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But what about Gaza being tippy top? /s
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With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.…
Henry Wallace, Vice President of the United States, 1941-1945
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The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/elon...
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The real fork in the road is not between survival and extinction, but between repeating the patterns of the past and embracing a richer vision of progress—one that acknowledges multiple paths and possibilities, and rejects the notion that our fate must rest solely in the hands of tech billionaires."
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Congress could theoretically revoke or modify these delegations through new legislation. This reflects a broader pattern where Congress delegates constitutional powers to the executive branch for practical reasons, while retaining the underlying authority.
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The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (1977) gives Presidents broad authority to regulate trade during "unusual and extraordinary threats." While these laws give Presidents significant power over trade policy, this authority comes from Congress.
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The Trading with the Enemy Act (1917) lets Presidents regulate trade during emergencies. The Trade Expansion Act (1962) allows import adjustments for national security. The Trade Act (1974) enables responses to unfair trade practices.
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Ashley is big time, read all her coverage until I cancelled my sub in November. She on bsky?
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Can you say, "exponential growth"?
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Dunno about best, but it's been around a half century while other paradigms and languages have come and gone.
A half century in computing is like a stellar lifetime in solar years.
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First desktop Linux I built was Suse about 20 years ago. It's so easy now, yeah, every programmer should be on Linux.
If that means making a Mac look like Linux or using WSL, so be it. But straight up Linux, any major distro, is still way better.
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Did I leave out phishing, get rich quick, and whatever other clickbait schemes the cat dragged in? I did, but that's a quick block on my network.
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Problem is the whole, "Get your news from social". Social is for rants, flame wars, and feel goods. If you want news, get it from an outlet with sourced, reviewed reporting.
(Yeah, I know, the people who should be listening aren't. So what-ever.)
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I usually power watch a course and then build a project with Claude (Anthropic). I make sure I come away with a usable starter project template.
And even that can be 3-6 months behind current due to the training data cutoff. But better than a stale bite of Udemy.
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Vance who?
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Martin Luther enters the chat.
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Looking forward to those REDЯUM xmas decos in the WH next year.
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Don't worry, not going to Mars anytime soon. Guys who wire batteries together and put 4 wheels on them have no idea how hard space is, at least if you're human and want to live.
SpaceX is successful because a lot of very smart ex-NASA and ex-aerospace engineers worked very very hard.
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I, for one, have not. Not how mom raised me.
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Paid into it my whole life so I could subsidize tax cuts and get back pennies on my dollar. Yeah, no, not what I had in mind.
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I cancelled the LA Times last month. Sad, the paper of Jim Murray, Robert Hilburn, Jonathon Gold, Martin Bernheimer, and so many others I grew up with. It's a shell of what it once was.
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Unsub'd the LA Times last month. Sad, the paper of Jim Murray, Robert Hilburn, Jonathon Gold, Martin Bernheimer, and so many others. It's a shell of what it once was.
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What could go wrong with that conversation?
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So much for "Just the facts". It's a pandemic of sanewashing.