Office of Personnel Management

Just another one in a long line lol. OPM has been breached so many times. There was a huge one in 2015 under Obama when the Chinese government stole the data on basically anyone who had had a background check done on them by the federal government. 22.1 million records, social security numbers, job data, clearance data, address data, their friends’ and families’ data from their SF-86 forms, everything. They also got 5.6 million fingerprint records.

It’s kinda funny how many of these cases are just due to shitty policing. In hindsight, it’s really clear what he was up to.

While working in the area of Las Cruces, New Mexico, Betkouski attempted to obtain capsules of some kind in March of 1982. Police were called to a pharmacy and escorted him home, Cooper said. That’s when they discovered he was taking unauthorized material from his lab at the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico and later found cyanide in his room. Co-workers said Betkouski would often discuss how cyanide could be used in “the perfect crime.”

He also made frequent calls to chemical supply and pharmaceutical companies in Pennsylvania in the weeks before the Tylenol homicides.

For perspective, it’s $13,240 currently

They are not. The F-35 has a top speed of Mach 1.6. It’s a supersonic aircraft.

The SR-71 has a top speed of Mach 3.2 lol. Literally twice as fast as the F-35 but still well short of the Mach 5 required for hypersonic flight.

The F-35 also has a flight ceiling of 50,000 feet, while the SR-71 has an 85,000 foot ceiling.

The SR-71 served exactly one role: High supersonic aerial reconnaissance. No weapons, nothing. Just fly higher and faster than anything else on the planet.

The F-35 is a strike fighter and air superiority fighter.

They’re really not comparable.

Nor would an SR-71 play anywhere near the same role as an F-35 lol. They’re apples to oranges.

Jesus Christ I’m using actual fucking terms here. Luxuries are good beyond basic necessities. You don’t need a fucking iPhone.

This isn’t a matter of opinion. By literal economic definition, Apple products are luxuries.

Luxury has a definition in economics. It’s goods beyond basic needs.

Apple is very very much a luxury. By no means are they a need. Even if you consider a cell phone a need today, there are dozens of other phones out there ranging from a few bucks up to a few thousand dollars.

You can certainly consider them overpriced, sure. That’s an opinion. What’s a fact is that they are very much a luxury, not a necessity.

What the fuck are you talking about? It took years to get under control. The entire book is set twenty years after the outbreak began, and there’s still tens of millions of zombies around, just pushed back out of inhabited areas and kept away as they slowly decompose. Pakistan and Iran nuked each other into oblivion. The entire global society basically broke down when it was released that Phalanx (the vaccine being hawked) was a scam. Billions of people died.

It was four years after the outbreak started that the US built up to go on the offensive, another three years before they liberated the contiguous US, and another two years after that that it was declared victory globally. Seven years after the outbreak began.

There’s literally no such thing as price gouging with luxury products. People have to stop equating a bad perceived value with price gouging. If you don’t think it’s a good value, don’t buy it. There’s nothing about any Apple product that is a necessity that you can’t live without.

Places started doing that the day the EO was signed lol. By far the most common way places handle it is just rounding to the nearest 5¢. If the total is $x.x1 or $x.x2 it gets rounded down. If it’s $x.x3 or $x.x4 it’s rounded up.

Most EVs on the market have ranges on par with gas cars. 300 or so miles.

The only real difference is instead of 5 minutes to pay and fill up a gas tank, it take like 20 minutes to charge on a fast charger.

EVs are pretty much on par with gas cars new….

She taunted, beat, and slashed her victim repeatedly for half an hour, carved a pentagram into her chest while still alive, then bashed her skull in with a hunk of asphalt. Then carried around pieces of her skull to school, showing people.

There are plenty of times where a person does something so heinous that they should never be allowed into society again. This is one of those times. I don’t believe in the death penalty, but life in prison is absolutely the right move here.

Also, yes, you absolutely can know that she is still a danger to society. She attempted to murder another inmate while in prison and has attempted escape.

Usually whatever leftovers from dinner. In a glass pyrex container in a lunchbox that fits in my saddlebag on my motorcycle. If there are no leftovers, usually a sandwich of some kind with chips and fruit.

Slate is still going to be constantly connected to the internet, feeding data back to Slate…

And it’s backed by Jeff fucking Bezos lol. Yes, it will be a nice little bare bones vehicle, but that’s irrelevant to the brain and network of the thing.

There might be less data to collect, but they’re still going to be collecting and sharing data.

No, pasteurization has never been a hard requirement. The requirement has been aged 60 days for a long time now.

That means that soft raw cheeses like Brie are effectively banned, because you can’t really age them like that. But there has always been plenty of aged cheeses made from raw milk.

Here’s a WSJ article about it from 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20150711000630/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304370304575151663770115120

Raw milk has been legal to sell in some form in 29 states going back to the early 00s as well. A few states like California have allowed raw milk to be sold at retailers, and plenty more have allowed it to be sold direct from the farmer.

No it wasn’t.

Raw milk cheese is perfectly fine. It just has to be aged for at least 60 days at or above 35 degrees F.

Raw milk cheese isn’t illegal though?

Most cheeses actually use pasteurized milk. Some styles use raw milk though.