If MREs are good enough for our troops, why not for welfare?
What if EBT was replaced with monthly MRE deliveries,
8 cases per person. No misuse. No luxury. Just food.
Needs met. Problem solved!
Google hid a fully working flight simulator inside Google Earth back in 2007 and never told anyone.
You unlocked it with a secret keystroke: Ctrl+Alt+A. No menu, no announcement. One user stumbled onto it, the combo spread, and it got popular enough that Google made it official the next year. Two planes, an F-16 and a Cirrus SR22, flying over real satellite imagery of the entire planet.
Then it stayed locked inside the downloadable desktop app for 18 years. The browser version was a stripped-down viewer that couldn't run it. Today that changed.
Here is the part that makes it impressive. A flight simulator is the single hardest thing you can ask a 3D map to do. Panning is easy, the software has all the time it wants to load the terrain ahead of you. Flying low and fast strips that away, forcing it to fetch, decompress, and render the world faster than you are crossing it. The hardest possible job for every part of the system at once.
So "just for fun" is carrying a lot of weight in that sentence. Getting this to run in a browser tab is the cleanest proof that the web version finally matches what used to need a desktop app.
The toy is the benchmark.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! President Trump turns 80 today.
The nation's 45th and 47th president celebrates a milestone birthday as the country prepares to commemorate America's 250th anniversary.
The grandpa you laughed at behind his back for letting you watch violent war movies as a kid, but who freaked out about the Disney show where the kid had 2 Dads... that guy was right.
There was evil in the war movie, but it was generally evil depicted AS EVIL in a great struggle between good and evil, and it trained the consciences of a generation to value things like...
- Valor
- Self-sacrifice
- Courage
- Integrity
- Honor
- Patriotism (yes, patriotism IS a good thing)
My Dad used to say, "The worst kind person is the guy who was born on third and acts like he hit a triple."
Be wise, but watch a war movie with your kids today and help your American kid understand they were born on third base because a bunch of people died to get them three bases ahead.
Worth noting that every single member of the Senate GOP freaking out about Iran...
ARE ALL ON A 9-DAY VACATION RIGHT NOW.
MEANWHILE...
OUR PRESIDENT:
-SKIPS HIS SON'S WEDDING
-SURVIVES YET ANTHER ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE
-STILL WORKING
All. For. The. America. People.
Incredible