“Our advice is: Never give up [because] nothing is perfect, don’t sweat the small stuff, never stop communicating, and never go to bed mad,” wrote a pair of high school sweethearts married 40 years.
“Keep God at the center of your marriage and have fun together. Don’t forget to be best friends [and] laugh at the little things,” another kindly couple advised. “Stick together through the hard times [and] good times will eventually come again.”
“Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments,” a well-wisher warned. “Be nice, communicate wants and needs.”
“Be quick to forgive and say, ‘I’m sorry,’ ” suggested longtime lovers of 43 years.
“Always respond to your partner’s bids for attention,” another urged. “If they say the sunset is pretty, drop everything and enjoy it together. If they ask if they look nice, truly take a moment to take them all in and give them a compliment. If they give you a quick hug, hold them longer. These small moments matter for intimacy.”
On Friday, the Supreme Court allowed President Trump to suspend a program that provided “parole” to 500,000 aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Democrats are crying foul, saying Trump isn’t following the law. But it was President Biden who broke the law when he allowed these migrants here in the first place.
While the Supreme Court’s reprieve doesn’t assure that the Court will ultimately rule in the administration’s favor, it is good news for now. For these parole programs were some of the most egregious misdeeds of Alejandro Mayorkas, President Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security.
This program ushered into the United States on a red carpet over half a million aliens who, under our
nation’s immigration laws, were flatly inadmissible.
In fact, the House of Representatives impeached Secretary Mayorkas for high crimes and misdemeanors in part because of these very programs: proclaiming that “Mayorkas willfully exceeded his parole authority” by “creat[ing], re-open[ing], or expand[ing] a series of categorical parole programs … which enabled hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens to enter the United States in violation of the laws enacted by Congress.”
When Congress granted the President the parole power in 1952, it was strictly for, as the House Judiciary Committee made clear, ONLY “emergency cases,” such as “an alien who requires immediate medical attention” or an inadmissible alien who needs to be here as “a witness or for purposes of prosecution.” //
In 1996, Congress reacted to decades of abuses by administrations of both parties by tightening the language of the parole power in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Among other changes, IIRIRA required that parole only be granted “on a case-by-case basis.” //
While Biden ignored the “case by case basis” requirement, and provided a mass parole, the lower-court judge who ruled against Trump, said that since parole can only be granted on a case-by-case basis, it likewise can only be terminated on a case-by-case basis.
So one law for Biden, another for Trump.
The Trump administration has canceled $3.7 billion worth of grants for multiple climate-related infrastructure projects, the majority of which were approved in former President Joe Biden's lame duck period after he lost the 2024 election.
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright made the announcement on Friday and said the 24 projects failed to advance the energy needs of the American people, were not economically viable and would not generate a positive return on investment of taxpayer dollars.
The department said that after a "thorough and individualized financial review of each award," it found that nearly 70% of the awards (16 of the 24 projects) had been signed between election day on Nov. 5 and Biden's last day in office on Jan. 20. //
The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions is claiming a loss of $4.6 billion in economic output, along with the loss of thousands of jobs, and it would be roundly interesting to see them show their work on that estimate. That loss of economic output, of course, requires that there is some profit somewhere along the way. If any of these enterprises were profitable, if any of them actually generated any economic output, they wouldn't require millions or billions in taxpayer subsidies.
There is also a storm of whining about how these cuts and others like them under President Trump "stifle innovation." Horsefeathers. If there is a profit to be made in any of these technologies, someone will go to the effort to develop them.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a confidential report circulated to member states that Iran had grown its stockpile of 60%-enriched uranium to 408.6 kilograms from 274.8 kilograms in early February, an increase of around 50%. The Wall Street Journal viewed a copy of the report.
That means Iran has enough highly enriched uranium for roughly 10 nuclear weapons, based on IAEA measures of the minimum fissile material required, up from at least six at the time of the last report.
U.S. officials say it could take Iran less than two weeks to convert this highly enriched uranium into enough weapons-grade 90% fissile material for a nuclear weapon. //
anon-eruj
9 hours ago
They're not lying about peaceful use. You just have to understand what peace means to them. Once they kill all the jews and trigger Armageddon, the 12th imam will return and there will be world peace.
