Comment Next fallback site (Score 4, Funny) 34
Alaska in the winter.
(Northern Canada was ruled out because - tariffs
Comment Re: Will Net Zero Strategy in Limbo? (Score 1) 106
And now it's the pro solar/wind folks.
Comment Re: Police? (Score 0) 10
I understood we were supposed to #believeallwomen?
Comment the bbc (Score 1) 38
Confusing a picture of a thing with the thing itself.
It simply reminds me that BBC hasn't been about precise, careful, actual journalism for some time now.
Comment Re: Seems reasonable (Score 1) 72
I think the concern there stems largely not from the police but from the ostensibly-private citizens with whom they interact. Police deal with all sorts of situations beside "catching a criminal" and see people in all sorts of situations that they're probably entitled to keep private.
Comment Um... (Score 5, Insightful) 98
AI Firms Say They Can't Respect Copyright
Pretty sure it's not really up to them, legally.
A group of more than two dozen AI researchers have found that they could build a massive eight-terabyte dataset using only text that was openly licensed or in public domain.
So it's really more like "won't" than "can't"
Comment Re:It's not the comma's fault (Score 2, Informative) 98
This is how all American businesses interact with the law. They pretend like the law doesn't say what it says until they get hauled into court.
And, apparently, U.S. Presidents
Comment Re:It's not the comma's fault (Score 1) 98
The dispute centers on Article 5.4, which requires gatekeepers to allow business users "free of charge, to communicate and promote offers, including under different conditions [...], and to conclude contracts with those end users."
A rational reading of this sentence would not pair "free of charge" with only first phrase "to communicate and promote offers." If the "free of charge" were meant to apply only to that first clause, the second clause would have been separated into a different sentence altogether.
I agree. In addition, I've noticed, and rewritten, sentences like this in things I've written, like letters/emails, as the single list would have been misleading.
Comment Re:The food banks are completely overwhelmed (Score 1) 136
Those are probably also practical in parts of Florida, California, and perhaps Texas.
Sure, but probably not in anywhere near enough quantity to meet U.S. demand, and, according to an article I recently read, most of the bananas grown in Hawaii are consumed there and their coffee is rather expensive already.
Comment Re:The food banks are completely overwhelmed (Score 1) 136
I'm starting to think I can see Trump's genius 4D chess strategy here. One of his minions was asked about the 10% tariffs on bananas and the fact that Walmart put prices up by 8%. His answer was that things made in America don't pay tariffs. Ah, but you can't grow bananas in America, right? Well there lies Trump's genius! Climate change will soon change all that!
Here's a snarky/smirky comment from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about no tariffs if you build/produce in America, after being asked about bananas by House Rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania. Guess he doesn't know about coffee either -- unless he thinks the entire U.S. can get all its coffee and bananas from Hawaii. (The initial exchange about bananas is here (t=270s)
Comment Re: Why not use a food bank? (Score 1) 136
What happens when some orange lunatic pulls all the funding for food banks?
Well... you've always got SNAP (food stamps) -- oh, wait: SNAP changes proposed in GOP’s ‘big, beautiful bill.’ Here’s what to know
The bill cuts federal funding for SNAP by about $267 billion over a 10 year-period.
Under the new plan, work requirements are extended from people 18-54 to 18-64 years old, and adults caring for a dependent child under the age of 7, instead of the current 18, would be exempt from the SNAP work requirements.
Comment Re:And how do they plan to repo them? (Score 1) 136
And how do they plan to repo them?
The you are what you eat loophole to serfdom.
Two words: Soylent Green - yum...
Comment who's riding in it? (Score 1) 170
"Four of these spacecraft will haul 400 metric tons (440 U.S. tons) of cargo while two will transport 200 passengers."
Who's going to voluntarily ride in ark b?
Comment Re: in CA (Score 1) 159
Everything is dangerous to some degree. Water can kill you. Should it have a warning label as well?
You disregard the practical fact that warning labels on everything mean nobody reads them and they're *functionally* useless.
Do you want to make things actually safer for people, or just cater to an ocd-like inability to recognize meaningful scales of risk?
Comment 10-year rule violates Byrd rule anyway (Score 2) 46
As noted by several people in the
Budget reconciliation bills can deal with mandatory spending, revenue, and the federal debt limit, and the Senate can pass one bill per year affecting each subject. Congress can thus pass a maximum of three reconciliation bills per year, though in practice it has often passed a single reconciliation bill affecting both spending and revenue. Policy changes that are extraneous to the budget are limited by the "Byrd Rule", which also prohibits reconciliation bills from increasing the federal deficit after a ten-year period or making changes to Social Security. Reconciliation does not apply to discretionary spending, which is instead managed through the annual appropriations process.
My understanding is there are several provisions in this bill that are contrary to a reconciliation-type bill and should be removed. Whether senate republicans will honor the recommendations of the Senate parliamentarian is another matter.
The 7 pieces of the House megabill that could succumb to Senate rules
- Tax-cut accounting
- AI regulations
- Judicial powers
- Gun regulations
- Farm bill provisions
- Planned Parenthood
- Energy permitting
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