If you couldn’t trust anything, that would work.

But you’ll still trust whatever truth you discover on your own. And when a source repeats something you know to be true, you’ll believe them when they say something else that you can’t verify. So long as that source is internally consistent, they are going to become the verification of what is “true” for you.

For your system to work, the individual must not be able to trust their own truths.

Womp womp.

4. There is no such thing as a “right wing” Star Wars fan.
5. They cried when Palpatine died.

The president cannot pardon a state crime. Kidnapping is both a state and a federal crime. If convicted in state court, the president is powerless to pardon.

https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/

I’m remembering his full-page ads calling for the death penalty for the Central Park 5.

Garcia and his family have slam-dunk civil cases against Trump in both his personal and professional capacities.

Gabe’s estimated worth is around $6bil.

That $6 billion came out of the hands of consumers, and didn’t go into the pockets of workers. That is exactly the kind of exploitation I’m talking about. I don’t have a problem with people being rich. This goes beyond “rich”. “Obscene” is the right word, but it has been used so often in this context that its meaning doesn’t even register anymore.

That we like his products, like him as a person, and recognize he’s far less exploitative than Jeff or Elon does not mean that his business practices are laudable. Gabe Newell is not an exception. He is part of the problem.

We’re coming for their wealth, yes, but not for their heads

It is not particularly difficult to get rid of wealth. Gabe could gift a good chunk of his wealth to the people who actually generated it. If he chooses to unload enough of wealth to stay under the head-chopping line, we won’t need to come for his (proverbial) head.

The issue I have with this sentiment is that some percentage of the rich made active pursuits to deny our freedoms and destroy democracy; while others were…just quiet and uninvolved in politics.

The act of acquiring a billion dollars worth of financial assets is itself an attack. If you have a billion dollars, you have systematically overcharged your customers, underpaid your workers, and leveraged your wealth to do the same.

There is a term for a predator that remains “quiet” and “uninvolved” in its prey’s activities: “Parasite”.

It’s not even all wealth that is the problem. The problem is their wealth is held in financial assets designed to strip wealth from workers and deliver it to hoarders.

We need a securities tax, payable not in dollars, but in shares of the security. Exempt the first $10 million held by a natural person. IRS liquidators will sell off the shares slowly over time, such that the liquidated shares will never consist of more than 1% of total traded shares of that issue.

He’s been told to mention it, because the fossilized remnants in charge of the Democratic party can’t help but shoot themselves in the foot by calling for gun control.

100UL (Unleaded avgas) has finally been approved for spark-ignition aviation engines just in the past couple years.

Manufacturers have finally gotten approval to build/retrofit popular small aircraft with compression-ignition engines. These can burn Jet-A in a diesel cycle instead of 100LL. Jet-A is more energy dense than 100LL, and it is cheaper.

We’re finally in a regulatory position where the GA fleet can actually transition to unleaded fuels.

“Won’t someone think of the children?”

NO.

Most countries inside the US don’t use irons.

Zero-day exploits are security holes that exist and are used by bad actors, but aren’t yet known to you, or anyone capable of closing the hole. The clock to patch the hole doesn’t start running until the exploit is known: it stands at zero days until the good guys know it exists.

What zero-day exploits exist for ssh?

By definition, you don’t know. So, you block root login, and hope the bad actor doesn’t also know a zero-day for sudo.

9mm cartridges are about $0.25 each. Occasionally popping off about $2 worth can save you $400/mo.

Vance doesn’t have the support of the personality cult. He can’t hold MAGA together. The whole thing will splinter.

Nah, I’ll just use my “Tariff Dividend” check when Trump writes it. China will pay for it.

That would be the first iPhone I’d actually buy.

I totally the words

The whole thing!

Others have mentioned the varying thickness of the atmosphere that the sunlight has to pass through, but cloud cover is the more important factor. The map you are looking at seems to include cloud cover in its calculations.