comparison does not literally equate the two things being compared. A metaphor suggests that one thing is like another in some figurative or symbolic way, not that they are literally the same.

She thought her stuff was expunged. Which clearly it wasn’t since apparently they pulled it up. If it’s still in the records somewhere…

It says in the article that she presented them with documentation of the expungement of her charges. So if she was able to provide them with documentation, it clearly took place. It shouldn’t take a law degree to figure out that having your criminal records expunged doesn’t wipe any trace of them from government databases. It only removes them from the public eye and prevents them from coming up during background checks for things like housing or employment. The government would still have a record of her prior convictions.

Was she leaving the country legally? Yes.

Was she re-entering the country legally? Yes.

Did she ever have a warrant out for her arrest during those times that she left the country? No.

That’s the bottom line. But for the sake of the argument, I never equated hometown and country. I merely used it as a metaphor to show you how travelling to her home country doesn’t qualify her as a flight risk.

Because that’s a broad generalization that’s based on the assumption that being well-traveled makes you more likely to flee the law. Her continual travel to and from her home country has no bearing on whether or not she poses a flight risk. If that were true, anyone that moves away from home and regularly travels by car to and from their hometown should be held in custody.