If the military aren’t going to think about the orders they’re given, maybe it’ll give them pause when the person giving them is clearly a coward who will blame those he ordered

I’ll start a gofundme!

We all should care. Not only is the east wing destroyed but that’s $350M taxpayers money down the drain. If it doesn’t meet building code we’ll also be on the hook to rebuild it. This is yet more harm to the country and its people.

…… while I’m aware taco Don claimed to have secret private donors, does anyone remember how it went for Mexico paying for his stupid wall?

I’ve been through river cleanups everywhere I ve lived. There’s always something toxic that corps got away with dumping for so many years and then just left it. Government on the hook for so many billions of dollars cleaning up the mess. Where’s that sense of personal/corporate responsibility we hear so much about?

IBM doesn’t know how innovation works in corporate America, news at 11.

Of course the entire investment won’t be recovered. No one expects it to. It’s a race, and to the victor goes the spoils. Most of these efforts will fail spectacularly, but a small handful will succeed spectacularly.

• a few companies will make huge profits
• everyone else will have huge tax write offs, offsetting corporate taxes for years
• the rest of us lose

So far my direct experience with ai is

• minor efficiency improvements as another programming tool. It can help with syntax, boilerplate, scaling out unit tests BUT IS NEVER. A FINAL PRODUCT
• MAJOR time sink from junior developers who let ai run amuck without putting in the effort to make it work
• TECH DEBT from hundreds of excessive unit tests poorly written for maintainability and with no added value
• INSTABILITY from junior developers letting ai commit slop to the default branch, wasting my time trying to back out thousands of lines of nonsense
• MISMANAGEMENT where I felt forced to run my writeups through ai to “translate” into something recognizably generated so I could fulfill mandates to use ai

Depends on what you call enough protein. Part of the point of those pushing protein is the claim that most people need a lot more than government standards

“War” usually implies a cause and an opponent. This is just chaotic, and against everyone

Plus methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, even with the shorter lifetime. We seem entirely unable to reduce methane leaks or even measure them against natural gas usage.

But from a consumer perspective.

• where I live, electricity is much more expensive than natural gas, maybe double the cost per unit of energy
• and I pay even more for 75% renewables
• I just got a heat pump installed for my addition. So far temps have gotten just a bit under freezing and it has no problems keeping up

But that adds up to a reality where the cost threshold is mid-40°F’s. While it may be an argument in favor of solar, I don’t have enough unshaded roof to generate more than half my usage

Signing (intermediate) certs have been compromised before. That means a bad actor can issue fake certs that are validated up to your root ca certs

While you can invalidate that signing cert, without useful and ubiquitous revocation lists, there’s nothing you can do to propagate that.

A compromised signing certs, effectively means invalidating the ca cert, to limit the damage

Rational … hahahahahahahahahhehehe hoo hohoho hah haha hah hah hahahahahah aha haha. Sorry, where were we again?

Oh ok. I have no idea what the situation here is for bidirectional charging. It’s not common yet.

And yes, we’re trying to work out common payment systems, but as far as I know, that’s just software. Historically chargers required you to register and pay through the manufacturers app, but that’s unscalable when you have many possible charger manufacturers supporting a common standard.

One of the requirements for US incentives to build out chargers was mandating credit card readers so anyone can drive up and charge without a proprietary app. Of course that was cancelled in our chaotic political situation, so will take more years to happen

There are gangs of masked thugs kidnapping people at gunpoint. Oh wait

I paid for a real id license when they were first available in my state, and I’ve paid for a renewal. I disagree with the surveillance society they enable but I’m also a realist who wants to travel conveniently.

But I’ve still never gotten one. When it comes down to it, actually getting a real id license requires taking a day off work and waiting in line at the Registry …… whereas I can renew a standard license online and have a few years left on my passport

One of the many ways RealID has been a fiasco is RMV/DMV’s not staffing up to support it

Many states have very regulated utility prices: you may need just a half dozen buddies and get appointed to the oversight board that approves rates

Imagine the savings to society with the energy independence from green energy

• shut down most of the continent wide natural gas distribution infrastructure
• shut down most of the continent wide gasoline distribution infrastructure
• cut way back on the military when we no longer have to protect oil kingdoms

Member ls of the face eating leopard party being surprised “I didn’t mean violence against my political party”

Clippy was always the symbol of my hatred toward technology companies . How did he get redeemed?

Think of that but continuous. Sure there seems to be to be more environmental disasters than ever but each is a one off.

• Dead lakes and crumbling masonry from acid rain were continuous. For years
• BP having an oil spill eventually goes away, but rivers were toxic for decades, repeatedly starting on fire

My teen observed …… guys are more likely to appreciate edgy, crude or offensive humor. Guys are more likely to be entertained by those assholes, even if they don’t agree with their message