Alternatively: President says it may never be known who is at fault for presidentially authorized strike on war crime target.

Be you: a black woman who has fought her way to upper management, but still not taken seriously and forced to live under a glass ceiling.

You know you are under paid from your colleagues, and had to work twice as hard to get there. You know things are going down.

Now is your chance to get that bag and cash out of a system that has continually oppressed you and fucked you over at every turn.

Do you sail the sinking ship and take the golden parachute? Or do you ride the sinking ship and drown with the third class passengers?

Just to continue on this:

I’m guessing his writing team was involved with his death somehow?

Also, I’m curious if they just recycled the crash sequence from the other prominent private plane crashes.

It sounds like his plane didn’t like its own launcher and crashed out.

I bet the plane didn’t have its day zero updates and that’s why it crashed.

If you would like to know how this story continues, that will be 34.99 for the next chapter DLC. -just kidding, we will only let you pre-order it then never actually develop it past the beta.

That an unsatisfying end to his story. Also, ‘rich man dies in private plane crash’, so original. This sounds like a Paradox writing version of Stranger Than Fiction.

400??? Holy fuck. Are you running the AC with the windows open? Or is your house 5000 sq ft? You need an energy consultant more than anything. How much insulation do you have? And no, a paper towel stapled into a wall doesn’t count. I’m also taking a wild guess that your windows are single pane from the 60’s and don’t close all the way?

Read the article. The company wasn’t the one to discover it. They bought it for pennies then put in minimal research to further develop it, but only based on the research of another doctor who wasn’t with the company. Then they put in another round of research to develop it once more only to cheat the patent law, not to improve the drug efficacy. In the end they spent far less than the normal amount to develop what normally justifies the cost. Then, the price hikes were independent of development pushes and were tied only to quarterly profit demands.

For the other movies, while they dont meet Hollywood standards of success, they still succeeded. If you spend $60 mil employing people for 2 or 3 years, and are doing what you love, and it pays you back $60 mil to do it again, that’s success. Even with the flip in there, the others covered it. As long as they break even, it bankrolls the next movie.

While vanilla ice and kid rock have attached themselves to MAGA, several other artists were mislead on the ‘America 250’ banner for the actual ‘Freedom 250’ group. There is another fun rabbit hole of corruption and money laundering to look into if you have not yet been informed…

LegalEagle on youtube has already talked about this. There is already a law I place that covers this exact scenario, and with punishments and fines already in place. It’s 1,000$ per incident to the victim and up to 180 days jail for the offender. Keep in mind, the law was written to protect the IRS and fuck over the peons who would be glad to receive 1k$ and don’t really have anything to hide.

This is a simpsons reference.

They thought there was an alien in the forest. Turns out it was Mr. Burns who did his medical treatments (quoted above) and he would be high as a kite wondering through the forest at night and the glow is from working at the nuclear plant for so long.

I like how you throw in ‘even the Americans’ with the spying groups. We definitely spy in all our allies. And in return we encourage our allies to spy on us. It is a very calculated political game where we (all the allied countries) pass legislation and safeguards in our respective home countries and declare our citizens free of authoritarian government surveillance, but then work with the other countries spy agencies to do it for us. We intentionally put in the backdoors in our peoples networks and hand the keys to our partners just so we can say ‘well I wasn’t spying on you. That would be illegal!’ But in the end it is effectively the same. If the allied government finds anything of interest they just send a notification over. We each have boundaries that we respect in spying on each other’s people too. It is almost a formallity by this point.

I missed you by 1 min. Read my addition to the other comment.

Good easy explanation. No disagreements here. Just going to tack on:

We also don’t know what consciousness is or how it happens. The drugs used to put you under (the general anesthesia) work under one of two paths. Block sensory information from being written to memory, or block the process of writing the memory. Some drugs do it one way, some drugs the other, some do a little of both. We know both methods are true, and both put people under.

This leads to one major theory, that your brain needs memory to have consciousness. We also have the theory (from observing this exact question) that it is easier for your brain to write to short term memory than long term. Now there is the issue, if the general anesthesia wears off or goes below threshold needed to write to short term, then the person is awake and starts to act funny due to impaired sensory information (think of all the funny anesthesia YouTube out there) but the person isn’t writing the memory to long term memory because there is still just enough in the system to block it. Which is why they can’t ever remember the funny things they said or did.

Now combined this with the paralytic from the above comment. If you start to cross the threshold of short term memory coming back online, and this is a major signal to the anesthesiologist to increase the dosage. But you have a paralytic, so they don’t know you are coming out of it. Then you drop below the threshold for long term memory and now the person truly has “woken up” back to consciousness and rightfully complain of the terrifying experience.

Ah yes, the 4X buisness strategy. Building an empire through four core pillars:

eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate

Lots of research has been done on this. But I would highly recommend watching the YouTube video that was posted by the top commenter instead of trying to dig through what’s out there.