The anti-gun group Moms Demand has now gone a step further, as seen at an event they staged in Kentucky in support of new proposed legislation for gun safety education. Though this rally was back in February, it has taken time for a realization to come over the state, and specifically the local media, and it is an indictment of all involved. Credit to The Citizen's Voice for detailing this development.
Calvin Polachek detailed how he endured a shooting at Dallas High School, in Luzerne County, Kentucky, back in 2017, a tragedy that took the lives of his brother, best friend, as well as nine others that day. //
In one fashion - and only one fashion - he is accurate; nothing has changed. This is because nothing had to change. His story is completely fraudulent. There was no shooting whatsoever at this school.
For this fraud to transpire is astounding. This hoaxer, Calvin, was allegedly never vetted, and his story, clearly, was never substantiated. The passing of blame has been almost comical, were this not so pernicious. //
This is clearly a case of confirmation bias, where a compliant press promoted a gun control storyline and had a sympathetic video clip and some choice quotes that perfectly aligned with the narrative. It was too good to check, and now more credibility has been set on fire as a result.
These few lines are not intended as a full-fledged debugging tutorial, but as hints and comments about debugging a Bash script.
set -x or set -o xtrace expands variables and prints a little + sign before the line.
set -v or set -o verbose does not expand the variables before printing.
Use set +x and set +v to turn off the above settings.
On the first line of the script, one can put #!/bin/sh -x (or -v) to have the same effect as set -x (or -v) later in the script.
Over the course of a job, you may notice a customer has an unsafe electrical installation or equipment.
An Electrical Danger Notification* certificate is designed to be used by NICEIC registered electricians to provide a formal record that the customer has been informed of such danger. Apart from helping identifying unsafe appliances, the certificate will specify any work done to make it safe, and any urgent work that needs to be done after the date.
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julesverne said:
Upside:Engine bay leak issue, solved.
Downside:Booster exploded.
Payload bay doors balked.
Ship attitude control lost.
No data on payload deployment.
No data on engine relight on orbit.
No data on Ship reentry.
The list goes on.
I'm sure SpaceX will solve these issues. But the root causes of the failures may negatively affect max payload mass to orbit. And the cadence of failure is picking up. Reason: unknown. But losing key engineers can cause outsized problems. I have no info on this, but given the recent series of backslips, I wonder if any of the most creative thinkers may have jumped Ship(sorry) following Musk's "Roman Salute" and other scumbag actions. I sure as fuck wouldn't want to work for him, despite intense interest in the SpaceX vision.
The main problems have been propellant system & engine leaks. It's new engineering territory. The engine chamber pressure is ~300 bar. The preburners are at >600 bar (>9,000 psi). The turbopumps higher again than that. The wonder is that most things don’t leak. //
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DistinctivelyCanuck said:
What I'm finding fascinating about the current failure modes on the block two starship is that obviously spacex thought they had a full handle on these from block one: and so many "solved problems" have spiraled into challenging fixes.
Leak issues causing loss of control were obvious in the very first flight that made it to sub orbital: but resolved on the subsequent flights.
Vibration issues causing RUD's: quickly resolved in the very first flights and are back again.
The other interesting aspect: the ground burns at massey's that were designed to identify these failures aren't doing it at ground level. (remember that there was a ground burn test with a near ten minute burn with extensive throttling:
I think we can expect another couple of iterations of those long burn tests soon.
My limited experience in the field of engine development tells me that this is perfectly normal for such projects. The solved problems always come with unexpected caveats. Especially vibration.
An example from ship practice is early reduction gear failures in turbines. All sorts of things were considered, lubrication was improved and the things worked perfectly on long term dyno tests. And then broke up at sea even under good sailing conditions.
The cause was eventually traced to the vibrations from the props caused by interference from the rudders. It was difficult to fix, but fixes were found (flexible shafts, basically).
Despite being so well understood the problem recurs over and over again as new bearing, hull and rudder designs come into use.
There was also a major vibration problem that hit Luftwaffe fighters in WW2. Arguments about defective bearings, reduction gears etc. duly took place. It was eventually traced to the fact that the fuel being used by the test labs was better than that often used at the front, which was messing with spark plugs and causing misfires which resulted in the vibration.
In engines, whether piston, turbine or rocket, just about everything interacts in ways beyond the scope of computer modelling - because until the mechanism is identified, it can't be modelled.
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Here's what I hear President Trump saying: Harvard is an overpriced indoctrination mill. There are other schools, but Harvard is the leader of the pack. The purpose of higher education is to make you think, not make you feel comfortable. The purpose of higher education is to teach you a variety of points of view.
