Rentlar

My personal take:

More pay for personnel, better barracks conditions, upgrades to the decades old hardware? Great. Future opportunities for civilian logistical training that would help in the event of a war-like situation or disaster? Great.

Billions on shiny new toys be it the F35 or the Gripen? That's where I think there are way more cost effective ways to wage a war that would be asymmetrical, should one of the major powers (China, Russia or the US) try to engage in one with us. Some are necessary but the whole plan can't be rested on ribbon cutting for novelties at the expense of the basics.

Do we have the capability to convert our factories, refineries and shipyards to produce drones, autonomous vehicles, mines and short range missiles? Can we learn the lessons from Ukrainian commanders that clearly the current US top brass don't care to listen to? Can we build railway infrastructure that would be useful to mobilize tens of thousands of troops, so that one chokepoint bridge destroyed won't sever our national logistical network?

Focusing more on that will free up more room on the other end to make our lives better. The US Israel Iran war shows that spending endless coffers of money on the MIC doesn't guarantee victory.

¿Porque no l@s dos?

Good questions. At a minimum any VPN marketing in MN would need to tiptoe around claims that you can watch region locked content as if you were there.

Personally, I think VPNs that don’t receive or keep customers' info and logs could have a credible argument that they don't know whether their customers use it for prediction markets or not.

Here is the relevant text of the signed bill SF4760, make your judgement as you will:

81.23 Subd. 2. Prediction markets; hosting prohibited. A person is guilty of a felony if the 81.24 person, for consideration and as part of a business

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82.14 (5) provides supportive services to a prediction market or consumer knowing that the 82.15 services will be used to identify a consumer's location, transfer money, or make or process 82.16 payments for the purpose of allowing consumers to make wagers or to settle wagers made 82.17 by consumers in violation of this section.

Taking a picture of your checked suitcase is a good idea regardless. For accidental or nefarious purposes your baggage might be mixed up so being able to show a picture is always handy.

If the police would prefer dropping criminal cases over revealing the tool they used to produce evidence to form the case, they shouldn't be using the tool to begin with.

Will a McDonald's employee get it if he dies from a stroke from high cholesterol?

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The offramp is to put your own party on trial for how heinous you have let it become.

Better than Lammy promising to cut children in jail awaiting trial by 25%.

As a result, democracies across the planet are now threatened by what might be called fossil fuel fascism – an extremist political movement that breaks laws, spreads lies and threatens violence in an increasingly desperate attempt to maintain markets for oil, gas and coal that would otherwise be replaced by cheaper renewables.

Finally, a more mainstream news org able to put out an opinion properly calling out the US as fascist, and "fossil fuel fascism" is an apt phrase to describe the deliberate effort by Republicans, billionaires and corporations to hinder progress and kill the planet for their own bottom lines.

I've become more emboldened to talk to people about how much better renewables have become and will be... clearly it's having an effect against trillion dollar corporate and state backed PR campaigns.

Fair assessment for VI, that 3 or 4 way split sure did sting...