"The simplest way to keep a Google Account active is to sign-in at least once every 2 years." That's all it takes to be active. Google also lists a few examples of "activity" if you're already signed in:
Activity might include these types of actions you take when you sign in or while you’re signed in to your Google Account:
- Reading or sending an email
- Using Google Drive
- Watching a YouTube video
- Downloading an app on the Google Play Store
- Using Google Search
- Using Sign in with Google to sign in to a third-party app or service
Other "inactive" documentation on Google's support system lists 'Android check-ins' as a viable form of activity. So theoretically plugging in an Android phone would be enough to keep your account active forever. It also says paying a Google One storage subscription counts as "activity."
Interestingly, Google Photos seems to have its own entirely separate "activity" metrics that could result in only your photos being deleted. Photos requires visiting the Google Photos app or website, or uploading a photo every two years.
People who are already over the "inactive for two years" mark won't have their accounts deleted immediately. The Great Google Account Purge is officially scheduled for December 2023. Having your account deleted shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, with Google promising to send "multiple notifications over the months leading up to deletion, to both the account email address and the recovery email (if one has been provided)."
Per federal law 18 USC § 926A, every U.S. citizen may legally transport firearms across state lines as long as he or she is legally allowed to possess the weapons in both the state of origin as well as the destination.
You can legally transport firearms across state lines as long as:
- You can lawfully possess firearms in your state of origin.
- You can lawfully possess firearms at your destination.
- The firearm and ammunition must be stored out of reach (not in the glove compartment or center console).*
- Although it may not be required, it is a good idea to lock your ammunition and guns in separate lock boxes in the trunk or anywhere out of immediate reach.
In the United States, rabies is mostly found in wild animals like bats, racoons, skunks and foxes.
Until the early 1960's, most of the rabies cases in Indiana were dogs, cats, and animals bitten by dogs and cats. After pet vaccination increased and animal control programs were established, dog and cat rabies decreased rapidly. From the 1960s to 1988 skunks were the most commonly found rabid animals in Indiana. After 1988 bats became the most common rabid animal. Rabid bats have been found somewhere in the state every year since 1965. Rabies in skunks was last detected in 2004 in Indiana. Rabies in skunks has been restricted to counties in far South Central Indiana, where rabies in skunks continues to be transmitted at a very low level. //
Most Recent Rabies Cases by Species in Indiana
2020 Bat
2009 Human
2006 Human
2004 Skunk
2002 Horse
1990 Fox
1989 Dog
1986 Cow
1984 Cat
1983 Groundhog
1979 Raccoon
James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII
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Discusses "shady" work of "friend," former Biden operative Mike LaRosa now working for Dominion
“When it’s corporate media you’re beholden to advertisers... we take money from Pfizer"
10:06 PM · May 15, 2023
But wait, there’s more! Langille then goes on to claim that former “Press Secretary to First Lady and Special Assistant to the President” Michael LaRosa left the administration to work for a PR company whose main client is… Dominion Voting Systems. //
…he’s the one who’s crafting Dominion’s message to the public… But no one’s picking up on the fact that here’s someone who… worked in the administration… working with a voting company to take down Fox News…
That’s a whole story in and of itself. //
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Most people watching cable news want to be affirmed, not informed. The channels are designed to ramp up their viewers about senseless nonsense - OMG, You Will Not Believe What AOC Just Said! - while ignoring the serious issues that have our republic on the precipice. The lack of trust (and rightfully so) in our federal agencies and election integrity is the stuff that ends republics. If people believe elections are secure and legitimate, even if they lose, they will simply realize they need better messaging or a better message. If they don't believe they are secure and legitimate, then even if they really lost, they will not accept that because there is no trust in the system.
The bureaucracy is broken. I can't think of a single agency that I don't scoff at whatever they say. They have to prove they aren't lying as opposed to having the benefit of the doubt. I can't think of any of them that have the benefit of the doubt any more in my mind. Maybe most people aren't quite there yet, where I am. I was calling b.s. from the beginning of covid on all their proclamations and "science" and I got to experience the deceit, lies and incompetence in real time on a massive scale. (And not because I understand the science and medical terms, but because I can critically think and understand and interpret data, and I found good reliable, honest sources who weren't afraid to tell the truth and have now all been proven true.)
