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Dozens of other nations: "What they said!"

They get paid 274k...DC is expensive, but anyone that can't live very comfortably on that is awful with money. Being awful with money will lose you a TS clearance because it makes you susceptible to bribery by spies. I would think it would also be a disqualifier for a SCOTUS judge for the same reason.

I think maintaining a TS clearance should be a requirement for all positions above a certain level in the federal government. Not because they need access to TS information, but to ensure they are at a lower risk of bribery, adversarial interests, and criminal activity. Getting a TS clearance isn't terribly hard. Just generally have your act together. As long as you aren't a train wreck, a drug addict, a criminal, an untrustworthy asshat, or have connections to adversaries, you will pass adjudication. TLDR: A TS clearance would ensure high level government employees are minimumly functional humans.

Another area where electric wins is smoking. My electric smoker is much easier to use and produces superior results to using charcoal. A really nice electric smoker can be purchased for a few hundred dollars. The electricity it uses is cheaper than charcoal too.

I know how a lot of people here feel about eating meat at all, but considering the current situation, anything that is better buys time to make even bigger cuts.

Beef is a big culprit with emissions, and I'll tell you what, a well smoked humble and cheap chicken drumstick will taste amazing.

ETA: It isn't just the emissions from burning the charcoal that are saved. It is also the emissions producing and transporting the charcoal to their usage point. High voltage AC is pretty hard to beat in efficient transport of energy.

Wow is that an old version of NGINX. Bad sys admin! If you are going to change your server string, have some fun. Set it to "server 1.0. Today's special is caramel horse apple"

The poor thing is probably mining bit coins and deploying ransomware!

Government with cancellation of $6b of projects unless they got appropriate legislation.

I'm a yank, so I might be talking out of the wrong hole here. That sounds like an empty threat. If those projects are in their interest, they will do them. Assume corporations will act in their own interest, unless they are organized like Facebook and their management is immune. Otherwise, less principled institutional and large share holders will replace them.

Believe it or not, the woke backlash thing seems to be false:

https://www.truthorfiction.com/pink-floyds-woke-50th-anniversary-rainbow-controversy/

Anybody that is a fan or even old enough to know who Pink Floyd has seen that 50 year old album cover.

Anyone following them where they would see that post is going to be aware of this.

As much as I hate the anti-woke stuff from the right, it appears this is pure sensationalism.

This means two things. One, they (the right in the US) go on about it so much, people don't bother fact checking. Two, the left isn't immune to BS.

Coca-Cola did not invent Santa.

Coca-Cola did not invent Santa.

ETA for the down voters:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/21/coca-cola-didnt-invent-santa-the-10-biggest-christmas-myths-debunked

Good catch! It is 1034.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt

Which is blatant incompetence considering there is a very straightforward RFC covering domain names.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt

Juries have a LOT of discretion regarding damages in civil cases. The damages are what the 12 jurors say it is.

Never eat pears!