I had a Surface Pro all through college, and used it for note taking in all my classes (pen on screen), which was fantastic. Haven't really used the touchscreen function since though, and it's been quite a few years.

Cost is a reasonable concern. How about we pass universal healthcare so this isn't a fucking problem to being with???

Just gonna say that if it was actually efficient and possible to do this, the US would have done so decades ago. But the US just ships spent fuel to the desert to go sit in the ground forever.

Given that every accusation is a confession with these fucks, there is a 100% chance that this pastor and kegseth have engaged in some hanky panky once or twice

I haven't actually read the text of the bill yet, but would the amendment banning gender-affirming care also bar the testosterone injections kegseth wants to pump into every service member?

So you're conflating two separate things. Sanctuary Cities are cities that have official policies in place prohibiting cooperation between local authorities and federal immigration enforcers. These have existed for quite a while. Some racist state governors and federal authorities decided "well if you like immigrants so much have some more" and started illegally rounding up immigrants in their cities, lying about destination, ignoring federal laws, and bussing these immigrants to cities that declared themselves to be Sanctuary Cities. Those cities responded appropriately and took care of the immigrants foisted upon them. Of note, these forced relocations occured with little notice to legal teams, meaning some immigrants were shipped multiple states away and missed important immigration court appointments.

I mean, not if these are state charges...fuckhead orange can't pardon state crimes. Not to say musk won't still bribe his way out of it, but state charges can't be presidentially pardoned

This man is doing great work. In addition to the bills he signed so recently, I was interested to learn that Illinois bans libraries from banning books! That's awesome! He's making Illinois look more and more attractive to live in!

Hopefully someone else can chime in with the specifics/confirmation because I just think I know broadly, but setting up a pihole (or sim) should let you do what you want. Essentially, most of the time the device itself isn't going to let you block its access, so you go further up the chain to your router, and have all data coming into/going out of your network funneled through a raspberry pi. Installing the right software (which I think is pihole) should let you block unauthorized communications outside your local network. Hopefully this is a pointer in the right direction for you

So I feel like I might have an interesting perspective on this...

All throughout college, I saw graduation similar to how you talk about it. I basically thought I'd show up drunk with my buddies, it would take half the day, and then it'd be over. Maybe I'd actually walk, maybe not.

For context, I graduated in the Spring of 2020, right when COVID first was becoming a thing. My graduation ceremony was cancelled, and replaced by a Facebook Live stream. Same speakers and similar speeches to what had been expected, but really none of the pomp and circumstance.

Now if you would've asked me earlier in my college career how I would've felt about my graduation ceremony being cancelled, I probably would've just shrugged it off. But it actually happened. And I find myself feeling like there is something missing from my time at college. Like there was no real sense of closure for the 4 years I spent there, the countless late nights in the library studying for insanely difficult exams, no real send off for the friends I had in the class outside my close circle.

So I feel differently about graduations now. There's always going to be extremes, people who take them way too far. But I see the ceremonies themselves as the way for people (friends, families, professors, etc) to show how proud they are of the accomplishments of the students. And I feel like there's wisdom in acknowledging that the ceremony is how they are trying to express that sentiment to you, and receiving it as intended.

This stunt actually has nothing to do with "fraud" in government spending, but as someone with experience in government procurement, contracting is where the waste is. The government actually doesn't do too badly when we keep the work in-house. It's these multimillion dollar contracts to some private company that are where the waste, fraud, and abuse are. Go fucking audit SpaceX. Revisit those contracts. Bet we can save billions every year on just one companies stupid fucking defense contracts. Then go after the rest of these contractors. Threaten to bring the work back in house and see how they react. Follow through and actually bring the work back in house, build the public sector engineering and manufacturing expertise, and see where we are.

Except there are actually fewer things it shows. The previous track button is missing, for one