Man, I finally agree with Clarence Thomas on something. Oh, well…

Well, which one is it?

The US has a few thousand miles of land borders, and there are some neat places to visit along them.

I’m not at all sure where this gentleman went or why.

I thought they catch fire and burn down slowly.

Correct. Both the recent pager and radio attacks, and the 1996 cell phone attack, were performed by planting military explosives inside the devices in advance.

There is no magical way to hack the electronics to make a lithium battery straight up explode.

TPS is a lawful status in federal law. But it’s also not a regular immigration status that you’d get with an actual immigrant visa.

The idea is that TPS recipients are going to ship back out just as soon as Haiti (or wherever) gets its act together again. It’s not a very secure status and does not lead to green cards or naturalization.

Also, Israel already assassinated someone by exploding their cell phone way back in 1996.

When I started on Debian, there was only apt-get. (And dpkg if you manually pulled .debs from somewhere).

Then a little while later, there was aptitude, which was nice.

apt the command didn’t show up until 2014.

And historically leads to stuff like putting the one final screw in domestically so you can slap that Made in America tag in it and avoid a heap of tariffs.

Technically I think that’s still “put us first on the search bar” money. You’re giving the real under-the-table explanation.

attempts on presidents’ lives are not rare in US history

And that’s why the Secret Service is as comprehensive as it is. Ultimately, the democracy responds to problems.

The Geneva conventions do not contain the level of protection for civilians that you think.

In particular, Israel has ratified and is a party to the conventions of 1949. After much debate in 1949, those conventions ultimately allowed things like indiscriminate carpet bombing of cities (which the US practiced extensively in the previous war).

Later protocols from 1977 added more civilian protections more along the lines you propose. These protocols banned carpet bombing and introduced the concept of proportionate response into the conventions.

Israel and the United States have not ratified the 1977 protocols 1 and 2 concerning additional civilian protections. According to the text itself, they are not bound by the provisions if they do not agree.

Some research earlier today suggested that some specific model may even have alkaline batteries, which are less thermal runaway-ey than lithium ions.

I’m just seriously impressed that someone could get enough explosive into the package and still have a functional pager that didn’t set off alarms.

There’s a lot of ways to make one metal shard levitate.

I still support the UAPDA, to provide an explicitly legal pathway to disclose any illegal programs that may or may not have existed. And to establish a right of eminent domain over any UAP artifacts that may or may not exist.

This is missing a “just right” image for reference, and so everyone can criticize the author’s cookie preferences.

Uranium doesn’t usually glow in the dark? If you can see a blue glow, you need to get the heck out of there, or submerge it in a lot of water.

Well you see, every February is egg laying season, and he needs those warm sandy beaches to incubate his spawn.

Usually, he can just go down to Galveston and get what he needs. But that year was a very, very special case. It’s not easy being cold blooded.

Used to be, you could correlate the message timestamps with Fox News programming, and get a pretty good idea of what set him off.

SpaceX is beating the pants off every other domestic launch provider unfortunately. All because Musk took some fantastic risks with his own money, and they paid off handsomely. And the worst part is SpaceX is a private company: no public shareholders to keep Musk in check.

You may have heard about ULA having a wee bit of trouble with some capsule thrusters. They have lost some truly epic amounts of money on that program.

Trump is only entitled to ex-President and candidate protection. It’s a lower tier of protection with fewer resources expended.

Actually I think the world population is such that you need to add one or two bits.