Drop policies that have been consistent long-term losers like expanded gun control.

Suppressors are a hearing safety device/noise pollution reducer and Democrat politicians describe them like they get all their information from a John Wick movie. It would be so easy for the party to drop the matter entirely and throw politically-homeless gun owners a bone by taking suppressors off the NFA.

Force through policies that improve their lives at the cost of others, for example, healthcare paid for by taxing billionaires

Yep! Follow that up with policies that improve people’s lives and we have a ticket that writes itself.

Start by no longer telling men who have done nothing wrong they are responsible for the misdeeds of others. It breeds resentment and closes people to anything else you have to say.

Two of my friends switched recently precisely because Win 10 was going end of life. ‘I have to change the OS anyway’ was the final motivator.

intimidating complexity of installing Wine

I would give that a shot. The full guide is install ‘wine’ and ‘winetricks’ the same way you install any other software you use. Then in winetricks, select ‘default prefix’, then ‘run arbitrary executable’, and point it to your .exe installer. After that, you just open the program like any other program on your system.

You generally don’t need to do more than that and might let you forgo ever dual booting again.

That sounds like the connection itself to that row somehow got fucked up. A flame probably isn’t going to fix that.

You can put a flame to a screen for a few seconds and they are usually fine. But really, you should be looking into a screen repair or a new/used phone.

The international response would be much stronger if Iran did something like that. Much like chemical weapons, actually employing such tools brings on unwanted responses.

Lots of updates, videos, and pictures in the article.

The Baltics are part of NATO because they didn’t want to be part of the failed Soviet Union or the modern Russian Federation. And with Russia invading Ukraine, twice now, it isn’t very hard to see why.

Get fucked Russia.

As quoted from The Guardian:

At least eight states, including Florida and Tennessee, have now introduced … legislation to prohibit “geo-engineering” or “weather modification”

So, nothing to do with chemtrails and specifically addresses geo-engineering and weather modification. Cloud seeding is a thing and dispersing particulates to reflect sunlight has also been much discussed. These states simply don’t want it happening in their state.

Also note how not a single quote in AP’s article has ‘chemtrail’ in it. Not a single damn one. The quotes they do have of the legislation specifically refer to things:

…affecting the “temperature, weather, climate, or intensity of sunlight.”

This morning I walk into the office and she greets me with a “hey!” and huge smile

Your cute coworker is greeting you with a huge smile. Almost no matter the cause, she is brightened by your presence which is something you should default to being a good thing.

Go have lunch with her and enjoy your day. Don’t stress over stuff you can’t change.

Golden Dome is a space-based system that intercepts ICBMs in their boost and mid-course phases. It’s a global missile defense system with or without the help of other countries.

Golden Dome is a space-based missile defense system that intercepts ICBMs in their boost or mid-course flight. Being space-based it works with or without the help of other countries. The inclusion of Canada is primarily to spread out costs as such a system could also intercept missiles going to any country, not just the US.

The ship floating is not the surprising part. It’s the fact seawater was into everything.

Dip your computer into the sea for a few weeks, it isn’t going to be happy about it.

Damn that is weird.

It was common during those times to open carry however. It’s just that concealed carry is much, much more common now. Quite a bit of that has to do with people’s attitudes toward arms. It’s much easier to not upset people if they don’t know you are carrying.

And I can tell you from personal experience, even if you are printing, vanishingly few people notice. When I quit my last job, told my manager I had carried every day for the last years. He had never noticed.

The AR-15 as well as magazines with more than 10 rounds are both in common use for lawful purposes, making any such blanket ban on either unconstitutional as per Heller.

That said, the Supreme court declines cases on the regular, which is not a judgement either for or against prior rulings. Though it does mean the prior ruling stands for now.

Any place which believes it can legitimize itself by becoming an American military base is fake and objectively worse.

What are you talking about? Somaliland doesn’t have any US military bases. Somalia certainly does though at Baledogle Airfield.

Should we recognize Somaliland and not Somalia since Somalia has a US military base, unlike Somaliland?

Somalia failed due to a number of factors: Starting with a coup that created the socialist Somali Democratic Republic which then launched a failed invasion of Ethiopia. Ethiopian resistance, mass migration caused by the invasion, poorly distributed food aid, and harsh government crackdowns led to a civil war the country has yet to recover from. UN and US interventions in the civil war unfortunately didn’t solve the problem either.

Eventually, out of this civil war emerged two countries: Somaliland and Somalia. One of these is half-way functioning democracy today and is an obvious choice to recognize and stabilize the region. The alternative is to force Somaliland to fail and have that region fall back into civil war too.

I’ll take Somaliland over Somalia any day. At least one of those governments is halfway functional.

It’s also fairly cheap to buy 32+ GB of RAM, lots of choices for under $80. Meanwhile, I’m not even sure how you find a video card with 32GB of VRAM (not that you really need this much, 12GB and 16GB are pretty solid for a video card nowadays).