I’m less upset that all SSNs might end up compromised and more upset that no one is going to get punished for it. If a career Federal Employee did this, they would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

But since it was Elon’s friends who did it, everyone in power will just shrug and say “who knew this would be such a big deal”…

Voting Blue? No Vote For You!

Wasn’t it DeGaulle himself who said

Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage?

Something needs to me done while this headline is just a metaphor

what will they do with the surplus?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese

Where’s the fog?

Your very first passport is subject to additional scrutiny. You generally have to go to a local facility that accepts applications, present your original documents, and attest that they are genuine. Then, all the documentation is sent to the State Department where they validate it all. When the passport is issued, your supporting documents are returned to you by mail. (I hope you didn’t have to move in between!)

In the course of Doing My Own Research, I uncovered classified footage of the party balloon, which proves Noem’s case that the balloon was dangerous and needed to be taken down…

If you can afford a BMW in the first place, you can afford the blinker fluid subscription…

If BMW truly wants to innovate, they should work on fixing their turn signals. They must always be in a state of disrepair, because I rarely see a BMW driver use them…

Indeed.

This seems like a nothing burger to me. The two Epsteins are not related, although EJE did interview JE at some point:

https://talkingbiznews.com/media-moves/97253/

The actual interview is stuck behind a paywall, but EJE is quoted as saying

“I don’t understand Jeffrey,” Jay Epstein continued. “I can’t conceive of why he would go out with an underage woman, unless your theory’s right that he’s a pedophile…”

Which isn’t the best take right now.

Furthermore, EJE was a journalist with a penchant for looking into conspiracy theories. It is very likely EJE’s “shadow commission” was just a nickname for some of his friends getting together to talk shit about the government.

It’s quite simple. If the US had evidence that aliens existed, do you think Donald Trump would gave kept it a secret? He would make a big show of insisting to be the guy who they talk to when they say “Take me to your leader”, and he wouldn’t be able to resist telling us all about it.

Actually, you technically don’t. The only citizenship requirement that the Federal Government puts on voting is that you affirm, under penalty of perjury, that you are a citizen, which moves the burden of proof. If a government official thinks someone registered themselves illegally, it’s up to the government to prove it.

Some states will impose their own documentation requirements, with varying levels of force. Some states have their own forms that require proof, but still accept the Federal form which only asks for the affirmation. Others will accept the Federal form, but will only register those people for Federal elections. (A small handful of states do not take the Federal form at all, and I am not yet sure why.)

All states will require some proof of address (like a drivers license), only because they will need to know which district to put you in. Yet there was a court case in the 80s that homeless people without a permanent address (and presumably without their documentation) were still entitled to be able to vote if they hold citizenship.

North Dakota has no statewide voter registration at all, but that turns out to be a bad thing too, because it required proving eligibility every time someone votes.

More good info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_registration_in_the_United_States

It’s a remarkable story. I wonder what it is that makes the game so hard to port to other systems. It’s probably not structured the way a program in a modern language would be. Is that why so many devs struggled with it?

This makes me wonder who owns Lindsey Graham

Thank you, I try

Speech jammer? Really?

Fucking magnets, how do they work?

Pure motherfucking magic, right?

That’s an awful lot of words, when you could have just said “No, I can’t tell you that.”