Texas “was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which [Texas] people intended should exist in all future time”

Gee, what a hard question to figure out from historical sources, guess we’ll never know what they were thinking…

Well that’s one way to deter car usage in future generations.

You could almost call it a “war on motorists”, Mr Sunak?

“buy”

Sounds a lot like what Joel Spolsky was advocating for since 2003, although now it’s easier since most people already have a private office, just not in “the office”.

“The jury, he argued, was essentially allowed to conjure up damning evidence in their minds that may not have existed”

Well yes, that’s exactly what the court will do if they find that you’ve been deleting evidence - they assume that whatever you deleted must have been damning to the case otherwise why would you have told employees to use “delete after 24h” communication channels?

The soldiers saw some (unarmed, shirtless) people and one of them immediately said “terrorists!”. That’s the level of analysis that’s going on when making kill decisions here.

The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.

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problem here was that Google was doing deals to undermine those things

problem with wormholes is that you can send information into the past - so if you receive a message, does that mean you’re predetermined to subsequently send that message?

and how hackers being able to change train software is in any way a less-damaging thing to claim!

Public key in a pubic place?

yes, the chinese space station (since named Tiangong after passing the trials) - it didn’t seem to be well-known in the public consciousness here.

New space station was launched and has people living there.

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Subhead: “apparently they’re being serious” - The Register knows what people think!

I’m in a ridiculous job where sometimes you need those things immediately

There was a great story about why Jamie Hyneman had so much stuff in his workshop, and it sounds exactly as you describe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn6_TE9i5r8

That happened as recently as September here

Unfortunately that’s gotten worse even since 2021

Better use of space - they used to be just six coin cells with a load of empty space for a wire to connect the top connector to bottom of the stack