If so, wastewater concentration levels should remain high.

“B-but the old testament said…”

While the strongest Biblical criticisms of homosexuality are in the Old Testament, such criticism is also not exclusive to the Old Testament.

e.g. the Book of Romans is part of the New Testament:

Romans 1:26-27:

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

I use my computer for so many things and I have about 200 applications on my computer. I don’t know why, but it bothers me that everything happens on this one machine as well as seeing so many app icons (even grouped into folders).

If what you want is organization from a workflow standpoint, I think that you’d have an easier time just using some form of launching system that doesn’t show a single monolithic menu of all your installed executables. Either have a launcher that permits breaking up stuff by task and lets you customize those groups, or just use a non-menu-based launching system.

I mean, /usr/bin on my system has 2694 entries. I don’t see them, though, since I’m launching software via bash or tofi, so…shrugs

VMs can have uses, but I’d mostly either use them for software compatibility, or to isolate things for security reasons. They wouldn’t be high on my list of tools to organize workflow.

I guess that’s a positive.

Hard to conclude much about how much of an issue it is without knowing what “sensitive” means in this context.

If it’s “classified”, then there are formal rules. But sensitive isn’t precisely-defined.

How much you want to bet we’re going to start having military parades to “show off our strength”.

Trump specifically asked for this in his first term. As I recall, his advisors recommended against it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_2018_Washington_Veterans_Day_Parade

The 2018 Washington Veterans Day Parade (colloquially called “Trump’s military parade”) was a planned military parade that would have taken place in Washington, D.C., on November 10, 2018, in honor of the Veterans Day holiday (which took place on 11 November).

The parade was expected to include members of all five armed services; the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and the Coast Guard, with other units that were to be dressed in period uniforms representing earlier times in the United States military history.[3] A memo from General Joseph Dunford reported that the parade was to have focused on historic battles and conflicts such as the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.[4] Between 5,000 and 7,000 service members were to have taken part in the parade, which was to begin at the U.S. Capitol and end at the White House. The evolution of women in the service was also to be highlighted in the parade, along with an emphasis on the price of freedom.[5] The parade would have included 100 wheeled vehicles instead of tanks, as well as a heavy air component featuring 50 aircraft at the end of the parade.[6][7] U.S. President Donald Trump would have been situated in a reviewing area and surrounded by military heroes.[8] Medal of Honor recipients would have been included in reviewing the parade with the President and would have marched in the parade.[5]

Opinion of parade

Support

In February 2017, very few lawmakers backed the idea of a military parade. Senator David Perdue, a Republican of Georgia, told reporters “He’s the President of the United States. Personally, I would prefer not to do it. But he’s the president.”[20] Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican of South Carolina, supported the parade if it honored the military itself, and not the “…Soviet-style hardware display.”[20]

AMVETS, a group that advocates for military veterans, felt that potentially the parade would inspire more Americans to join the armed forces.[21]

Against

Other politicians spoke out against the parade. Representative Adam Smith, a Democrat of Washington and members of the House Armed Services Committee released a statement that highlighted “A military parade like this - one that is unduly focused on a single person - is what authoritarian regimes do, not democracies.”[20] Senator John Kennedy, a Republican of Louisiana, told reporters “We’re not North Korea, we’re not Russia, and we’re not China and I don’t want to be”, while speaking out against the proposed parade.[22]

Robert O’Neill, a former Navy SEAL, tweeted in February 2018 that any military parade would be “…third world bullshit.”[23] Other military veterans echoed the sentiment with calls for the money to be spent on housing, employment and mental health care to better support the troops.[22] A veteran of the War in Afghanistan highlighted that it would seem unreasonable to hold a parade in celebration while a 19-year-old war (per 2020) was still ongoing.[21]

The latest incident, Friday afternoon, occurred while four U.S. Air Force T-38 Talons were en route to Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia for a flyover, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. A T-38 Talon is a two-seat supersonic jet used to train pilots, according to the Air Force.

Around 3:15 p.m. local time, Delta Flight 2983, bound for Minneapolis, took off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Soon after, an alert sounded off inside the cockpit of the passenger plane, indicating that another aircraft was nearby, the FAA said. In response, air traffic controllers issued “corrective instructions” to both aircraft, the agency said.

