I loved that book so much. I definitely wanted more math-centric stories after that.

The day after Trump was elected, I was in the Pentagon and it was like a funeral inside. The day before the election, high ranking military officers were openly mocking Trump (even 2 star generals). Maybe because I’m involved in Air Force/Space Force vs Army/Navy/Marines, but every general I’ve ever met dedicates their lives to the people below them as opposed to their president at the time. When a president comes along and threatens those people, it isn’t taken lightly. Again, maybe it is specific to the forces that I work with, or maybe that I work on the acquisition side and not the boots on the ground side, but my impression is that even the very religious and conservative leaders are not happy with how the people they see as their family are being treated.

I’m pretty sure every person with a firm grasp of reality predicted this would happen.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

Yeah, what is this, a fanfic mashup of The Magicians and Supernatural?

There is no way this is a good thing. Summoning a single general to a meeting without giving any context is not a thing that is done. Summoning all of them and not stating the meeting purpose or providing read ahead charts or pre-briefs… that’s incredibly ominous.

I’m hoping it is only him directing them to call it Dept of War (DoW) on all official comms instead of DoD.

That’s… not at all what that term means.

I had a lot of Central and South American friends growing up (well, “a lot” relative to most people in the Midwest in the 80s). Some of them said their families back in their parents’ home countries got upset if they called themselves Americans. I understand that feeling, but my response was, “OK, so what should you call a person from the United States of America?” They didn’t have a better idea than just saying American, which is why I think most people around the world just accept the term even if it is a little separatist. There just isn’t a better term.

and her Republican challenger, Daniel Butierez, have publicly expressed their intent

People say a lot of things to get elected. What happens after is a whole different thing. Trump was adamant about releasing the Epstein files during the election…

You should hit the gym more, just in case shit pops off.

Oh, they’re offensive, all right.

Having spent a ton of time in Bavaria, yeah, it’s closer to Texas or the Midwest than the South.

Shit, I stand corrected. My bad.

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My normal toilet lets me shit remotely. Who the hell has a toilet that only lets them shit at home?

He’s bound and determined to turn us into Turkey, where Erdogan keeps the interest rates low so his buddies can buy up everything while the economy craters.

As much as I advocate autonomous cars and have taken multiple Waymos in a couple cities, one limitation Waymos have is when there is a queuing situation like at dropoff/pickup areas. Whenever organized chaos is overcome by humans and nonverbal communication, Waymos just fall flat. Hotel valet areas, office building dropoff areas, narrow streets with parking on both sides when a work truck is parked to unload something, etc. Waymos just stop working.

That would be an attempt. There is a reason why US DoD regulations have required levels of “shredding.” The method must make the material unable to be reassembled. His wording said they had forensic evidence of a note, but the note was destroyed. This implies they no longer can give that note to the people asking for evidence. If his team was able to reassemble it, then he could have given that evidence over. He was very clear that he was unable to provide any evidence.

Now, what he might have meant was they found pointers to a memory location on a harddrive that had truly been wiped. A simplistic analogy would be like how Word shows you recently edited documents, but if you change the name of a document outside of Word it will not be a correct pointer when you try to select it from history in Word. There might be forensic evidence pointing to a file that was created, but they cannot access the file due to an ACTUAL deletion.

Except that isn’t what he said. He didn’t say that someone attempted to destroy it. He said it was destroyed.

Reading the back-story for why she made headlines is basically Republicans in a nutshell. A white male R state senator took a subtle photo of an Iranian-American female D state senator without her permission. He then shared the photo on a GOP group chat where they all made fun of her and said she looks like a stripper and a prostitute. When it got reported that this was happening in their chat, he deleted his post and denied knowing anything about it. The guy is also the Chair of the anti-harassment committee. This woman who just resigned also said she had no idea who took the photo or anything about the chat that she was on. When security footage showed the guy took the photo and screenshots of the chat showed him making fun of her, he decided to resign to avoid punishment while also making a Twitter post about how he was being unjustly persecuted. This woman also got on the floor to yell at people for calling to question her integrity for lying about who took the photo and everything about the case.

How dare this woman of color act like a white person while wearing whatever she wants!?!

How dare you question my integrity after I lied right to your face to protect an abusive piece of shit!?!

Also, since body shaming is OK for him, let me say that he looks exactly like who you would picture if someone said, “a truck driver was arrested for aggravated assault while intoxicated.”