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Given who we're taking about, I won't hold my breath for it.

The main reason republicans are able to get better results from a filibuster than the democrats is republicans don't give a shit about the consequences.

When there is a lapse of government funding it causes chaos in a lot of programs that tens of millions of people depend on. Even if it's just a day, the government spends weeks preparing for it and when it's over it's not like flipping a switch and everything goes back to normal, there is a long recovery period. Even getting close to a lapse results in wasted effort preparing for the possibility which takes away from running the programs and harms people.

For republicans that's an added benefit to a point, not something to be avoided so they will hold out until they get a large portion of what they want. Democrats have to weigh the pain and suffering from a lapse against getting concessions so their thresholds are different.

But as absentbird said, that doesn't really apply here because rescission isn't something that democrats are going to use often.

No, you can't. Debate time is limited in the senate for a rescission package. There is no filibuster, neither a traditional talking one nor one where they just say they're filibustering to prevent a vote.

I suppose someone could just talk and refuse to stop. They would be ruled out of order, and if they didn't stop the Senate Sergeant at Arms would have them removed. If every democrat did that I guess that would hold things up a bit, but it's not a filibuster and eventually the vote would proceed.

Rescission packages aren't subject to the filibuster, only a simple majority is needed. Expect more of this.

Apparently Been Shapiro's wife (she's a doctor btw) disagrees. It's supposed to be dry as the Sahara, just like it is every time she begrudgingly gets naked in front of him.

I had a chance run in with one of my profs and his TA at a bar. He was the department chair but got roped into teaching an undergrad class that semester. He was basically that guy on the right, and the TA was on his way there. The insights into what life as a physics PhD was really like that I gleaned from that conversation is why I'm not the guy on the right and instead found something easy and high paying with a different major. Sometimes I feel like I might have wasted my natural ability, but I think I'm probably much happier. Also, maybe I'm just not that smart anyway and my absence is absolutely no loss to the field.

Fuck cars and up with cycling and bike infrastructure and all that but unless this study is more specific than the article states, it's useless. And if it is more specific this article may be misleading.

It just gives a percentage of "in compliance with traffic laws" and doesn't give a breakdown of what laws. Since most drivers speed at least a little quite often, and most cyclists are incapable of speeding anywhere near as much, what laws are the cyclists breaking to get them as low on compliance as drivers? If it's stop signs and red lights, that is right in line with the stereotype of them being dangerous scofflaws the article is saying this study shows is incorrect.

It's also possible that the one that did it said "why did you do that" to try and shift blame for reason(s) of insurance payout, shame, or something else and the one that said "I didn't" is telling the truth.

Whichever one did it, that video from Captain Steeeve makes a pretty good case that one of them did.

If one pilot tries to ram it into the ground, or just throttles back, the other pilot can fight them for the controls and possibly prevent a crash. When those switches are flipped the engines almost immediately flame out. Even if the other pilot quickly flips them back and prevents the first pilot from doing anything else, it takes time for the engines to automatically relight and spool back up. Done right around liftoff, which seems to be the case from the RAT deployment, there might not be anything the other pilot can do no matter how fast they act.

Edit: According to the flight data recorder, the cutoff switches were flipped 3 seconds after takeoff, one was flipped back on 10 seconds later, the other flipped back 4 seconds after that, and the recording ended 15 seconds later.

That depends on what sort of conservative viewpoints you're taking about. I see people expressing opinions that I would associate with what I think of as Eisenhower conservatives and they are met with civil discussions. It's when people start in with the post-Nixon bigoted, poor hating, corporate/wealthy bootlicking, regressive "conservative" viewpoints that people are less likely to engage beyond calling them out because there is probably no point to anything else. One obvious exception to this is someone unknowingly stumbling into a post on the tankie triad and saying something with even a whiff of conservatism. That's not going to go well. But it doesn't take long to learn that.

Yeah, it's so hilarious to want an engine that will continue to run after a complete electrical system failure at 10000ft.

Fuck 100LL though.

It started to get a little stale earlier but I think it really started to suck when Fiona left and they tried to make Debbie the new Fiona.

She bailed because she thought she was better than the show and was going to have a big movie career but she's done fuck all since.