this isn’t mentioned but these are the perfect conditions for corruption or simple stupidity

At this point, I think it’s safe to assume corruption and stupidity are the default, much to everyone’s chagrin.

One of my favorite IRL Easter eggs was attending a beer festival in a random park and finding a cryptid plaque for, apparently, the one island a venomous, flying, furry frog overwinters at before migrating to Nova Scotia every summer.

Yes, but actually no. (Part of the weirdness of U.S. law.)

Passed bills have 10 days during the current legislative session to be signed into law. If they don’t get signed, they automatically become laws. Unless the current legislative session is ending, that is.
If the legislative session is set to end before that 10-day period, not signing the law is a means to veto it without vetoing it - aka the pocket veto.

So - not signing a bill could be a pocket veto, but in this case it is not because the legislative session is going to continue on for awhile.

(Editing to add that this is my ‘just woke up from a nap and typed this out from memory’ recollection of the process. I might be wrong on some specifics, but it should, overall, be correct.)

Didn’t they hit that with their own missile while failing to shoot down a drone near the refinery?

I’m sure it also took drone hits, but the big explosion was from a wayward Russian manpad.

He can. But that’s not the same as refusing to sign.

My high school math teachers would be so disappointed in them.

So they ignore him for 10 days and the law goes into effect anyway.

Fucking toddler throwing a fit. Just ignore him.

But AI is stupid.

In 4 hours, the internet would have dumped enough porn into it that it would think ‘the little death’ is its goal and then try to fuck humanity to death.

(That plot could either be a good camp movie, or a bad porn.)

Nothing says freedom like coercion.

This is delightful. Thank you for sharing it.

Did they turn off the algae treatment system Obama installed?!?

Obama did install ozone generators in 2012.
More info on the renovation.

Prior to the 2010-2012 renovations, it was filled with municipal water, and leaked 500,000 gallons a week, it lacked significant plumbing systems, and had to be drained twice a year and cleaned. It used about 30 million gallons of treated drinking water a year. It also lacked key accessibility features, like paved paths around the pool.
The renovations cost upwards of $34 million. They got the pool off of municipal water and connected it to the tidal basin. They made the pool shallower to use less water, and painted the bottom of the pool a darker color to enhance its ability to reflect the monument.
They didn’t manage to fix all the leaks but who cares when the water comes from the tidal basin that it leaks back into?

I think Trump is doing this to try to step on Obama’s accomplishments while giving hand outs (no bid contracts) to cronies.

It did not need to be done. He’s just an asshole.

Front and back, 8 holes.

… Fleshlight…?

hmm.

A British comedian friend living in the U.S. used to (15-ish years ago) have a joke about asking a guy outside a bar in middle America if he could bum a fag.
He would impersonate the most southern accent he could muster and say “I don’t care. Ain’t no business of mine.” As part of a joke about cultural differences/how the U.S. could be unexpectedly wholesome.

Never asked if that was a true story. We fell out awhile ago.

I believe both iOS and Android now support built in call screening, where a caller must leave a message about why they’re calling and you get to decide if you pick up.

Since enabling it on my iOS device, every spammer has hung up immediately, rather than leave a message or try to talk to me.

I have a sexual parasomnia - while this hasn’t happened in at least 15 years, I used to initiate sex while asleep. I have no memory of it, but I have groped, kissed, sucked on the fingers of people, and sexually touched people sleeping next to me.
I’ve always woken up just before sex occurred, but I’ve accidentally had sex with people before - people who I was attracted to, but maybe didn’t want to bang - because we fell asleep together.

These days I’m not nearly in as many beds as I used to be (regardless of purpose) but I’m also an incredibly light sleeper now. The slightest movement and my conscious brain takes over. (Yay for newly(ish) developed hyper vigilance and anxiety.)
With that said, I don’t sleep next to anyone anymore unless we’ve had a conversation about what could happen, and are on the same page.

To your point about discussing things: The topic of consent around something that I’m not consciously aware is of occurring can be challenging as hell to navigate, but easier than not having a chat beforehand.

I have the forgetting kind of ADHD, so I straight up don’t know what I do and don’t have. This could be handy in that regard.
But I also can’t really see myself using this because the debt of keeping it current would be a nightmare.

Oooh. That’s excellent!

What about even later? Were they seen going home for the day?

Do the workers need to be rebooted? Or like, is the rope they’re using not long enough? Are they just walking laps with a too-short rope, endlessly attempting to enclose a volume they will never have a long enough rope to enclose? Just chasing the end as it moves away from them with each step?
Does their struggle represent the American dream? Is there a smug geometry teacher somewhere yelling “this is why you need to know the formula for perimeters!” at their news source?

Do they change the name of the element every so often or even dynamically, like some websites do?