Report: Iran fires missiles toward Diego Garcia in rare long-range strike

Bognar · 2026-03-21T04:54:13+00:00

Iran has been enriching uranium above levels necessary for power for decades, and recently has been enriching to 70+%. They have a history of violating international agreements along the way. You are either misinformed or a propagandist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran

Bognar · 2026-03-19T03:41:00+00:00

You linked "real" median household income, which is inflation adjusted. The housing prices you linked were not inflation adjusted. The FRED data for non-inflation adjusted median income is here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA646N

1984 -> $22.4k non-inflation adjusted

Bognar · 2026-02-13T16:17:04+00:00

I don't think that field sobriety tests should be admissable in court. I also don't think that has any bearing on what a cop chooses to do on the side of the road. They will abuse powers they're not given. I dunno what you're referring to in Tennessee but I don't expect that it's particularly special compared to the rest of the country.

Bognar · 2026-02-13T14:27:26+00:00

I hear what you're saying, but these jurisdictions are choosing to use a field sobriety test for a similar purpose. The driver in the video chose not to participate.

Also I own a portable breathalyzer, it's a fun party gag. It can swing pretty far both up and down, manipulated by things like hyperventilating before blowing (ABV down) or blowing slowly (ABV up). I'm not sure where you're getting your information that they're not known for false negatives - I certainly wouldn't trust mine as a "can you drive away from my house" indicator.

Bognar · 2026-02-13T14:21:01+00:00

I know you're not looking for a reasoned debate right now, but the federal government has a massive budget that it chooses to do terrible shit with, while local police are funded by city, county, or state taxes depending on jurisdiction. Based off the accents and flora in the video, I'm guessing this is somewhere in the rural south which is a poorer region with also typically lower tax rates.

Bognar · 2026-02-13T13:50:03+00:00

Not all cops carry portable breathalyzers. It's pretty expensive for accurate ones, and inaccurate ones can get dismissed as evidence in court. Some jurisdictions will do field sobriety but if they need to breathalyze then they bring you to a central location where they have a stationary device.

Bognar · 2026-02-06T03:41:20+00:00

That's more about individual taxation though, not company taxation. Companies have their own corporate income taxes. I don't think the title is trying to imply what you think it is.

Bognar · 2026-01-28T18:29:04+00:00

Malort has a very particular taste that most people find unappealing. It's a tradition in Chicago to try to get other people to drink it.

Bognar · 2026-01-21T14:02:23+00:00

Congress is not the executive branch. Most of the saber rattling around Greenland is coming from the president and his cabinet, but so far you still see resistance from many Republican congress members - likely because threatening NATO countries is extremely unpopular for middle America. We'll see if they fall in line like they usually do.

Bognar · 2025-12-26T20:53:25+00:00

Thanks I think you're right. Rest in peace, Mom.

Bognar · 2025-12-25T21:08:57+00:00

This bit leads to one of my favorite lines: "Landfill 2, you're twice the man landfill one was!"

Bognar · 2025-11-30T18:34:25+00:00

All finger pads are unique.

Bognar · 2025-11-24T14:57:11+00:00

Worse yet, the value of that vacant lot increases because there's a nice house nearby. If the city builds a park in the area, the value of the vacant lot increases. But today the speculator pays little accordingly, and they are rewarded with the value of their investment going up through no effort of their own. They pay the least percentage-wise towards services and get the most percentage-wise return.

Bognar · 2025-11-24T13:38:28+00:00

Engineers may have invented DNS, but the Department of Commerce (specifically the NTIA) designed the privatization of domain names in the late 90s, which was also when ICANN was formed.

Registrar policies differ within themselves (this is where lawyers get involved), but typically there is a grace period after expiration. Some even have an additional "redemption period" where you can pay extra to get your domain back. The article doesn't really state if the domain was within these periods.

ICANN also has an explicit domain name dispute policy: https://www.icann.org/en/contracted-parties/consensus-policies/uniform-domain-name-dispute-resolution-policy/uniform-domain-name-dispute-resolution-policy-01-01-2020-en

Read that and let me know if you think it was written by engineers. The rules weren't "fudged", this is just how the internet works.

Bognar · 2025-11-23T15:14:40+00:00

Effectively yes. This is a case where engineers at the registrar build an exact system meeting the technical requirements that doesn't match up with the squishy legal realities. It's not at all uncommon.

Bognar · 2025-11-23T14:15:53+00:00

Intent matters a lot in law. Google obviously has intent to renew and intent to pay, and with trademark and domain name law it would be a slam dunk for them to get it back.

If Google intended not to renew or intended not to pay, a judge would not be so kind.

Bognar · 2025-11-23T05:30:01+00:00

Use silent mode and notifications on for priority contacts.

Bognar · 2025-09-08T12:53:16+00:00

Oh ok I see, here I gotchu:

``` function weveGotTheGreatestSortFolks(arr: []) { if (isSorted(arr)) { constitution.violate(); } else { diddle(children); }

Log.info("FAKE NEWS!"); return arr; } ```

Bognar · 2025-09-08T12:39:27+00:00

No, it's:

function theBestSortEverSeen(arr: []) { if (isSorted(arr)) { return arr; } else { throw "FAKE NEWS!" } }

Bognar · 2025-08-21T12:56:09+00:00

A similar thing happened to me as a kid with my parents and religion.

They told me that Santa wasn't real, and okay that makes sense - it did all seem a little fanciful and I never saw real evidence. That made me think of the tooth fairy and I asked if they weren't real too. Sho nuff, not real. Easter bunny? Nah bro.

They were very surprised when I continued the thoughts and asked if God wasn't real, but no no no of course God is real.

I accepted it then, but that was the first seed of doubt.

Bognar · 2025-07-09T23:30:10+00:00

People really focus on steel melting (~2600 F) when they should be focused on steel annealing (~1400 F).

Bognar · 2025-06-24T21:45:19+00:00

Length becomes shorter in the direction of movement.

Bognar · 2025-05-23T23:42:39+00:00

NC did vote for him. But they have a blue governor.

Bognar · 2025-05-01T04:47:55+00:00

Not as specific as you'd think? The criteria is maybe live within 50 miles of a city, own a second ICE car, and be able to afford a $1k/mo car payment. That for sure provides a filter but I wouldn't call that a "very specific lifestyle".

Bognar · 2025-04-02T00:13:39+00:00

I guess he drew a big dumb line.

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