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TIL the War Powers Act of 1973 requires a president to get congressional approval within 60 days of starting a war but in its 50+ year history it has never once been legally enforced against a sitting president, making it effectively unenforceable
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Bavaria legally mandates that crucifixes be hung in the entrances of all state public buildings, to reflect nation's Christian identity.
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"One hundred and fifty years of intervening research and archaeology have done little to unscramble this puzzle, and there is hardly one point in the topography of the Holy City to which scholars are entirely agreed.  Hershel Shanks, Editor-in-Chief of Biblical Archaeology Review, succinctly summed up this dilemma in 1999, with a bold and unsettling observation: โ€œEverything you know about Jerusalem is wrong.โ€"
https://popular-archaeology.com/article/antonia-the-fortress-jerusalem-forgot/#:~:text=One%20hundred%20and,Jerusalem%20is%20wrong.%E2%80%9D
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"Over at Quest: Thoughts about God, Truth, and Beauty, an author named Kirk Durston has a fascinating article about J. D. Unwin and his book Sex and Culture. Written in 1934, this book presents the findings of Unwinโ€™s study of 86 different cultures. He breaks the culture down by levels of society and by degrees of sexual freedom.

"The results?

"The highest level of society has only ever been maintained by cultures with premarital chastity and monogamy without easy divorce.

"Societies with sexual freedom collapse within three generations."

https://open.substack.com/pub/ljagilamplighterwright/p/sexual-freedom-destroys-society?r=lp6h7
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TIL GPS satellites run about 38 microseconds faster per day than clocks on Earth due to Einstein's theory of relativity. If scientists didn't intentionally adjust for this time difference, global GPS tracking would lose accuracy by about 6 miles (11 km) every single day.
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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ‡ชโš”๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ The U.S. started the war with Iran with 165 MQ-9 Reaper drones and has since lost 30 of them

The USAF is now Scrambling To Buy What Few MQ-9 Reapers It Can Find


The USAF needs to scrounge-up any now out of production Reapers to replace the dozens lost in fights against Iran and the Houthis.

After reportedly losing dozens of MQ-9 Reaper drones while battling Iran, the Air Force on Friday confirmed to TWZ that it is planning to purchase an undisclosed number of unused ones from General Atomics, who made the aircraft. The company, however, said it has less than 10 of these drones to offer, and it remains unclear where else the Air Force can find more.

All of this continues to raise serious questions about the Air Forceโ€™s near-term ability to plug gaps left by the losses fighting against Iran and in other recent operations in and around the Middle East. The downed Reapers have a reported combined value of about $1 billion.

Furthermore, despite the top Air Force officer recently praising Reaper as โ€œperhaps the most valuable playerโ€ in the air war against Iran, the aircraft have been in the crosshairs of service officials. They have openly questioned the droneโ€™s survivability and, by extension, general value in future operations. The Air Force has made several half-hearted efforts, without success, to find a successor. It is now in the early stages of a new attempt at acquiring an โ€œMQ-9 Next.โ€

It will be years, if ever, before โ€œMQ-9 Nextโ€ comes on line. Meanwhile, the search is on for existing replacements.

โ€œThe USAF intends to purchase several unused MQ-9A Block 5 from GA-ASI [General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.],โ€ a spokesperson for the service told TWZ today. โ€œA number of MQ-9A Block 5 aircraft were manufactured based on forecasted purchases for other customers but are no longer needed. The available aircraft are currently GA-ASI owned aircraft.โ€

โ€œThe USAF has received funds to begin the acquisition process,โ€ they added.

Tabor also said at that time that the Air Forceโ€™s total MQ-9A fleet had shrunk to 135 aircraft. Official budget documents say the Air Force had 165 Reapers in inventory as of the start of Fiscal Year 2026, which began on October 1 of last year. This had already marked a significant year-over-year decrease, down from 231 MQ-9As at the beginning of Fiscal Year 2025.

โ€œBetween parts in stock for new builds, and company-owned Reapers with some number of flight hours on them, there are less than 10 total โ€˜newโ€™ MQ-9As available to any customers anywhere in the world,โ€ General Atomics spokesperson C. Mark Brinkley told TWZ earlier this week.

๐Ÿ”— https://www.twz.com/air/usaf-scrambling-to-buy-what-few-mq-9-reapers-it-can-find-after-epic-fury-losses
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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑโšก๏ธ- The White House says the United States was not involved in the Israeli strikes on Iran.
"Even in the most civilized nations, courts decide only the tiniest sliver of human reality. The vast majority of civilizationโ€”trust, restraint, honesty, the silent agreements that make daily life possibleโ€”exists below the threshold of formal law. Verbal promises and everyday decency were never meant for judges. They rest on an internalized moral order.

"In India, that moral order does not exist."
https://www.unz.com/article/predation-wearing-the-mask-of-civilization/#:~:text=Even%20in%20the,does%20not%20exist.
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