chapotraphouse

https://x.com/Acid_Communist/status/1907281727824789765

the line for cigarettes was really long

Schumer breaks news to Booker on Senate floor that Republicans are planning to sidestep parliamentarian on current policy.

“They don’t care anymore about norms, about rules, and even about going nuclear,” he says

Booker says it’s “further breaking of the Senate”

“Next time around, there’s no going back now”

seized from here

https://xcancel.com/igorbobic/status/1907173803525865717

Miyazaki still has a chance to do something funny.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1906834529488093690

McCarthyism 2.0

In fantasy: Whozha! I cast fireball

In reality: I have been tinkering with the runes (circuit symbols) in this spell (electrical circuit) for 12 hours straight with tears in my eyes and despair in my heart

For Mr. Archer, his wife and their three adolescent children, it was a huge relief. It freed him from having to serve any part of his prison sentence of one year and one day, and from having to pay nearly $60 million in forfeitures and restitution.

NYT, who gives a fuck that he's married and has kids? He's a fucking scumbag.

A lot of the article is through the eyes of a flight attendant named nicknamed Lala. Attendants must be on flights due to FAA regulations but they don't have much to do. On ICE Air - they're not supposed to interact with the passengers.

Lala was accustomed to the hard realities of working charter flights for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She’d learned to obey instructions not to look the passengers in the eyes, not to greet them or ask about their well-being.

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Flight attendants received training in how to evacuate passengers but said they weren’t told how to usher out detainees whose hands and legs were bound by shackles.

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Neither the ICE Air handbook, nor FAA regulations, nor flight attendant training in Miami explained how to empty a plane full of people whose movements were, by design, so severely hampered. Shackled detainees didn’t even qualify as “able-bodied” enough to sit in exit rows.

To flight attendants, the restraints seemed at odds with the FAA’s “90-second rule,” a decades-old manufacturing standard that says an aircraft must be built for full evacuation in 90 seconds even with half the exits blocked.

Lala and others said no one told them how to evacuate passengers in chains. “Honestly, I don’t know what we would do,” she said.

There was a flight where a little girl had a medical emergency. She was on the plane with her parents.

The day the girl collapsed on Lala’s flight, the pilot turned the plane around and they crossed back into the United States. The flight landed in Arizona. Paramedics rushed on board and connected the girl to their own oxygen bottle. They began shuttling her off the plane. Her parents tried to join. But the guards stopped the father.

Shocked, Lala approached the ICE officer in charge. “This is not OK!” she yelled. The mom had seizures. The family needed to stay together. But the officer said it was impossible. Only one parent could go to the hospital. The other, as Lala understood it, “was going to get deported.”

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Lala eventually left because of the little girl and her family, because she couldn’t do the deportation flights anymore. Her GlobalX uniform hung in her closet for a time, a reminder of her career as a flight attendant. Recently, she said, she threw it away. She never learned whether the little girl lived or died. Lala just watched her mom follow her off the plane, then watched the dad return to his seat.

“I cried after that,” she said. She bought her own ticket home.

So I'm still in the US (for now) and i know the new Admin is making changes in the FDA, and other areas that could effect what ends up in the food.

I'm not sure exactly what would be effected, but I've been trying to just keep things simple, and avoid anything that i don't make myself. Like no pre-packaged foods at all. It's a pain in the ass since it takes more time, but making stuff in bulk and freezing it for later is making it doable for me.

I'm curious if anyone else is really worried about this stuff. Like RFK is a maniac who knows what sort of stuff he could start allowing in foods. Is anyone else taking similar steps, or do you think I'm over reacting to it?

The increasing upwelling of fascist momentum has led to an influx of calls to launch such people into the sun. This is a particularly difficult and energy-intensive task not yet achieved by man, beast, nor machine, and in order to do so the new proletarian state will have to be quite clever.

The closest man has come to dropping something into the sun is the Parker Solar Probe which has passed as low as 9.86 solar radii (geostationary satellites orbit at roughly 5 terran radii). In order to achieve this, the mission required numerous gravity assists, launched on the most powerful rocket at the time, the Delta IV heavy*, and could only deliver around 50 kg (110 lbs) of payload, a weight of only the most scrawny fascists.

• Falcon Heavy did launch earlier that year but was not yet commercially available and has lower payload capacity to high C3 targets

It is likely that if you have commented “throw [someone] into the sun” before, people have quipped that it would be more efficient to cast them from the solar system entirely. Strictly speaking this is true, at least on standard orbits. Using the Vis-Viva equation with Terra at roughly 150 gigameters from Sol, the orbital velocity is roughly 29.7 km/s. Using a standard Hohmann Transfer with Terra at Aposol and Sol’s surface as Perisol in order to achieve contact requires a velocity at infinity relative to the Terran gravity well of roughly 25.5 km/s or a characteristic energy of 650 km²/s². For perspective, Mars transfers generally require 16 km²/s².

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