Wired has had a number of articles over the years on these terrible ships. Worth a read. One example: https://www.wired.com/2011/08/future-warship-ran-aground/
Just to further clarify, MAGA was originally used by Ronald Reagan (and later Bill Clinton)… it’s just another thing recycled by the orange guy who has no ideas of his own.
It’s a bit dated now, but the NCAA even says sports are money losers. https://www.ncaa.org/news/2014/8/20/growth-in-division-i-athletics-expenses-outpaces-revenue-increases.aspx
The whole next week/two weeks thing is such a meme. Have a video.
I read a great WaPo article on this recently. Basically on the left, no one can define healthy masculinity and it’s really opened up a spot for the right wing to swoop in and define it for us.
WaPo put together a list of the supposed reason for impeachment and who proposed the idea. They are all crazy pants:
Impeachment threats
President Biden: Afghanistan withdrawal (Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, others)
Biden: border security (Greene, Reps. Bob Gibbs, Bill Posey and Andrew Ogles)
Biden: Hunter Biden’s business dealings (Greene, Ogles, Reps. Jim Banks, Claudia Tenney, others)
Biden: covid-19 eviction moratorium (Greene, Gibbs)
Biden: selling oil from strategic reserve to foreign nations (Greene)
I work at a top 10 US financial institution. All devs/engineers and ux folks get issued macbooks as standard. Probably been two years now that this has been the case. Being able to use all the unix command line stuff, along with more reliable machines, longer expected life, and higher productivity (those M series processors rock) make it a no-brainer. HP zbooks only go out to the people that specifically request them or are reliant on the few apps that do not have either a web based option or macos equivalent (its going to be the web based option that solves this over time I expect. Prob not a lot of incoming ports).
This whole “paying their fair share” is sort of a red herring too. I remember when Trump was talking about this and saying NATO was ripping us off. That’s not how this works. In 2014 NATO countries agreed to spend 2% of their budget on defense. This was so the countries would have a military deterrence and wouldn’t just be relying on the USA on other countries to step in if they got in trouble.
If the other countries don’t spend that much, no one is “owed” any money. No one got ripped off. The USA didn’t suddenly incur a bill or spend money to make up that shortfall. Those countries simply don’t have as large of a defense program as NATO would like.
Cron jobs are mainly for enabling and disabling internet access by mac address on a schedule. I also like that these commercial products force search to google or duckduckgo safe search, and youtube to youtube restricted on a per user basis (which really could be done by mac address). I mean I can prob do all this with firewall rules myself. But a slick web interface would be cool.
For some reason my first thought was that Simpson’s episode with Itchy and Scratchy money.