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Of all the silly trends this one sounds very benign. They aren't hurting anyone. No one is bullied. They don't sound particularly loud or distracting to others not interested.

Coin boys, keep doing your thing. Even if I'm not into it, be the most awesome Coin boy you can today.

I depends. How much of a bribe are you willing to pay to trump's personal bank accounts?

"Fool of a Took!"

was detained Friday at Harry Reid International Airport but was allowed to leave the country without a deportation order

Was he already at the airport leaving the country before being detained and asked to leave the country? This feels like just trying to pump up reporting numbers.

Its an odd time right now for residential solar in the USA right now.

On the down sides:

• Tariffs are hitting equipment manufacturers for certain components coming from outside the USA
• Interest rates are moderately high for customers having to borrow to make the purchase
• Large solar install companies continue to fall. Sunnova is the most recent to announce bankruptcy making long term installer warranties risky
• On the battery front, Tesla is one of the best/cheapest solar battery solution makers, and they are politically toxic right now

On the upside:

• The 30% tax credits are still in place at least until the end of 2025
• Electricity rates have continued to increase, meaning solar would be more beneficial

If you can pay cash and you own your own home, going solar is most likely going to be beneficial for you. If you have to borrow or have heavy tree cover on your property it becomes more questionable. I have been very happy I put panels on my house and am benefiting from it.

I don't have a recommendation for you, but if you exhaust your leads there is a large comparrison table with all kinds (and ages) of remote access solutions that you could search against for your criteria (open source, supported, etc) here:

Comparison of remote desktop software on wikipedia

The Pontiac Aztec was a flop vehicle. However comparing historical sales numbers side by side with present day Cybertruck sales, it looks like Aztec sold more for the same amount of time.

Aztec lifetime sales:

source

UK's NHS and Health Canada have been my officially trusted sources of health guidance since Feb 2025.

If you lived back then, chances are you’d just straight up remember more things without needing to go look them up again. But, you might also just remember what book you found it in.

Its more the second than the first, knowing where to get info:

• Want to know the industrial products of Turkey? Almanac.
• Who said "Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world" Bartlett's Familiar Quotations book.
• Synonyms for the word "apology", thesaurus book. Basic history of the Navajo people, Encyclopedia.
• Definition (or spelling!) of "analgesic" - Merriam Webster Dictionary.
• What happened in town on March 3rd 1967 - Microfilm/microfiche at the library
• What model of refrigerator is the most reliable? - Consumer Reports magazine backissues at the library

I have wondered if this is part of the reason why ancient orators were apparently capable of reciting hours of dialog from memory.

I'd be curious for this answer too. However I think this is more of the "benefits of a classical education" which meant that teaching materials were limited, and you may find your entire class for the year is memorizing famous speeches from men that society deemed worthy.

Hmm interesting. But it means I don’t have a magical “damn it I forgot, let me google it” option.

So true! That is the benefit to today. But keep in mind, no one else would have it either.

If I lived in that time, I’d have to write every piece of knowledge I want to remember down on a notebook, so I don’t forget and have to go borrow that same book again.

Nah, it didn't really work like that. You had a handful of reference books at home for general knowledge. So when you got home you could crack open your encyclopedia or almanac to answer most basic questions. Like this one:

Here's the partial table of contents from a much later edition:

For topics/questions that exceeded this, it would be a trip to the library and potentially a conversation with a reference librarian on where to find the detailed info. If you had to order a book from another library it could take days or weeks to get your answer. This required effort is why knowledge was more prized. If you had the knowledge it was a reflection of your effort to get it. Or back in the 80s, those that were self conscious would call you a "nerd" for knowing more than they did as a defense.

Or keep a whole bookshelf of knowledge, in which case, that would be taking a lot more space than a wikipedia.zim file + .epubs

Yes, this is what many did. Yes having much more knowledge at your fingertips is much better.

Before the internet, I don’t think foreign press critical of your country’s government, especially if it’s an authoritarian country, would’ve been permitted.

You'd find this on Shortwave radio. Without going into the science of it, with a Shortwave radio, you could hear news reports from the other side of the planet. I could easily regularly turn in the BBC when I was on the other side of the Atlantic.

But I think getting a VPN is far easier than smuggling foreign books and newspapers, and word-of-mouth news is just a long telephone game.

The danger on this front is today's surveillance society. If you had managed to smuggle in books or newspapers into your home, the only way they would have been found is if law enforcement would have entered your home and searched it enough. Realistically that would be a lot of effort to try to do that on a society. Its possible, certainly, but very difficult. Today, even with your VPN, a zero-day exploit or DNS hijack could let them watch in real-time everything you're doing without even tipping you off.

I'm you from the previous generation. I lived too far away from the library to reach it on bike, but parents worked near it so they'd bring me books on their way home and returned by read ones at the same time. For me those games were written in BASIC for Commodore 64 along with rampant game piracy. Our made up pen-and-paper games were also made up but were mostly based on Cold War and Middle East scenarios.

