Facts. I’ve had 7 tick bites this year so far. I do have a fluff of a dog and live out in the woods, but I’ve never seen it this bad.

https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/INTERACTIVE-UN-ISRAEL-COMPANIES-1-1751388779.png?w=770&resize=770%2C962&quality=80

It’s like accents. Did you know America is the only place that doesn’t have language accents? We just speak normal English here.

It’s not ignorance, it’s bribery (lobbying). The oil industry wants to take advantage of green energy incentives to build more gas power plants.

Also I love the hypocrisy here:

“In 2024, Gov. Landry signed a pro-gas proclamation stating that “Louisiana recognizes natural gas as an affordable, reliable, and clean energy resource,” and that efforts to transition away from fossil fuels stand to “devastate” Louisiana consumers and economic growth.”

But also:

“Entergy customers will be on the hook for $470 million to finance the project, according to filings with the Louisiana Public Service Commission and the Midcontinent Independent Service Operator, as reported by New Orleans City Business.”

Yea, I think you are correct. The BBB will be voted on July 4th, not the budget. I had my facts backward. That said, I still don’t anticipate a lot of DHS pushback. Although I hope congress does change it considerably. It’s a mess as is.

It’s already passed the house. The senate plans on voting on it by July 4th. So far, no push back from senate republicans on the DHS side of things.

According to Wikipedia:

“The Republican-led Senate is expected to amend the bill.[63] Fiscally conservative Republican Senators (nicknamed “deficit hawks”) such as Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Rick Scott of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky, have pushed for deeper spending cuts.[63][64] Moderate Republicans such as Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Jerry Moran of Kansas, along with populist Josh Hawley of Missouri, have expressed concerns about Medicaid cuts.[63][65] Other moderates such as John Curtis of Utah and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, along with Murkowski and Moran, have also expressed concerns over the end of green energy tax credits.[63] Defense hawks such as Mike Rounds of South Dakota are opposed to spectrum auction provisions in the bill.”

I keep seeing posts like this, but the sad truth is they are going to be just fine. The DHS just got a 65% increase in their budget for 2026 to go to 60 billion dollars. I believe this is the largest percentage increase since it began. That is almost 4x the budget of NASA and includes 40 billion in discretionary spending. (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf)

Even if they run out of money before September, Congress will trip over themselves to give them more money. There are zero checks on Noem at this point.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/06/kristi-noem-ice-dhs-budget-trump-power.html

“…instead they will do it by making some tech execs part-time lieutenant colonels in the Army Reserve while retaining their current full-time jobs. Welcome your newest recruits: Andrew Bosworth, CTO of Meta; Shyam Sankar, CTO Palantir; Kevin Weil, CPO of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, OpenAI’s former research chief and current advisor to Thinking Machines Lab.”

I certainly wouldn’t want these four with me in a foxhole.

Reboot!

Yea, you are correct. The database size should be based on the hashing algorithm.

It’s usually shoddy (or intended?) coding that only allows a 16 byte length for the password. One character equals one byte of memory so my guess is they only allocated 16 bytes of space for the password. The irony is NIST 2025 recommendations argue for AT LEAST 15 characters for passwords.

Cape looks dope. Anyone have experience with their service?

The article claims that 1 trillion dollars was lost to scams in 2024 “based on research from GASA.org”. I cannot for the life of me figure out where this number comes from. Going to that website they say it’s based on ~58,000 surveys. I think they took the survey results, took the average amount of money the surveys claimed people lost and multiplied it by the total population of Earth or some nonsense shit. Their reports are blocked behind registration, which I’m not willing to do to find out their report is bullshit. Misinformation at its finest right here.

30.4 nm (Helium II line from the Sun). It provides the bulk of energy in Earth’s thermosphere.

You forgot the /s at the end of this sentence.

Hmmmm….

From Wikipedia:

“Witkoff, who is Jewish, was born in the Bronx in New York City, and was raised in Baldwin Harbor, New York and Old Westbury, New York on Long Island.[8][9][10][11] He is the son of Martin and Lois Witkoff.[12] His father was a manufacturer of ladies’ coats in New York City.[13][12] His paternal grandfather and grandmother were both born in the Russian Empire.[14][15]”

Ice cream or cake?

Gravity falls and owl house. I would also happily take amphibia in the mix as well. There was already an Easter egg of a stuffed sprig in owl house so we are half way there!

I dug a bit deeper after seeing this as I was skeptical about a “wedgie” being the cause of death. And while it’s true asphyxia was the cause of death, it’s much more complicated. From Military.com (Davis was a vet):

“The autopsy revealed that the altercation may have been more than a simple fistfight. The prosecution in the case said St. Clair suffered head wounds that would have killed the man anyway, had he not been strangled by the atomic wedgie. They also allege that Davis staged the crime scene to look like more of an equal brawl.”

I feel that this is the stereotype that is portrayed, however this isn’t true. I’ve lived in a very rural place growing up and rural areas tend to rely more on government assistance.

For example, in a study from 2017 shows people from rural communities are more likely to receive Medicaid than urban communities. https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/the-role-of-medicaid-in-rural-america/

Additionally, SNAP also has a higher percentage use in rural communities. https://www.fb.org/market-intel/snap-it-aint-just-for-cities

The reason I bring this up is as someone coming from a rural community, there is this belief that the government doesn’t help you. This is part of the reason why trump came to power. This idea that bloated government programs only exist for cities. This isn’t true and this shouldn’t be perpetuated. People from these communities need to understand their reliance on government programs because they are all under threat right now.