That's it. These two are both in the class that the legal system is most designed for. Two parties with sophisticated lawyers but without so much power and money that they can literally shape the law or bleed the other dry

In those situations, if you fuck up, the best lawyer isn't saving your ass.

I trust the army corps to do a publicized cleanup more than I trust a lot of the amateur craftsmen of America to diy an electrical system through a flipped house. The news will care if you find a leftover jar of chemical weapons, only HGTV will care if you discover that there's a bunch of live uncoated wires from the early 20th century running all through your house

Iirc it was yard near AU

There is worse industrial dumping in lower income areas. That absolutely is true, and it's usually slower to be picked up.

But long abandoned cars? The moco ag reserve, with its massive plots of multimillion dollar lots and mansions, has a litany of old abandoned cars along its woods and streams. Some are definitely from when the land was converted from abandoned farmland to parkspace, some seem like they may have been picked up and moved by the streams, some appear to have gone off the road and never been recovered, and there's one that I think about frequently that looks like it may have been driving on a railroad track far from any roads just ahead of a railroad bridge, realized a train was coming, and had to veer down a very steep stretch of about 200 yards, miraculously not hitting a big tree on the way to the edge of the stream. That was a 70s some car.

Its not racism that cars get left in nature, cars get left in nature because it's a massive pain in the ass and huge commitment of limited resources to get them out of nature. I genuinely don't think you could get the car by the railroad Bridge out without a helicopter. The focus of this article should have been the industrial dumping like the tire pile.

They are, but you're discounting the tactical implications of a modern, western army force stationed in the enemy capital, and allied to that enemy. The RPF was superior to the Rwandan army, but it wasn't superior to the French army. The french had the effect of making Kigali like an impenetrable castle that the RPF had to work around until the military situation was so favorable towards the RPF, and international condemnation of the Rwandan government so strong that France could no politically act as a major force multiplier, except to evacuate the perpetrators of the genocide.

Because for all of its talk about a global response, the UN is helpless without the logistical support of major powers, which at the time was the US, and to a lesser extent, other members OF NATO.

There are also allegations that Kagame and the RPF didn't really want American intervention, and were pushing against intervention with soft politics in the US. The UN means some degree of stasis being placed on both sides, and the RPF, at the expense of civilian casualties in the ethnic cleansing, was routing the government forces very successfully, and did successfully push the government into a total, French protected rout out of Rwanda. Leading to Kagame's total control over the country to this day. Put a full UN mission in place and you conceivably just kick the can

Watch the 3 lotr movies and/or read the lotr books first. Silmarillion is much more into the world/universe building. It helps to have some very developed characters, even a thousand years later, as a grounding to the family trees and new characters of Silmarillion.

Surprised they did this, my experience with moco is that if space needs to be made, they instinctively block and remove the sidewalk and bike lanes before any traffic lanes even if that means pedestrians have to detour 4+ blocks to get to an urban metro station.

Don't they get a bunch of subsidies from the city for that location too?

Metro to Columbia heights, walk down Harvard Street til you're in the zoo. If you reach the hospital you went the wrong direction

No, customs does, for tracking other ships and aircraft.

Border is mostly CBP with their own aircraft, drones, helicopters, and even blimps.

DEA is also dwarfed by DHS/Customs, which has 240 aircraft, putting it between the Cuban and Saudi Arabian air forces for the most air assets, at number 21 overall. A lot of their stuff is dod hand-me-downs like awacs, p3s, predator drones, whereas DEA seems to mostly be Cessnas and the like.

I liked my 20-teens Sony Walkman. Only stopped using it because of Spotify. Maybe a little less clean of a ui but for like $50 I would still be using it but for a better, different form of media player. That'd still affect my ipod classic, which I had to pay$100 to replace 3 times (and the 4th likewise lost headphone functionality).

I miss my mini. I dropped it 4 stories to zero damage

All of the big nonprofits associated with parks and watersheds have trash cleanups and many have invasive plant removal days. You can also just get a trash grabber and some bags and hit your neighborhood park.

Salt pools just use cells that convert salt into chlorine to sanitize the pool

Even if it's just a mild, unfrozen rain. Make sure you're in the leftmost lane, that's the safest place.

I think the post-metro suburb green islands are really interesting. Gaithersburg and North Bethesda have a lot of big town center style development that make it a lot easier to walk/bike to shopping, have a mix of office and retail on-site, and also have bigger green spaces. But Reston doesn't have that (I don't know how comperable rtc is, I've never been there). And leisure world/Northern silver spring don't have that modern development style. I think the Gaithersburg green island is probably a mix of modern development styles and the working-middle class population.

It's okay, people without a solid enough sense of identity cling onto political tribalism here, which they then use to Club anyone who gives even the slightest hint of deviency from their chosen orthodoxy.

They're best ignored. It's common for locals to call it national or DCA. Calling a place by its formal name is also normal and understandable

I used to interact a with a lot of customs officers and the big two exit options seemed to be

1. A more prestigious, or desk law enforcement job, like FBI or HSI agent, IG investigator, or like intelligence analyst roles in the government

2. Get into the trade side of things, and then get either a federal office job doing that kind of work, or go to the private sector for a shipping or logistics company to do that kind of work

That said, there did seem to be an attitude that the trade side was fairly clogged up with old officers, and that a new officer was looking at 5-10 years of passport stamping before that path opened.

Acting is different than actual though, in practice. 9/10, acting officials are career feds, who, to avoid the legal uncertainties of appointee vacancy requirements and restrictions, rock the boat as little as possible. This is generally fine for obscure, deputy level officials, but the IG office in particular needs to have someone who can rock the boat, and stand up to senior agency officials, and if necessary, be the canary in the coal mine and take the bullet to bring a major issue to the attention of congress. Senate appointees know their tenure is limited. They haven't planned their career around the federal retirement age like an acting Civil servant has.

I agree that the article could be clarified, but its important not to treat acting officials as the same as appointed officials when in practice they aren't.

I wish Division 2 had a peaceful or offline mode where I could just mess around and explore without any grinding.

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