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Is this due to CA's high gas tax? That is a fixed value per gallon, so higher gas prices will not affect this right?

Even the next one isn't landing on the moon. It is still a test flight. Good that they are testing things obviously, but it is hard to get excited about testing...

Things like this make it seem like China will be much more likely to try and retake Taiwan soon. Seeing things like this, it is hard to imagine that the US will help defend Taiwan by providing military aid. I can imagine that trump will try to ask for something in return first. Even something like trump asking for TSMC to be sold to trump supporters (musk and others) seems likely to happen.

Something that I noticed is that the terrain mode doesn't show the contour lines as you zoom in. They display when you are zoomed out to see a wide area, but as you zoom into a terrain feature the lines and the elevation text disappear.

I think that North Korea and South Korea are still at war. Did the US ever declare war against North Korea? I thought that the US was there due to the UN getting involved. Skipping the need for the US to declare war.

My experience is a bit old (2008 ish) so things might have changes.

I had the GI Bill. I submitted paper work each month that showed I was taking a certain number of credits towards my degree to the VA dept at the school. Money was deposited into my bank account a couple weeks later. I could use that money for anything I wanted. Sounds like this is what your friends had/have.

There are other programs such as paying off student loans when you join up, but I am not familiar with them.

I agree with you, this doesn't make much sense. The source quote is saying that someone saw a red cover in the water. How would the cover survive going through an engine? It should be shredded. Also, if the cover was left on it would have been sucked into the engine as soon as the pilot turned the engines on or when he when to full power before taking off. Makes more sense if a cover was left unsecured on the flight deck and was sucked in during take off. It still would be shredded though I would think.

I don't think that the work you do should be the only thing that defines what type of person you are. Someone could work at those types of companies and be a serial killer in their free time.

I am not sure I understand. If there were local time guns, wouldn't they just fire theirs when they heard the sound of the central gun to help sync time with those farther away? They couldn't fire their gun 10 seconds in the past when they heard the central gun's sound.

Looking at the census information, the first number is for establishments with employees. They apparently don't include single person businesses in that number. The census data also lists "total non-employer establishments" at 3.4 million.