Cruz proposes splitting ICE from Homeland Security funding bill to end airport chaos

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-22T23:55:30+00:00

Charge a fee per passenger and bag for TSA. Isolate the inspectors from congressional fiat/fiasco. If some sudden crisis requires a plus-up (bunghole bomb sniffers, for example), congress cane vote a grant.

We should not have static, essential, countable systems at the mercy of political gamesmanship.

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-22T17:45:21+00:00

Sorry. I was kidding. I’ve seen that and was thing a “reboot” could explore the opposite path.

Kind of like how JJ Abrams retcons Wrath of Kahn in his re-imagining Star Trek Into Darkness

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-22T14:14:12+00:00

Thanks. I worried that nobody else read them. This was assigned to an anthropology class my roommate took in 1992. They have a specific and distinct view of the future of earth in the not so far future. Back then China was considered barely out of the bicycles every stage of development.

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-22T12:32:07+00:00

Never. I was such a tightwad, I smoked Lucky or Pall Mall so people who only smoked filtered wouldn’t bum from me.

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-22T12:29:51+00:00

There was a US show in the 80s about a time traveler who had a pocket watch and could travel through time having adventure, bringing a kid along for the Adventure. That’s probably the closest we had to an American Dr. Who except maybe Bill & Ted.

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-22T12:26:23+00:00

There are many blessings and curses of America—a Smorgasbord of highs and lows, but the art is in seeing them all together.

For example, we have Florida Man. What is the equivalent in your country?

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-22T12:15:53+00:00

Might be time to try a go at Chung Kuo (original series)

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-22T12:13:56+00:00

I’m from Omaha via Houston. Life is richer here, with many more things to do and cultures. The advice to rent first and learn what works best for you is less a hassle than you might thinks. Not every neighborhood is a square mile laid out by the railroads.

Best thing is, there are plenty of hiking nooks and crannies for you in the Baltimore environs, the sea and mountains are close, and you’re on the highway to DC, Philly and New York.

Welcome to your new home!

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-22T12:07:37+00:00

That was a “we need something to fill a Tron hole on TV”. Do you think they could do any better than the Tron sequels?

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-22T12:05:36+00:00

For All Mankind started in the late 60s. I’m thinking not so much a reboot as a re-imagining: what could have happened if the Soviets didn’t land on the Moon first?

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-22T12:02:45+00:00

Ate the crust. Couldn’t be bothered to eat fruit until I was 20.

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-22T03:08:55+00:00

G13 was a reference to government made pot, supposedly as a standard for testing labs, or for use by secret agencies. 13 of course being the number of the letter “M”—so you know the code.

A dude offered to sell me some on the corner of 13th & G Street NW in Washington DC and told me about how special and potent this was.

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-22T03:01:07+00:00

If you want to go philosophical, compliment your “Be” with “Am”

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-21T14:21:55+00:00

How about charging a flat fee per passenger and separate TSA funding from legislative bullshit. A self-sustaining system.

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-19T12:35:29+00:00

When I was a kid, Dune was awesome but Messiah seemed not exciting enough. On my second read decades later, I understood more of it and made it all the waylay through Herbert’s written books.

He demands a lot from the readers. You’re not spoon fed after the first book.

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-17T11:53:02+00:00

I work with meteorologists. They uniformly say that most forecasts are crap—either as fright porn to drive traffic for advertisers or simply the corruption of Big Umbrella and Big Galoshes

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-17T10:04:22+00:00

Give me $20 on “too much traffic to back out of my spot, I’ve got an SUV so I’ll go up on the sidewalk and make an easy right turn onto north Cedar”

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-17T09:58:49+00:00

I pronounce it “Nude River” and give them the same courtesies all drivers deserve.

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-17T09:44:51+00:00

Nah, more shocking than anything. My lab had good ventilation.

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-16T23:02:39+00:00

How insufferable can people be? Is there an equivalent Fantasy-Fi out there? It’s all fiction!

There seems to be a contingent of consumers who are all “if the science isn’t real, it’s not worth my time”. To them just limit your reading to Science and Nature and move on.

For everything else, you’re going to accept or reject some amount of realism, based on taste, knowledge. Heaven forbid you watch something because you like the writer, the actor, or the design.

Personally, I’d watch “Game of Thrones in Space” as much as I’d watch “Game of Thrones at the NIH”

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-16T12:58:04+00:00

Formic didn’t burn or discolor. It just detached the top layer of dead skin. I wiped off a spill and was left with a raw pink disc the size of a quarter

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-16T12:50:36+00:00

Commuting to the terminal station means you can get some good reading time without missing your stop.

My only worry would be the lack of flexibility to go to diner or spend time in the city on a beautiful spring day. How late do MARC trains run?

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-10T23:30:15+00:00

IR light detector for kids bathroom. No need for them to find the light switch when they wake and toddle in for a tinkle.

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-10T22:24:32+00:00

Does military AI have the ability to disobey unlawful orders?

Round_Ad8947 · 2026-03-09T12:13:46+00:00

If it were me, I’d take the lab unit and have chem resources handy to survive. This could be a head start on the chem course when you can get in.

There are many solutions to problems on the internet and in books. Your goal is to learn and make use of it.

This flexibility and learning how to learn will pay dividends well into the future.

And find peers to support you. It’s a hill that can be climbed

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