Right now, with the way Congress is divided, there is zero chance of a public option passing into law.

The President only has so much political capital that he can spend. Spending that political capital on something guaranteed not to happen seems like a bad idea, unless there is nothing else left to spend it on.

I expect the President should really wave his magic wand and get Congress to budget full coverage to fund mental health and universal healthcare, right?

Go elect more Congress people who actually support your issues and care and they might get funded.

(Don’t forget to vote for them in Primaries so they are there to vote for in the General Election)

It’s amazing how positive and consistently good the show has been.

I’m holding out hope the shows nails it’s “landing” (finale), but for some reason, I’m not so worried (especially since I think they decided to end it after the third season, instead of just being surprised by a cancellation).

All “short term rentals” (under 30 days) without the official renter also staying there (renting a room is a completely different story) have, and continue to be, illegal according to the city law.

Doesn’t mean people don’t do it anyway.

He brings honor to us all.

Need a road-trip buddy comedy with the two of them

I’m gonna tell you about an accident, and I don’t want to hear “act of god”!

Starship also opens up orbital recovery/refueling as a possibility, both of which would also jiggle the equation around.

It won’t feel magical to most people, but if you wait 2-3 cycles, enough upgrades accumulate that it becomes worthwhile (especially storage), and the longer useable lifespan helps defray the cost of a more expensive model (pro or more storage).

It’s the pattern of tech maturity we’ve seen in mainframes, desktops, laptops and handhelds since forever: rapid yearly advances at first as the market gets established and then longer periods of slower advancement as the market matures, often punctuated by actual disruptive innovation such as independent Graphics cards until the new technology also matures and the cycle continues.

I’m on an X. Just replaced the battery the second time and feeling it get sluggish sometimes.

Definitely thinking about the 15.

Knock knock knock

This is the department of homeland security! Your neighbor said you were building rockets in your garage!

I just have to throw out, if there are any Destiny fans here, someone did an amazing animation riffing on this: https://youtu.be/L4LpnhdumQA

The Life of Pi seems thrown in there as subversive marketing for the new Life of Pi play coming out (/s?)

They couldn’t buy the FOX broadcast channels because they owned ABC. (Barred from owning two networks)

Murdoch wanted to keep FOX News (it was the part that wasn’t for sale)

They didn’t want/need FOX Sports because they already owned ESPN. (I don’t think they were barred from buying it, and I don’t think it was not for sale, they just weren’t interested?)

(Not disagreeing, just clarifying)

Lived in Brooklyn half my life, and the other half in Manhattan. I’m sure I’ve heard them described by color a couple of times, but 99% of the time it’s by trains running on it (especially since with express/local color alone doesn’t tell you if the train stops there or bypasses a given station).

It’s part of why Star Wars pioneered a more “gritty” and realistic SciFi.

Technology always looks new when it first comes out, but it tends to show wear over time.

Most SciFi till then had kept everything sparkling and pretty. StarWars showed the wear of “old” technology, which leant an air of credibility and reality to it that earlier works didn’t have.

At least it ended well.

The was enough closure that it stung a lot less than all the cliffhangers shows usually get canceled with nowadays.

Kudos to the show runners for doing that (and still providing space for more if it wasn’t cancelled).

Yeah, but we’re talking House, so it’s only 2 years instead of 4. Only 335m, so he’ll be ready for the poor house.

While I am sure individual departments (even state departments) may have continuing eval/education requirements, so far as I am aware, no state in the US requires a state-wide licenses, with state mandated requirements for all licensed Police Officers in the state to maintain their license (unlike Doctors, Nurses, Lawyers, Accountants or even Real Estate Agents).

I would be happy to be proven wrong if someone can point me to a link that specifies otherwise though.

Edit: seems the OP decided to delete their post that a state could decertify a LEO, and that minimum continuing requirements already existed, instead of providing some links supporting their claim.

I decided to look a bit and found this: https://www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/decertification.aspx it looks like in a small minority of states there is some possibility of being able to decertify a LEO, but I have not gone through and looked at how involved (or lasting) that process is.

You’d think they should have some requirement to be familiar with the law, but the courts have found that’s it’s “good enough” if they just THINK something is against the law.

If only they needed state licensing to be cops, like so many other professions.

Maybe include minimum continuing Ed requirements, possibly even some ethics requirements.

> The Phone Booth on the corner of West End Avenue and 100th Street was one of the last remaining phone booths in New York City. Everyone used it―from ballerinas and birthday clowns, to cellists and even secret agents. Kept clean and polished, the Phone Booth was proud and happy until, the day a businessman strode by and shouted into a shiny silver object, “I’ll be there in ten minutes.” Soon everyone was talking into these shiny silver things, and the Phone Booth stood alone and empty, unused and dejected.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7208189-the-lonely-phone-booth

Still sad they stopped the stations at 34th.

They built track down to 23rd on 11th, and use that mostly as staging/trainyard, when they could have done another station and extended the line all the way down to Chelsea/Chelsea Piers

Which … fits pretty well with WandaVision.

Also worth mentioning that the Kurds in Afghanistan had been faithful Allies to the US … till Trump pulled troops back and let Turkey attack them: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-betrayal-of-the-kurds-927545/amp/