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For those reading submitters description above, that is only a small part of the article. The whole thing is worth a read.

Jesus,

In one case, a Haitian professor of ethics had won asylum in an immigration court, yet was kept in ice detention for two years while the government appealed the case.

Also

Both guards found endless excuses to sanction Keldy. They confiscated her Bible, barked at her in front of the others, and cut her prayer services short.

"The Christian persecution is coming from inside the house! "

Lastly ::: spoiler The article ends with her deportortation without her kids. That's beyond fucked. :::

Edit: The whole article is an excerpt of the book: "Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis"

"The worst thing was the hypocrisy!"

The big thing is that movements start from local political offices and can grow from there.

It can start with representatives, the rare senator, or even taking over of a party at the state level:

https://apnews.com/article/nevada-bernie-sanders-las-vegas-harry-reid-6f834efcd0dcc3644ce2365447aabab0

Participate in local elections, back primary candidates. Once the numbers are there at the nationwide level, we can push for a more representative electoral system.

We can push system that uses ranked choice voting like Alaska did. We can also increase the size of the house of representatives to better match the idea of representation the founding fathers had for us. It's been nearly a 100 years that the house was capped at 435

The founding fathers had envisioned a house that grew with the size of the country:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Amendment

This laid the intent that we have 1 rep per 30,000 people and increase the constituents per rep by 10,000 each time the house reached another 100 seats.

Or in other words, the max constituents represented by each rep in the house should be:

30,000 + RoundedDown(Number of house seats/100)*10,000

So at 400+ seats (1 rep per 70,000) would make sense for a country of 28 million. Really, with the wording of the amendment and understanding that the examples lay out a mathematical formula for expanding the house indefinitely (but with more people per rep as it goes up) we would have over a 1,000 reps! In fact, some quick math shows that per the original intents, we would have 1700 reps with at most 200,000 constituents each. This would hold until our population reaches 340 million when we'd switch to 1800 reps and a cap per rep of 210,000.

There's a current "Uncap the House" movement, however, I'm unsure of how much momentum they've been gaining.

To see how the number of constituents has grown per member over the years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_apportionment#Number_of_members

In other words, we're being shorted almost 1300 reps!

How old is this house?

In 1971, the US National Electrical Code (NEC) required grounded receptacles in all locations of the home (effective January 1, 1974).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheater_plug#Use_in_residences

You can check with a $6 electrical receptical tester.

It could be that the electrical system was grounded to the waterlines that enter the house (those should definitely be copper).

I mean the article explains exactly what he meant:

"A bipartisan bill would be good for America and help fix our broken immigration system and allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here, and Congress needs to get it done,” Biden said. “It’ll also give me as president, the emergency authority to shut down the border until it could get back under control. If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.”

The deal being negotiated in Congress would require the U.S. to shutter the border if roughly 5,000 migrants cross illegally on any given day.

Not necessarily:

https://www.elections.alaska.gov/RCV.php

Alaska implemented ranked choice voting after voters approved the measure in 2020

s/loose/quick release/

Boeing Marketing

Measuring dry spaghetti portions is a ritual.

He should be forced to carry his unviable campaign to term.

"Do you realize what the street value of this mountain is?!"

Kinda looks like ARK but with Pokemon... Interesting

I just replaced a semi desktop replacement laptop. It was nice in the features (CPU, decent dGPU, high refresh screen) but got tired of the huge and expensive power brick. And as I mentioned, the MB just died on me (which could have been caused from the non-rigid chassis or sub-optimal cooling).

The business laptop I got didn't have a nice screen, but for $85 to $110 you can pickup a portable screen that is higher res, higher refresh, and even has freesync. I nabbed a refurbished 16" portable screen that's 1440p decently bright (>400 nits) and has freesync for under $90 at Newegg.

The extra screen real estate is nice for coding.

TL;DR I'd search for Ryzen 6600u/6650u business type laptops. There be some deals going around since AMD announced the new 8000 series. I just picked up a new Ryzen 6850u very solid aluminum chassis business laptop (16GB RAM/512GB nvme) for a fair bit under $600.

A few other considerations I'd add to help you narrow down your pick:

1. How often will the laptop be moved and does the rigidity and strength of the case matter?
2. What kind of battery life are you looking for?
3. Will you be happy with an iGPU?
4. How big of a power brick do you want to lug around?

Regarding #1 different brands have models that have really excellent chassis and are more durable.

Some examples: Lenovo has the Flex with a surprisingly strong chassis, while the IdeaPad Gaming will have a weaker chassis (I treated mine well and the laptop MB still just up and died one day). For HP Elitebooks are expensive new, but you get an aluminum chassis (like MacBooks). If you look at used elitebooks you can get some really good deals in your price range. ThinkPads are another line that is very durable and rigid.

#3 For good iGPUs you can score some Ryzen 6600u/6650u or 6800u/6850u. Those come with 6 (660m) and 12 (680m)core Navi 2 GPUs (like the Steam Deck which has 8). They're pretty decent for some light gaming. You can get those with upgradeable DDR5 4800 or soldered LPDDR5 6400

The newer 7000 Ryzen APUs come with the 740m (4c), 760m (8c), or the 780m (12c). But are still at their normal (high) prices.

Ryzen 4000 and 5000 APUs will come with Vega graphics (and DDR4) not terrible but the 680m and 780m are a huge jump (+50%).

AMD recently announced the 8000 series APUs, main difference is they are now Navi 3 and are like 50-70% better at some AI tasks. Because of this, the older 6000s on shelves are being marked down a fair bit.

#2 Typically the manufacturing process of the CPU/APU + Battery size will be the main indicators of battery life. Ryzen 7 4x00 is the oldest I would go (those are 7nm). 6000 drop to 6nm, and some of the 7000 drop to a 4nm process.

#4 Power brick: Usually a laptop with a discrete GPU will need a much larger power brick. You can find some good deals on laptops that have a dGPU but then you'll be stuck with a proprietary 120w power brick instead of a 45w to 96w USB-C power adapter. The lowest end GPUs are usually in the 50w range which can bump you out of using a USB-C power brick.

Hopefully someone else will chime in with some Intel laptop recommendations and hints.

Edit: If you have to have a numberpad then you'll probably be limited to a 16" or larger laptop. I just lug around a cheap mechanical keyboard (and a trackball mouse) in my bag and hardly touch the laptop KB.

From the same article:

Israel blames Hamas for all subsequent harm to Palestinian civilians for operating among them, which the fighters deny.

Might be cheating with an end credits sequence, but I would say Psycho Pass' first ending sequence

Honorable mentions:

Chill Category

Ergo Proxy

High Energy Category

Steins Gate

"Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"

Didn't expect a "The title is the article" from AP!

Lots of words to say "we don't know who this person of interest is":

Detroit police did not say Sunday evening if the suspect currently being held is the same person previously arrested in the case.

An attorney for the person arrested in November told The Associated Press on Monday that her client is not the person of interest currently being held by police.

No other details were released by police.

More like unexpected new features, like the all new spontaneous exit row!