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Gap03

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  1. Porsche has managed to do its magic on the Taycan, which handles well. Obviously, you have to pay the Porsche tax up front, deal with chewing up tires a bit more frequently than an ICE car and be prepared to throw it in the trash at 8 years (given the prohibitive price to replace the battery). But it is possible to get an EV that actually handles well if you have the cash.
  2. Looks like China is really going to make Trump beg or just unilaterally fold.
  3. Fucking troll.
  4. Crazy times when you have to start making requests for the next Android update to allow you to take pictures / videos without unlocking the phone AND prevent the deletion of those pictures while still locked. IYKYK. ETA: Apparently, you can hit the home / power button after taking a pic and that cuts off access to that picture until you unlock the phone. If someone grabs the phone out of your hand while you're shooting, they can delete whatever pictures / videos you took in the most recent session, though.
  5. (JK - I too have a STEM background.)
  6. And, of course, TSLA up $12.83 (5.4%) in after hours trading on these stellar results ...
  7. Checking back in ... And the market jumps 2.5% ... And futures jump another 1.5% this evening. Any guess what happens next? Good luck, markets ...
  8. While it's true that the DOJ has mis-attributed that statement to the SCOTUS order, it looks like Xinis may have given the DOJ some wiggle room in her April 10th order, which states "To this end, the Court hereby amends the Order to DIRECT that Defendants take all available steps to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia to the United States as soon as possible." Still, disingenuous as fuck, but when dealing with this administration, Courts have to be exceedingly precise or risk getting stuck in the mud arguing over the meanings of words.
  9. Full steam ahead ...
  10. George Carlin nailed it on "Conservative values" almost 30 years ago: "If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked."
  11. So now quota systems and sexual education are good? I'm so confused ...
  12. I mean, yeah - if you have to pick between the unscrupulous trading partner that has cheated around the edges and the one that recently pulled out a knife and stabbed you square in the back, I'm thinking I'm going with the former. That shit ain't good for the US - which is exactly why you don't declare a trade war on the entire globe at the same time.
  13. So how long before Trump provides another head fake toward lifting the tariffs only to tank the market again in a few more weeks?
  14. Post this gif 10 more times so I can give you adequate posrep.
  15. Politically, it was an absolute loser. As a country, we would be so much better off if people (ahem ...) weren't so hell-bent on being willfully ignorant of reality.
  16. And this right here is why we probably actually needed CRT. Disregard the fact that the recent successes of some black folk completely fucking broke 40% of the country and disregard the fact that the Philando Castile-type events are still undoubtedly happening and disregard any of a hundred other realities with which minorities still have to deal, and Fatty says, "Hey you got some folks elected and at least you're not getting lynched. We're all good, right????" You're not related to John Roberts, are you?
  17. But the habeas filing had to be made in the jurisdiction where he was being held, and ICE kept moving him so his attorneys didn't know where that was ... you see the problem?
  18. I love how dipshit can't help injecting himself into this, even though it makes it seem like he was involved in the leak ...
  19. In Florida? I'm gonna say no.
  20. Fixed it for you, Karoline ...
  21. It means that Alito and Ruckus have signaled to Trump's folks that they are willing to rely on some sketchy interpretation of history to read in an unwritten qualification to the 14th Amendment. While the 14th Amendment seems pretty clear on its face, I look forward to reading a 75-page SCOTUS opinion explaining that, "Hey, because the 14th Amendment was adopted in 1866, it's clear that it was really only intended to allow former slaves born in the U.S. to be treated as citizens and nobody else, especially not those brown and yellow folks ... but maybe we're okay with the Eastern European people ...
  22. I feel you. Sometimes the only thing that keeps me going is the prospect of making it to the Esso Station phase of this dictatorship ...
  23. I'm confused. If the courts can't make the Trump administration do a damn thing and you don't care about winning an election, what exactly did you have in mind? You think we're going to spur the American people to action with the Abrego story, just based on the facts? I don't know how you'd get to that conclusion looking back at the past 10 years (notwithstanding a handful of rowdy old folks in Iowa). This is where I'm at. The story can't just be about Abrego, though. Too many folks are still convinced that Trump is not "coming for them or theirs." And unfortunately a lot of the middle still views the Dems as being hysterical. That's why I said they need to pick their battles here. There is absolutely a window to convince people that the danger that we've been talking about is really coming. It needs to be personal, though.
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