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"Telemon" has an even more interesting history. He was a figure in Greek mythology, and generally around people like Hercules, Odysseus, and Jason. He is the son of a king and a mountain nymph.

As you may well know (but others don't) Robert Jordan, when building the world for his Wheel of Time series, pulled from all sorts of existing myths, legends, and memories. After all, it's just another turning of the Wheel, right?

Willis: "We will absolutely comply. All evidence will be presented at trial, and become part of the public record. Representative Jordan is free to review the documents at that time."

Give it 5 - 10 years. Tesla will be a company that makes and maintains a charging station network and sells batteries to the other auto makers.

It's becoming increasingly obvious that they can't hack it in an automotive sales industry. Which is fine, frankly. I think battery manufacturing and charging network are pretty complimentary industries and provide a decent revenue stream into the future, License the charging tech to other automakers early and get some vendor lock-in going, and the company could be in it for the long haul.

They might even be able to keep making a couple EVs, to prove new charging or battery tech, much like how Google keeps making Pixel phones to essentially prove and market new Android features.

It was never said on screen.

But the actor has said that he always played Garak as if he was bi if not gay.

Ding. The SCOTUS ruling is wildly unpopular. Republicans literally just took one of their cornerstone issues -- abortion -- and said, "Nah, we're done with this," and handed it to the Democrats to use in elections for several cycles.

Part of the American Rescue Plan specifically exempts amounts forgiven through 2025 -- https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319/text

Section 9675 (a):

         `(5) Special rule for discharges in 2021 through 2025.--
     Gross income does not include any amount which (but for this 
     subsection) would be includible in gross income by reason of the 
     discharge (in whole or in part) after December 31, 2020, and 
     before January 1, 2026, of--

  

... blah blah federal college loans only. But the jist is, no, there's no "tax bomb", that's a red herring.

If you haven't yet, give Control a try. I liked it even more than AW.

When we failed to take the initial spread seriously and let the thing turn endemic, yes. Yes it will. Much like the flu.

How on Earth did the NHTSA let this shit happen?

What the actual fuck. Why would a door handle be so god damned difficult?

You know what happens when I have a lot of work to do and not enough time in the workday? I stay late. I work weekends. I drink a lot of coffee and get that shit done.

"It takes too long"? Fuck you, keep the Senate in session and do nomination after nomination until these geriatric fucks pass out.

I do this, and employ frequent and rapid blocking on social media.

Instead of engaging, dick wads get blocked without comment.

This is generally true of conservatives / GOP voters as a whole (though, of course, there are always exceptions).

When you ask them about policies without words or phrases they have been taught to react to, they almost always support .. maybe not progressive ideas, but moderately liberal ones. When asked about healthcare, for instance, they react strongly against "Obamacare" and "ACA" and now, "individual mandate". But explain what the ACA does, and how it works, and how insurance companies have to spend certain percentage of their revenue on healthcare instead of profits, and conservatives love it.

They don't get upset until they hear words or phrases the media has told them to get upset about.

It's an intentional thing, pushed by propagandists. Thinking in absolutes reduces the need for critical thinking skills as whole. When you can make people boil everything in the world down to a binary, its very easy to tell them how to think, and equally easy to define the "out" group you all hate.

To wit, when masks "work or don't work", you can look at the people telling you to wear masks, and because masks "don't work" they're wrong, and if they're wrong, then the people we aren't telling you to wear a mask are right. You should always follow people who are right... right?

Is it really a boycott if you simply can't make the payments?

Not that I mind.

Neutrality is about ISPs being content-neutral. Xfinity won't block or slow down access to Netflix, for example.

One website doing shitty things is just shitty. Twitter is not a ISP. If you don't want to sit through their setTimeout(), go to the destination directly.

Net neutrality has never been about forcing content platforms to accommodate their competitors.

A while back I actually looked into this question.

Former presidents are afforded several things by law, including a salary, a stipend for an assistant, and office space rental, and, of course, Secret Service protection for their lifetime.

However, the protection provided by the USSS is described as a duty to protect the (former) President. It doesn't describe, what that looks like, how many agents are involved, or so on. It does allocate, though, up to $1,000,000 every fiscal year to provide that protection.

Hypothetically, if Trump were convicted and the punishment included imprisonment, more likely than not, the USSS would simply arrange for the individual to be isolated from any threats inside the prison and hand custody over to the prison. This might look like a member of the USSS being stations at the prison, essentially, as a guard, supervisor, monitor, etc.

I suspect the realistic scenario would look like the individual being put in an isolated wing or some sort of maximum-security facility, and the USSS checking in on a weekly or even daily schedule, and, in exchange, the prison would be allocated some portion of that annual $1,000,000.

Unplugged in New York was one of the 3 CDs I was able to stealthily buy without my wackjob Christian parents finding out. I had to hide it in the "Jars of Clay" jewel case, and only ever listen using headphones.

The recording from that performance is, as far as I am concerned, the correct, definitive, version of the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rQRS0UYco0

What is it like being a hateful, angry person all the time?

My favorite bit of trivia on this subject is that in Perl, if you have something list-like with lots of potentially empty values where the length isn't the same as the number of things in the list, you can force list context and get a quick count by assigning to an empty list.

The end result is the unofficial "buttse" operator: =()=.