With elementary math, consumers could easily calculate battery life by dividing watt-hours by power consumption.
I mean, for something like an LED, maybe, but a lot of computing devices can vary power consumption based on what they’re doing.
I do agree that it’s pretty ridiculous that anyone is selling a power bank without a watt-hour rating.
I mean, that splitter device cannot be USB compliant, if it’s giving more than 5V to a device that never negotiated more than 5V.
I’d also guess that if it’s just silently feeding the second device from what the phone has negotiated, it’s probably not compliant in that it’s probably drawing more from its power source than the phone has negotiated – USB devices are responsible for indicating what they’ll draw.
You could make that multiport device USB-compliant, but it’d require having the splitter be a DC-DC power source and having it negotiate some PD draw sufficient to power both devices.
If so, wastewater concentration levels should remain high.
“B-but the old testament said…”
While the strongest Biblical criticisms of homosexuality are in the Old Testament, such criticism is also not exclusive to the Old Testament.
e.g. the Book of Romans is part of the New Testament:
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Any time you find a statistic that uses the term “real” on income, they’re making that adjustment.
Or are electronics getting to an unattainable price point? What 8 year old has $400+ for a console and $60 per game?
The Nintendo Entertainment System launched at $179 in 1983.
In 2025 dollars, that’s $573.45.
Super Mario Bros. 3 — which I think is probably the best NES game — ran for $50 in 1990. That’s $122 in 2025 dollars.
Ooh, I didn’t know that someone had developed a mechanism to move issues and PRs.
I remember commenting on the fact that while it’s easy to move the source repo itself from location to location, as git makes that easy and self-contained, issues and PRs didn’t enjoy that.
I guess that’s a positive.
Hard to conclude much about how much of an issue it is without knowing what “sensitive” means in this context.
If it’s “classified”, then there are formal rules. But sensitive isn’t precisely-defined.
How much you want to bet we’re going to start having military parades to “show off our strength”.
Trump specifically asked for this in his first term. As I recall, his advisors recommended against it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_2018_Washington_Veterans_Day_Parade
The 2018 Washington Veterans Day Parade (colloquially called “Trump’s military parade”) was a planned military parade that would have taken place in Washington, D.C., on November 10, 2018, in honor of the Veterans Day holiday (which took place on 11 November).
The parade was expected to include members of all five armed services; the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and the Coast Guard, with other units that were to be dressed in period uniforms representing earlier times in the United States military history.[3] A memo from General Joseph Dunford reported that the parade was to have focused on historic battles and conflicts such as the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.[4] Between 5,000 and 7,000 service members were to have taken part in the parade, which was to begin at the U.S. Capitol and end at the White House. The evolution of women in the service was also to be highlighted in the parade, along with an emphasis on the price of freedom.[5] The parade would have included 100 wheeled vehicles instead of tanks, as well as a heavy air component featuring 50 aircraft at the end of the parade.[6][7] U.S. President Donald Trump would have been situated in a reviewing area and surrounded by military heroes.[8] Medal of Honor recipients would have been included in reviewing the parade with the President and would have marched in the parade.[5]
Opinion of parade
Support
In February 2017, very few lawmakers backed the idea of a military parade. Senator David Perdue, a Republican of Georgia, told reporters “He’s the President of the United States. Personally, I would prefer not to do it. But he’s the president.”[20] Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican of South Carolina, supported the parade if it honored the military itself, and not the “…Soviet-style hardware display.”[20]
AMVETS, a group that advocates for military veterans, felt that potentially the parade would inspire more Americans to join the armed forces.[21]
Against
Other politicians spoke out against the parade. Representative Adam Smith, a Democrat of Washington and members of the House Armed Services Committee released a statement that highlighted “A military parade like this - one that is unduly focused on a single person - is what authoritarian regimes do, not democracies.”[20] Senator John Kennedy, a Republican of Louisiana, told reporters “We’re not North Korea, we’re not Russia, and we’re not China and I don’t want to be”, while speaking out against the proposed parade.[22]
Robert O’Neill, a former Navy SEAL, tweeted in February 2018 that any military parade would be “…third world bullshit.”[23] Other military veterans echoed the sentiment with calls for the money to be spent on housing, employment and mental health care to better support the troops.[22] A veteran of the War in Afghanistan highlighted that it would seem unreasonable to hold a parade in celebration while a 19-year-old war (per 2020) was still ongoing.[21]
The latest incident, Friday afternoon, occurred while four U.S. Air Force T-38 Talons were en route to Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia for a flyover, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. A T-38 Talon is a two-seat supersonic jet used to train pilots, according to the Air Force.
Around 3:15 p.m. local time, Delta Flight 2983, bound for Minneapolis, took off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Soon after, an alert sounded off inside the cockpit of the passenger plane, indicating that another aircraft was nearby, the FAA said. In response, air traffic controllers issued “corrective instructions” to both aircraft, the agency said.
VASAviation visualization with ATC traffic:
Panamá should ban all military ships from all nations from going through the canal. That would go a long way towards promoting world peace and easing trade.
That’s a critical passageway for the US. It’d be something like the Strait of the Gibraltar being severed for Europe, cutting half of the entity off from the other half by water and requiring their Med-based and Pacific-based ships to go around Africa to reach each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia
As of 2024, the total fertility rate across Russia is estimated to be 1.41 children born per woman,[18] which is below the replacement rate of 2.1 and among the lowest in the world.[19] Subsequently, it has one of the oldest populations in the world, with a median age of 41.9 years.
