chuckmcmanis.bsky.social
Engineer, Roboticist, Dad, HAM, Lifelong learner, and teller of stories.
I write code, build gizmos, and love learning new things.
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I've suggested that they set up an escrow account. Californians pay Federal Tax monies into the escrow account and California withdraws from it any monies slated for CA before forwarding the remainder on to the Treasury. Take away their power to cut off funding.
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Oh I don't doubt that if you "train" it on AutoCAD and Pro-E Etc. it could regurgitate their source in some unholy love-child kind of thing. But decompressing a JPEG isn't "drawing it" either, right?
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"Hello, I am the dumbest man in the world." 😆 That's what I would expect from someone taking that pose ...
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Subtle but it goes hard!
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"weak" George, lame isn't the insult word for that team weak is. 😀
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Oh and Trump should immediately revoke the visas of all those South African immigrants because they are loyal to Elon and not him.
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That's pretty clear. More importantly its gonna look REALLY stupid of SCOTUS doesn't agree with that assessment. I know Thomas has no shame but Roberts and the others?
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You're doing God's work. 😀 That said, I appreciate it when you share your work results here, as it saves me from having to swim in that cesspool.
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Exactly. This admission is revealing on so many levels:
1) Marge votes on things she hasn't read.
2) Marge's staff doesn't read the bills either and tell her what's in them
3) Marge is adding exactly ZERO value to the House of Representatives because she isn't doing her job.
And she confesses ALL.
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I think Little X may have taken him out after punching his dad in the face 😂😆 Toddler rampages are a thing.
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But if you're were the New York Times you would have to point out that Trump, at that time, was planning to destroy 47 federal agencies and those are WAY more valuable than planes so they're both good at destroying things that are attacking them. Trump is better at destroying so stays #1.
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Consider for a moment that the B-1 bombers in the US fly from their bases and hit targets in the middle east. Those same bombers would be involved in a nuclear exchange. Given their range and armament, any bomber in Russia can launch missile strikes against Ukraine from their home base.
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There aren't many things that AI is good at, but letting everyone make fun of fascists it excels at that.
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But he is fortunate that his penis is so small that there is very little urethra to get inflamed. 😉
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Myspace hung on for a while too ...
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Like the song, "Do you remember? the two weeks we had in September?" :-)
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At one time, if you had AdSense on your pages (Google Ads) they *wouldn't* one box you so you got the click and they got the ad revenue (everybody wins), but it became pretty obvious after a bit and so they stopped doing that. Or maybe they didn't like sharing Ad revenue with you.
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I don't think the average user understood that One Box was an attempt to keep you from clicking away to a page with potentially somebody else's ads on it. It is the same mission that "AI" has.
"DO NOT LOOK AT THE WEB PAGE BEHIND THE LINK! ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW IS RIGHT HERE. (please)"
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You win, that is nails it.
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You mean like the lack of disambiguation of a source material? Or maybe treating words as authoritative regardless of source?
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When people say "Now Cybertrucks look stupid." I'm all "Uh, yeah, they always looked stupid." 😀
I'm keeping a list though of collaborators, I don't want to have anything to do with them ever in the future.
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Wait, there are accredited necromancy colleges? Do they have student loans? I have questions.
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Always so great!
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*** Ding Ding Ding! Winner winner Chicken Dinner! ***
We really really need the Press to understand that THEY have the power, not the pols. Without the press they can't do their scams so it's the free press' job to hold them to account.
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Agreed. And yet, somehow when you confront a Trumpist, their VERY FIRST rebuttal is "What about ... <insert bogeyperson>'s <alleged act>" where the Bogeyperson set contains, non-exclusively, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and George Soros. Frustrating.
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That would be awesome right?! And while you're traveling live in that moment and say to yourself "Who knew that the benefits of preparing your own food could be so fun!" Keeps the motivation going even when you don't feel like cooking.
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Ouch. Ask yourself "What would I do with $50,000 this year?" Because that seems to be a very reasonable amount of money you would save by continuing to make your own meals.
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Ouch! I was too. Fun to compare the theatrical release of Star Wars and the current episodes of Andor in terms of their effects :-).
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I wonder how much the people who voted 3rd party or chose not to vote think about the number of people they are responsible for killing. If the "20 million who voted in 2020 didn't vote in 2024" is accurate, based on data from USAID and other programs we're going to get close to 1:1.
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Heh, without context the headline can be accurate. I could easily put away two or three Dr. Seuss books a day, just sayin' 😀
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And yes, clients *could* demand they always go and get an authoritative answer and that would avoid seeing the delay get pushed, and people can set expire times to 0 so things instantly expire and never get cached. Both of those work against efficiency though.
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I understand that. And yes, propagation does imply a push model. But given that DNS servers don't do the equivalent of bus snooping / shoot downs like MMUs do, a "change" does propagate when caches *expire.* I know its all too anal-retentive of me but it is the effect of the protocol.
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I wonder if that's just people who don't understand expiration times of caches? I mean it can "look" like propagation if you change it and your local machine doesn't "see" the change for 24 hours right?
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I'd check the 'everyone' but yeah, there is lots of Russian FUD about how 'ethnic Russians were being genocided so we had to' or some other crap with zero evidence and even less credibility. But what Russia doesn't get that EVEN IF TRUE that still doesn't justify invasions. Other means are better.
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Would love to play with one of those kits
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Fuck that. Blame their problems on incessantly virtue signalling rather than talking about American vs Un-American values between the candidates. Red states don't care about "Trans rights" but they care hecka much about "their rights" WHICH ARE THE SAME DAMN RIGHTS! Communicate THAT and win.