Having lived that childhood, I can give you some insight.

“Damn, how did people even get information?”

Believe it or not, most people simply didn't. For the average low engagement person they would get news/information from the 3 or 4 TV channels available on Over-The-Air TV. Those that wanted to be informed about current events would actually plan to be in front of a TV somewhere to catch the 30 minutes of evening news (well 30 minutes national and usually 30 min local). There was some news on the radio, and possibly the largest news source was newspapers (usually only your locally published on) and monthly magazines. For most people that was it! For some they didn't read the newspaper and didn't watch/listen to the news.

However, if you wanted more news/knowledge/info, there was more to be had, but you had to actively go places and seek it out.

like I suddenly imagine myself, there, as a child, and not having access to this seemlingly unlimited access to information that I currently have

Libraries were the "unlimited access to information", and there was a lot of it. Unless it was a really small branch library, every single public library building you walked into had more books/magazines/newspapers than you could read in your entire lifetime, and there were literally hundreds of libraries available to you across the USA. Private libraries, such as colleges, would have even more. It felt like unlimited access to information at the time.

and not to mention, entertainment content.

Honestly, we were much more creative. When you'd already read the couple of new magazines you got that month, nothing on the 3 or 4 channels of TV interested you, and the 4 or 5 radio stations were playing songs on heavy rotation you already knew, you went looking to create your own entertainment. This could be playing sports, writing, art, playing games you made up with friends, trying new bicycle/skateboard tricks, etc. At least a third of people would be people that created things, making songs, building models, woodworking, fixing/upgrading cars, growing (gardening/livestock), cooking, etc.

So like, that feeling of feeling like I’m in the past (as in: I’m imagining myself being in the past), but not have access to the internet just gives me a very bad feeling.

It was actually the opposite. If you spent the time to search out information, which took skills like knowing where to look in a library, you'd be thought of as smart. Example: "How the heck did you know off the top of your head that that capital of Hungary was Budapest?!". For someone in the USA, to know they, they would have had to sought out a world map/encyclopedia/almanac, know that Hungary was a country, know that is in Europe, and know how to find the capital. Same with general knowledge on any topic such as history of the Roman Empire or US Civil War. If you had an interest, you could find the information, but it took work. People knew that, so if you could show you had the knowledge it was appreciated and came with a certain amount of respected.

You would have been just fine.

“ICE took a lot of bad people off the street that day. We arrested a sexual predator, arrested gang members, arrested somebody that had an armed robbery conviction. So we made L.A. safer, but you’re not hearing any of this,” Homan said. " All you hear is rhetoric about ICE being racist and ICE being Nazis and terrorists,..."

"Sure we may have swept up dozens and dozens of unrelated non-criminal undocumented immigrants, possibly fully legal documented immigrants, or hell even native born American citizens. That's just collateral damage. We'll sort them all out when they arrive in El Salvador. Who knows, maybe we might even let them come back to US soil. Stranger things have happened." - trump's border tsar probably

What can people comment about? No I don't.

How often? Reporting SPAM is a regular user activity.

Oh I'd love to, but then I find you spamming the same thing over in other threads too.

I normally don't block people because even if I disagree with a position they hold, I give it consideration. However, since the ONLY thing you seem to be posting is the "distraction" comments, I don't think I'm going to miss any other ideas from you.

There are two possible scenarios for who is the immigrant. Both of them make the ex-housemate look like an asshole.

The other that you're referring to would mean the housemate was complaining about OP, as OP was the immigrant that he says there is too much of. I mean its possible, but I wouldn't expect OP to then say "My ex-housemate means well for the most part".

others said it didn’t happen.

Who is it they acknowledge trump pardoned when he got into office? If it didn't happen, then there as no one to pardon. Yet trump came out and gleefully pardoned the lot of them. If it was "antifa" that did it, why did trump pardon antifa?

Keep in mind I'm not questioning you on this but them, and I know the mind of a MAGAt is finely tuned to support cognitive dissonance.

“Also, from now on, MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why???”

For station cargo flights, Cygnus is an option, but it can’t bring anything back the way Cargo Dragon can.

Sierra Space's Dreamchaser is another ISS cargo resupply option. The first one is already fully built and at Kennedy Space Center for launch this year. It doesn't use a SpaceX rocket, and it also provides return cargo just like SpaceX Dragon does.

For manned missions, the only other option would be Boeing Starliner, and I don’t think anyone else is ready to call that operational.

Starliner isn't the ONLY other option, but the other is REALLY EXPENSIVE. NASA's Orion capsule is crew rated and could also dock at the ISS.

However the only current crew rated rocket to carry it right now would be the SLS rocket which is really built for deep space/lunar missions. Using it to fly to the ISS is very possible but would be VERY wasteful as far as money goes. So you're mostly right, Starliner is the only other reasonable choice for crew flights to ISS for the USA.