It’s just a bunch of “tacticool” accessories, not anything rare or particularly high-tech. IMO it makes the agents look like try-hard dorks - no number of laser scopes is going to turn them into commandos.
(With that said, the house does say “We don’t dial 911” and so it makes sense for the agents to be particularly careful.)
Park Scene With Amorous Young Woman by Berthold Woltze.
During the first winter after I got my dog, it took me a few days to notice that the reason he wasn’t asking to go outside as much in the snow was because he was sneaking into the unused bedroom and pooping there.
(Oddly, he had still only peed outside. I guess that’s where he drew the line himself.)
What’s wrong with that? To me, women of some ethnicities are on average significantly more attractive than women of other ethnicities (and the ethnicity I belong to is not the most attractive one) but I don’t think that has any moral implications - it’s no different from the fact that to me, brunette women are on average significantly more attractive than blonde women.
There’s no obligation to have the “type” that you’re most attracted to be the group that you belong to yourself.
Idealists are letting perfect be the enemy of the good but I don’t think that’s why Democrats underperformed. Neither Clinton nor Biden/Harris were idealists of this sort (despite some stuff Harris said but didn’t mean back in the 2020 primaries) and they didn’t lose elections because of a lack of support from the idealists. So IMO while the idealists aren’t helping, the very much non-idealistic institutions of the Democratic party which prioritize seniority within the party over electability are to blame.
I didn’t think a newborn bear could really be that small, but apparently bears are actually born extremely tiny relative to their adult size, with a newborn polar bear weighing only about one pound!
That’s not what he said - the article even quotes him saying something else:
“There will be more than enough jobs for the citizens of your nation, especially those with vocational training. I do think these trends really do make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration unless you have a very specialized skill.”
He’s not saying that people won’t keep wanting to immigrate. He’s saying that the USA will have no (self-interested) reason to let them in.
The statistics clearly show that poorer people have more children than richer people, so does having material comfort cause despair or are many people confused about their own motivations?
That’s not the right way to interpret these polls. Many people aren’t answering the question literally. They’re interpreting it to mean “Do you still approve of Trump’s deportation policy, despite everything?” and they’re saying yes to that. (It’s a reasonable interpretation.) People who really are happy about the killing do exist and they’re disproportionately loud online but they’re not 28% of the population.
And yet beans remain nutritious, decently tasty, and less than $3 per meal.
I still can’t get over the fact that there’s just no way to prevent Windows 11 home edition from ever rebooting automatically.
The funny thing is that ending public education entirely would probably be more popular (but still unpopular) in New Hampshire than racial segregation would be.
I used to work at a company involved in breast cancer screening, and one of the skills I learned on that job was how to say the word “breast” without ever giggling. It was a small startup so we had some interesting people, including a woman who, when discussing how the machine worked, would just grab one of her own breasts through her shirt and start poking it.
The moral calculus favors China’s rise as long as China doesn’t start any major wars, but the danger of China invading Taiwan is so great that I would have favored a policy of economic containment in order to reduce China’s capability to wage war even if it also reduced China’s economic growth.
Even if you disagree, do you acknowledge that, contrary to the claim in the OP, middle-class prosperity has not led to middle-class self-determination in China?
Has that ever worked? China has not liberalized even after trade with the West made it rich, and neither had Russia (before the sanctions related to the war in Ukraine.
We reached peak meme back then and it has been all downhill since.
My dog had been returned to the shelter because the folks who adopted him wanted him to stay in their yard most of the time and he kept digging out and escaping. That’s ok for some dogs but he was a dog who slept in my bed after having me tuck him in.
Texas became its own country after independence from Mexico only because the USA initially wouldn’t let it join. The overall preference for being a member of a larger nation where descendants of English immigrants held power and were allowed to own slaves was stable over time.
Because immigration law enforcement is still popular with the public even if the manner in which Trump is doing it isn’t.