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I don't like Obama much - his drone strikes and war-hawkish policy nor bailing out the banks when he had them over a barrel, but i'm tired of this bullshit narrative.

House control: yes, no question.

Senate control: barely.

Obama would not have even been able to pass his bank ~~robbery~~ 'stimulus' without three Republicans crossing the aisle to vote for it in early 2009. Yes, very much a man with 'total control' of the government..

Obama had just 4 months with senate control, and that whole time it was on a knife edge. 60 (of 100) votes are needed to bring legislation to the floor to even be voted on without filibuster. So for 'total control' a party needs 60 seats/votes in the senate. The dems had 57 in Jan 2009 at the start of Obama's congress, with 2 independents (Bernie and Joe Liebermann) who caucused with them, taking them to 59. Republicans had 41.

That 59 included Ted Kennedy whom had a seizure during an Inauguration lunch of Obama's (he was privately dying of brain cancer) and he never returned to vote in the senate - dropping the number to 58. Also, Al Franken was not seated until july due to a very close election in his seat and multiple recounts - until then the number was 57.

Long story short by September 24th they finally had 60 seats.. But democrats are not a monolith. Just as there are Manchins and Sinemas and other 'Democrats' in recent memory that are barely left of Ted Cruz, there were several of similar ilk back then like Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, Ben Nelson - and their independent caucus member Joe Lieberman, mentioned earlier - who all fought against much of Obama's legislation, for example with respect to Obamacare they quashed any chance of a public option and single payer.

So did he have control: technically, briefly. Could Obama just run through any legislation he wanted during that time? Absolutely fucking not.

Fraunhofer IIS and Fraunhofer ISE are part of the same organization.

They are different institutes in the same Fraunhofer Society.

It says in the article that many died during transport. Dead spiders smell. Large dead spiders packed in a box with dozens of other large dead spiders would stink.

However, it's my understanding that most international mail gets x-rayed as standard when passing through customs. This is the case in Australia where I live. So even before the smell, this package would have been on the radar for inspection.

It says in the article that many died during transport.

Cunts illegally importing exotic species with no shits given for their welfare, for the pet trade.

Hey it's those guys that invented MP3s.

Russia is even paying mercenaries and leaning on allies to send troops from China and North Korea - that sounds pretty desperate to be honest.

Rat (glad that was labelled) appears to have inbuilt zipper for accessing organs - not actually necessary to access his fourth testical tho, that one perches at the edge of his ball-pouch. I like the one label that just says 'dck'.

Yep everything seems in order here. Thanks AI.

Halo 3 was peak.

I know some don't like it because of some choices they creative team made that weren't exact to the lore of the games, but I've been enjoying the Halo TV series. Had some moments that reminded me of the campaign and game series highlights. I'd say it's worth a watch if you're a fan - don't be put off by the initial backlash.

This would be a fantastic way to prank an older colleague in tech.

"My.. SSD.. is making spinning disc seeking-clicks?"

Personally I'm happy with LED activity to show me when the HDD is being flogged, don't miss the clicks - but this is a fun project that I'm glad someone did.

She'd be a zombie so you should care, as your next trip would be to the pharmacy to get some antiseptic creams.

Great work, without reading what it was I thought it may be a still from a Ninjago movie/series at first.