If the Dems take the Senate, and either (a) natural causes or (b) Vance makes his move, Vance's gonna spend 2 looong years with a Democratic Speaker one heartbeat or one impeachment away from the Presidency.

Patel will get fired like Comey: While he's a long, long way from home, and left to find his own way home.

It's not like any of them went in thinking Trump valued them or took them seriously.

Can we apply the Magnitski Act to a nominally domestic entity that launders its money through foreign countries?

Next available one in your fare class or below, though if you have frequent flyer status (the real kind, not the credit card kind), that may help here. (If you're in the bottom fare class, it may be a bit.)

Nah, "2 weeks" or "it got announced publicly before he was informed it was going to happen" are the two time scales this administration operates in.

Unless it is ticking in an ominous manner. In that case, I'd definitely feel a need to hand it to Tucker Carlson.

Not necessary Trump, but generically someone Trump-like.

On the one hand, I appreciate the engineering. On the other, a machine going faster than a person stopped being remarkable back in the 1800s.

... just as soon as the hangover lifts.

(See also the death march to patch/replace log4j, even though the 'let people stick a ldap query in there' functionality was disabled everywhere.)

If the Dems take back the Senate (possible), and the Dems get a damn backbone (unlikely), and either (a) Vance makes his move or (b) natural causes (both possible), he can spend the remainder of his presidency one impeachment (or heartbeat) away from a Democratic Speaker becoming President.

But hey, you want to blame evil corporations for the entirely predictable outcome of policy decisions, sure, we can do that too.

The problem is that, somewhere along the way, we made housing an always-appreciating asset, in many cases the only one that people have significant equity in, which means existing homeowners will go to mattresses to prevent any less-expensive housing in their neighborhoods.

Or trying to lateral into production or engineering to escape contact cuts, which is hilarious to watch, because it's the moment when senior management have to start being serious about it.

But it doesn't actually check if that feature is enabled. Did anyone actually check if this feature was enabled in our environment before notifying senior management that a patch must be installed in production immediately?

Seriously, pick a finding that their scanner has flagged as 'critical' and ask them if it's exploitable in our environment. "Well, the scanner says -" that a specific version of software, that can have a particular feature enabled, and if it is, that feature is buggy.

It's a small field of "hat" hackers, and a much larger group of "white hat script kiddies" who run vuln scanners, don't really understand what the results mean, but still have convinced management that they are elite technical principals.

Had the Navy just bought a few minimally-modded Fremms and put them through their paces until they could figure out how best to use them (probably to replace LCS roles) instead of repeatedly trying to pack additional features in until it turned into a Burke...

... is hopefully a turning point for Hungary...

I'm hoping for the best here, but Magyar was an insider from Orban's party.

I work in a fire station that the county took the vending machines out of for exactly the reasons you mention.

Zero impact on consumption, but there are no longer vending machine profits to fund a program that let older residents trade in old fire extinguishers (often 25+ years old) for new.

Depends on which churches you're looking at. The big White Evangelical denominations started seeing a decline after becoming a wing of the Trump political machine in 2015, and that's been accelerating as Trump's popularity drops.

Any chance you could clarify that anyone who receives a federal paycheck is covered under federal ethics rules and limits on gifts federal employees can receive?

No idea. However, if such legislation is pushed through, I guarantee you he'll make that argument for it not applying to him.

Couldn't have picked a better President and a better Pope to try this with. (How it ends: American Bishops who were on board with this get retired, and their replacements are unlikely to be as cooperative.)

(Thinking back to my days being a contractor on a fed site, and my employer started putting coffee stuff in the break room... prompting fed management to ban the feds from using it, because if they had a contractor-funded cuppa every day, it'd be an impermissible gift in about 3 months.)

Pass legislation clarifying that anyone the government writes a paycheck to (regardless of if they cash it) are subject to the same ethics rules, restrictions on gifts, and recusal requirements for conflict of interest that the rest of federal employees are subject to.

Honestly, you need to look no further than Brexit to realize the correctness of this. Any country that thought it'd be a good idea is pretty darn dense.

Part of that is that American Catholicism is already kinda split; there are a significant number of American Catholic bishops who are edging toward something that looks like the Prosperity Gospel, and the current Pope's first message to them was a shot across the bows.

I'd hesitate to describe their status as "independent".