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Doin' US taxes again. Super blah without a donut!!
Last year my personal filing was about 200 pages long. (We also do a separate corporate filing.)
And once again my taxes will far, far, far exceed the actual disposable income I have received.
Yes, this is an upper-middle-class, first world problem.. But I do hate paying what amounts to big wads of $$ to pay for El Cheato's destruction of the US.

Doing further research into the origins of the Abrahamic religions following my essay on The Claimants to the Tortured Land, I learn that by a supreme irony, #Israel itself is named after...
Drumroll....
A CANAANITE DEITY.
Yes, that's right. The name 'Israel' honours not יהוה‎, but El.

El (deity) - Wikipedia

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/elon-musk-2024-election-spending-millions

Elon Musk spent more than $290 million on the 2024 election, year-end FEC filings show
Elon Musk spent a total of more than $290 million on the 2024 election, new federal filings show, boosting President Donald Trump and Republicans in a staggering effort that has helped to secure unprecedented access for the world’s richest person in the new administration.

“The U.S. military used a laser Thursday to shoot down a ‘seemingly threatening’ drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border. It turned out the drone belonged to Customs and Border Protection, lawmakers said.”
https://apnews.com/article/military-la

US military uses laser to down drone and FAA closes more El Paso airspace, officials say
Members of Congress say the U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone. The Federal Aviation Administration responded Thursday by closing more airspace near El Paso, Texas. No commercial flights were affected this time. The FAA shut down the El Paso airport and the surrounding area just over two weeks ago after another use of an anti-drone laser. The Defense Department and Transportation Department referred questions to the FAA. The FAA, CBP and the Pentagon …

The calls to 911 poured in from staff at "Camp East Montana" in Texas,
the nation’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility,
at a rate of nearly one a day for five months,
-- each its own tale of pain and despair.
A man sobs after being assaulted by another detainee.
Another bangs his head against the wall after expressing suicidal thoughts.
A pregnant woman complained of severe back pain and also had coronavirus.

911 calls reveal pain, despair at ICE'S largest detention camp
The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas. The emergencies included repeated suicide attempts by detainees, seizures, injuries from fights and a pregnant woman in pain. Data from more than a hundred 911 calls obtained by The Associated Press, interviews with detainees and court filings offer a portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutriti…

Opinion: Texas is losing the reading battle while leaders fight a culture war over books - El Paso Matters https://elpasomatters.org/2026/02/03/opinion-texas-reading-crisis-culture-war-literacy-reform/

Opinion: A politicized reading list won’t fix Texas’ reading crisis — investing in teachers will
Instead of investing in teachers, funding and evidence-based literacy instruction, Texas is fueling culture-war debates that do nothing to reverse its worsening reading crisis.

Detainee at "Camp East Montana" says guards bet on suicide
Like other detainees, Ramsingh said that between cleanings the rooms, restrooms and showers were often filthy and infested with insects.
He said detainees stole others’ food because everyone was hungry due to the small and sometimes inedible meals,
-- which led to fights, and the conditions took a toll on his mental health.
🔥At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made am…

911 calls reveal pain, despair at ICE'S largest detention camp
The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas. The emergencies included repeated suicide attempts by detainees, seizures, injuries from fights and a pregnant woman in pain. Data from more than a hundred 911 calls obtained by The Associated Press, interviews with detainees and court filings offer a portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutriti…

@… Shiny!
Are you just following the reference circuit from the J1772:2001 spec?
Aka, this is a handful of voltage-drop resisters (and one diode) in the CP-PE loop on the kettle-side, and switching one more in for ready/boiling?
Did you bother with any PWM signalling?

‘Get that electric feeling’: new 🇬🇧 campaign to show savings and benefits of electric driving
https://cleanenergy.campaign.gov.uk/electric-vehicle/ (more background:

What technique / tools are you using in CI to make sure that tests actually ran?
Misconfigurations can often result in huge swaths of test discovery failing silently, leaving a test run in CI including zero (or a very small number of) tests.
Are you relying on code coverage stats collected during test runs, and comparing that to some static fail_under percentage? If source discovery breaks, can 1 passing test be 100% coverage? Do you trust it?
#askfedi #sdlc #cicd #continuousintegration