Wink wink, hint hint.

His term as Fed Chair ends in May 2026. He’ll still be a voting governor when his chairmanship ends.

Make no mistake, this is a dress rehearsal for firing Powell. Trump is testing what he can do with the “for cause” language. If the Supreme Court is deferential, and willing to accept a broad definition of “for cause” and defer to the president to determine exactly what “cause” is sufficient to justify firing a Fed governor, you can 100% assume that firing Powell for “cause” relating to his remodel of the Fed buildings. In addition, if this firing sticks, Trump will end up with 4 of 7 Board of Governors appointees.

The fact that he flagged down a cop to tell them about it makes it pretty clear that he wasn’t really looking to drug them per se, but rather to cause a legal incident. It may be that he wanted to sue Dairy Queen for profit, or perhaps get someone at the DQ store in trouble, or to blame it on a political group he deems undesirable (immigrant workers, trans people, liberals, etc.). In any event, it’s psychopathic.

Sofa-king cute!

Reddit has been on a slow, steady downward trajectory for over a decade. However, it was the rampant engagement bots nagging me with inane questions that drove me away. That, and overzealous moderation deleting comments and dishing out temporary bans for the lamest reasons. Reddit used to be the place where smart and funny people hung out and shared. Now it’s just another bland social media site trying to wring the greatest profit out the unwashed masses.

If they are looking to date younger, I’d say that 25 would probably be the realistic minimum, as that is the age by which the brain is fully developed. If a thirty year old is looking to date older, I don’t really see any real limit. Their brain is fully developed, and they’ve been an adult long enough that they can evaluate the pros and cons of the older person.

So dumb. I hate that these morons are dictating that I can’t protect myself with a vaccination unless I get my doctor to prescribe it and pay for it out of pocket.

Well then, you’re already all set. Google edition phones all have unlocked bootloaders. I’m currently running a Pixel 6 Pro with GrapheneOS. It’s super easy to install and use, even if you’ve never messed with your phone before. I’ve been looking to potentially upgrade to a newer phone, because mine is a few generations old and Graphene doesn’t support phones forever, though they do for quite a while. An unlocked Pixel 9 Pro is around $550-650 right now, but I’ll probably wait another 6 months, as the prices will probably fall another $100-$200 in that time frame.

Now that the Pixel 10 is out, the Pixel 9 prices are falling. If you’re going to load GrapheneOS, you need to make sure you get a phone that has an unlocked bootloader, which is different than being carrier unlocked. Any phone that was initially sold through a carrier like Verizon or ATT will have a locked bootloader, as the carriers don’t like people messing with the phone software to unlock features that they may charge for (e.g. hotspot).

Silly Jesus, doesn’t he know that Christians pick and choose to believe only what is convenient and matches their own biases?

This is great! Bottas is a talented driver that I was hoping to see return to the grid, and in view of the performance of the drivers that came after him, I think Perez was unfairly let go for struggling with what was undeniably an extremely difficult car to drive. Both now get a shot at redemption, and Cadillac gets the benefit of their experience to help develop their car. Hopefully the car will be at least somewhat competitive.

Sure glad I de-googled with GrapheneOS that ironically runs on Pixel phones.

Our allies, NATO, and the general support and acceptance that we were the “good guys” (or at least generally better than the alternative) was a far FAR greater asset, and those wheels are already falling off.

It’s incredibly sad how quickly we’ve squandered what took an incredible amount of blood, resources, and time to build. We emerged from WWII as the most formidable power in the world, and instead of using that power to conquer and exploit, we instead used it build allies and good will instead, and created the Western World Order. We helped rebuild Japan and Germany and made them into staunch allies. Instead of using military threats and coercion, we used soft power to bring countries around to our way of thinking. As a consequence, we made ourselves and the rest of the world wealthy. Now we have spoiled children with no understanding of how things work or the precarious nature of our prosperity making ham-fisted changes and bullying the world, using threats to try to coerce nations that we should be treating as allies. Before we were the benevolent giant. Now we are a dangerous threat to be dealt with.

How have you navigated the visa and residency issues? I’d like to settle somewhere and stay, but in a lot of the places I’m considering residency and a path to citizenship are potentially challenging.

Yes, the U.S. has the worlds strongest military today. However, nothing is ever static. Warfare evolves quickly, and can render past strategies and weapons systems obsolete. Consider trench warfare, which was the most important tactic of World War I. The French dug massive trenches, and its Maginot line was considered a formidable defense against German aggression. When Germany attacked France in WWII, did it throw its troops into the meat grinder of trench warfare? No. Germany leveraged the growing sophistication of air power into its Blitzkrieg strategy, and easily crushed France in weeks.

We’re seeing the same thing play out in Ukraine today. Russia went in with its “Special Military Operation” expecting to take Ukraine in days. Now, over 3 years later, Ukraine is still in the fight, and Russia is still expending resources trying to take Ukraine. Moreover, drone warfare has evolved at a rapid pace, and Ukraine has used sea-going drones to nullify Russia’s Navy.

Yes, the U.S. has the most formidable military in the world, even given the recent changes in the way wars are fought. However, the assumption that the U.S. will remain able to dominate the world militarily indefinitely is dangerous. The manufacturing capacity of the U.S. is not nearly what it once was, and being able to crank out inexpensive drones is likely an area where China could outclass the U.S… Moreover, if the U.S. continues along its path of bullying the world, it weakens its alliances and induces other countries to ally against it. Can the most powerful military in the world stand against the entire rest of the world fighting together? Further, one of Germany’s biggest weaknesses was the leadership at the top. Having a narcissistic psychopath at the top that thinks they know everything is not conducive to effective military strategy, especially when they punish those who tell them what they don’t want to hear. Trump is constantly shutting down dissenting voices, rather than listening to see if what they’re saying has merit. When you surround yourself with yes-men, sooner or later your fantasy bubble runs into the cold, hard reality of the actual world around you.

Finally, you state that it’s “only a matter of time until wherever you move is captured.” This simply isn’t true. There are lots of places in the world that don’t hold significant resources and/or strategic value to make them worth expending resources on to capture and hold. The coming fight isn’t going to be everywhere, all at once. There are many small, insignificant corners of the world where it will be relatively safe to live while the powers at odds fight it out.

This is my plan. There is literally nothing for me in the United States anymore, and I don’t want to be a party to what comes next. I think I need to get out before the clamp-down on leaving comes.

An adorable gentleman with a nice goatee.

“Fuck yo couch!”

It’s not the size of the water heater, it’s the volume of water output.