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The entirety of Indian Removal (aka the Trail of Tears) was ruled to be illegal by the Supreme Court, but it still happened anyway.

80,000 non-alien US citizens of Japanese descent were sent to concentration camps for years, under this exact same Alien Enemies Act. This was also illegal (Ex Parte Endo).

Somehow, "American Democracy" and "Constitutional rights" are deemed to have survived those incidents.

The two words by themselves are not very good English, or any slang idiom I know about.

I agree this sounds threatening, however.

Violates CERT C ENV33-C.

For any non citizen, non LPR (green card), the border official at the desk holds the final authority on whether to admit. This is true with a visa or without one. US visas (not green cards) can be effectively cancelled at the border with no notice.

All visitors to the US, visa or no, must overcome a presumption of immigrant intent at the border interview each time they visit.

Unfortunately, the whole story seems to be legal. I would recommending thru hiking in some less shit hole countries.

F35 is a major maintenance time sink. Something on the order of 10 mechanic-hours of maintenance for every flight hour. I've heard it costs something like 12k USD in maintenance just to start the engine and bring it to low idle.

I suspect it would take a lot less than six months to ground a fleet when the spare parts get cut off.

Also beans. Can we bring back the beans, you know, for the newbies?

In addition to the other reasons already stated, Canada doesn't have the capacity to store up the power and sell it back later when things turn around.

So if they did just pull the plug, they would also have to stop generating the power, and Canada would lose our on that revenue.

Hahahaha, "The King makes his own decisions..."

In their constitutional system, I'm not believing that for a hot second.

The worst is when one of the two questions is an open problem.

In reality, there are all sorts of unique requirements to be an air traffic controller, but I don't think "college degree" is one of them.

These Vital Farms eggs come with an insert with a QR code that allegedly shows you pictures of the specific farm your eggs came from. I've never bothered to look it up though.

Guy looks kinda like he's wearing a jacket with a gap at the waist. That would totally not work. You can't have a gap that lets air out. The Apollo suits were one piece designs; two piece with a hard shell locking waist ring came later.

We're talking nowadays about compression suits that are only inflated around the head and maybe some upper body. Those would help a lot with mobility, but nothing like that has been deployed yet.

It's not just lawmakers. There's a bunch of lawsuits trying to use the federal courts to figure out:

• What is DOGE in the federal government?
• What is the nature of the "DOGE Temporary Organisation?"
• Who is in charge of DOGE? (Definitely not Musk, officially...)
• Why can DOGE make all these consequential personnel decisions up and down the federal government?

These are all things that have been shrouded in secrecy, obfuscation, and contradiction. Because the truth is that the real answers are not legally sound. The fact that these people are scared to say the real truth is a good sign, because it means they still have some fear of the courts and institutions. Those institutions still have some power to mess up the plan.

DC city government is fairly directly controlled by Congress. There's not much of a firewall there. So I'm not really surprised.

Do these need a bare majority to pass?

not fit to have a job.

I thought they were mainly firing everyone new enough to still be on the standard probationary period.

Even if you never plan to return, you are still (legally) on the hook to file a 1040-NR form with the IRS every year.

There's a foreign earned income tax credit: this reduces your US tax bill by any income tax you paid to your residence country. For many expat working stiffs, this means they don't have to pay anything to Uncle Sam, but they still have to file a tax return.

This type of control is known in industry as "bang-bang control." Among other factors, it doesn't help that the delay time between twirling the control and feeling the temperature change is often tens of seconds.

With social security, the pool of investors is the entire country's population. This large size and government backing stabilises it. But the financials still rely on continuous population growth, forever, to work well.

The key financial metric in social security is the ratio of pay-ins to pay-outs. For example, it could be 5 paying employees for every retiree. The social security scheme has some minimum, critical ratio that is needed to maintain the tax rates and benefit levels. And if that minimum is, say, 5:1 workers to older retirees, that implies a population in a state of exponential demographic growth.

Right now, the US is propping up its lack of organic demographic growth with immigration, and accumulated trust fund savings from an earlier era. Japan had massive problems with its social security when its population stagnated.

Notice, however, that the government of Japan did not just implode like a securities fraud. This is because governments are fundamentally not like private sector criminals running Ponzi schemes.

So, the "Hurricane Hunters" are primarily associated with the Air Force Reserve 53rd weather reconnaissance squadron. This gentleman is not one of those. It's a moderately misleading headline.