Kind-of. If you open the first document attached to the page it is the “order” , essentially the “ruling”.

Page 4 really outlines the crux of it all:

“Granting or denying a temporary injunction is a discretionary act arising from a court’s equitable powers.” May v. R.A. Yancey Lumber Corp., 297 Va. 1, 18 (2019). It is an “extraordinary remedy” dependent on the “nature and circumstances” of an individual case. Levisa Coal Co. v. Consolidation Coal Co., 276 Va. 44, 60 (2008). As a threshold requirement, a court may issue a preliminary injunction only if it first determines that the movant will more likely than not suffer irreparable harm without the preliminary injunction. Cartograf USA, Inc. v. Comerica Bank, 85 Va. App. 1, 19 (2025). If that irreparable-harm threshold is met, the court must then determine whether three additional factors support issuance of the injunction: (1) the movant has asserted a legally viable claim based on credible facts that will more likely than not succeed on the merits; (2) the balance of hardships favors granting the preliminary injunction; and (3) the public interest, if any, supports issuance of a preliminary injunction. Id. Separately, Virginia law provides that no temporary injunction shall be awarded unless the court is satisfied of the plaintiff’s equity. Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-628.

So basically step one is they have to show “irreparable-harm”, and judge agreed that they do, therefore, go to step two, check these three specific things per each argument.

The Republicans had four key arguments:

First, plaintiffs claim the creation of the 2026 maps was unlawful because the legislature lacked the authority to engage in redistricting prior to the enactment of the amendment. (Plaintiffs’ Memorandum in Opposition at 6-8). Second, Plaintiffs allege the creation of the 2026 maps exceeds the legislature’s limited authority under the amendment to “modify” districts. (Id. at 8). Third, they argue that the amendment, as passed, continues to require compactness. (Id. at 8-18). Finally, Plaintiffs claim that the resulting districts fail to comply with that compactness requirement. (Id.).

I will save pasting the other giant paragraphs that went into it, but basically they get told “no.” On all 4 claims. The maps were made legally, they followed the state constitution, and they were drawn with the correct restrictions.

The Republicans also tried to argue that the compactness was part of the state constitution 2020 amendment, even though there was specifically a section on mid-decade redistricting that threw out most all rules in this exact scenario. The amendment was written the the word “except” in it, and they were arguing the except applied to the words before it, not after. The court said that is absolutely absurd and not how words work.

In the end, the judge said:

Many a tradition and law has been laid down in the advancement of a national quest for political power, and the winds that will blow cannot yet be known. Nonetheless, this Court knows its role is clear. It is not to assess the wisdom of public policy nor to engage in policy making from the bench. Instead, it is to decide if those with whom we have entrusted power have exercised that power in conformance with their constitutional mandate. On this question, the Court’s answer is in the affirmative. For these reasons, the Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction is DENIED. It is so ORDERED.

Saying, it is his job to rule on following law, not make policy through rulings, and the democrats followed the law.

So now, the Republicans can appeal it higher (not enough time to matter), or they need to refile with different reasons (but they already threw all the spaghetti at the wall and nothing stuck).

I always just remember ‘an affect is not a thing’ as in, effect is a thing (noun) and affect is a noun. Then I just avoid the second one, the effect verb form.

I have a clinical doctorate and can make about 110k. I have also chosen to work on a PhD for research in my field. When i finish at the end of the year, my additional doctorate and an entry research job should bring my earning potential to… 110k. Or I can do a post-doc and earn 65k. I can also go into industry and make about 170k. I did my clinical fellowship at NIH and saw the research first hand and know how needed amd impactful it is. Science in this country was already getting strained, under trump it has become a joke.

The really crazy part is when you look at it as a percentage of the budget and compare it to pre war levels. It isn’t what you think. In 2000 the budget was $304 billion, a total of 16.7% of the federal budget. Then 2 wars later of ballooning costs and it grew all the way up to $962 billion (the 2025 approved budget. Not counting the random $500 billion he is trying to add in). But this is now only 13.7% of thr total budget. Somehow the percentage has gone down.

Now, if you know numbers you should know that percentages get messy and are misleading to look at. The real question is what the fuck is going on with the giant ballooning budget that has gotten spending so out of control that this monstrous defense spending is now somehow a lower percentage than pre-war spending??? And the real kicker is that we are ballooning on spending, but none of it is going to actually helping the people paying the taxes! None of it is helping built up infrastructure, invest in education, build communities -nothing that helps build this country.

Trump is blowing through money and we doing even get anything out of it.

The HPV virus is also slowely being implicated in causing some throat, neck, and tonsillar cancers in men. The vaccine in men helps prevent those too. It is argued that everyone should get it, and the younger the better (younger as in around 14, not 20’s or 30’s).