VASAviation visualization with ATC traffic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPQjQ23YTJo

Well, that gives you infinite energy, since you can produce energy-containing stuff.

Hmm.

On one hand, a lot of competition for resources go away.

On the other hand, that’s also pretty disruptive.

I think that that world is going to have a lot of sudden challenges. You don’t have scarcity of any material or existing item that you can break down to less than a 1m cube unless you need it in great bulk, but you also have no ability to control production of things like firearms, explosives, drugs, physical proofs of identity, missiles, weaponized drones, etc.

I can imagine countries or organizations trying to seize the supply of replicators.

If you can disassemble them, this is probably a good way to eliminate bounds on throughput, but honestly, even a little coordination permits for pretty enormous throughput from the get-go. You’ve got a lot of people out there.

More-specifically, a regressive tax, one which hits the poor harder.

I am pretty sure that that’s up to Trump’s discretion to grant and am skeptical that Trump would grant it.

https://www.newsweek.com/john-bolton-disappointed-after-trump-removes-his-secret-service-detail-2018535

Bolton, national-security hawk who played a key role in shaping U.S. foreign policy during the first Trump administration, has continued to require Secret Service protection due to threats from Iran, even after leaving the White House in 2019.

After Bolton was fired by Trump, the president terminated his security detail. However, former President Joe Biden reinstated the protection upon taking office in 2021.

The purported plot against Bolton in 2021, one of the most thoroughly documented alleged assassination attempts, is part of what U.S. prosecutors and former government officials describe as ongoing efforts by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. These efforts aim to target Trump-era officials responsible for a 2020 U.S. airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Guard’s elite Quds Force.

“The Justice Department filed criminal charges in 2022 against an Iranian Revolutionary Guard official for attempting to hire a hitman to target me. That threat still exists, as shown by the recent arrest of someone trying to orchestrate President Trump’s assassination. The American people can decide for themselves which president made the right call,” Bolton said in his statement to CNN.

On Tuesday, CNN reported that former National Security Adviser John Bolton expressed frustration and disappointment over former President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke his Secret Service protection just hours after he returned to the White House.

“I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has made this decision,” Bolton said in a Tuesday statement to Newsweek. “Despite my criticisms of President Biden’s national security policies, he made the decision to extend Secret Service protection to me in 2021.”

Bolton has a hostile nation-state actively trying to assassinate him for his work for Trump. Trump pulled his protection because he doesn’t like him.

Judge Boasberg has ruled against Trump in one major case and I imagine will most-likely do so in at least a second.

Finstad said he held a Feb. 26 telephone town hall joined by 3,000 people in his district.

clicks on link

https://www.facebook.com/RepFinstad/posts/pfbid0bBgaYsihdnArsU3kw2fr6mhT1zXCQJjZNnaYMmhAgffAoEVKs8z5khzANPDaWJxcl?rdid=WrvrHq7dpyeCxxAZ

Finstad: Great to talk to and answer questions from the amazing folks in #MN01! Thank you to the 3,000 constituents from across southern Minnesota who tuned in to our Constituent Update Call last night!

Sarah Kujawa: How do we get notified of these? I am your constituent and didn’t get an invite

Anastasia Hopkins Folpe: Sarah Kujawa exactly

Jacque Drew: Sarah Kujawa I just called all 3 offices and asked the same question. No one had an answer but would pass my request along.

MarilynPalmer Frisch: Sarah Kujawa probably another mistruth we have to deal with!

Tori Ann Gross: Sarah Kujawa exactly. I’m on the email list, have called and asked your staffers specifically when you’ll be holding a town hall with constituents. How are you notifying people of your events??

Jenni Hollar: Sarah Kujawa it was a lame attempt to appear that he’s listening to constituents.

Karen Klefstad Monson: Sarah Kujawa and you note there is no response from him here.

Sharon Vandenorth: Interesting. I spoke about this very lack of communication w your Rochester office yesterday morning and he never mentioned an “update call”. Invitation only? That’s one way to control the content isn’t it. Shameful lack of honesty.

