No need to fight Cruz for the last scrap of rat liver. You’ve got a whole pig right there.

Some of them are built so the front doesn’t fall off at all.

As long as you live frugally and in a reasonable COL area, this isn’t crazy expensive. Doable with a couple million in net worth. Huge difference between that and what many of the rich are worth. The reality is that a million dollars isn’t what it used to be and the fight isn’t with people with single digit millions, it’s with people with triple digit millions and up. Yes, having single digit millions feels like being rich in today’s economy to many, but, in the eyes of the truly wealthy, a single digit millionaire might as well be a destitute homeless person.

And it gets even stranger. Apparently, the app is loading JavaScript from a random person’s GitHub site for YouTube embeds. Yes, you read that right, it’s just loading JavaScript from a random GitHub site. So if that account ever gets compromised, arbitrary code could run inside the app’s WebView.

Somebody has the opportunity to do the most hilarious thing.

There’s not really a reason to be upset with a phone running a privacy focused version of Android. Android, at heart, is Linux with some runtime stuff on top. The runtime stuff has open source versions that Google is involved with, but its still open source. There’s also independent reimplementations of some of the proprietary Google stuff.

The thing is, there’s really only 2 mobile platforms with any sort of application support: iOS and Android. iOS will probably never have open source versions. If you go outside those 2 platforms, you end up being very limited. You can talk to Amazon, Mozilla, Canonical, Microsoft, Palm, BlackBerry, and others about what that world looks like. So, if you want to have any application support and therefore any traction, the best bet is to take something that’s already mostly open source, reimplement the non open source bits, and make sure what’s left doesn’t depend on Google (though most have a way to use Google services, often is a restricted way, if you need that). That’s what /e/OS and GrapheneOS do.

Could be plated copper, unless you have better information - I’ve seen similar components in breaker panels and the like that are plated copper (plated because raw copper likes to corrode and get ugly looking).

If they’re plated copper, they might actually have decent value. Several of the components there are electrical, so they genuinely might be. A couple of them just look like coupler nuts, so cheap mild steel.

Me too! It’s my favorite song!

Yeah, I don’t know how Disney greenlight Andor, given that they haven’t exactly been especially anti fascist in their real world politics. Though I will give them a very small credit for keeping Jimmy Kimmel on (albeit after public pushback, which is why they get very little credit).

Actually, that’s not the only surprising thing they greenlight recently. Apparently the concept for Zootopia was basically stolen. The writer sued and lost (those sorts of cases are really hard to win). But the plot of Zootopia 2 appears to be basically an apology. See: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/zootopia-exposed-part-one . How Disney legal let that go, I have no idea.

You must not have seen the Andor series. Fascism is upfront and center.

And the Andor series is literally a class on fascism. Things presented there are inspired by real world events. The second season in particular makes it REALLY clear. You literally have the Empire conspiring with media to produce propaganda to undermine the Ghorman people so the Empire can come in and steal the planet’s resources and kill the people. Then the Empire stages a massacre and uses it as further propaganda

You assume he’s ever played, never mind understands, a game that complicated. Uno is too complicated for him. Tic tac toe is a stretch.

Same way he handles everything - copious amounts of alcohol.

It also ignores James who explicitly says that you need works and faith. That particular passage seems to be a direct response contradicting Paul who strongly asserted that it’s just faith. Which makes it really fun for Christians who claim the Bible is inerrant or that if there are any issues, they don’t affect theology.

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

Do you like “Everything is Awesome” also?

The other thing is that the king of England isn’t really a real king. These days, it’s basically a ceremonial position more than anything and doesn’t have a whole lot of real power.

On the one hand, I get where Jeffries is coming from. Even if the Democrats take the Senate, chances of a removal are slim to none since they won’t have the votes for a removal. So why waste time on constant impeachments that go nowhere - better to focus on something that maybe makes a difference. On the other hand, the principal of the thing says yes impeach him over and over again. Even if there’s no removal, we need to make it clear that Trump’s a tyrant and operating illegally and unconstitutionally.

They’re eating corporals, they’re eating privates.

Yeah, maybe just slit their neck WIDE open. Or, if you’ve got the ammo, unload a magazine into their skull.