

I’ll be honest, I like the aesthetics, but yeah modern materials and gas mileage would be nice. Seatbelts too.
I’ll be honest, I like the aesthetics, but yeah modern materials and gas mileage would be nice. Seatbelts too.
As of the 2024 election all but a handful of counties in Texas and Louisiana have returned to paper. The Brennan Center for Justice estimates 98 percent of ballots were cast with paper records.
The states run the elections. There is nothing stopping the states from hiring cyber security professionals to make sure their elections are secure. Most state elections are still run by very competent people who are motivated to provide a free and fair election.
But I was assured he was a materials engineer, rocket scientist, computer programmer, and businessman extraordinaire!
The agency they turned into DOGE was responsible for fixing healthcare.gov and preventing future bad roll outs. But they fired the actual talent to replace them with Musk’s interns.
No, I read the article.
Yeah, which is why this is a bad article from the BBC. The headline should be, Trump Causes Inflation.
That article is carrying a lot of water for the Trump administration. Nobody knows why prices are going up!
This is the top comment on my screen and it’s perfect.
I wish I could but it’s out there. He made that post.
In unrelated news the World Food Program found the keys to warehouses containing 500m dollars worth of food. They were left on the front door by unknown persons.
Only because we’ve allowed a bunch of Nazis to control it. This is not normal.
Sometimes that’s also the best spot though. The table that’s basically the server’s office during slow hours. That lets you just be human with them and learn the origin story of every cook in the kitchen. Eventually if you’re a regular you’ll even get free food.
Zero authority. But it’s a stress test. Can we get judges to go along? Juries? What can we get them to believe is a legal command? Can we get ICE into houses without warrants? Can we prosecute Mayors and Police officials for not providing data that is a request?
They’re going to push as far as people let them push. This is why the Federalist Society has been trying to pack the courts with conservative judges for decades. Defense Attorneys are going to have to step up and stop plea dealing so much stuff. But that’s a lot harder to do than to say because they’re criminally under resourced and over worked. (Not metaphorically in some states) In a system where the default is a plea deal to get out of jail there’s going to be a lot of convictions for things that aren’t actually crimes. The entire reliance on plea deals was predicated on good faith prosecutions.
All I have to say is Vicious Mockery is back on the menu,
The problem, boiled down to resources, is that they have higher resource needs than other animals of similar size. Which has never been a good sign for evolutionary development.
The only really new thing in there is the genetic diversity. Some of that paper is a straight up thought experiment meant to persuade, not report findings. For example, the bit about flowering bamboo and how they must have endured thousands of such events in 8 million years. In rebuttal I would ask how do the authors of that paper know that the population hasn’t been getting whittled down by such events, bit by bit. They make suppositions about ranging farther for food, but again provide no findings. There are multiple other problems with the paper, including mischaracterizing their own tables but I’ll leave it there.
I will say that paper does a good job summarizing the position of people saying they will go extinct. By the way the full paper is freely available at Molecular Biology and Evolution. I would love to be wrong, they are very fun to watch. And if they can thrive with their habitats reconnected and protected then that’s great. But I’m also not going to be surprised to find out it’s just not in the cards.
Alright, that was a wild ride. It turns out the dude thought his elephants were enough, but they just weren’t. Barely made it out of there intact.
I’m just commenting on what’s there.
Don’t worry the root cause is going to be vaccines. No need for science when you already have the answer.