Shannon Helget: I called your office and voiced my concerns yesterday. I wasn’t informed of any phone call or town hall meeting where I could hear directly from Congressman Brad Finstad. How do you plan to notify all constituents in your district of these opportunities? You represent ALL of us.

Hmm.

It looks like Trump already did that.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/politics/who-is-judge-james-boasberg/index.html

In a series of social media posts, Trump smeared Boasberg as a “Radical Left Lunatic Judge” and called for his impeachment

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

James Emanuel “Jeb” Boasberg (born 1963)[2] is an American lawyer and jurist who is the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Appointed by President George W. Bush, he served as a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 2002 to 2011, before Barack Obama nominated him to the US district court for the District of Columbia. Chief Justice John G. Roberts appointed him to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in 2014, and he served as the presiding judge of the FISC from 2020 to 2021. In 2020, he was appointed to the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court and designated chief judge.

If he’s “radical left”, no doubt this is all part of some sort of grand conspiracy between President Bush, President Obama, and conservative Chief Justice John G. Roberts to infiltrate communists into high positions in the government.

I don’t have an Instagram account and have no intention of making one, but he does have a post that I can see a low-resolution image of on Instagram that he and some other Republicans in North Dakota signed objecting to anti-LGBT language in the party platform, so I’d say the opposite, at least on the sexual orientation front.

https://www.instagram.com/holmbergforsenate/p/CEFxUw8pdd0/?hl=en

Don’t see anything doing date searches with Google either, though I’d guess that state senators probably aren’t normally all that high-profile.

I just did a site search on apnews.com for “ex state senator”. They do typically seem to say, so I don’t think that they avoid listing party affiliation as some kind of practice for retired state senators:

https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-senator-prison-kelsey-0a4a226939ba039852129184e820b9e9

Former Tennessee state senator reports to federal prison for campaign finance scheme conviction

The Republican was ordered to arrive at the prison’s minimum security satellite camp Monday for a 21-month sentence.

https://apnews.com/article/massachusetts-government-and-politics-ca3093b18dafb986a0d39ac19b1db336

A former Massachusetts state senator and Republican candidate for Congress has been charged after allegedly stealing a gun from an elderly constituent and misleading investigators about what happened, Attorney General Maura Healey said Friday.

https://apnews.com/article/sam-mccann-illinois-senator-sentencing-fraud-f98497339277e0a091d85db2db7f3569

FILE - Republican Illinois State Sen. Sam McCann speaks at the State Capitol on March 5, 2018, in Springfield, Ill. McCann, a former state senator and 2018 candidate for governor, was sentenced Wednesday, July 10, 2024 to 3 1/2 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $684,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion in misusing campaign funds. (Erin Brown/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

https://apnews.com/article/andy-sanborn-covid19-fraud-d3854b8f9225bf0372c4ec9d41ec0149

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former New Hampshire state senator accused last year of fraudulently obtaining federal COVID-19 loans and spending the money on luxury cars was charged this week with stealing separate state pandemic relief funds.

Republican Andy Sanborn, of Bedford, was charged with theft by deception, a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison, the attorney general’s office said Wednesday.

https://apnews.com/general-news-45df9559ab7b5bcab968c8391c33951f

CHICAGO (AP) — A former Illinois state senator pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal charges of lying on personal income tax reports and failing to file tax returns for her lobbying and consulting firm.

Collins, a Chicago Democrat who left the legislature in 2013, was one of several ex-lawmakers hired by Commonwealth Edison after retiring from public office.

https://apnews.com/article/dd1f440c59754588b2cfaeb633ca0530

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An ex-California state senator pleaded guilty Wednesday to a racketeering charge in an organized crime and public corruption case centered in San Francisco’s Chinatown.

The FBI also alleged that Yee, a San Francisco Democrat who was running for secretary of state at the time, conspired to import weapons and ammunition into the U.S.

EDIT: Oh, as someone else pointed out, they indicated it in OP’s article too, just in the caption. At least one of my above articles mentioned it in the caption too. So probably just a normal article.

supervised release.

