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It gives the wealthier members leverage over the poorer ones. The more wealth you’ve accumulated the longer you can sustain an unpaid shutdown.
Real countries prevent shutdowns from happening. You could keep spending under the precious budget until the new one is agreed to, but the us is not a real country.
Mass manufacturing has replaced handcrafting in pretty much every field. Its not economically vibable to handcraft when mass produced alternatives exist.
Crochet is a craft that is not automated. You could probably build a crochet machine, but it would be incredibly complicated, expensive, and doing so would be slower than a human. Its not a viable craft to automate.
There’s a reason you don’t see crochet clothes in stores. It takes dozens if not hundreds of hours to make a crochet garment. No one would spend thousands to pay me to handcraft a shirt over several weeks when they can buy a mass produced shirt for a fraction of the price at a store.
Hand crafting is great, as a hobby, or an act of love. Its a terrible idea as a profession outside of very niche cases. Few can afford to spend 10-100 times more for something that is hand crafted when similar alternatives exist.
2008+18=2026.
2008 is chosen so that effective immediately, no one new will be allowed to smoke, but those who were previously allowed to smoke can continue.
Making the date 2026 means it takes 18 years to go into effect. There isn’t a good reason to wait.
The alternative would be banning smoking outright, which would be coercive to those who are addicted to something that was legal when they started. This policy is a timely but fair way to outlaw something.
Props are low volume specialty products for professionals. Airsoft guns are high volume toys for the mass market.
A theater or film production company can afford expensive quality props, because they are an organization with an orginizarion sized budget. Airsoft guns have to be cost cut and mass produced to a low price point because they sell to normal people with human scale budgets.
Also the brown furniture on the NCR service rifle is wood. Be authentic, learn carpentry.
Tech grifters latch on to the newest and most prominent buzzword. That is AI now. Most people still talking about blockchain in 2026 actually know things about it.
Iran is on one side of the strait, Oman is on the other. Giving Iran sovereignty would mean taking away sovereignty from Oman. Countries are supposed to be able to control their own coastlines and territorial waters.
The strait is narrow enough that there is no buffer of international waters in the middle at its narrowest. Giving one country sovereignty of the whole strait would mean violating the the sovereignty of another. Not a fair proposition.
The white house refused because republicans are not paying the tsa by choice and intent. The republicans have multiple times voted down funding for the tsa alone. They want the tsa to be unfunded.
He is the kind of narcissist wants to be seen as helping people in very visible ways. He swoops in when something is big in the news in because that makes you pay attention to him. He doesn’t go where help is most needed, but where its most visible.
Like that time there were kids stuck in a cave. International news, so he very loudly told everyone he was using all his resources to solve it. Pay attention to me I’m doing good!!!
And because its narcissism, next step is rage.
The sun is white, but the atmosphere reflects and scatters blue, allowing red and yellow to pass through. You see this effect in mornings and evenings when the sun’s light passes a much further distance in the atmosphere due to its low inclination. Your logic is sound, the clouds do appear orange at that time.
The only time you can safely look at the sun enough to determine its color normally is a sunset when it is tinted orange. I can see how he might have come to this conclusion but… wow…
1 cosponsor. Ok sure. This bill goes nowhere, like the rest of them.
Any outlet that covers legislation at the point of introduction is just trying to scare you. Well over 90% of bills never even leave the committee stage. Without signs of support from others in congress, an introduced bill has less weight than a press release.
If you see the words “introduces bill” in a headline just ignore it the article is trash, solely intended to mislead.
All bees are female, except the drones which are only grown when needed.
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did you read what I wrote?
I was in a jury recently, and they were clear in the instructions that we were to make decisions on the basis of the law as it is, not one what we think it should be. Some of the questions during jury selected were specifically tailored to identifying those who might consider nullification.
Juries still exist in civil cases. They are there to make findings of fact, just like a criminal case. Bench trials are those without a material dispute of the facts.
Nullification is a side effect, a consequence of the process. Nullification is not the primary reason for a jury.
Juries exist to determine facts, and check the work of the prosecutor to make sure they proved the case to the standards required by law. They are an essential part of the legal process, and the possibility of nullification is an interesting byproduct.
This case was not nullification. He was charged with theft for towing a car, which is not theft anywhere, and is standard practice for tow truck operators. The vehicle was returned less than 20 minutes later.
Not guilty was a reasonable conclusion, not a case of a jury nullifying an otherwise solid case.
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voting takes one day. It doesn’t prevent you also doing direct action, or general strikes, or whatever more forceful actions may be needed. Its not an either or situation. Use all the tools available to you including your vote
The progressive ones voted against this. Bernie Sanders, Elisabeth Warren, Ron Wyden and 17 others did vote against this. Voting has an effect. It does move the needle.
Voting is not enough on its own. You can do more. You should do more. Your have power over the government goes beyond the ballot box, but its best to use both.
How will democrats react when a democrat democrats?
You can only feel what it feels like to be you, and since you’ve only ever been yourself you have no point of comparison.
I don’t think gender feels like anything. I am trans, I have been both a man and a woman and in my experience they don’t feel different. In this moment I feel like myself, just as I did a decade ago.
The things that have changed is that I no longer suffer from a crippling depression with an unclear cause. I have a range of emotions, and can feel emotions correctly. I consider my body to be part of myself.
All the above are now clearly signs of gender dysphoria, but at the time were hard to identify. The depression always has a more plausible explanation. The other two, I barely noticed I had because I experienced that my entire life.
It took me a very long time to discover that I am trans. It took a lot of self reflection to figure it out. Feelings were useless. I did think I would be happier as a woman, but that always seemed more of a logical deduction than a feeling.
The issue with self driving cars is that the roads are not restricted access. Too many variables to do self driving in shared use spaces. We’ve had self driving cars, on dedicated roads, and they operate safely because they run with the assumption that nothing else will be in their way.
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