I like how you throw in ‘even the Americans’ with the spying groups. We definitely spy in all our allies. And in return we encourage our allies to spy on us. It is a very calculated political game where we (all the allied countries) pass legislation and safeguards in our respective home countries and declare our citizens free of authoritarian government surveillance, but then work with the other countries spy agencies to do it for us. We intentionally put in the backdoors in our peoples networks and hand the keys to our partners just so we can say ‘well I wasn’t spying on you. That would be illegal!’ But in the end it is effectively the same. If the allied government finds anything of interest they just send a notification over. We each have boundaries that we respect in spying on each other’s people too. It is almost a formallity by this point.

If you really want to blow your mind, look into the theoretical alternatives to DNA. we are all taught about RNA and how it is a precursor to DNA, but what if it went another way? Look up PNA, PNA-O, or even GNA. If life existed on other worlds, there is a decent chance it follows an xNA structure, but not necessarily DNA.

Ah yes, the 4X buisness strategy. Building an empire through four core pillars:

eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate

Lots of research has been done on this. But I would highly recommend watching the YouTube video that was posted by the top commenter instead of trying to dig through what’s out there.

5th movie? Schindler was in episode 1. He was literally the man who resued the boy from the nazi slavers. The queen he was helping hide is also a jew.

Kind-of. If you open the first document attached to the page it is the “order” , essentially the “ruling”.

Page 4 really outlines the crux of it all:

“Granting or denying a temporary injunction is a discretionary act arising from a court’s equitable powers.” May v. R.A. Yancey Lumber Corp., 297 Va. 1, 18 (2019). It is an “extraordinary remedy” dependent on the “nature and circumstances” of an individual case. Levisa Coal Co. v. Consolidation Coal Co., 276 Va. 44, 60 (2008). As a threshold requirement, a court may issue a preliminary injunction only if it first determines that the movant will more likely than not suffer irreparable harm without the preliminary injunction. Cartograf USA, Inc. v. Comerica Bank, 85 Va. App. 1, 19 (2025). If that irreparable-harm threshold is met, the court must then determine whether three additional factors support issuance of the injunction: (1) the movant has asserted a legally viable claim based on credible facts that will more likely than not succeed on the merits; (2) the balance of hardships favors granting the preliminary injunction; and (3) the public interest, if any, supports issuance of a preliminary injunction. Id. Separately, Virginia law provides that no temporary injunction shall be awarded unless the court is satisfied of the plaintiff’s equity. Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-628.

So basically step one is they have to show “irreparable-harm”, and judge agreed that they do, therefore, go to step two, check these three specific things per each argument.

The Republicans had four key arguments:

First, plaintiffs claim the creation of the 2026 maps was unlawful because the legislature lacked the authority to engage in redistricting prior to the enactment of the amendment. (Plaintiffs’ Memorandum in Opposition at 6-8). Second, Plaintiffs allege the creation of the 2026 maps exceeds the legislature’s limited authority under the amendment to “modify” districts. (Id. at 8). Third, they argue that the amendment, as passed, continues to require compactness. (Id. at 8-18). Finally, Plaintiffs claim that the resulting districts fail to comply with that compactness requirement. (Id.).

I will save pasting the other giant paragraphs that went into it, but basically they get told “no.” On all 4 claims. The maps were made legally, they followed the state constitution, and they were drawn with the correct restrictions.

The Republicans also tried to argue that the compactness was part of the state constitution 2020 amendment, even though there was specifically a section on mid-decade redistricting that threw out most all rules in this exact scenario. The amendment was written the the word “except” in it, and they were arguing the except applied to the words before it, not after. The court said that is absolutely absurd and not how words work.

In the end, the judge said:

Many a tradition and law has been laid down in the advancement of a national quest for political power, and the winds that will blow cannot yet be known. Nonetheless, this Court knows its role is clear. It is not to assess the wisdom of public policy nor to engage in policy making from the bench. Instead, it is to decide if those with whom we have entrusted power have exercised that power in conformance with their constitutional mandate. On this question, the Court’s answer is in the affirmative. For these reasons, the Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction is DENIED. It is so ORDERED.

Saying, it is his job to rule on following law, not make policy through rulings, and the democrats followed the law.

So now, the Republicans can appeal it higher (not enough time to matter), or they need to refile with different reasons (but they already threw all the spaghetti at the wall and nothing stuck).