That supervised release doesn’t seem to be working out too well so far:

https://northdakotamonitor.com/briefs/former-state-senator-convicted-of-child-sex-crime-again-accused-of-violating-pretrial-release/

Holmberg was released from custody on Oct. 30, 2023, with certain stipulations — including location monitoring, internet restrictions, no drugs or alcohol and no contact with victims or witnesses. The terms were updated this spring to bar Holmberg from using electronic devices without permission, according to court records.

“Since the date of the last status report filed on August 2, 2023, the defendant has continued to access the internet for reasons not approved by pretrial services,” a pretrial services officer says in the document.

The document notes that Holmberg accessed social media sites like Facebook and Twitter seven times between Aug. 13 and Aug. 17, and once on Sept. 22, without authorization.

On Aug. 7, Holmberg also “frequented” a home in Fargo in violation of his location monitoring requirements.

“The defendant has been given verbal reprimands and has been reminded of his conditions of release on numerous occasions,” the document says.

Court documents indicate Holmberg has violated the terms of his release several other times this year. An August court filing describes additional instances when he used the internet for unauthorized purposes, as well as occasions when he frequented an adult novelty store. In May, he tested positive for alcohol, which is not allowed under the release conditions.

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/309317/20250208/elon-musks-19-year-old-doge-intern-fired-leaking-company-secrets-competitors.htm

In a June 2022 message, an executive of the firm in question, Path Network, said that Coristine had been terminated for leaking internal information to competitors. They added that this was unacceptable and noted that the company had zero tolerance for it.

A spokesperson for the cybersecurity firm also said on Thursday that Coristine’s brief contract with the company was terminated after an internal investigation concluded. This was to look into the leaking of proprietary company information during the teen’s tenure at the Arizona-based hosting and data-security firm, according to Yahoo News.

Weeks after his termination, Coristine wrote in a Discord post in 2022 that he had retained access to the cybersecurity firm’s computers. The teen said he had the opportunity to wipe Path Network’s customer-supporting servers if he wanted to, but he did not, saying he never exploited his access.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/

Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today’s story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of ‘The Com,’ an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.

One does kind of get the feeling that perhaps Big Balls could have done with a bit more vetting.

EDIT:

Also, there’s his grandfather:

https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-doge-staffer-is-grandson

In 1980, KGB officer Valery Fedorovich Martynov was sent to the US to serve undercover at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC. He was a Line X officer, part of a technical espionage division. Martynov had a wife and two young children, and they enjoyed traveling to cities on the eastern seaboard and enjoying life in what was one of the KGB’s most desirable postings.

Several Silicon Valley executives I spoke to — some of whom requested anonymity for fear of retribution — echoed this sense of disappointment, in particular at the havoc the Department of Government Efficiency has wreaked throughout the federal government. “We were all on board for a more business-friendly presidency, but in the end, the whole industry of crypto and AI got rug pulled,” says the partner of a top-tier venture firm directly involved in the Trump administration. “The people surrounding Trump are all scamsters. They are getting rich off our votes, our dollars, and our time.”

Well, there was an unforseeable outcome. Trump was so known for keeping salubrious company in the past.

Steve Witkoff, for instance, a longtime Trump associate who was appointed as the United States special envoy to the Middle East, has been cashing in on his proximity to Trump to secure private deals, this person says. Witkoff’s son, Zach Witkoff, is the cofounder of World Liberty Financial, the crypto banking platform that launched Trump’s memecoin. Early in March, Steve Witkoff sent cryptocurrency advocates to the Middle East to promote World Liberty Financial’s latest stablecoin project, The Wall Street Journal reported. “Steve Witkoff is calling every sovereign government and saying, ‘You need to support this coin if you want to be in good standing with Trump,’” the person says. Witkoff did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

That doesn’t seem like a great office to have a holder who is soliciting bribes from foreign countries to affect national policy.

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

In November 2024, then President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would appoint Witkoff to be the United States Special Envoy to the Middle East…In addition to his Middle East portfolio, he also became Trump’s personal de facto envoy to Russian President Vladimir Putin.[5]

I don’t follow.