Fox News, just like MSNBC and CNN and all the rest, were lapping up whatever these corrupt bureaucracies and Big Pharma were dishing out and distributing it to the people as truth and fact. Maybe there people are just idiots, but if not, then they are either cowards or liars and part of the corrupt system. //
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an hour ago
So, exactly what many of us assumed.
Cable news is a semi-scripted entertainment product. It's not "news." You can't sell favorable coverage to corporations for ad bucks and be anything but propagandists when you peel away the veneer of "journalism." The entire model is roadkill. Fox News might have looked unassailable, but just one guy leaving as cratered their ratings over a long enough period that even the dullest programming exec will get the hint.
Fox News actively suppressing critical stories as this producer described should be the wake up call for the remaining viewers to look elsewhere.
Among the highlights was that they had absolutely nothing to justify going after the Trump campaign on Russia collusion. They had no information that the Trump campaign had been in contact with any Russian officials. They could not corroborate anything claimed in the Steele Dossier. Peter Strzok was essentially telling a London FBI employee that “there’s nothing to this.”
“Again, the FBI’s failure to critically analyze information that ran counter to the narrative of a Trump/Russia collusive relationship exhibited throughout Crossfire Hurricane is extremely troublesome,” the report said.
On top of that, the Report then took on who knew what when in pushing this story against the Trump team. It notes that the Clinton campaign plan to link Trump to Russia was known to the CIA and was briefed by CIA Director John Brennan to President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, AG Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director James Comey. //
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🧵 1. The gravity of the misconduct uncovered by Mr. Durham cannot be overstated.
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Durham report sharply criticizes FBI’s 2016 probe of Trump campaign
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The LEAST one can say of it is that it involved a malicious use of federal law-enforcement officers to conduct a contrived investigation utterly lacking any valid, factual foundation from the very beginning. That is itself incredibly troubling—and also unconstitutional.
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But this was SO MUCH WORSE than that. It was an effort to use use a powerful, long-respected, federal law-enforcement agency to render a presidential candidate unelectable—entirely in the absence of any valid, good-faith basis for doing so.
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So make no mistake—this can’t be dismissed as mere carelessness or even a severe example of garden-variety misconduct. No—this is as corrupt and as subversive of the Constitution as it gets.
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Regardless of your political leanings or your feelings about Donald Trump, you should find this terrifying.
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When federal law-enforcement agencies can undertake such a brazen effort to frame someone they don’t like to throw the outcome of an election—and then remain largely protected for seven years thereafter—popular sovereignty in America is under serious attack. //
The top line of the Durham report is incredibly simple. Namely, there was zero evidentiary basis for the FBI to pursue what would become Crossfire Hurricane, the infamous Trump-Russia investigation that was headed up by disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok. There was no hook, no justification, and no excuse for continuing to hound Trump throughout not only his 2016 candidacy but years into his presidency as well.
Despite knowing there was nothing to investigate, he FBI continued to push forward anyway until eventually, former FBI Director James Comey and the rest of his underlings got what they wanted: The Robert Mueller special counsel.
That was always the end goal. To ensure that Trump, even after he was elected and it became obvious no evidence of collusion existed, would be hobbled by an intrusive, headline-producing special counsel. In the end, the FBI succeeded in its quest. //
this was always about electoral interference. That was the goal from the word go, to diminish the Trump administration to the point that winning re-election in 2020 would be nearly impossible.
What exactly is a full-flow closed cycle staged rocket engine like the SpaceX Raptor?
Well, this gets a bit complex, since to understand what the sentence means you have to understand how a rocket engine works. I’m going to try to go from the basics up…
I mean, it’s not like it’s rocket science, right? //
In case you’re wondering, it’s only the third one ever built — really, only the second full engine since the “full-flow power-head demonstrator” never actually had a combustion chamber attached. The other is the Russian RD-270 engine.
