Oh I know, and I know the ACA was essentially the Republican plan from the beginning.

I also know there is absolutely jack shit any of us can do to make the Supreme Court not throw shit out just because they want to and find a flimsy justification for it. Congress would have to do their job and hold them accountable, and that’s not going to happen.

The only way people will actually demand something real is if this happens and millions lose access to their healthcare, with their new options increasing in price dramatically just like it used to be. If they can even get insured.

The ACA was originally implemented slowly and as such the average person never saw a big difference before and after. The “big” issues were from shit plans that didn’t do anything for people anyway but they paid for it thinking they had coverage. We’re now post-COVID and there are millions of Americans with long term health issues stemming from that period. I’m sure insurance companies would put that right at the top of their list to disqualify coverage. Denying coverage would not be gradual and will be noticed.

So then if you want to move that goalpost again at least move it to a comparison that makes sense. SpaceX and Blue Origin are both Billionaire funded launch providers. Even though SpaceX now operates from their launch sales.

Meanwhile, Blue Origin has a complete lack of real world launch vehicles to send viable payloads. The best they’ve shown is a handful of tourism rides on New Shepard. And massive delays on the new engines for New Glenn and other rockets, which are finally starting to be delivered to customers massively delayed, but still no New Glenn rocket anywhere near being launched.

So reading the article… it had a dead 12V battery. The car warns you when the 12V battery is going bad. It’s possible it suddenly died without warning, but unlikely. Those are literally the same tech as every other car, nothing really special about the 12V system. It’s just a smaller battery since it doesn’t have to power anything other than accessories, and is constantly recharged by the high voltage system.

Even ignoring all that, you can access the 12V system externally to jump it and open the doors just like any regular ICE car needing a jump. It’s not like Teslas are the only vehicles reliant on things like key fobs and doors without obvious keyholes.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-3567D5F4-A5F4-4323-8BE0-023D5438FFC6.html

So the only products that met the budget actually approved by management.

He’s been using it to further his political career and court donations.

The British Museum should take notice. Even a random US tourist knows that historical items should be returned to the country they are taken/stolen from.

Number 3 in many states is legally not rape. In many states rape is legally defined as someone inserting a penis into a vagina. As fucked as that is, often people suggesting changes to the laws to make them more accurate to reality, end up getting vilified as some sort of apologist or predator themselves.

Phone Link has been super useful in my experience. Easily grab a photo or respond to a text without having to plug it in, or even go grab my phone if it’s not next to me.

Prosecute him under 18 U.S.C. § 704

The Stolen Valor Act of 2013 amends the federal criminal code to rewrite provisions relating to fraudulent claims about military service to subject to a fine, imprisonment for not more than one year, or both for an individual who, with intent to obtain money, property, or other tangible benefit, fraudulently holds himself or herself out to be a recipient of:

• Medal of Honor
• Distinguished Service Cross
• Navy Cross
• Air Force Cross
• Silver Star
• Bronze Star
• Purple Heart
• Combat Action Ribbon
• Combat Infantryman’s Badge
• Combat Action Badge
• Combat Medical Badge
• Combat Action Medal
• Or any replacement or duplicate medal for such medal as authorized by law.

Players are complaining about the difficulty of a genre-defining game, in a genre known for its difficulty.

Just Git Gud.

Overhead strung wires sag more in high heat. It’s a major issue with those large long distance power lines. I’m sure a smaller system wasn’t designed with that considered much, if at all.

Obamacare was the compromise. Remove it and we’ll just work that much harder to get Medicare for All and join the rest of the developed world with universal access to healthcare and not destroying your financial future.

A rock falling from a truck’s load on the highway however is the fault of the truck owner, regardless of whatever bumper sticker they want to put saying otherwise. Trucks are required to properly secure their loads.

This isn’t random space debris that existed and entered the atmosphere without NASA involvement.

Might be required for whatever insurance process NASA has to follow.

Policy requirements like that are why you see scenarios where people are suing family members when the issue is clearly covered by insurance.

That was my thought as well. Seems like a reasonable amount to cover repairs and some extra without being excessive.

It wasn’t just “the corpos”, you can basically tie changes to the copyright system back to Disney trying to maintain a strangle hold on their fucking mouse.

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/

That depends on if you see the current copyright system as far to start with. The current system is a far cry from how it was created and was co-opted by companies like Disney to maintain monopolies on their IP for MUCH longer than the system was supposed to protect.

In the Star Trek Encyclopedia, 4th ed., vol. 1, p. 244, the Enterprise-J is identified as a Universe-class starship. The same reference book additionally described the ship as having an overall length of 3219 meters.

I can’t find a reference for the Breen Dreadnaught size though, not enough beta canon material for something so new. I can’t find a good source for Fed HQ size to compare either, just that it is actually a Pax class starship, but no size for those.

I’ll believe it’s not an issue when there are zero new issues from this point until the capsule deorbits. They already said the leak would not be an issue when it was on the ground before launch. Then there were problems while docking, and for a while there a question of whether it would even be allowed to dock in the first place until they managed to get deactivated thrusters working again. So, sorry if I don’t trust them with regards to this issue, they’ve been incorrect twice already about this not being an issue. What makes it any different now that it’s up there and sitting in space?

If the RCS system in that service module still has issues, it could be unsafe to disconnect it from the ISS at all if they won’t have consistent control over the module/capsule. The last thing we need is an uncontrolled capsule and service module in the vicinity of the ISS. While the service module doesn’t come back with the capsule, it is necessary right up until reentry. It has all of the thrusters and engine on it to perform the deorbit burn. After it disconnects, the only real maneuver the capsule does is turn around so the heat shield is facing forwards. I get wanting to perform further tests since it doesn’t return with the capsul, no issue there.

But this also brings up a bigger picture question. This is now the second time in roughly a year where there is questionable access to enough seats if they needed to evacuate the station in an emergency. Normally, the craft that are docked cover the number of astronauts on board the station, and any new craft would obviously cover anyone coming up, but there aren’t usually spare seats. If a craft is found to be unsafe to detach from the ISS or return manned for any reason, that means there aren’t enough seats to actually evacuate the station. The Soyuz leak last year left them without enough seats, and now the uncertainty around Starliner theoretically creates a second, regardless of what they want to say publicly. This craft has already showed maneuverability issues, and shouldn’t be trusted in an emergency.

I’d say that’s the point of the registration process, that’s what they can accommodate. Beyond that, people are going to do things on their own regardless you can’t just stop free will. The only alternative to stop that entirely that I can see would be to shut down the borders entirely for anything other than the pilgrimage. Effectively shutting down all unrelated tourism and business for that entire period.