I’m not leaving. All my friends are here. We don’t run from danger.

Larger form factors also means more room for batteries. Granted, larger screens require them, but I think my point stands. I’ve been on the Samsung Note since like the Note 4 (I think). The larger amount of screen real estate is genuinely a welcome upgrade and that’s the whole point of the foldables… it’s the next evolution of the “phablet.”

The blood of their own people is also on their hands… because the IDF and the Netanyahu government uses them as human shields; it’s a fact that they play fast and lose with Israeli lives. Remember that they had intelligence an attack was highly likely around the month of Oct… they still let that music festival continue and didn’t attempt to evacuate or even warn the kibbutz near the walls surrounding Gaza. They wanted any kind of attack to be at least marginally successful so they could justify bulldozing and occupying Gaza so that settlements could commence there.

Seriously. Straight dudes are missing TF out.

Wait… which part of this headline is biased exactly?

American here but, from what I understand of Pan-European politics generally, it’s more of an attempt to unify everyone else and not necessarily to draw away far-right voters.

Well, they can, but the cost will get more volatile… super oversimplified, it’s the difference between drinking at home booze you bought at wholesale prices and keeping a running tab with a local bar/pub. You’ll be subject to the bar and any price changes they (read: the currency markets) want to make.

In other news, meteorologist says the sky is blue.

I mean, in the 1950’s, the planes with all the fancy food and service were basically full first class flights… to return to that weed have to have single class/first class flights and the prices to match.

Same where I’m at. 😞

They know what they did.

While we sound rabidly pro-Taiwanese, the US diplomatic position on the PRC/ROC is some wild Cold War type shit. Technically, we recognize both claims as claims that both organizations have made and that both organizations have the right to make those claims. Vague as vague can get. The State Department was seriously like “we agree to disagree… with ourselves.”

The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee is one of the largest political lobbies in the United States.

I remember watching her first interview with Tucker Carlson and thinking “oh thank god she’s a black hole for charisma.” She’s just a void of intellect and nuance collapsing in on itself… of course Ron DeSantis likes her.

For anyone unfamiliar, “Science Fiction and Futurism with Isaac Arthur” is a prolific YouTube channel. He’s cranked out dozens (if not hundreds) of hours about everything from building archologies on the moon, colonizing the surface of the sun, to settling what’s left at the end of the universe. What that guy does is genuinely a public service and he’s gotten awards for his work.

https://youtu.be/xGjeFPlLCVc?si=rd_nN1sljkgwiGex

An Acquaintance: “Oh my goodness and they said that people could actually be living on Mars soon! Isn’t that just neat-o?”

Me: Having watched enough hours of “Science Fiction and Futurism with Isaac Arthur” to qualify for a doctorate

Me: “Yep. Sure is super neat-o.”

I mean, I could add to it…

• Pay reparations to victims of Jim Crow/Segregation and descendants of those bound by the practice of Chattle Slavery.
• Nationalize the telecom corporations. Use the profits to fund a Bell Laboratories type research institute as well as public college departments in the relevant fields.
• Nationalize the freight railroads. Use the profits to fund a high quality bus system in rural areas, an “Interstate-style” 110-125 mph regional/commuter passenger rail system nationwide, and develop 155-200+ mph HSR corridors between appropriate city pairs.
• Initiate planning for metro/light rail systems in every city with a population of 250k or higher.
• End the Embargo on Cuba and fully normalize relations. Shutter and remove the facilities at Guantanamo Bay; return the land to the Cuban government and pay reparation for it’s theft.
• End NATO while helping the EU organize it’s own native unified defense force. Form a new treaty with the EU for common defense.
• Forgive all debt the US holds from co-called “third world” nations.
• Remove all “NeoLiberal” stipulations and restrictions the IMF has placed on so-called “third world” nations.
• Pass a federal law ending so-called “Right to Work” at the state level and triple the NLRB’s budget.
• End the funding of public schools through local property tax and replace it with a Federal tax on corporations.
• Bust up Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet into their viable constituent parts.
• Formally recognize the nation of Palestine at the UN.
• Join the International Criminal Court.

I left the Catholic Church shortly after leaving Catholic school. Like, in Catholic high school, they taught us about the “issues” (read: CA scandal) the church was “going through” and how we all need to “pray for the victims” of these “isolated incidents.” You then step into the real world and learn that the church protected monsters from the law for DECADES (and continues to do so), it really fucks with your head. In college, I went “spiritual but not religious” for a while and then landed squarely into atheism town… been a resident there now for more time than I was ever Catholic.

I’m guessing it was a tower like this one.

Balanced on a single anchor point foundation with guy-wires stabilizing it from all sides.

Automation and it’s also possible this was a repeater tower… so, not the main broadcast tower but one that fills in a dead zone within the market. Radio and TV stations use repeaters in areas with a lot of hills or tall buildings.