Pipeline is interesting.
Rail also provides an interesting medium cost/medium speed shipping option.
Rail shipping from China to Europe was becoming somewhat popular in the 2010s for moderate value bulky items. Sea is much cheaper and much slower, and air is much faster and much more expensive.
I think they use this - Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). 26/30 is considered normal. 24-26 is borderline, and 23 or lower is "pathological".
I've definitely dealt with some people who wouldn't pass.
https://geriatrictoolkit.missouri.edu/cog/MoCA-8.3-English-Test-2018-04.pdf
Some scoring info - and an amusing attempt to make AI take the test: https://mocacognition.com/moca-clinic-data/
Gab.AI summary: The provided text argues that while past Republican administrations have historically failed to protect Second Amendment rights through meaningful legislation, the current Trump administration is pursuing a more permanent strategy to secure these protections.
Key takeaways include:
- Structural Change Over Legislation: Recognizing that legislative gridlock prevents passage of major gun rights bills, the administration is focusing on building durable regulatory frameworks that are harder for future anti-gun administrations to reverse.
- Institutional Realignment: The administration has installed pro-Second Amendment leadership within the DOJ and ATF, including a new chief counsel for the ATF recognized as a staunch defender of gun rights.
- ATF Reform: The "zero-tolerance" policy has been revoked, shifting the agency's focus away from prosecuting minor paperwork errors by FFL dealers and toward rebuilding trust with lawful gun owners.
- Strategic Focus: A forthcoming regulatory package is expected to address restrictions on semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15. Furthermore, the DOJ has established a new dedicated office within the Civil Rights Division specifically tasked with defending the Second Amendment.
- Long-Term Strategy: The primary goal is to break the cycle of "two steps forward, eight steps back" by focusing on regulatory processes that can withstand legal scrutiny in federal courts, aiming to secure permanent, structural advancements in gun rights.
We should also fix the telephone infrastructure to require origin authentication / verification to place a call with a domestic number. Other countries have it - but as is typical with the US administrative state, we only got a half-assed, asinine version that doesn't work and only creates paperwork for anyone legitimate (STIR/SHAKEN)
Got it - apparently they're piloting a "remote terminal" for Boston Logan for JetBlue and Delta passengers - you park your car and go through TSA at the remote terminal and ride an airside bus to the main terminal.
New York had this long ago, but no TSA back then - it's an odd throwback.
Nice, but btw it's PBI (Palm Beach International) that is becoming Donald J Trump International (DJT).
(There was a bill in congress to make Dulles (IAD) into Donald J Trump International but unfortunately went nowhere)
Based Poland.
Reminds me of this - "We have 'gay pride' parades while Poland has Winged Hussar parades. I want a refund."
Those are often a way to hold real estate from what I understand.
Another case in Florida- if you put cows on land, it qualifies as agriculture land, so when holding land, cows are placed to minimize property tax with the ag exemption.
It's also open source and freely available - you could run it offline on your own equipment if you have a machine large enough to run it, which eliminates risks of exfiltration to China.
This map was created by Seth Keshel, and is referenced in this lawsuit: https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/01-2022-10-08-oregon-complaint.pdf
And this clip on War Room: https://x.com/realLizUSA/status/1422615673537171459