It’s also the first full-flow, closed-cycle, dual-shaft, staged-combustion rocket to ever fly. So far, it’s only 20 meters or so, but it did fly. (Update: 12.5 kilometres now…)
So there’s your answer.
"SpaceX has moved very quickly on development," Kirasich said about Raptor. "We've seen them manufacture what was called Raptor 1.0. They have since upgraded to Raptor 2.0 that first of all increases performance and thrust and secondly reduces the amount of parts, reducing the amount of time to manufacture and test. They build these things very fast. Their goal was seven engines a week, and they hit that about a quarter ago. So they are now building seven engines a week."
To put this into perspective, the Raptor 2 rocket engine produces approximately 510,000 pounds of thrust. This is almost identical to the amount of thrust produced by the RS-25 engine that will be used to power NASA's Space Launch System rocket. This engine was designed and developed by Rocketdyne in the 1970s for the space shuttle program, and the company has decades of experience manufacturing them. //
In 2015, NASA gave Aerojet Rocketdyne a contract worth $1.16 billion to "restart the production line" for the RS-25 engine. Again, that was money just to reestablish manufacturing facilities, not actually build the engines. NASA is paying more than $100 million for each of those. With this startup funding, the goal was for Aerojet Rocketdyne to produce four of these engines per year.
Kirasich said that as it builds and tests Raptors, SpaceX is rapidly iterating on these processes and producing higher-quality engines.
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Raptor chamber wall might have the highest heat flux of anything ever made
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Can Raptor 3 can be a drop-in replacement for Raptor 2, or will the vehicles require changes to cater for Raptor 3 engines?
Here's the full firing from the raw pull out of http://nsf.live/mcgregor
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Also, Super Heavy is getting very very close to a SRB in terms of thrust density (~1388 vs ~1367kN/m²). Fascinating.
With ~30% higher ISP… meaning ~69% higher power density.
There really is no one close to SX now at making rocket engines. //
I don't want to knock down the SpX engineers working on this thing, if anything, it reminds me of the SSME development. That engine program had its fair share of failures, but, in the end they produced (in my humble opinion) the finest and most reliable rocket engine ever developed (and LH2 powered at that, no small feat), a true pinnacle of U.S. aerospace engineering. Hopefully SpX can rise to that level, because their architecture really needs it. //
Merlin has now exceeded RS-25 in reliability in terms of consecutive successful engines on orbital launch (by about half an order of magnitude). RS-25 had an engine-out on STS-51F on the 19th Shuttle launch, and SpaceX has had more Falcon launches since then without any engines out than the rest of the Shuttle program combined plus had at least 3 times as many engines. (Rs-25 had other hiccups, but I think that’s the only full engine-out? Can’t remember.)
A lot of that Merlin reliability is just the sheer number of engines and number of launches, making more of a difference than any particular feature of the engine, allowing tweaking to improve engine reliability and large manufacturing and test volume that allows quickly achieving really good engine statistics. RS-25 had both clustering and a fairly decent flightrate in its favor, but not as much as Merlin.
V2 has less visible plumbing and wiring, both sea-level versions have the same nozzle exit diameter and similar dimensions, however, V1 has a mass of 2,000 kilograms (kg) and V2 1,600 kg. Raptor V1 generated around 185 tons of thrust and the current V2 generates around 230 tons of thrust. //
This week, the third version of the Raptor engine (V3) reached a new thrust record. “Raptor V3 just achieved 350 bar chamber pressure (269 tons of thrust). Congrats to SpaceX propulsion team!” announced SpaceX founder Elon Musk via Twitter. “Starship Super Heavy Booster has 33 Raptors, so total thrust of 8877 tons or 19.5 million pounds,” he said on May 13. //
As of November 2022, SpaceX completed manufacturing over 200 Raptor engines (and counting) at an average rate of one engine per day. The company manufactures and tests the engines at the McGregor factory. SpaceX officials recently said that they has more engines than they could fly at the moment. SpaceX aims for the cost-per-tonne of thrust of each Raptor to be under $1,000 USD, so a bit over $250,000 at the 260 tons of thrust that each Raptor V3 is capable of generating. Musk said recently that he expects to spend approximately $2 Billion on Starship's development this year
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I've heard you have to spend money to make money but crashing a plane to make money from YouTube views seems more like something the underpants gnomes would do
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Did you want an example of the cynical use of human shields by Palestinian Islamic Jihad ? Here is the location of launch pits with rockets next to a school operating under the auspices of the United Nations... They were destroyed in a surgical strike last night.
