This letter reads to me like it is someone from the Kansas executive branch (run by Democrat Governor Laura Kelly) legitimately apologizing that they are bound by Republican made, veto-overridden law to cause this inconvenience, but maybe I’m being too generous

That’s just a more handwavy version of 1. Unless you are saying that new technology will come along that will make existing fabrication facilities capable of higher throughput without substantial upgrades/expansions to those facilities? It seems unlikely to happen any sooner than 1 does either way, unless there is a high readiness level technology that’s going to massively disrupt the established field of industrial engineering in the next year that I haven’t heard anything about

Is this a European post I’m too American to understand? Plenty of people graduate college with tens or even hundreds of thousands of net negative worth. Getting to above 0 from that point is a big accomplishment, and could be considered “on-track” as late as your 30s depending on your income and savings ratio. That being said, I wouldn’t say you should hope to be in America-levels of student debt, so maybe that’s the joke and I’m just slow

My city uses pedestrian aprons at intersections to pile up the snow plowed off of the road. So even when the snow on the path melts, the pile will be there for several additional weeks or even months making it unusable. Very cool

So we are cutting off military aid to Israel then, right? Right?

Not saying this is you, but for a very long time, the moderate argument is, “we can’t get a total victory here, so we shouldn’t bother resisting Republicans” and, frankly, I’m done with that line of thinking. If it makes Republicans life harder, it must be done. If they have to explain to their voting base why they aren’t willing to make ICE agents unmask in order to keep TSA staffed at airports, that is worth making them do. I don’t expect a miracle, I expect a spine

God, there’s so much wrong with the reality behind that headline. Megadonors shouldn’t be a thing. Donors with major business before the government should especially not be megasized because of the conflict of interest. Super PACs shouldn’t exist. The president should not have a Super PAC

I don’t know the specifics for this reported case, and I’m not interested in learning them, but I know part of the controversy with the grok deep fake thing when it first became a big story was that Grok was starting to add risqué elements to prompted pictures even when the prompt didn’t ask for them. But yeah, if users are giving shitty prompts (and I’m sure too many are), they are equally at fault with Grok’s devs/designers who did not put in safeguards to prevent those prompts from being actionable before releasing it to the public

The real victims of imperialism are the tourism industry and it’s customers /s