“I was on cargo doing tasks.”

“In cargo?”

“I said what I said.”

With Chinese currency, the smallest coin is ¥0.1, one jiǎo. 0.1 CNY = 0.013 EUR. They may not be familiar with the convention of always writing the hundredths place, even if it’s zero, used with euros or dollars, especially if they’re using Google Translate for the menu.

And these days, Congress never officially adjourns. Even when they’re on vacation, a few legislators will come in every few days to hold a 30 second pro forma session to prevent recess appointments or pocket vetoes. It also gets around a clause in the Constitution, “that neither chamber can adjourn for more than three days without the consent of the other.” The House will be damned if they have to ask the Senate for permission to go home, and vice versa.

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

— Terry Pratchett, Mort

Nookie Crisp

Boimler call it out in Lower Decks / Strange New Worlds crossover as he swings a leg over the saddle in the ready room. Even funnier when you realize it was an improvised line, and Frakes was directing that episode, so he was in the room.

Natural uranium mostly emits alpha particles. It’s dangerous if you eat or inhale it, but the wood in the nightstand drawer is going to be enough to block them.

“This one time, on an away mission…”

Still preferable to what his boss gets up to.

I didn’t realize they shot multiple models at once. I had assumed they had one model that they shot multiple times and composited together. I suppose you save time this way, at the cost of making the shot a little trickier to make sure the support of the front X-Wing doesn’t obscure the ones behind it.

Wearing the “I really don’t care, do u?” jacket when going to visit a migrant child destination center tells you all you need to know about her.

Now we have two summer holidays

And that’s a bad thing?

Happy Father’s Day!

B-52s were built 1952-1962, but the earlier models were all retired and destroyed when nuclear disarmament treaties capped the number of bombers. Only the final production variant, the H series, from 1960-1962, remain operational.

The C-130 and U-2 families also date back to the 50’s, but again, only later production runs remain in service today. (Though these two planes remained in production much longer than the B-52 or the KC-135.)

They’ll wait to decide if they need to release it until mid November, once they know what states’ elections they want to try to undermine.

Man is stuck between a rock and a hard place. He doesn’t want to make this election a referendum on abortion, because as we’ve seen in ballot measures in the past two years, he can’t win that fight. However, his base won’t accept anything but a hardline stance. Must suck to be him, couldn’t happen to a worse person.

At least. If you work an 8 hour day, a 0.5 hour commute each way adds an extra 12.5% to work time commitment each day, and it’s considered unpaid time.

Why does Broke Don keep getting special treatment?

The airlines can end this practice pretty quick by charging less for a direct flight to the connecting city than they do for a two-legged flight though it. We prohibited the railroads from doing this sort of thing back in 1887 with the Interstate Commerce Act.

Why is he so against feeding the poor?