isengrim.bsky.social
Avid Reader and mediocre video game player.
Gets paid to write code
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The project only answers to Zuck. He wants to be a "world defining billionaire" like the guy from Snowcrash. So, the project lead promises a system people can socialize in. Since there isn't a biz case for it the actual work done is what the techs want to work on that might support the goal.
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You're selectively quoting the article. They explicitly said they want Trump to deal with unspecified corruption in USAID, which is parroting Musk.
Also, this is a complaint. If they were joining the fight they would join one of the lawsuits.
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*reads article*
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They aren't actually joining the fight. They're complaining that their boss is costing their constituents money. They're fine with destroying USAID as long as the surplus food gets bought at a highish price.
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Journaling solo rpg
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Technically this doesn't violate HIPAA or HITECH, but only because OPM isn't a healthcare provider or contractor for a healthcare provider. Still this probably violates antiespionage laws or regulations.
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Fine, imagine the original skeet reads, impeach and removed from office
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If Trump refuses to do his job Congress can, and should, impeach him.
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Pretty sure it started as a way for marketing nerds to talk about target markets. Then the catagorizer nerds found the systemizing irresistible.
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Army of the Potomac got the politically capable generals at a time when politicians wanted a negotiated settlement.
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I guess he doesn't remember that the Louisiana Purchase started as an effort to buy New Orleans so Midwest farmers wouldn't have to pay French import tariffs when shipping goods south
What's the New Orleans of the Greenland purchase?
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It's great at passing the bar and shit at actual lawyering since it tends to be confidently nonsense.
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Sort of, the funding has been set via an appropriation but Congress didn't send updated instructions on how the money should be spent.
Arguably an appropriation without an "authorization" bill funds the ongoing work of the original authorization.
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Censorship by States aims to encourage/incite self censorship rather than destroying all copies of a work.
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Yes, and submitting paternity tests for any kids you had over overseas, at least if you want them to get citizenship.
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Worse then that, as I recall proton therapy is literally the standard treatment for pediatric brain tumors. This guy is saying his company forces kids to get substandard care so he can make a little more money
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Yes, he was a candidate because the Republican majority said they'd only allow vote on a candidate like him. Then they switched to "no vote in the last year", because they were dishonest people.
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It's your basic UFO panic with drones instead of aliens.
Like past panics some of the sightings are stars, some are planets, some are planes, and some are drones with a variety of unrelated pilots.
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Sounds like she likes your taste in suits.
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If you're using the Christian religious calendar you can complain about unseasonal Christmas displays until the 25th, since Christmas is the 12 days starting on the 25th.
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What if it combines them and gave us Gandalf girl dick?
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The impression I got when it came up a couple of years ago is that Merrick Garland wanted to avoid the appearance of political prosecutions.
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This is a larger ban targeting the general public in places like Yellowstone and DC.
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These are generally called skeets.
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It would still be the law, so folks could bring suits against schools for breaking it.
Also, it takes an Act of Congress to get rid of the DoE, so it would be there even if Trump made all of the positions political appointments.
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Eliminating Title IX requires an Act of Congress. As long as the Senate has the filibuster it will technically exist.
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Yes, they are. Also, if Trump follows the Operation Wetback approach, people born in the US to parents born in the US are at risk if they're Hispanic.
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It would be an executive order, like the muslim ban from week 1 of his first term.
The President basically signs a memo telling the the executive branch to do certain things. If it is illegal the people harmed have to sue to reverse it.
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Project 2025 calls for converting several thousand civil service positions into political appointments.
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That's 'At-Will Employment'
'Right to Work' is the right of employers to hire non-union workers to fill roles covered by union contracts who then have the right to refuse to pay the union for negotiating the contract.
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That was the system. All the eligibility criteria were enforced by the States for their own ballots. Colorado's decision only applied to Colorado, even if it was cited as a precedent for several other States deciding the same question.
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Probably an effort to convince management that the tech is high quality/powerful. Maybe VCs and media too
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He's basically a dumb criminal version of Paul Atreides. All the groups like the Federalist Society that have been pushing for an ethnostate got behind him because he said he'd lead them to that promised land.
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It seems like they might be, www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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That argument was originally a rightwing con invented to justify scraping the welfare state to people that don't understand finance.
The honest version would start with the size of the payments, the interest rate, and the economic growth rate.
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Yeah, it sounds like a Pinocchio variant. It could be lots of fun.
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We might even get a chance to find out, since there have been a couple of Chicago Dems indicted on similar bribery charges in the last year or so.
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It depends whether Neural Networks (NNs) still count as AI. I know a NN was created that identified certain conditions as well or better than human radiologists. NNs are really good at pattern recognition in very large data sets.
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I suspect it would be more Vimes accidentally releases the Divine Night Watchmen, which has already been manifested in THUD.
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Are any of the eligibility requirements safe? Section 2 doesn't explicitly authorize the States to determine if a Candidate is native born and at least 35.
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It looks like there were two separate rounds of censoring. McCarty threw out a bunch of legit nominations because he, personally, hates "slates". He also organized the dossiers to exclude "problematic" westerners to "satisfy the CCP".
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You missed the bit where the sex pest threw out or modified 100s-1000s of nomination ballots because they were all for the same mostly Chinese language authors/works.
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The deadline to file to run for POTUS has passed for 43 of the 51 primaries and another deadline is 2/19/24. If Biden was going to step down he needed to do it by November last year.
Now our choices seem to be Biden, Phillips, or Williamson. And Biden is winning that competition easily.
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If you really need scheduling I know deck.blue has scheduling starting at the $2 tier. It's intended to be a Tweetdeck clone for Bluesky.
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It's not like they can't say each state gets to decide for themselves each election.
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Apologies we appear to be counting paragraphs differently. The lie is that the article doesn't provide a clear comparison. The article is clear on the comparisons it draws.
That and other red flags suggest a bad signal-to-noise ratio, so it isn't worth it to me to sort through their claims.
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Having read the article I notice that this response includes a lie about the article in the third paragraph. We shouldn't trust this response to be accurate.