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But if the commanders are sycophants, then only certain requests to carry are approved.

It could easily engender a situation where the commander plays favorites to create power imbalances and danger for whoever happens to be in the out group. We’ve also recently learned that Hegseth has meddled a lot with military promotions, targeting specific groups for career suppression.

Accounting to this AP article: Her motorcade was passing by. They stopped. One of the state troopers in her motorcade helped pull him out of the burning car, along with two other bystanders. She brought them a handheld fire extinguisher.

Okay, but have you ever kissed the side of a woman’s half-shaved head or scuffed your face on it during hugs?

It’s like easily 100% more skin to kiss when the hair is short. Awkward drive-by forehead kisses are all but eliminated as she doesn’t have time to react to try to give you real kisses and then you miss and kiss her nose. Just a big ol’ target right on the side of her head that you can easily hit from the front or back. So much easier to seem suave.
And the hugs! You get more skin to skin contact without all that hair keeping your faces apart. It’s more hug per hug.

Maggie, aka Maggie Moo, or Moo, Mooster, Moo-Diggity and several other variations. The ultimate form is Moodelayheehoo

Freddie, Fred, Ferd, Frodo, Froodlehopher

Banjo, aka Beebs, Beebie Jeebie, Beanie Jeanie, and ultimately Bibbertyjibbert

Todd, Toddster, Tupelo, T-Dangles, and Toodleoo.

Juniper, Juney, June bug, Joonie boonie, June Buggie. (Ultimate form unknown. She’s new.)

The energy needed for phase change for supercritical CO2 is substantially lower than steam.

There’s more wiggle room. My understanding is that similar to heat pumps, they can build systems with different optimal temperatures, and even daisy chain them together. They’ll never make a perpetual motion machine, but they can waste less energy.

It’s funny (in a sad and sardonic sense) - I pay attention to the energy industry and the outcry over data centers has got me watching these generators closely. If they deliver on their promises, they could represent a great way to deliver on mirror-based solar reactors in areas with limited water resources. (And to recapture and use waste heat from the servers of data centers.)

Society is on the precipice of investing a lot into increasing energy generation for data centers that have to be near the same sorts of resources that people need - fresh water, environs conductive to generating power, stable (enough) climates. But this technology is arriving/set to reach adoption just in time for this boom-bust cycle. All those data centers in populated areas already have a timer ticking for when the shell corps have their rugs pulled.

Weird fucking glove.

Embarrassment kink.

Yeah. I wasn’t disagreeing with you.

They also want the part where a woman can be controlled by unwanted pregnancy.

Minimally.

One does not need to be exceptionally imaginative to think about what things could be done by a christofascist government with the vaguest cover of law. They’ve already tried to float taking guns from all transgender people due to a single shooting. We know that simply by being known to law enforcement that they will target you for harassment and create charges or “confidential criminal informant” testimony to justify destroying your property (see AfroMan) without any means for you to seek compensation or breaking into your home in the middle of the night and murdering you.

I accidentally brought handcuffs into a flight on August 2001. The TSA agent who found them asked what I planned to do with them.

Being a teenager, the answer was obviously that I kept them in my jacket to pull them out and show my high-school friends how quirky and cool I was. But being a teenager, I didn’t realize how endearing that response would be, so I blurted out the first thing that came to mind, which was somehow better and worse.

“I’m visiting my girlfriend!”

She gave me a slow blink and said “Well, alright then, go get your freak on!” (Or something of a similar sentiment - time has robbed me of the exact phasing.)