Central does 2 to 1

He's nitpicking your earlier comment where you typed "not the Y gene" when obviously you meant chromosome

Congress is broken in its current state, so nothing gets passed anymore except budget and appropriations. So what a Party will do is include things that they want in the budget bill that has to be passed every year or the government shuts down. They'll hem and haw and fight anything they don't like being added to the budget but that's just the only way to do anything without either having a 2/3 majority or going with the "Nuclear option" of eliminating the filibuster.

So budgets are kind of like the loophole that both parties use to get anything they want passed. What the Parliamentarian can do (and has in the past but just the Dems really, because the Republican parliamentarian will rubber stamp anything the party wants) is decide that something is out of scope of the budget and therefore cannot be included. The only things they are supposed to include are things relating to the budget itself. If the party does not like the parliamentarians decision they can just replace them and get someone who does, but the Dems don't really play hardball like that.

Currently planning a cross-country move as well and I just put in the criteria I'd like and sure enough the places I'm planning to move to match up too! That's a neat tool

Since when?

I also really liked Straight Talk. We watched all her movies after she passed and even though it had poor reviews I actually liked it a lot

They had a lot more social features on Spotify back in the early days. You could chat, share songs/curate playlists together, listen to the same playlist and change the song for everyone, etc. But I think they took a lot of that stuff out. At least they did for a while because the removal of that stuff is why I stopped using Spotify like 12 years ago.

I was that kid running my own proxy server at home. I charged $5 for access but people just started sharing credentials instead of paying lol

I've been subscribed to this guy, Paul Gregg, on YT for like ten years. He builds roller coasters in his backyard for his grandkids and goes over all the physics and design of them. They actually loop back around to the start unlike the one in this post where it seems like you need to haul the cart back up to the top. Very cool stuff

That's the author/artist self insert he always puts himself in the corner somewhere with commentary about the illustration.

People just drill out the LED and cover the hole with epoxy and can record with no light just fine. There was just a video on the Good Work YT channel where a journalist paid some dude in a Garage in New Jersey $100 and he did it in 10 minutes.

Animated JXL worked for me on Firefox mobile after enabling that flag in about:config