Seems about right: it’s just a small loan, after all.

Petition was filed around 24 hours ago, but no summons, no other evidence of service, and no bail motion ready to go. Plaintiff is certainly not bringing to bear the same kind of litigation resources that Khalil gets from the ACLU.

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At this point it seems pretty clear that no more planes are actively planned. I don’t think the judge is going to try to claw those poor people out of the Salvadoran prison.

Might as well slow down a bit, litigate the appeal, and litigate the preliminary injunction to get something more permanent. Then move for sanctions and/or contempt. Let the news cycle recycle, then hit it.

F35 is a major maintenance time sink. Something on the order of 10 mechanic-hours of maintenance for every flight hour. I’ve heard it costs something like 12k USD in maintenance just to start the engine and bring it to low idle.

I suspect it would take a lot less than six months to ground a fleet when the spare parts get cut off.

These Vital Farms eggs come with an insert with a QR code that allegedly shows you pictures of the specific farm your eggs came from. I’ve never bothered to look it up though.

DC city government is fairly directly controlled by Congress. There’s not much of a firewall there. So I’m not really surprised.

This type of control is known in industry as “bang-bang control.” Among other factors, it doesn’t help that the delay time between twirling the control and feeling the temperature change is often tens of seconds.

Cue up Pulp Fiction conversation about foot massage.

Street Kings, 2008.

A real wealth tax could be devastatingly effective at reducing wealth disparity. It just takes some patience to let the exponential compounding effect kick in. Way, way less blood and lower potential for counter revolution.

I caught a ban for stating that Linus Torvalds is legally obliged to respect US sanctions against Russia.

This seems like standard behavior for .ml.

Back in the day this was called slave patrol.

More than a decade

NOAA government nautical chart from today:

I checked the NOAA chart viewer yesterday, and it hadn’t changed there

The state capital on the cover was not in area code 318 or the listed coverage area of this directory.

In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Harrison Ford survives a nuclear test by hiding in a refrigerator.

Now do one that counts vehicles delivered.

I’ve been to the official museum in the old bottling plant in Waco, and no, there never was a real doctor.