suggesting Nazis exist in Ukraine (where they welcomed Hitler and exterminated upwards of 1.6 million Jews)

You mean ‘The Ukraine’, as in, a member state of the USSR as it existed at that time, and not ‘Ukraine’ a sovereign country, which it has been since 1991.

We have a somewhat different take on it - Santa is real. For kids, Santa is that person that brings you presents and treats and stuff like that. But the ting is, there is a person who does all that, so for that kid, you are Santa, even if they don’t know it.

When each of our kids would eventually ask ‘Is Santa real?’ we would tell them that Santa is real - it’s everyone doing something for someone else and only expecting their happiness in return. It’s the parent that stays up late and carefully lays out all the fancy presents and treats, then sits back to take in the joy from the kids in the morning.

Then we ask if they want to help be Santa; I’ve not gotten a ‘no’ to that question.

I had to deal with two of my grandparents dying before the first dog I remembered died. She was hit by a car; my parents woke us up and sat us down in my sister’s room. They told us gently that she was hit by a car and was killed, that she wouldn’t have felt any pain.

We were, of course, upset about it. But, the simple, direct, and gentle delivery of the news I think gave less distress than the lies that other parents would tell.

Regolith is very sharp because it doesn’t have atmospheric forces to agitate it and cause the sort of erosion that makes things smooth. On top of that, no water means there’s nothing to ‘bind’ it like clay or mud; but also, as soon as it does touch water, it will want to stick.

Apparently moon dust became a significant problem for lunar excursions because it got everywhere

• I let the mints out at the urinal so they are waiting for them there

Now I know where those were coming from

Well, it used to be that the resources and mining were federally owned, thanks to Pierre Trudeau, but Mulroney had that repealed. We’d have all been way better off if we still got to keep the profits of our resource extraction.

so, like, do you use your penis like a Pez dispenser to drop the Junior Mints into people’s hands, or more like a dart gun to launch them straight into their mouths?

There is a cleanup fund that o&g companies are supposed to be paying in to, but miss maple maga has never enforced it, and the fund is bone dry.

Had Google had access to the camera sensors and the smaller, more powerful SOCs we have today, they absolutely would have produced exactly what Meta did.

Harambe disco

They are held to higher standards, he failed to successfully incite violence. For a cop, that’s unacceptable.

They must have been really hungry for a long time before their staple diet of attractive people on beaches arrived :D

nah, pin most used programs to the taskbar, second most used to the app launcher, everything else can be searched for. No need to go back to the desktop to launch something.

If you had that chance, are you saying you wouldn’t?

They are listed in order of importance… reduce first, if you can’t, then reuse. If you can’t reuse, then recycle.

Problem is, we saw “recycle” and thougt “infinite resources” and ditched the other two… turns out that most things cant really be recycled, so now it’s just landfill all the way

Also grid storage doesn’t have the sort of deep, rapid discharge/charge cycles that EVs go through. Once an EV battery is no good in the car, it still has about 80% of it’s useable capacity left. Meaning, there will always be a need for “new” EV batteries, but grid storage would saturate and leave surplus batteries. Not to mention, as the grid storage batteries fall out of their useful life for that purpose, they can be recycled into new EV batteries and begin the cycle anew.

If they enact it early it would be effectively dead in the water because it would still leave the decision up to swing states, and people would lose confidence in the movement. Holding off until it’s a sure thing gives it a whole lot more power.

Either way, it’s still a couple more years until the next general election cycle spins up, they may have it locked in by then.

it’s in the last sentence of the summary. 270 essentially guarantees that the winner of the popular vote becomes POTUS, as long as all states in the compact abide by the agreement. Once that happens, the EC is basically defunct.

I just removed windows instead, much better that way