Still is hot, but he used to be, too.

Powell tried to do his job rather than be a yes-man. There were some incidents where the two made conflicting statements at press conferences, and Powell didn’t recant his statements.

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. I was only familiar with closed bolt designs.

The gun fires from an open bolt

How does that work? I found multiple articles that casually say the same thing, but I haven’t been able to find any diagrams or videos explaining it. I thought a fundamental function of a bolt is to be closed, securing the ammunition in the chamber, at the time it is fired.

Here we are over a century later and this map correlates very well to the states I enjoy and states I avoid.

Banning Scout troops from meeting on military bases in the U.S. and overseas troubles Kenny Grant. He’s a retired Army Staff Sergeant who served as a sniper in Iraq and is the parent of three Scouts — two girls and a boy.

"It’s gonna be kind of harsh the way I say this… It’s kind of like they don’t care about us more than they care about their perceived message.

You hit the nail on the head, Mr. Grant.

1: @Skavau@piefed.social is right.

2, 7, 8: What’s the goal here? Is Reddit the gold standard we’re aiming for? I’m not convinced Lemmy needs millions of daily active users to keep a plethora of niche communities active, and to store a massive backlog for posterity. It’s fine if Lemmy is smaller and narrower in scope.

3: Reddit has duplicate/overlapping communities, too. I’m not sure how to avoid this without either (a) top-down control of community creation by admins, or (b) constant pruning of communities by admins. Neither are desirable, IMO.

4, 5, somewhat 7: Adjust expectations to reality, and appreciate what we have. Lemmy isn’t Reddit 2.0 and it never will be. There isn’t big venture capital money sloshing around. But Lemmy has come along way without it. Hundreds of instances hum along reliably, day-in and day-out. There are surprisingly good browser UI’s (look at Photon/Tesseract/Alexandrite) mobile apps. Not bad for an open-source project that runs on volunteer time and user donations!

6: The complaint about moderation tools is legit. I really want a better reports queue, among other things. But I don’t have the time and energy to contribute code, so I wait patiently.

Good on Illinois for doing that.

The real story is that the vast majority of airports aren’t pushing back.

Relevant reading, for folks who have some time: Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism

Or Trump is trying to shake down Argentina while they’re in a tough spot. “We’ll give you a bailout if you give us open access to your mineral wealth, and promise to do some future favors when we ask.”

The picture needs a banana for scale.

He said these included statements that the $1 million recipients were “selected to earn” the money and expected to become America PAC spokespeople, defeating the idea that the payment was a “prize.”

I hate that this case hinges on the interpretation of specific words. Waving millions of dollars in people’s faces to get them to support a political candidate is blatant vote buying. That should be enough reason to bring the hammer down on Elon and America PAC.

There are some in the northwest US. Mount Hood and Mount Baker both have ski areas on their lower slopes. Mount Rainier has one very close to the northeast, though not directly on the mountain.

I don’t understand what the “Two Hands” sign by the customers crotch is trying to convey.

'Cause I ain’t no hollaback girl

For example, using absolute numbers from Wikipedia…
South Africa: 27,272
Haiti + Philippines + Ecuador: 28,509

That map would look very different.

You’re right that using absolute numbers in the first place is bad practice.

The choice of regions feels cherry-picked to inflate the blue area on the map. Why else would they include Mongolia, or include only the least-dense regions of the US and Russia while excluding the major population centers?

While South Africa certainly has a lot of murders, both absolute and per capita, this map could easily be draw with a lot less blue on it.

I’ll bet the lane is there purely to satisfy some requirement for including non-car infrastructure, regardless of whether it makes sense in this particular location. It’s the same way we get fun bike lanes like these:

Whatever the issue was, it was short-lived. It’s now back to normal and only a few minutes behind.