That's using the budget they have now.
The new budget going through right now increases their budget to an absurd degree. ICE is about to have a larger budget than any other country's entire military and defense budget.
They're 100% militarizing the gestapo.
I live in Texas. I own like 2 shirts with long sleeves in case I have to go to a funeral or something.
RICO stands for "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations"
That's the first item on the list.
I have health insurance in the US and still have to pay a fuckton in copays to use it.
In early May, I searched GPs on my Healthcare plan, and I get to see a doctor on Jully 11.
I'm stocking up on ammunition in case I need it for self-defense and using a no-log VPN when criticizing the government.
So I'm gonna go with "No."
I didn't finish building the dividing wall in the garage in time to insurance air conditioning by mid-May.
The project will remain unfinished and I just won't use the workshop this summer.
That's just because Microsoft waited until Android and iOS were well-established before trying to make a smartphone OS. It could have been the best OS ever made, and it still would have been a failure because there wasn't a market for a third OS. It was hard enough at the time to get apps developed for both iOS and Android - there wasn't room for a third player.
The Schumaker films had good casting. Clooney, Kilmer, Thurman, Jones, and Carrey were all great for their roles. They just happened to be cast in terrible films.
They can be awful on multiple fronts.
Oh, they're coming. But they won't end well.
Our twist is the "heartland" will celebrate Bell's murder, insist that the concentration camp program be expanded, and push for the ration card system to be refunded.
If Kent State happened today, they'd be upset that more protestors weren't murdered.
Everyone talking about how it's because of Windows 11 or their greed driving people away, etc. But they're ignoring the big one:
People don't need as many computers these days. You don't have a lot of households with a laptop for every member of the family because smartphones and tablets have replaced the PC for many people for media consumption and basic tasks.
Sometimes re-wiring a house or building isn't as practical as setting up a mesh network that's good-enough.
The worst one I do is my sister's NB spouse. I knew them for decades before they realized they were NB and let us know, and I screw it up with them all the time. It's not because I don't support them. It's because I don't see anything different about them. They're still family and they make my sister and their son happy.
We still nerd out over the same stuff and and our relationship hasn't really changed at all. So I slip and refer to them as "him." I think sometimes that my love for them and who they've always been has in a way blinded me to the outward change.
Yeah. I get it.
But when I did the book, I went in completely blind. There's zero indication it's going to involve extraterrestrial intelligence until suddenly it does. I loved the surprise and feel sad that so many moviegoers are gonna be robbed of that experience.
It's a bad band for cellular. It's short-range and shit at penetration.
It's really not even that good for wifi unless you're close or have a mesh network with APs all over the building.
Yeah. I'm not going to any celebrations of the country this weekend. I don't have it in me to be patriotic right now. It's wild how far we've fallen in the past decade. And flabbergasting how much further we fell over the last 6 months.
I never thought I'd literally be stocking up on ammunition over political shifts in the US. That's what the crazies on the right do.