I mean, I agree that they’ve got to do something, but I don’t think that that this is likely going to do it. I don’t think that the limiting factor here is sex appeal.
I’m also dubious about the information-control thing they’ve been doing:
Russia, battling birth rate dip, is working on ‘child-free’ ideology ban, says Putin ally
Sept 24 (Reuters) - The Russian parliament is working on a law that would ban what the authorities cast as the harmful promotion of a child-free way of life with heavy fines for “childlessness propaganda”, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.
I think that the larger issue is people not wanting to raise children.
More-specifically, a regressive tax, one which hits the poor harder.
I am pretty sure that that’s up to Trump’s discretion to grant and am skeptical that Trump would grant it.
Bolton, national-security hawk who played a key role in shaping U.S. foreign policy during the first Trump administration, has continued to require Secret Service protection due to threats from Iran, even after leaving the White House in 2019.
After Bolton was fired by Trump, the president terminated his security detail. However, former President Joe Biden reinstated the protection upon taking office in 2021.
The purported plot against Bolton in 2021, one of the most thoroughly documented alleged assassination attempts, is part of what U.S. prosecutors and former government officials describe as ongoing efforts by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. These efforts aim to target Trump-era officials responsible for a 2020 U.S. airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Guard’s elite Quds Force.
“The Justice Department filed criminal charges in 2022 against an Iranian Revolutionary Guard official for attempting to hire a hitman to target me. That threat still exists, as shown by the recent arrest of someone trying to orchestrate President Trump’s assassination. The American people can decide for themselves which president made the right call,” Bolton said in his statement to CNN.
On Tuesday, CNN reported that former National Security Adviser John Bolton expressed frustration and disappointment over former President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke his Secret Service protection just hours after he returned to the White House.
“I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has made this decision,” Bolton said in a Tuesday statement to Newsweek. “Despite my criticisms of President Biden’s national security policies, he made the decision to extend Secret Service protection to me in 2021.”
Bolton has a hostile nation-state actively trying to assassinate him for his work for Trump. Trump pulled his protection because he doesn’t like him.
Judge Boasberg has ruled against Trump in one major case and I imagine will most-likely do so in at least a second.
Finstad said he held a Feb. 26 telephone town hall joined by 3,000 people in his district.
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Finstad: Great to talk to and answer questions from the amazing folks in #MN01! Thank you to the 3,000 constituents from across southern Minnesota who tuned in to our Constituent Update Call last night!
Sarah Kujawa: How do we get notified of these? I am your constituent and didn’t get an invite
Anastasia Hopkins Folpe: Sarah Kujawa exactly
Jacque Drew: Sarah Kujawa I just called all 3 offices and asked the same question. No one had an answer but would pass my request along.
MarilynPalmer Frisch: Sarah Kujawa probably another mistruth we have to deal with!
Tori Ann Gross: Sarah Kujawa exactly. I’m on the email list, have called and asked your staffers specifically when you’ll be holding a town hall with constituents. How are you notifying people of your events??
Jenni Hollar: Sarah Kujawa it was a lame attempt to appear that he’s listening to constituents.
Karen Klefstad Monson: Sarah Kujawa and you note there is no response from him here.
Sharon Vandenorth: Interesting. I spoke about this very lack of communication w your Rochester office yesterday morning and he never mentioned an “update call”. Invitation only? That’s one way to control the content isn’t it. Shameful lack of honesty.
Shannon Helget: I called your office and voiced my concerns yesterday. I wasn’t informed of any phone call or town hall meeting where I could hear directly from Congressman Brad Finstad. How do you plan to notify all constituents in your district of these opportunities? You represent ALL of us.
Hmm.
The 15 inch version comes with a 100 Wh battery, which is a rare find.
It looks like Trump already did that.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/politics/who-is-judge-james-boasberg/index.html
In a series of social media posts, Trump smeared Boasberg as a “Radical Left Lunatic Judge” and called for his impeachment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boasberg
James Emanuel “Jeb” Boasberg (born 1963)[2] is an American lawyer and jurist who is the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Appointed by President George W. Bush, he served as a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 2002 to 2011, before Barack Obama nominated him to the US district court for the District of Columbia. Chief Justice John G. Roberts appointed him to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in 2014, and he served as the presiding judge of the FISC from 2020 to 2021. In 2020, he was appointed to the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court and designated chief judge.
If he’s “radical left”, no doubt this is all part of some sort of grand conspiracy between President Bush, President Obama, and conservative Chief Justice John G. Roberts to infiltrate communists into high positions in the government.
They admitted to using a fucking app over established communications to avoid being on the record
January 20, 2025, Inauguration Day. Trump releases a statement on his top priorities for his presidency:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/01/president-trumps-america-first-priorities/
President Trump’s America First Priorities
DRAIN THE SWAMP
President Trump is taking swift action to end the weaponization of government against political rivals and ordering all document retention as required by law.
March 11, 2025. Jeffrey Goldberg receives chat group invitation for Cabinet-level officials for planning attack on Yemen.
I see that top Trump priorities on swamp-draining lasted — assuming, perhaps generously, that this was the first such incident with Signal — almost seven weeks.
Well, okay. I don’t know about the weaponization of government against political rivals. I seem to recall what looked like rather a lot of that, actually. But at least the document retention.
Non-mobile-specific version:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/investing/us-stock-market/index.html