u/Shrikes_Bard

Been a few days now but I was flying out Tuesday morning and the TSA line in A East was light but at a dead stop, and even weirder, it looked like no one in the terminal after TSA was moving either - everyone past security was just standing around. I didn't hear anything that would indicate why and maybe 10 minutes later everyone started moving in the terminal and the TSA people started bringing people through the checkpoint again. This was about 7am or so Tuesday. Anyone know what might have been happening?

The last few days on the US East Coast we've had some pretty bad air quality (pm2.5 in the 200s) because of drifting smoke and ash from the Canadian wildfires. I know planes have to divert around volcanic eruptions, I think at least partially because the silicates in the plume can really mess up engines (thinking of the closed European airspace in 2010). I don't know what all the flight tracks look like around the fires or how high the particles are, but somewhere else I saw a picture of a 787 landing in a yellow haze and it made me wonder how much maintenance is affected by taking off and landing in that kind of air quality? Is it not as bad because it's wood, not mineral?

Em inglês, as pessoas que adoram abraçar outras pessoas são chamados de "huggers": sempre que te veem, querem te abraçar. Há uma palavra ou frase similar em português?

What in the nepotism hellscape is this? I was going to ask how she is even remotely qualified to serve in the Senate but then I realized there are two arguments:

1. Since when has that stopped the GOP and Trump in particular before?

2. She's going to vote lockstep with Trump for the next 5 months, either out of gratitude or lack of experience.

So there we go, there's your new senator, SC. So glad I don't live there anymore.

tl;dr - Philadelphia and Pennsylvania have one of the weirdest systems set up around who gets to legislate what when it comes to firearms. Philly revoked licenses "for good cause" (read: because we said so) from some residents who, by the way, are WAY more careful and educated about the law than probably most gun owners in Philly are, precisely because of who they are and what they do, because they know there's a spotlight on them.

I always thought the preemption cutouts that exist for Philly were corrupt as hell, so I'm on the side of whoever is going to challenge those cutouts. But regardless, I'm against anywhere that wants to apply subjective feelings when confirming (or stripping) rights. The ones who lose out when that happens are almost always marginalized groups, whether because of race, class, orientation, gender, etc. - basically the ones that most need those rights to begin with.

I know it's not exactly about the Eagles, more about their nest. I tuned into the Côte d'Ivoire / Ecuador match tonight just to see what the Linc looked like on the world stage, and it looked really good I thought. Lots of yellow shirts in the house, based on the camera pans they did, and it did feel a little odd seeing it without all the green I'm used to seeing. Got me eager for *actual* football to start back up tho! Anyone with loads of disposable income go to the game? Sunday Night Football, just a different kind...

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(And congrats to the Ivorians on the win, that was a great goal, and safe travels to them as they head back down 95 to Wilmington! Feel like I wouldn't mind adopting them as my secondary rooting team, just since they're based locally, makes them feel like the hometown team a bit.)

> “Nobody [was] certainly killed in this instance,” she said in a Wednesday night radio interview.

Wow, what a high bar to clear to make ICE's actions above reproach.

I feel a bit of whiplash. Living next door to Jersey, when she was elected I felt like "hey, NJ is trending in the right direction!" Happy it wasn't Ciattarelli at least. Now...I guess I'm still happy it wasn't him but this is just embarrassing. She's crumpling like a wet Acme bag.

Headline: "Free Energy from the Vacuum? Warp Drive Pioneer Unveils Battery-Free ‘MicroSparc’ That Allegedly Draws Power from the Quantum Vacuum"

Only a matter of time before we're gating off to galaxies unknown.

I wonder how 40 watts compares to an actual Lantian ZPM tho...