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I hope so. My next car was going to be a Toyota or a Honda, and... well......

The thing is that, afaik, coincidentally gerrymandering by race isn't sufficient to get the map thrown out. It has to be intentionally gerrymandered by race, with evidence to support such an assertion.

And the incredible thing is that Republicans can't keep their damned racist mouths shut, and they keep incriminating themselves by either saying the quiet part out loud or getting so specific with their gerrymandering that it's no longer plausible that it's just a coincidence.

They'd get away with it if they were smarter (but then, if they were smarter they wouldn't be racists)

Something something land war in Asia.

The CCP is a lot of things, but they ain't dumb.

You misunderstood. They mean that the vaccine is still protecting from the strains that ARE in it, so it's not reasonable to forego the vaccine just because of one strain that's not in it.

Having a hobby with community helps a lot because it gives you the option of channeling that extra ambition into the community. For example, I do historical reenactment (Society for Creative Anacronism) and one if my hobbies is making coins. I've taken commissions, sure, but I get a lot more enjoyment out of learning and teaching about historical coin making and giving my coins away to people who don't make their own (which is most people).

And of course there's a smaller community of coin makers within the SCA, and we get to share our work with each other, talk shop, collaborate from time to time, etc.

Community really makes a big difference.

"AI isn't a bubble as long as nobody pops it" is such a great example of cognitive dissonance, I'm honestly impressed.

The craziest part is that the GOP would still run advertisements against him calling him a communist socialist fascist far left radical that wants to trans everybody and give all our money and jobs to those lazy freeloading illegals that he paid to vote for him.

No, actually, the craziest part is that MAGA would believe them.

As far as we know it's not actually using any facial recognition at all.

It could just be using the scanned face to generate fake evidence of non-citizenship. It would be SUPER easy to make an app to do this using generative AI. You know, like Grok.

Not arguing your conclusion, but to answer the question regarding the question

Just appealing a ruling doesn't mean he doesn't have to follow the ruling. He still has to follow the ruling until a judge, any judge involved in the case, says that he doesn't have to follow the ruling as either a temporary stay of said ruling or a permanent judgement.

So if he doesn't do as ordered (and I agree that he won't) he is 100% in violation of the law AND the judge's orders.

But also he's immune to prosecution for official acts, so why should Trump give a shit about any of that?

Yes, "weapons grade" has a higher purity being almost entirely made of fissile isotope Pu-239

"Reactor grade" has a greater variety of isotopes.

The functional difference is that the higher purity is required to make nuclear bombs, hence "weapons grade." Purity was a significant hurdle in nuclear arms development and one if the reasons the US got the bomb before Germany or the USSR which both struggled to get sufficient purity.

They think they can bribe fascists for favorable outcomes, but what they're still in denial about is that fascists do whatever they fuck they think will get the m them the most power in any given circumstance, including going back on promises (money paid, money taken), extorting for more money, and throwing anybody they want Uber the bus.

There's no making deals with fascists, there's only getting scammed by fascists.

Fascists love what the military and police represent (to them, strength and order) but any individual who deviates from the script is a traitor who deserves to have their life ruined or worse.

Just look at Kegbreath's speech to all the generals. Fascists don't care about reality (whether those generals were competent) but only care about the appearance of power (facial hair and too much weight around the middle don't "look powerful" and therefore are as bad as treason).