Alternatively: We can remember for you, whole-Dick

I have a clinical doctorate and can make about 110k. I have also chosen to work on a PhD for research in my field. When i finish at the end of the year, my additional doctorate and an entry research job should bring my earning potential to… 110k. Or I can do a post-doc and earn 65k. I can also go into industry and make about 170k. I did my clinical fellowship at NIH and saw the research first hand and know how needed amd impactful it is. Science in this country was already getting strained, under trump it has become a joke.

Disagree. You and so many others throw around the word communism as if it is a specific type, rather than a general type. Not only that, communism and capitalism as not mutually exclusive. We have communism in capitalist societies and there was capitalism inside the USSR’s communism.

We have fully functioning communes within the USA. Those are communists living happily inside a communist community, with communist leadership, and communist ideals, all as a sub community within normal American cities. And it is successful.

The US has communism/socialism even within its own government. We have communist firefighters. There was a time all fire brigades were private and sold memberships and private insurance. It was communism that made it a public service. Even the socialist healthcare in the military was not always that way. Up until the Civil War it was private healthcare and the medics were for the battlefield only. All after care was out of pocket. Even for a time after the Civil War large amounts were not covered by the military.

And even looking at the previous poster’s comment about not seeing true communism- that is a category- are they referring to Lennonist communism? Maoist? Marxist? It’s like saying all capitalist governments are the same, as if the EU and the US, and Nigeria are all the same types of government.

Amazing meme choice. Sounds like a fun read.

“An improved analysis method of Phrenology”

Congratulations. I hope your edits are few and potential publications are plentiful. What was the topic?

Committee members for supervising thesis and dissertations are normally locked once you submit the committee form. There are no changing them unless it is under extreme circumstances. We are talking circumstances like death, retirement, and pending legal issues. Otherwise, things like scheduling, professional conflicts, and personality differences are not acceptable reasons. Sucks for OOP for being stuck with a shitty person.

The really crazy part is when you look at it as a percentage of the budget and compare it to pre war levels. It isn’t what you think. In 2000 the budget was $304 billion, a total of 16.7% of the federal budget. Then 2 wars later of ballooning costs and it grew all the way up to $962 billion (the 2025 approved budget. Not counting the random $500 billion he is trying to add in). But this is now only 13.7% of thr total budget. Somehow the percentage has gone down.

Now, if you know numbers you should know that percentages get messy and are misleading to look at. The real question is what the fuck is going on with the giant ballooning budget that has gotten spending so out of control that this monstrous defense spending is now somehow a lower percentage than pre-war spending??? And the real kicker is that we are ballooning on spending, but none of it is going to actually helping the people paying the taxes! None of it is helping built up infrastructure, invest in education, build communities -nothing that helps build this country.

Trump is blowing through money and we doing even get anything out of it.

The HPV virus is also slowely being implicated in causing some throat, neck, and tonsillar cancers in men. The vaccine in men helps prevent those too. It is argued that everyone should get it, and the younger the better (younger as in around 14, not 20’s or 30’s).

The crowd you see in the first pic, to the left of the stage, is symmetric to the other side, just not shown in the pictures I put in the post. The crowd behind the sight line of the camera is the big question. But if you go by normal venue layouts and make an educated guess based off the width you can see, I would put it at maybe 3x deeper then the stage, plus wings. So maybe 200? No more than 300. So, like I said it would be about a large club or medium rock lounge. Think slightly smaller than your standard House of Blues venue.

This is not from the TP USA halftime show. Easily verifiable not. The real halftime show pictures look like this.

https://share.google/images/uK1RQ4gxBgmvRVBng

https://share.google/images/MdKlpr495TlLIDzaW

You can see the venue isn’t that deep on the sides though. And all the pictures are intentionally not showing the crowd (180 view from pictures). The venue isn’t that big. A large club or mid size rock lounge is about the same size. Still laughable, but we don’t need to miss-attribute pictures and lie about their context.

$300/month (at the beginning of the month) invested over 30 years, compounded annually at 6% = $198,290.40

If you kept that going for a full 50 years, the last 20 years of interest really starts to ramp up and gives you a final value of $1,084,402.22

If instead, you ONLY paid the mortgage for 30 years, then invest the full mortgage payment of $2,648 into the investment account for the next 20 years (a total of 50 years out. Same end point) you would have an investment account worth $1,215,042.49

So, even in your scenario it is still a loss to take a 50 year over the 30 year, and the 300$ difference is negligible. If $300 was the difference of someone being able to afford groceries or not for the month, then they should not have qualified for a $2,648/mo mortgage.

Not to intentionally interclude, but perclude and reclude seem to have seclude from english.

We do not wish to exclude the population because it would preclude comparative analysis, but we wish to disclude them from this study in order to conclude the initial hypothesis.