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The Islamic Jihad is deliberately firing rockets at road crossings leading from Israel into Gaza, disrupting the supply of humanitarian goods to the Hamas-controlled territory, Israel’s Ministry of Defense said Saturday. //
guyjones | May 13, 2023 at 9:41 pm
It speaks volumes about the manifest and appalling moral bankruptcy, dishonesty and Jew-hate possessed by American Dhimmi-crats and European, Leftist dhimmis, that when Arab Muslim terrorists callously exploit their civilian population by putting weapons and munitions in their midst, it is Israeli Jews who are blamed if they target these weapons and munitions with the utmost care, unintentionally killing civilians in the process.
Under what rational moral calculus are the Arab Muslim terrorist thugs deemed to be blameless, here?
The flight turned around somewhere over Bristol, descended to 17,000 feet, and returned to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, where it landed safely.
You might wonder why the aircraft returned all the way to Amsterdam when it could have diverted to a number of closer airports in England. The answer is three-fold. First, there were logistical concerns. KLM’s base is at AMS and it is from there KLM can best repair aircraft, obtain replacement aircraft, and offer other flight options to passengers. Second, and even more importantly, the lack of emergency landing demonstrates how safe the flight crew felt operating wtih only one engine. Yes, a plane can operate (and indeed, operate a great distance) on only one engine. Continuing to São Paulo would have been foolish, but the risk of losing the second engine was deemed low enough that the captain chose to go back. Finally, the aircraft had to dump fuel before landing, which took time.
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Had we provided air superiority this war would have been over shortly after it began... Did we choose not do so out of incompetence?... Fear of escalation (I'm so sick of that yellow bellied excuse)?
Laocoon, arguably our best, and a much better than average, source of information and tactics with respect to air power, has made it fairly clear, air superiority is not something that will occur with the snap of our fingers or, for that matter, with the delivery of air-superiority fighters like the F-16.
Air superiority occurs when the totality of the equipment, ground support, training, and air doctrine is aligned in something resembling what the US air force has developed and implemented.
Because of that, giving Ukraine F-16 fighters, or for that matter Abrams tanks, regardless of their capabilities, without adopting the totality of the war doctrine, training, and infrastructure that supports and expecting what the US gets is just... dreaming.
Air superiority, or even superiority on the ground, comes about not because we have great fighter jets like the F-16s or tanks like the M-1, but because of all of the other things that our air and armed forces have put in place to go along with the equipment.
I'm all for giving Ukraine what it needs and, I'm even in favor of giving it more than it can use as long as it is a net-positive in the war, but I'm not in favor of arguing that just giving them 'stuff' will win them the war.
If the Ukrainians do... good enough... and eject Russia from their territory... then I'm OK with that even if we might have been able to do it with less. But, right now, I'm not convinced that giving them just the air-superiority tools that they, and you, say they need will result in them winning the war. //
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Thankfully, I'm not omniscient and, regardless of what equipment they have or don't have, I don't know whether the Ukrainians will win or not win but if it were just 'hardware' that mattered the Russians would have won a year or so ago.
In fact, if it were just those factors then Afghanistan wouldn't have fallen when we left because we left more than enough equipment to allow the Afghani government to continue operating without falling to ISIS.
I realize this may seem a bit blasphemous but there's an awful lot of what's missing in these discussion that closely resembles what is missing in the area of religions... there's something more than just 'bread' that people need and, similarly, there's more than these 'things' that people want to talk about that matters in these discussions.
