Supposedly that’s Bari’s reason for spiking it. Still, the firsthand account from the people detained isn’t very common, and it’s uniquely telling that the government is citing criminal acts for which the guy pleaded out of and is legally innocent over.

One of my favorite modern SCOTUS rulings (not that there are many I like these days) was written by Neil Gorsuch of all people in Bostock v. Clayton County. It basically ruled that discrimination by sexual orientation and gender identity is inseparable from discrimination by sex. Presumably, there are behaviors you’d expect and accept by straight, cisgender people. When those same behaviors are done by a gay/trans person, the only difference is their biological sex. If you don’t accept that behavior on that basis, it’s discrimination by sex, plain and simple.

That said, the laws on discrimination by sex does have some nuance to it. I may be a little off on some details here, but it’s not enough to say that men have to do one thing and women another, there needs to be (for example) a difference in tangible benefit like pay.

But I also can’t imagine there wouldn’t be some kind of harassment claim if a company were to misgender a cisgender person, and with the precedent set in that pretty recent ruling, it shouldn’t be too difficult of a claim to make… I hope.

My wife and I are in the Midwest for Christmas and plan to get our White Castle fix. It’s so bad it’s good. My go-tos are a slider with egg and cheese, and a double cheeseburger with extra onion and no pickles

Sounds like bribery to me. Which has a law and a cause for impeachment in the Constitution.

Yep, it’s got a rubbery grippy surface to follow the plane. As the plane goes down, the wheel will creep up a little bit so the jet bridge height will go down a tiny bit too.

Fun fact: they also have an alarm if something funky happens, like if someone pulls on the unit when it’s in use.

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Tautology

Shit, with the way computer horsepower has improved over the years, how hard can it be to add a legacy Windows emulator or whatever WINE is, especially when you have the original source code available?

There isn’t a single Republican in the House who I want to see stay in office. That said, trying to get every single one out just isn’t going to happen. A “positive trend” doesn’t mean anything in districts as strong as this one, but there are plenty of purple districts where that positive trend means a flipped seat. And all the gerrymandering to secure more seats means each seat is less safe (those blue voters didn’t disappear, even if their district essentially did) so that could backfire as well.

Bluecifer*

You can never regret pizza.

I’ve got 4 Pis in my house right now:

• Octopi server for my 3D printer (Zero 2 W)
• Home Assistant server (400, but this was before I understood how Home Assistant worked and how much I didn’t need easy display access
• This adorable retro thingymabob: https://www.printables.com/model/694802-retro-desktop-pc-raspberry-pi-case-v2/files (I think on a 4?)
• A nearby flight display thingymabob: https://github.com/c0wsaysmoo/plane-tracker-rgb-pi (another Zero 2 W)

I’m also looking at making one of these (put a few parts on the Christmas list 😀 ) https://github.com/fatihak/InkyPi

Guys, have you heard of this thing called Bitcoin? You can get a bunch of them for like $3, worth a try to see what happens!

Do you have a 3D printer? $75 won’t buy one in full, but it can help get a decent entry-level one like an Ender 3 V3 SE. If you already have one, maybe some filament.

Also, a Raspberry Pi can be used for some nice things. I love my Home Assistant setup, for example!

I’ve only been on a Dash 8 a few times, but I think I’ve boarded one from a jet bridge once?

Nah, I worked at an airport that only has CRJs and we had a jet bridge. I’ve even boarded Saab 340s from them. There are some differences like a little bridge instead of direct connection, and they can’t use the jet bridge’s auto-level feature (as the plane gets loaded and unloaded it slowly sinks/rises not unlike what a car would do; auto-level has a stick with a wheel to track that and move the jet bridge to match) but other than that it’s pretty seamless.

Ok, there is a limit and you probably couldn’t use a jet bridge on, say, a Cessna Caravan… But the minimum is most definitely not a mainline plane.

Denver is the second largest airport in the world after Dammam, Saudi Arabia, which doesn’t even seem to use much of its enormous amount of land from a quick look.

Denver’s airport is relatively new, was built way outside of town before the city really had a chance to grow into it, and is about twice the size of Manhattan.

I think thumbs up can be equivalent to the middle finger in some cultures. “Ok” is a great universal word though.

Body language (not necessarily gestures or charades) can be hard to control, but if you can pull it off it’s most universally recognizable. Deep breaths, arms down, and a look of focus and confidence to take care of the situation. They have your attention; they’ll notice.

More debt, probably.