DemBoSain

Isn't this just a prosecutor having confidence in their case?

He was (apocryphal) the only villager that watched Lady Godiva take her ride through town.

Is there some way we can ensure Ohio goes to Mexico?

btw, am in Michigan.

No celebration until there's also an alert that asks idiots if they really want to reply-all.

Good grief, why are the packaging logos and the port logos different?

Usually the entire Upper Peninsula disappears. Glad to see it was only the Keweenaw this time.

Allowing anybody with a pulse to run for a statewide office won't fix that, and actually makes it easier to game the system.

Gotta love some Bobby Fingers

“Too many unserious and frivolous candidates that lack support from their community complicates ballot design and provides an opportunity to confuse and misdirect voters.”

Seems logical to me. Over nine million people in New Jersey, but I only need 800 to get on a ballot? There's no link to the legislation, did they hard-code the numbers, or make it a percentage of population?

Despite claims by the outgoing Joseph Biden government and liberal big-business media that inflation is now at “acceptable” levels, working people continue to face the scourge of high prices for basic necessities

These are not mutually exclusive. The problem is there's no accepted mechanism for reducing prices that have been increased due to inflation.

The earth gains somewhere between 40,000 and 100,000 tons every year, just naturally due to space debris. But I've also read that that's offset by atmospheric gasses leaving the atmosphere, so the earth is actually losing mass.

But there's also the question of how much of that mass entering or leaving is actually affecting the system mass. Any additional mass entering orbit of the earth and moon should affect the earth's orbit as well.

And then, there's the "slingshot" effect where items traveling /with/ the earth's orbit can steal orbital speed from the earth, or when traveling /against/ the earth's orbit can add orbital speed to the earth.

So, the answer is: it's complicated.

I personally don't think it's much to worry about. Before we add enough mass to the earth to affect the orbit, I think we might notice a gravitational change.