It is the 'other' things... that shadow our spiritual world... that matters and we fail Him if we don't realize that the spiritual... the abstract... that comes into play and powerfully affects the outcomes. //
Laocoon Dieter Schultz
a day ago
Completely right. There is a spiritual componant to alot of this that we often just gloss over. Otto Von Bismarck once said:
“God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.”
I actually think that the old Prussian got alot of that right.
underscoring the humanitarian crisis that ensues when hundreds of thousands of illegals are allowed unfettered access to the country. And it’s not pretty, particularly for the children:
And when those kids cross, the teenage boys who owe thousands of dollars to the cartels? The Biden administration flies them to every city in America. They fly them to Kansas. And there, those teenage boys are forced to work for the Mexican cartels, committing crimes to pay off the money they owe. If they don’t pay it off, they’ll murder their families. And, I’ll tell you, as bad as the boys have it, the girls have it worse. There are thousands upon thousands of teenage girls trapped in sex slavery. And, yet, for those of you in the media that don’t report on that, you should be ashamed.
These are the things the left won’t talk about — and Teddy Roosevelt cosplaying “reporters” won’t investigate — because it paints a very bleak portrait of how radical leftist policies destroy countries. //
Blue State Deplorable
6 hours ago
Illegal immigration has increased dramatically since the end of the Trump administration. In 2020, there were 458,000 illegal crossings (not counting gotaways). Even in a bad year like 2019, there were “only” around 820,000. Compare those numbers with 2022 under the Biden administration in which nearly 2.8 million crossed illegally. This year alone, we are on course to exceed 3 million. These are just simple facts which the propaganda media conveniently choose to ignore.
This book is truly the standard history on the religious life of the American people.. The fact that it was judged the best book on religion of the 1970's is not difficult to see..
President Joe Biden’s latest push for electric vehicles is reminiscent of a soliloquy by Don Quixote: short on facts, long on rhetoric, and filled with unrealistic expectations. Sadly, though, Biden’s policy mistakes are moving beyond fiction to a reality that confines consumers to cars that are unaffordable and unwanted.
Like Don Quixote tilting at harmless windmills he thinks are giants, Biden is attacking American energy and the auto industry for daring to use fossil fuels. And as Don Quixote went from quest to quest attempting to free imaginary prisoners, Biden is hellbent on freeing Americans from the imaginary captivity of their reliable, safe, flexible, and economical gasoline- and diesel-fueled engines.
That disconnect from reality perfectly encapsulates Biden’s energy policy. His Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed such strict regulations for cars and trucks that effectively mean that 54% of new vehicles sold domestically must be electric vehicles, or EVs, by 2030.
Even if Biden managed a 500% increase in EV sales by the end of the decade, he’d still fall woefully short of his goal. The only conceivable way to make half of new vehicle sales EVs by 2030 would be if Americans were so poor that they could afford few new cars, and thus the small number of electric vehicles still could amount to half of all new vehicles. That’s right out of Mao’s Great Leap Forward.
Just from the standpoint of raw materials, Biden’s EV goal is fictitious. We simply can’t get the needed materials in sufficient volume in time. Furthermore, the schizophrenic energy policy of this administration simultaneously is ramping up demand for those raw materials while hamstringing the supply. Biden continues blocking mining of lithium, graphite, nickel, and rare earth metals.
That’s inexplicable, since Biden’s green energy transition would increase demand for those materials by 4,200%, 2,500%, 1,900%, and 700%, respectively, in less than 20 years.
But when you consider that “it has taken on average over 16 years to move mining projects from discovery to first production,” then Biden’s proposals aren’t unachievable—they’re laughable.
And from where does Biden think the electricity to power these electric vehicles will come? The strained electrical grid already has brownouts and blackouts in parts of the country and couldn’t handle millions more EVs, especially when Biden also is blocking copper mining, the main ingredient in electrical wires.
The grid’s transmission capacity would need to grow 60% in less than seven years and grow 200% in less than 30 years. And this is just the grid infrastructure, not what would be needed to power it.