I don’t have any devices that need volate at all so I’m unconcerned.

*tracts. As in “huuuge tracts of land”.

The combined reservoir system, an essential water source for cities and farms across Arizona, Nevada and Southern California, has not held so little water since 1957, when Lake Powell was still being filled.

So it’s not like this is just another drought, “yeah, it happens, happened back in '57 too!”

That was long before climate change brought three decades of drought, the worst for the Southwest in at least 1,200 years, scientists said.

massive distrust

opposition exploded

Concentration camps for foreigners and racial undesirables, political prisoners put away forever for thoughtcrimes, mass surveillance by the government, theocracy on the rise … never thought I’d see it, or any part of it, in my lifetime in the US.

This is a brilliant work-around. It’ll save a ton of R&D money and won’t take nearly the time and $ that a full retrofit would, all while pacifying the Orange Diaper Baby until the next dumbass idea comes along. How would you like a no-bid contract for the job?

What we’ll probably hear from him next is that he prefers steam gauges over glass cockpits and that all aircraft, civilian or military, must be retrofitted with the former. And biplanes, the Pentagon must start buying and using them. Everybody knows (except for Communists) that two wings are better than one.

You just know the “officers” are salivating at the chance to use this for the lulz on anyone they don’t like, to use it to torture the detained, whether freshly-kidnapped or long-term concentration camp prisoners. Cruelty = entertainment.

That sounds like something the electric-car, exploding-rocket, pro-Apartheid Nazi guy would do.

Tinned fish …ugh … OTOH people eat sardines. I guess. Somewhere. I suppose those WW1 soldiers didn’t have access to Spam yet. Spam is gross but I would eat that before I’d eat dead fish in a can.

Interesting you should mention this. There must have been a beef price “crisis” at the retail level back in the early-mid 70s, because now I remember my parents buying something like a side of beef, having it cut up and packaged, and freezing it at home. They might have actually bought a separate freezer just for this endeavor. I’d totally forgotten about this until now and have never heard of anyone doing a similar thing ever since. They really seemed to think they were beating “The System” at the time but I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t even break even given the freezer storage needed.

I fact checked myself and it says british soliders were provided with 6oz of meat a day

Maybe, but surely not all beef.

I wouldn’t tell you that Impossible Foods’ “Ground Beef From Plants” is exactly like real ground beef. But it’s pretty good. Unfortunately it’s not cheap, either.

This is all that I buy when I want something ground-beef-like for cooking. It’s not cheap (not super-expensive either) but it’s highly uniform and the taste and texture are fine with me. There used to be one or two other brands of plant-based “beef” at Winco but now there’s only “Impossible” so I’m curious about what’s going on in the artificial meat part of the market.

What the ever-loving fuck. Legalized virus distribution on your LAN, planned, developed, and deployed by peripheral manufacturers? I’m so glad that I know better than to use Windows anywhere, and know better than to buy “modern” computing hardware - as with automobiles the somewhat older stuff is perfectly adequate and comes without all these kinds of infosec risks.

The local retail computer “recycling” center has shelf after shelf after shelf of crufty old monitors, towers, servers, laptops and other components to choose from. Sure all those have certain risks as well (but probably not “smart” ones) but it’s starting to feel like it’s time to go stock up as the computing hardware scene gets more dystopian every day.

Yep, tried a different computer with a different JS blocking configuration and that’s getting me around the paywall. For those w/o JS blocking, disabling JS might work too. Tnx.

“I got pull in this town”. That’s rich. That would indeed be a great quote to put on his prison garb. The other inmates deserve to know about his pull.

Paywalled.

Mass detention isn’t merely a step along the way to achieving Trump’s goal of mass deportation: It’s also the goal.

five-year cabin ownership starts at $59,999. Full ownership prices start at $99,999. There are various other occupancy plans. Owners also pay monthly fees — which in 2025 worked out as $2,000 per person per month for double occupancy, and $3,000 for single occupancy.

And while the prices of a Villa Vie’s cabin aren’t cheap, they remain comparatively accessible in contrast to The World, the only other residential cruise ship experience currently at sea, which caters to a more upscale market with a current starting price of $3.5 million.

I hate paywalls more than almost anything, but I don’t see one here. It’s possible that all my adblocking defenses are silently neutralizing the paywall if it exists.