There’s a lot of issues with that, as my city found out. Converting an office space to code-compliant, safe housing is rather difficult, from the materials used to build the thing all the way to how it’s actually configured. You’re running new pipe, new electrical, probably having to actively gut the floor you’re working on to be compliant with housing codes and, more importantly, fire safety.
One of the worries of the Court is that this order could be retroactive. Native Americans were not citizens until the earlier half of the 20th century. Considering the plaintiffs kept bringing up Wong Kim Ark, it sounded like the Trump admin wanted the court to vacate a ruling from 1898, which could theoretically allow them to retroactively strip citizenship from people already granted it, perhaps even posthumously (meaning multiple generations of people would suddenly not be citizens).
Neither in this case, I think Vance is on that good old-fashioned zealotry of the convert.
At least that we know of as a country, we do not have people deployed in the country proper as of yet. They’re all set up in a dozen little airbases ready to fly and die, but we do not have soldiers actively in Iran.
My work phone for my old job, lived at work. When I clocked off, unless management really wanted to go dragging my actual cell number out of my resume, I was unreachable. If it’s that much of an emergency, you can get someone else.
Yeah, I thought the larger body of evidence all but proves that it was a wet market source.
For a lot of right-wing Latin American governments, genocide of native peoples is icing on the cake when it comes to military operations.
Nah, “conditional approval” is written into the regulation. You might know this wording better as “pay us a large sum and we’ll give you approval.”
Actually, Texas slapped barbed wire on the underside of these when they put them up. I feel like the feds might do the same.
Damn. Their headquarters is literally less than twenty minutes from me. Always thought they were shady fucks despite being “Best Place To Work in Cincinnati” year after year - you hear tons of horror stories out of TQL if you live here.
Plus all the shock absorption for the lense. And the avionics if you don’t plan to just have this thing drop film into a predetermined area (like the old Keyhole sats or the U-2).
Again, this is standard wealth transfer to corporate America. All that cash goes into these senator’s pockets via the MIC.
I keep telling people these aren’t distractions. Iran might’ve started that way, but Venezuela, Mexico, now Cuba, and probably anywhere else in the Caribbean or South America that doesn’t play ball with the regime - these are wars of expansion. Trump wants more things he can point to and say “I did that” and doing colonialism by proxy like we did with Venezuela already looks easy, and it generates your name in the news an awful lot. Never mind that all the companies and expats and their kids are still sore about being forced off the island at gunpoint by the revolution, and the CIA is definitely STILL wanting payback for the Bay of Pigs.
Legitimately nothing. I think this is MS looking for use cases, because they have sunk all their capacity into AI. They cannot detangle themselves from their AI, and they’re trying to course correct into SOMETHING that might be profitable and pull them out of their death spiral.
Legitimately the dude is a sociopathic teenager.
“Why would I wanna spend time with Grandma or the kids or my wife or my dog when I can sit and play video games and draw cool stuff in my notebooks.”
I don’t think any of these fucking weirdos know what “genuine human connection” IS. I don’t think any of them have actually internalized a genuine, caring relationship at any point. They know how the steps of the dance, they can do it on command, but it’s soulless.
Getting every episode of Dr Oz uploaded to your frontal lobes.
There might not have been OPENLY, but I highly doubt a group that literally refers to detained illegal migrants as “tonks” for the sound a flashlight makes hitting a human skull in its official documentation, mind you was not already happy to recruit open white supremacists.
Russia nukes Kyiv, China nukes Taiwan, North Korea (assuming delivery capabilities) nukes Seoul, India probably drops nukes on China and Pakistan, etc. It’s the actual Domino Theory people were talking about during the Cold War, they just thought the domino was communism. Once the bandaid gets ripped off and nuclear weapons are an accepted and normalized tool of conventional war, they’re now EVERYONE’S first resort.
The issue is that we’ve been looking at these people as misguided idiots rather than the thugs that ICE/CBP always were. They’re acting exactly as we should expect, except now they’ve got an admin backing them to the hilt on literally anything and everything they do.
When you have a structure that’s been BUILT out of rotted wood, you can’t just replace the most obvious rot and call it good.
Don’t forget that they’re also very much into the idea of eugenics.