Most systems I use will keep a sudo authentication session open for several minutes, so you don’t have to repeatedly enter your password on every single command.

I think the poop bags were mainly stowed into lockers on the sides of the descent module. They’re not just piled up on the ground.

Edit: Correction. This research suggests that the procedure was to “jettison” the “waste receptacle,” containing any sealed poop bags, food wrappers, and other trash. “Jettison” definitely sounds more like tossing stuff out the door.

I also want to point out that maybe 96 bags were provisioned and left. But almost certainly most of those remained empty. Pooping into a bag in the LM in close proximity to your colleague is not an easy or pleasant experience. Astronauts had access to lomotil and they were conditioned on what NASA called a “low residue diet” for the entire duration of the flight and pre-flight quarantine. The early flights were on the surface for less than 24 hours. So there was a lot of opportunity and incentive to just avoid having a bowel movement on the moon.

There’s also a radio transcript from Apollo 16 that suggests that, on that flight, this material was transferred off the returning LM back onto CM and presumably returned to Earth.

That’s what a district court judge will do when they know their work is going to be heavily scrutinized on appeal. They’re mainly writing to persuade appellate judges because nobody likes getting reversed and overruled.

I should add, now that Abrego actually has a court ruling finding vindictive prosecution, he should be eligible to collect from the $1.776 billion compensation fund.

Todd Blanche played a key role, and the defense tried to get him to testify to establish vindictiveness. And he’s still around.

In the end, though, DOJ turtled up, which meant they didn’t do much to rebut the presumption of vindictiveness. So, case dismissed for vindictive prosecution.

There was at least one “AI” company that was caught passing off the cheap overseas labor as AI.

The top secret information is held in Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facilities (SCIFs), within the pentagon and elsewhere. The security standards for the SCIFs are comprehensive. It is nigh impossible to accidentally end up in one.

The Pentagon itself is ginormous. It controls an upcoming defense budget of 1,500 billion dollars, far more than what can reasonably be kept secret or top secret. 24,000 people work there. And it has it’s own dedicated metro station. So most of it is not, in fact, classified.

When I was a kid, MS and LA were #50 and #49 in all of these kinds of lists. It amazes me to see all these other states racing to tank their scores down to the bottom.

It used to be that you have to pay a big fat one-time fee to renounce, as kind of a substitute for all of your future tax payments.

I think they changed the rules on that recently, though.

Edit: since GP made the same point about the exit tax, if you purport to renounce without paying the fee, then you haven’t really renounced. You and your assets can be seized for tax evasion (assuming you stop filing tax returns) if they ever touch US jurisdiction again, or any country that has a tax treaty with US, or countries with extradition to US.

The reflecting pool on the National Mall is shallow pool / fountain that’s there to look neat. It’s not intended for swimming. It’s an iconic landmark that connects the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Memorial. It’s been featured in all kinds of media, films, and TV for decades. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” speech was there.

Trump decided that the reflecting pool needed to be painted blue like some kinds of swimming pools. He caused the government to hire “a guy he knows” without putting the contract out for normal competitive bidding.

Also, I think they’re painting directly on to granite, not concrete.

There’s also this shot of the President driving his motorcade of several multi-ton vehicles directly on top of the granite pool.

Ladies and gentlemen, vote for democratic socialism. It’s the fiscally responsible choice.

Apparently there’s a separate count of bribery in this case, so yes. But you can be guilty of the foreign agent crime if you take direction from the foreign government, even if no money changes hands.

she acted as an agent of China’s government and did not notify the U.S. attorney general as required.

The crime is not the speech. And propaganda, even foreign propaganda, is not illegal. The crime is being an unregistered foreign agent.

If you do work for a foreign government in the United States, you have to register as such with the US government.

On the US census, “hispanic” is not a race; it’s an “ethnicity”. So your daughter will be faced with the choice of selecting a “race” and then also choosing “hispanic” or “non-hispanic.” Many other surveys use the same scheme.

How your daughter makes these decisions is up to her. As a social construct, race is what we humans make of it. 100 years ago, Irish and Italians were often not “white.”

The Constitution specifies that the justices and other federal judges shall serve “during good behavior.” This is interpreted as a lifetime appointment, subject to impeachment. That’s why this proposal is written as a constitutional amendment. It would need a 2/3 majority in both houses, and then 3/4 of state legislatures would need to ratify.

There’s another idea floating around to impose de facto term limits by regular federal law by rotating justices in and out of lower federal courts at defined intervals.

There are also a bunch of other things that an angry Congress could do to rein in the court (using regular federal law):

• they could use the good behavior clause to impose a written ethics code, or the CLE requirement that another commenter mentioned.
• they can set the court’s jurisdiction (except for suits between states). They can take jurisdiction away.
• On another jurisdictional topic: currently nearly all of the court’s docket is discretionary. They get to decide which cases to take up. Congress can take that power away and force the court to hear appeals on a mandatory basis again.
• Congress controls the annual budget. They get to decide whether the justices have money for clerks, robes, and office supplies or not.
• Congress can specify what dates the court is in session and for how long. At least one time, this power was used to try to prevent the court from meeting.
• Likewise, for a large part of the court’s history, Congress decreed that the court meet in the basement of the Capitol. Not the big fancy marble building. It could happen again.
• as part of its oversight power, Congress has the power to subpoena justices to hearings and to grill them on their decisions on live TV. This actually happened to Justice Kennedy after Bush v. Gore.

At the time that C was designed, ASCII was not a universal standard. It was one encoding competing with other encodings.

In C and C++, the source character set is implementation defined. This means that each compiler sets its own rules about what characters are accepted. For example compilers could choose to accept ASCII or EBCDIC or Unicode, or some combination, etc.

So the ISO standard will say that ; character is the end of statement punctuation. But it is up to the compiler to say which character(s) or code point(s) represent the ISO ;.

The ISO standards also require compilers to define a separate execution character set to specify values that can be stored in char and used with the string library functions. The execution character set doesn’t have to be the same as the source character set.

Edit: I should also mention that the rules for this stuff are changing a lot in ISO C23 and C++23. (Which standards I haven’t yet personally adopted.) Basically the ISO 23 standards mandate compilers to support UTF-8 source files, and they map every source character in the ISO standard to its corresponding Unicode character.

Rudy Giuliani, when asked, “What does the fifth amendment mean to you,” responded by…pleading the fifth.

Yeah, the damage curve is exponential by axle weight.

Renea Gamble was found by a municipal judge to be not guilty of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, and providing a false name to law enforcement. (The allegedly false name was “Aunt Tifa,” which is hilarious).

She has filed a civil claim seeking monetary damages of $2 million and attorneys fees.