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the headline of one of the linked Drive piece on the Navy contracts is, for the record, “Docs Show Navy Got ‘UFO’ Patent Granted By Warning Of Similar Chinese Tech Advances.”

I clarified that sentence. Dahl said the county allowed a small amount of waste to go through the back drain. The DNR official told the Register they can’t find where the line goes and is broken but “discharging animal blood or animal fat would be illegal.” Read more

move the nuclear football to a dry, bright area five feet away

Some of these go back to 2012, when flash storage was a lot more expensive. Not that much more expensive, though (certainly not enough to offset the costs hinted at here). My guess is the issue was just somehow unforeseen, though you gotta wonder if they could have/should have logged storage degradation and noticed it… Read more

Interesting question. Based on this link it seems to be relatively clear that many tweets are subject to the Presidential Records Act and thus under the law they must be archived, but it’s been disputed which tweets are subject to the act. Also, the PRA would only mandate that the White House keep official records of… Read more

actually we’re all still in 2016, hope this helps.

“My phone has an advanced AI assistant. Does YOUR phone have an advanced AI assistant?” Read more

but what if the government lets the grid degrade to the point where it has to be turned off to prevent it from toasting half the state? we can’t have that!

I do, fixed.

d’oh

i mean, i got the message loud and clear: Read more

post pics daniel

Founders Fund is presumably not referring to “countries that have done away with the monarchy as ruler but keep them around so they can throw royal baby parades,” but loony neo-reactionary (NRx) / neo-authoritarian ideologies.

I dot see the problem here.

Some more context here on Ophelia: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/storm-ophelia-causes-significant-disruption-in-northern-ireland-1.3258407

Presumably referring to northern Ireland. Not really a correction but I’ll add that in parentheses.

Something tells me Bridenstine gets yelled at a lot by his boss.

bemused responses don’t translate well to text!

Given that lots of people think SPLC itself is a hate group, again who the hell cares who the SPLC designates as a hate group?
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