Supposedly included a stockpile of iskandr missiles ….

Hypersonic missiles are very difficult to shoot down, so ideally you want to get them much earlier, toward launch. In this case even earlier, while in a warehouse before launch

And somehow when my ex asked for help, I’ve spent weekends at her house carrying heavy stuff, assembling furniture and fixing stuff. Crap, I need to set boundaries, don’t I?

He’s not a freeloader because he pays his fair share of taxes…. Wait a minute

He’s not a freeloader because he takes on the risks of a job creator, including any financial losses…. Crap, nope

He’s not a freeloader because when he contracts put work he pays on time what was agreed …… can you see the pattern?

It’s misspelled slang

• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pwn

“Trump pwns the libs” == “ Trump defeats the liberals”

Conservative/Reactionaries love anything to beat the liberals who are trying to bring change

It’s difficult for at least half of us to understand as well, but the only answer is repressed anger, desperation, fear of change. People are unhappy and Trump gives them an outlet with his rants, identifies scapegoats to hate, attacks changes they are afraid of. Even his open flouting of the law attracts those who feel stifled by overbearing laws.

Let’s take the Department of Education as an example. Here, education is mostly at the state and local level. The federal department of education doesn’t have much say, but they can give money with strings attached. In the last few decades, those strings included requirements for the disabled, racial and gender equity in school sports, separation of church and state (like our Constitution requires), programs to uplift the impoverished or poorly served, as well as programs to identify and remediate failing schools. For example my town just built a new high school: some of the reasons for the insane cost are federal requirements because they paid for most of it. People may not be comfortable with all these changes imposed by the federal government, despite the funding that comes with it and regardless of the overall good. Demagogues like Trump can stoke outrage based on outsiders telling people what to do.

Now it’s a core Republican plank to shut down the Department of Education, so state and local governments can run Education their way. I don’t believe they even think about what they’d lose, who they’d lose it for, or how much worse off they’d be., just “stop telling us what to do”

It all starts with a dating app - find the person of your dreams, build a life together, have children, help them grow up, then …… you have a house full of people with phones who can find your phone!

But more seriously: assuming Apple, I can find my phone from my iPad and from my Watch. I do also have the family set up as an iCloud family so that is easy as well. I expect any Siri device as well

I couldn’t find the oldest building overall, but the oldest surviving house was built in 1716. While my city was settled earlier, it was essentially a “boom town” of the early Industrial Revolution in the US

Ftfy:

This has absolute bearing on whether devices can be enshittified in the same way plaguing too many current home automation devices

This literally changes nothing except creating a standard path and manner to enable cloud dependencies and tracking from unscrupulous venders

For me, it was cool seeing the RCS indicator, but I didn’t see any functional changes. Texting with someone on Android is the same as it was with SMS

You’re right. The article I read had listed typical uses as EVs and personal mobility without saying anything about their size. Looking up actual pager batteries. I do see similar dimensions and similar weight, so it’s plausible they would explode similarly

If they have a concept of danger, it’s enough to blast away

They “became aware of a knife in his pocket”. That’s why there was no light reflecting

You’re linking to an EV battery on the idea that a pager would use it?

Look, I’m just quoting Wikipedia. It seems like you have an argument with them.

Your quote is followed with

According to The New York Times, “Big legislation largely eludes Mr. Sanders because his ideas are usually far to the left of the majority of the Senate … Mr. Sanders has largely found ways to press his agenda through appending small provisions to the larger bills of others.”[146] […] Nevertheless, he has sponsored over 500 amendments to bills,[148] many of which became law.

Man, I used to think I was so handy, doing household, appliance, and car repairs, etc ……

It’s been a while since I needed to do anything, and now I have this cursed ikea furniture. Somehow it took three weekends to put a bed together, and it’s not even done since I broke another part. I’ve never before broken ikea furniture on assembly and have never needed support or replacement parts, yet this effing bed has needed replacements twice.

I don’t know if my hands are cursed and I’ll never again be handy, or if it’s ikea

I’m quoting Wikipedia, and that Wikipedia entry has such a list

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders

What benefit does striking some random target hundreds of miles within Russia accomplish

They’re not random but attempts to make more strategic difference, and to expand the war beyond just the front

• how can Russian artillery keep shelling if their supplies are blown up, and the supplies for those? And how responsive can they be at re-supply if new supplies have to come from hundreds of miles?
• how can Russia keep feeding the meat grinder if fresh troops need to fight their way to the front, lose their supplies, and take losses even before they get there?
• how can Russian commanders work if they’re dead? And their commanders are dead? And someone is trying to make battle decisions from hundreds of miles away?

Think of the Russian Black Sea fleet. The surviving ships are so far away that they’re not making any contribution to the war. Now, imagine making the Russian Air Force ineffective, Russian Command ineffective, and the supply situation ever worse

More importantly, no more creepy comments about Ivanka. Now we know why: Ivanka is too old for Trump

Let me quote just one line from the Wikipedia entry

Sanders is credited with influencing a leftward shift in the Democratic Party after his 2016 presidential campaign

You can also look at his legislative history to see that he’s been pretty successful pulling progressive Democrats along, regardless of not changing the electoral system or getting nominated

Sorry for awakening an old thread, but in case anyone reads it ….

I just read some articles (sorry, no link) that puts some numbers on this. It claimed:

• typical American gets 70% of their sodium intake from restaurant meals
• typical American gets 11% of their sodium from adding salt
• US RDA of potassium is about 10 bananas, so almost no one gets it
• somehow I thought Chipotle had less sodium than other fast food, but one burrito is over the recommended limit of sodium

So by far the best way to reduce sodium is to eat out less frequently. Reducing or substituting salt won’t make much difference, especially for those of us who don’t typically add salt

Potassium appears to counteract sodium’s bad effects, but it’s difficult to get enough. Eating bananas or avocados won’t do it. Salt substitutes won’t do it

There were also warnings that

• too much potassium in salt substitute leaves a metallic taste
• potassium can conflict with some high blood pressure medication