Really interesting story. As someone raised in evangelical churches, I have Always wondered why modern evangelical Christians can’t see the hypocrisy of their position.

That’s why I use a B&W Lazer printer, and have dedicated prosumer Canon photo printer for the few times I need color prints.

And the former group is 1000 to one of the latter group.

They are also exposed to alternative viewpoints, different cultures and concepts,.

And you provided the evidence that home schooling is not appropriate for 99% of the families out there. How many other families have the education, background, and resources that you bring to the table? Virtually none. And it’s only made worse by the fact that there are no standards, no testing required, no checks on the child’s welfare.

How some of these parents with just high school diplomas do it is beyond me. They don’t. I’m in the same boat. Technical Bachelors, MBA. We home schooled my son with a learning disorder for a year, primarily as a response to the school districts failure to do their job. It was not a success. While I still think it was the right decision, it was incredibly hard. Which is why it only lasted one year.

In the words of Stringer Bell “Your not taking notes on a motherfucking conspiracy are you?”

I think you misunderstand Isreals role in the region, as far as US politics is concerned. As long as Isreal is a viable force in the region, They are seen as a knife at the collective Arab/Iranian/Egyptian throat. They act as a US proxy providing a counter weight to other regional powers. I’m no defender of Isreal, there actions, or Netanyahu, just providing another point of view.

You use seawater for cooling the systems. You could use excess power to run desalination plants, but not use the reactor directly.

Start Here I think your answer is somewhere in the IEC ELV standards.

Depends. Nowak had the charges against him dismissed. He then sued the police. He lost that case when it got to the Supreme Court and they denied cert.

It was a request for the court to hear the case (a petition for certiorari). The court denied cert and didn’t hear the case, therefore the lower court ruling stayed in place. From Wikipedia "The parody page, which strongly resembled the real page, had led to Novak’s arrest in March 2016 and a subsequent trial for disrupting public services, which resulted in Novak’s acquittal.[1] Novak then brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for retaliation and prior restraint. An initial decision of the Sixth Circuit in July 2019 allowed most of the suit to proceed, leading to a February 2021 ruling that Novak’s arresting officers both had probable cause and were protected by qualified immunity, which the Sixth Circuit upheld in April 2022. "

True, but there are grades of racing. I don’t know what the current class structure is, but a 7k CBR is spitting distance of super street or whatever that AMA class is called now. I think the point being made is still valid. I can’t go out and buy a motogp bike, and the manufacturer isn’t pretending to sell me one.

This is the solution. The bite is that politicians know it is incredibly unpopular, and in America penalizes rural voters who have to drive farther. Ideally, it would be assessed annually when you renew registration and amortized out as monthly payment (or possibly an option to pay a lump sum). Based on your cars mileage for the last year, so it would be a post paid tax. However here in Texas, we just got rid of inspections that verify your mileage, so it would be left to self reporting, which is notoriously unreliable.

I highly recommend the Behind the Police episodes about the history of policing in America. Also the Battle of Blair Mountain, which might be part of that series.

Plus one for Ice Pirates. It gave us Space Herpes

I don’t think so. The lower court made a pretty clear distinction the damages are for harms that arose from activity other than journalism.

But he probably did talk to Powell, who talked to Trump. Powell is batshit crazy, but she might be smart enough to know that flipping on Trump might save her.

I think you and I may have discovered the film at the same time, or nearly. I think I probably saw it on an illegally descrambled HBO sometime around 80 or 81. Also an awkward kid in a small Texas town. I didn’t dive headlong into the hippie thing (that was already taken by the weird Beatles obsessed kid), but the impact of those songs and the messages stuck with me as well. Even though I’m losing mine, I still love the song Hair, in all its glory.

It would be easier if there were more than 20 pixels in the picture.