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Range, I’d guess. From what I’ve read, the base they’re using to resupply is more than 2,000 miles away. I don’t think helicopters fly that far without refueling.

Inhofe. He’s dead.

Or! You’re too interesting and they can’t quit you.

Took a nap til someone woke him up. Then he kinda blew up?

If I understand it correctly, it’s the use of negative framing of another person’s physical attributes or demeanor, constructed in the hope the receiver of the “negging” has low enough self-esteem to agree with the assessment and will assume the asshole is a person of higher intrinsic worth.

There might be more to it, but I usually just think of it as a form of reverse psychology + emotional abuse.

…how is Jane Bennet smarter than Emma?

…is he not British?

Feel like I’m missing something obvious here — do laptops just not do discrete GPUs anymore? Are they just no longer necessary?

I feel like we could save a word and just change “forward defense” to “invasion.”

Funny you should mention it…

4Chan launches legal action against Ofcom in US

For sure: House Republicans move to override Trump vetoes in rare show of defiance

Not wild about the style of it; like…I can decide what to care about from the facts, I don’t need the site to tell me why something matters.

House GOP leaders are teeing up a vote Thursday to override the first two vetoes of President Trump’s second term.

Why it matters: It’s unusual for the Republican-led Congress to openly defy Trump.

The measures are expected to pass the House with bipartisan support, two sources told Axios. Given Trump’s vetoes, some Republicans could peel off after initially backing the bills. Overriding the vetoes would require a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate — a rarely met threshold.

Driving the news: Trump rejected a measure to ease payments for a long-planned water pipeline supporting southeastern Colorado and another that would have expanded the Miccosukee Tribe’s reserved area in the Florida Everglades, the White House announced last week.

Both bills cleared Capitol Hill in December with bipartisan support. Politico first reported that the House would vote to override the vetoes. Zoom in: The Miccosukee Tribe has been at odds with the White House over its plans to build its “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention center.

Florida lawmakers in both chambers backed the bill. Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) said it was about “fairness and conservation.” In his veto notice, Trump accused the tribe of obstructing his immigration policies and said the bill benefitted “special interests.”

The water pipeline legislation, championed by Colorado lawmakers, would provide drinking water to communities in southeastern Colorado, according to the Bureau of Reclamation.

But Trump said the bill would “continue the failed policies of the past by forcing Federal taxpayers to bear even more of the massive costs of a local water project.” He added, “Enough is enough.”

What they’re saying: “This isn’t over,” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), a Trump ally, posted on X after Trump’s veto. The water pipeline project sits in Boebert’s district.

A White House spokesperson referred Axios to Trump’s statement on the veto when asked for comment on Boebert’s statement.

Between the lines: It’s the latest example of Trump’s clashes with MAGA women.

Boebert defied Trump late last year when she became one of four House Republicans to sign a discharge petition forcing a vote on releasing Epstein-related files — despite White House pressure to withdraw her name.

Guys, I dunno if you know this, but we could probably have multiple trials simultaneously and speed this all along.

Affected workers say the shutdown has been a continuation of attacks they have experienced under the Trump administration, from mass firings – many of which have been overturned or blocked in federal courts – to drastic budget cuts, pushes to take early retirements or resignation buyouts, and threats of withholding back pay for workers furloughed during the shutdown.

I mean…no?

kernel-level AC

This sounds like they did you a solid by not working. I’ll have to look up this genre of shooter, though; not something I’ve heard of before. I tend to be too easily annoyed for anything that isn’t single-player or local co-op these days, although some part of me still remembers some MMOs though rose-colored nostalgia glasses.

I keep waiting for the headline to be something like “Vance slammed face-first into the sidewalk by passersby until he stopped twitching,” but I’m always disappointed.

This may be the first time I haven’t fallen into the subset of “everybody.”

Everything I want to play runs using Linux/proton. It seems like the only things that have trouble are things I’d never consider even installing, let alone running.

Every time I think it can’t get more embarrassing, they find an even more cringey way to act.

Feels weird that the thing I’m looking forward to most is left alignment for a bunch of currently center-aligned text. I’m not sure when I started to hate center alignment, but I’m always happy to watch it die.

I mean I don’t think this’ll work, but I don’t really get why anyone is mad about it. It was a little difficult to get used to but not exactly impossible. Seems like harmless fun.

Great summary work — this part makes me a little crazy:

The Agriculture Department could also turn to a specific interpretation of existing law to justify continuing to fund food stamps, said David A. Super, a law professor at Georgetown University. Under that theory, food stamps are an entitlement program, like Medicare, that is not subject to the annual appropriations process.

“The simplest approach for the U.S.D.A. would be to recognize that language in the Food and Nutrition Act makes SNAP an entitlement independent of appropriations, and continue paying benefits on the strength of that language,” Mr. Super said.

Because of course food isn’t already an entitlement program. Always money for weapons, never for starving people.