LilB0kChoy @ LilB0kChoy @midwest.social

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The US Supreme Court can't currently do what you say without a law change at the federal level.

Also, the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery (mostly) was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865 after the end of the US Civil War.

I read the article and the whole thing screams mental illness to me.

Not in the UK so this is the first time hearing about this but was there ever an assessment to that extent? Or are these two just that cold and calculating that it was all an act?

I think Americano was created by American GIs in Italy during WWI. They diluted espresso with hot water to make it more like traditional American coffee at the time.

There's also evidence of the term Cafe Americano in Central American Spanish.

Australia and New Zealand also have the long black which is like an Americano but you add the espresso over the water to maintain the crema and get a stronger flavor.

Have you tried flying a drone into any kind of protected airspace, like these places? I can engage in whataboutism too.

If you really believe it's that hard to get into a sports stadium or other high profile event you might want to read up on Dion Rich.

Or maybe think back to the recent past about Thomas Matthew Crooks.

Maybe consider how loud and conspicuous drones actually are.

Or maybe read the US Army's land warfare paper about drone attacks.

There might, maybe even likely will, come a day when drones can be used effectively in the manner proposed but it's not today.

1. It was sarcasm
2. A settlement is not a conviction
3. I actually checked before posting and found no evidence of even a settlement. If you have something that shows otherwise, please share it.
4. It was sarcasm (adding this again since you seemed to miss it)

Their probably hoping to avoid the WARN Act requirements.

Woah, woah, woah! The US believes in innocent until proven guilty. The alleged child rapist should get the benefit of the doubt. After all, does that sound like the behavior of a 34 time felon, confirmed adult rapist, insurrectionist, twice impeached, traitor like Donald J. Trump?

The combination of security theater (metal detectors) and captive sales (no outside thermoses) makes it somewhat difficult to sneak something substantial into a closed event

Lol

I can't criticize other hobbyists. I only back up locally and I use Synology Hybrid Raid to do it.

Been a long time since I set foot in a data center; are tape drives not still king for cold storage of data?

What models of Seagate drives?

I've been running x4 Seagate ST8000NC0002s 24/7 for almost 5 years, plus 2 more I added about 6 months ago and they've never given me any trouble.

To be fair, the only HDDs I've ever had that failed were two I dropped because I wasn't being careful enough.

Depending on what specifically appeals to you, you'd probably like Literary nonsense aithors or Absurdist fiction authors.

There are countermeasures and protections in place against drones too.

A suicide bomber doesn't need to escape. Inside people could plant remote detonated or timed devices between any final sweep and the start of the event.

Personally, I wouldn't put my trust in the security theater at sporting events; not in the US at least.

Christopher Moore as well! Let me go find some snippets.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don’t. Trust me, I was there. I know. The first time I saw the man who would save the world he was sitting near the central well in Nazareth with a lizard hanging out of his mouth. Just the tail end and the hind legs were visible on the outside; the head and forelegs were halfway down the hatch. He was six, like me, and his beard had not come in fully, so he didn’t look much like the pictures you’ve seen of him.

Noir

She had the kind of legs that kept her butt from resting on her shoes — a size eight dame in a size six dress and every mug in the joint was rooting for the two sizes to make a break for it as they watched her wiggle in the door and take a seat at the end of the bar. I raised an eyebrow at the South African merchant marine who’d been spinning out tales of his weird cargo at the other end of the bar while I polished a shot glass.

Fluke: or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

The whale was into a section of the song they called the “green” themes, a long series of whoops that sounded like an ambulance driving through pudding. A less trained listener might have thought that the whale was rejoicing, celebrating, shouting howdy to the world to let everyone and everything know that he was alive and feeling good, but Nate was a trained listener, perhaps the most trained listener in the world, and to his expert ears the whale was saying — Well, he had no idea what in the hell the whale was saying, did he?

Bloodsucking Fiends

Sundown painted purple across the great Pyramid while the Emperor enjoyed a steaming whiz against a dumpster in the alley below. A low fog worked its way up from the bay, snaked around columns and over concrete lions to wash against the towers where the Wests’ money was moved. The financial district: an hour ago it ran with rivers of men in gray wool and women in heels; now the streets, built on sunken ships and gold-rush garbage, were deserted quiet except for a foghorn that lowed across the bay like a lonesome cow.

How do you define "groceries"?

In Minnesota, where I live, there's no tax on raw ingredients and essential food items. That means things like fruits, vegetables, grains, pasta, bread etc.

There is, however, a tax on non-essential food items. This is things like candy, soda, prepared food etc.

The specifics of the law are here.

The biggest knock on our house is that it's a townhome but I've successfully disbanded the HOA so that's no longer an issue.

Ours is actually bigger than a lot of single family homes in the area, we're 5ish minutes from downtown St. Paul, we're on an end so only one attached neighbor, and best of all we're on a dead end sleepy little street overlooking the Mississippi.

Actually it's the view that sold us on the property.

Imagine a major league football or baseball stadium packed to capacity. Two or three suicide bombers/inside people drones, each with a relatively small explosive charge surrounded by shrapnel fly in, crash into the spectators, and detonate. You end up with a small number of immediate casualties like what happened at the Boston Marathon. But the stampede of tens of thousands of panicking people trying to rush out of the stadium will probably injure and kill many more. Have a car bomb or two strategically located a couple blocks away where you expect those crowds to run and you’ve succeeded in your terror plans quite nicely…

We should understand anything is possible but drones complicate a simpler version of that plan that has worked many times previously.

First time I've ever seen/heard transpire used in that way. I'm one of today's lucky 10,000!

As long as it's applied equally I could support this.

No Republicans roadblocking aid for blue states while promoting it for red, but also no blue states roadblocking aid to red states because "take more than they give". Those behaviors only serve to hurt the people, regardless of their politics.