Honestly, I’d be somewhat relieved if there were a supernatural explanation for how they were tricked into supporting Trump. Because Christ made a very clear list on how people would be judged in Matthew 25 31-46 (“The Judgement of the Nations”)
Treatment of the poor
Treatment of the sick
3.Treatment of the foreigner
This nation isn’t doing great by that measurement.
The antichrist is supposed to trick Christians into supporting him, so that tracks.
He’s also supposed to survive an assassination attempt with a headwound.
They’ve murdered the planet and they’re trying to buy the survival of their descendants. They’re perfectly okay letting everyone else die and for their companies to collapse, so long as they get their place in the bunker/spaceship/whatever.
Degrees don’t tell us everything we need to know about a candidate, but they tell us a hell of a lot more than not having a degree does. Candidates are unknowns, and candidates without degrees moreso. If I’m combing through 40 applications then a degreed person is way more likely to get an interview, all else being equal.
Orban absolutely rigged the system against voting out of their situation. And they’re not there yet, either. This vote was the first step, but they’ve overcome a huge hurdle.
Did your afghan have strict, inflexible timelines for deliverables? Because college courses do. Did completion of your afghan require you to work on simultaneous unrelated sub-projects with shared milestone dates? Because that’s what a college semester is.
A degree is absolutely something I value heavily in applicants. Not because of the specific courses taken, but because what it says about the potential employee.
It says that they can complete a years-long project with disparate, often competing sub-projects, milestones, deliverable dates, and revolving team members while being self-managed. And due to core curricula, they’ve also proven a baseline knowledge unrelated to their specific degree. That may not sound useful, but someone who’s skillet is solely specialized work may have trouble navigating ancillary tasks that are part of the working environment. The best [insert technical skill] person in the world isn’t going to be a good employee if they can’t work in a team, prepare a report, respond appropriately and professionally to emails, document their work, develop/follow SOPs required for project handoff, deliver a presentation, etc.
Getting any college degree requires a baseline skillset that is valuable. Not having a degree doesn’t mean you can’t do all those things, but when I’ve got 40 applications I’m looking at, I can’t interview everyone. It’s a huge bonus to have a degree that tells me you have proven a minimum competency.
Smaller non-electric trucks and vans are effectively illegal in the US. Starting in 2011, fuel economy ratings started being weighted on vehicle footprint instead of vehicle classification. And as fuel economy regs become stricter, it’s easier for the manufacturers to just make the footprint larger than to make things more efficient.
It’s why the Dakota, S-10, and Ranger all stopped being made that year, and when the Ranger was relaunched years later it was the size of older F-+50s. It’s also why every compact cargo van stopped being produced between 2021 and 2022 as fuel economy standards increased.
An NV200 compact commercial cargo van has stricter fuel economy requirements than a Toyota Camry.
Jesus Christ I’m tired of people not understanding what a write-off is.
It’s a reduction in taxable income, not a tax bill. If your tax rate is 20 percent and you write off a $100 loss, your tax burden is reduced by $20, resulting in a net loss of $80.
You can’t just make massive losses go away with a write-off.
Well… were you?
My best friend is a librarian, and they’ve stopped buying ebook licenses because the terms were awful.
The publishers only allowed an ebook to be checked out a few times before the library had to purchase a license extension. The argument was that pylhysical books face wear and tear and eventually have to be replaced, so ebooks should have to be replaced too.
Imagine you’re having to choose between 2 meal plans for the next 4 years. The default option is a bag of broken glass for every meal, but you can instead choose to have a diet with real food instead.
You’re choosing the bag of broken glass because the other option doesn’t have the salad dressing you like.
The millions dying from the end of USAID, familes of people slaughtered in Iran and Venezuela, people whose lives have been shattered by ICE, and those who have had their Healthcare taken away can take comfort that at least you get to feel superior about tacitly endorsing their suffering by refusing to simply vote against it.
Do you think the world would be in a worse place with Harris than with Trump? If not, then choosing not to vote for Harris was a profoundly stupid thing to do.
Do KitKats even have chocolate?
Yes, but it also hurts their case when they’re demonstrating clearly that they can filter out ads they determine to be harmful.
Microwave imaging is used militarily, and in 2025 the US military did a public test of the Leonidas microwave weapon system to simultaneously knock out nearly 50 drones.
Acting President. One part of the 25th amendment that’s actually been used a few times (Section 3) is related to anesthesia. When the President is going under general anesthesia they can formally tell congress they’ll be temporarily unable to discharge the duties of the office, so the VeeP becomes acting President.
It’s been done 4 times - all related to the colon, funnily enough. George HW Bush was Acting President during Reagan’s colon-cancer surgery. Cheney was Acting President twice for W’s colonoscopies, and Harris was Acting President during Biden’s colonoscopy.
Between all 4 instances it still adds up to like 11 hours total that a VeeP has been Acting President.
The other parts of the 25th Amendment that have been used are Section 1 (Presidential sucession in case of death, resignation, or removal from office) for when Nixon resigned, and Section 2 (Vice-Presidnential succession) following Spiro Agnew’s resignation and Ford’s elevation to the Presidency following Nixon’s Resignation.
Section 4 (removal by the cabinet) hasn’t been used. It probably should have been when Reagan was shot and incapacitated, but Bush was on a flight and wouldn’t have been able to do anything, so it was tricky.
It definitely should have been used with Ttump on January 6th - and about 900 other times.
The little ones were worse in my experience. They tended to turn better on the axles and with couple guys spinning on the outside you could really get them going, then have the people riding move to the inside and it blue-shifts.
Yeah. The elements were there.
I mean - the scene where Anakin turns on Windu and joins Palpatine was executed terribly, but the bones of the scene were solid. Windu, the head of the “enlightened” Jedi order, was about to kill a defenseless enemy out of fear.
Anakin had never been trusted by the Council, but when he decided to show faith in them, the Council betrayed him by being no different than the Sith.
But the execution was terrible and it made the whole thing feel rushed and out of left field.