The guards at the tomb of the unknown soldier are well known for this. There's videos of them yelling at people all over YouTube if anyone wanted to see.

Their entire job is to maintain the peaceful and respectful atmosphere in the cemetery, no matter who it may be disrupting that.

The real story here is that the Secretary of the god-damned Military and his entourage don't know that and had to be reminded to mind their manners at arguably the most important US military memorial in the world. That the headline is putting the focus not on the transgression, but on the soldier who called it out is disingenuous.

They're advocating a slippery slope argument. If you add three, then I'll add three, and then the next person after that will add three.

I don't see that being realistic and I would hope any such expansion would have a phased-in approach to make it more palatable and fair, and less likely to be stopped or altered.

Asked about working with the president, Schumer told reporters, "We'll see if he will actually change his ways and join.”

That's all he said, according to this opinion piece.

Where we're going we won't need polls.

It's only 25% counted, and probably mostly blue counties with that big a disparity. Once it's 90%+ then celebrate or start biting your nails.

"Someone said something dumb. Read our article about how Twitter reacts!"

I can't wait until this form of "journalism" is dead.

Hand powered drain auger. This isn't exactly a quality of life enhancer but it's one that new homeowners probably won't buy right away. It is one of those items where you pray you'll never need it and thank whatever deity you want that you do when you do.

Other enhancers: automatic occupancy light switches if appropriate for your home setup. We have them on garage stairs for safety reasons so we dont have to reach for switches while carrying things.

Good task lighting. I have a second switch in the garage for high output lighting when I need it to be bright as daylight inside while working on the car etc. And bright under counter lighting in the kitchen for cooking or entertaining.

Don't feed the trolls. When you argue with a troll, you are entering a competition to see who has more free time. You will lose, because you have a life and the troll does not. Do not EVER respond to trolls.

I've been saying this about Trump since 2014. Shame nobody followed that advice up to this point, and likely never will.

1 group of 4 high school age girls. Walked around the neighborhood and less that 20% were participating. Saw lights and TV on inside many with lights out. Sad. :(

Transcript: https://slate.com/transcripts/M0xLYVRoVy9IZ2M1SW9UdTdtUk8wUFF3OWZjVmNxUFYxTDdhU2ZYa1lhcz0=

They really need to have someone review those; there are numerous errors that frankly make it hard to follow. How hard is it to pay an intern $100 to listen to the audio and correct the machine transcript? Ugh.

Redlib is struggling because Reddit put their public json feeds for threads behind a log-in. Sounds like some instances are logging in on the server, but then that makes public instances a lot more susceptible to rate limiting.

That's stopping a lot of automated data access, but not the same as blocking all access behind a log-in.

Nice. I'll have to seek it out. Thanks!