Harvard doesn't practice that. Harvard practices [in] its faculty and administration ideology conformity, ideology capture. From their point of view, they believe in only certain things. And you can't believe in anything else. For example, they believe in racial quotas. Well, they're illegal. Harvard believes in diversity, equity, inclusion, and the right to hurt Jewish people. Well, that's illegal.
Now, they're entitled to believe what they want, but they're not entitled to break the law and still get taxpayer money. //
We've gotta be careful here. Not all schools are like Harvard. I'll give you two examples: the University of Chicago and Vanderbilt University. They have both practiced viewpoint diversity, and I don't think they ought to be punished.
But Harvard's attitude is 'we can do what we want, and we have a Constitutional right to the money.' And, I think they're wrong, and I think they're gonna find out how wrong they are.
We shouldn't be stockpiling bitcoins," Dimon said when asked about how industrial policy is entwined with national security policies during a panel. "We should stockpiling guns, bullets, tanks, planes, drones, you know, rare earths. We know we need to do it. It's not a mystery."
Stock up on bullets, he advised:
"We should be stockpiling bullets," he continued. "Like, you know, the military guys tell you that, you know, if there's a war in the South China Sea, we have missiles for seven days. Okay, come on. I mean, we can't say that with a straight face and think that's okay. So we know what to do. We just got to now go about doing it. Get the people together, roll up our sleeves, you know, have the debates." //
Chelan Jim Mildred's Oldest Son
16 minutes ago
I see someone who changes their spots. His bank was still promoting DEI in February of this year and has been involved with it since 2021.
I believe he sees momentum with Trump's plan. He does not want to be left out and does not want government to harm his business. He wants to be included in the decisions.
His negativity toward BitCoin is also telling. He wants everyone still tied to the current banking system where they could tighten the screws such as was being entertained with the idea of coercing DEI on loan recipients. //
bk
4 hours ago
Here's how what identifies as the Drudge Report now linked to it:
Dimon issues chilling warning: Trump-Era Mismanagement Could Bring Down USA...
'Enemy within'...
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Rome carved borders in stone. Priests built walls from law and fear. Prophets thundered from mountaintops, hoping the ground would open.
But Jesus moved differently. He never staked a claim on land. He never petitioned for favor. He never drew a boundary he would not cross.
He spoke of a kingdom that cannot be mapped. A reign that begins between two heartbeats. A fire hidden under cold ash.
They wanted a king with banners and cavalry. He offered a seed pressed into dirt.
"If the courts are going to have so much influence over US policy, do you wish you would have just become a judge?"
Trump: "We had millions of criminals pour into our country. And if we don't get them out and get them out quickly, you could lose your country very easily." pic.twitter.com/UfA7egQLi8
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) May 30, 2025. //
ELON MUSK: "I think the fundamental moral flaw of the left is empathy for the criminals and not empathy for the victims — empathy for the criminals but not empathy for the victims. And there's been way too much of that; that needs to stop. To the president's point, there's been immense judicial overreach that is unconstitutional — that was never intended — and it's undermining the people's faith in the legal system. It needs to stop. It's gone too far.
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— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) May 30, 2025. //
stickdude90
5 minutes ago
During Trump 1.0 (and arguably long before then), the media threw away their credibility in favor of ideology.
During the pandemic, the public health institutions threw away their credibility in favor of ideology.
The judiciary is bound and determined to follow that path, and they're doing a bang-up job so far.
Assemblyman David Alvarez, D-San Diego, commented, “We have a crisis on our hand that may have been self-created by the actions perhaps taken by the state, by regulators.” Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Irvine added, “If California companies were raking it in, why did we have two refineries announce their intent to close?”
Even the California Air Resources Board (CARB) now admits a significant blind spot. Chair Liane Randolph conceded during the hearing that CARB does not currently assess how its clean air policies impact consumer costs. This means working Californians pay a hidden price — one policymakers haven’t properly quantified or addressed.
Global Economy vs Rural Culture
Localization Is the Answer
●Every home a land grant college
●Local self-sufficiency for national security
●Best of both worlds for young rural families with children
HOW? -- County Currency
To grow “big enough” local economies, county governments gradually issue their own currencies in the form of transferable tax credits good for county tax liabilities.
That’s it!
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