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And we all know Lemmy likes wizards.

It's totally a thing in California. You're supposed to transport your firearms in the unloaded state, unless you have a concealed carry license.

This is a reminder to American service members:

Your oath of allegiance is to the United States, not to Donald Trump, Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris. You have a duty to obey lawful orders issued under the authority of the commander in chief. But it is your duty to disobey unlawful orders.

Reminder: it is in SpaceX's interest to try to prevent either belligerent from using Starlink for military purposes. Among other reasons, SpaceX does not want tighter ITAR or EAR export restrictions that come with being a munition or dual-use technology.

NCD these days is a mixed hodgepodge of NATO propaganda, US defense industry propaganda, laughing at wacky military shenanigans around the world, and pornographic degeneracy involving military aircraft and other vehicles.

NCD started as a spin off from Credible Defense, which is a community where all articles have to be well sourced, arguments well reasoned, and citations are required. NCD has exactly none of those things.

Says the FAA Designated Engineering Representative who is a full time Boeing employee who has a workplace on Boeing's campus.

If it's a federal life sentence, then surely it should be "federal prosecutors in Virginia," not "Virginia prosecutors." Confusing as hell. I thought this life sentence was in state court with a parallel case in federal court.

What they're saying is this:

1. That land used to have nothin much on it, so it was cheap land, and the property taxes were low.
2. 30 million was spent on building the private wall. I don't think this money came from the land owner. (This is the crowd funded Trump Wall, right?)
3. With the fancy new wall on it, the property is now appraised at around 20 million (or maybe whatever it was plus 20 million). Whether it's 75 times or 100 times what it was before is not super important. The point is it went from not much to quite a bit.
4. Property taxes went up in accordance with the new valuation.
5. Property owner is probably not wealthy enough to pay the taxes, so big picture he can't continue to own the property.

I think nowadays you can upgrade that "sometimes" to "usually." It works out to about a 2.5% handicap to the Republicans.

Some airlines nowadays are trying to sell the exit row seats at a premium as an upgrade.

We should also mention that if you are uncomfortable with sitting in the exit row, federal regulations require the airline to reseat you in a different row on request. You don't have to provide a reason why.

Wait. Did you really mean "decreasing" rather than "desecrating"? Because that's hilarious.

Polaris goes in and out of North Star status on the 26,000 year precession cycle. So for the duration of humanity (let's say 100,000 years), there have been decent chunks of time where it's not in use.