You know how Trump supporters are like, “he says what we’re all thinking!”?

The future first gentleman actually does.

Cool. Glad we agree on that, at least. Cheers!

“Believe women” doesn’t mean “use the trauma of abused women as a costume to lend legitimacy to your baseless attacks,” pal.

Please clarify.

Nah, honestly, by now the length of this conversation is way out of proportion to my interest in it. I’m not convinced by your argument even a little bit, but I’m really not compelled by talking about it anymore. Have a good one.

Seems like the current plan is to just wipe out all generational wealth instead, for every ancestry. We’ve given up on a rising tide lifting all boats and instead we’re draining the harbor.

I don’t believe reparations are politically possible right now, but “we can’t fix the problem so we shouldn’t even try” just doesn’t feel like the right move here.

It’ll be on the first Starship from Mars.

THIS IS AN OP-ED

For crying out loud, you’d think this bot would know the difference

Whether or not it will be prosecuted is immaterial to whether or not it is legal.

• Wohl and Burkman were sentenced to community service.

• The charge they pled guilty to was fraud; that they “falsely claimed that mail-in voting would put voters into a database that would be used to collect outstanding debt, track down warrants or enforce mandatory vaccinations.” It doesn’t matter what the outcome was (intimidation or something else), the fraud was the crime.

• Fox is a slightly different case, as they’re technically press and thus have a first amendment protection that automatically makes any case against them harder. But either way, the lack of prosecution is far from evidence that a crime was not committed.

• I already identified exactly which law Musk is breaking and with what action. 52 USC 20511 and 52 USC 30101, if you find it particularly important.

• Xwitter is definitely promoting disinformation, which is election interference and can be committed by American citizens. Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman pled guilty in 2022 to hiring a firm to make calls spreading disinformation during the run-up to the 2020 election.

• Xwitter is providing a measurable, financial benefit to the Trump campaign. That’s soft money, and using soft money to exceed individual campaign contribution limits is against the law.

As far as I can tell (not as an expert), the pitfalls and unforeseen issues are probably pretty much what they’d be for every new battery chemistry: how safe is it? Does it have really bad self-discharge? Is the supply consistent? How does it do at low charging levels? How long/how many cycles does such a cell last? Does it require an unsustainable amount of exotic minerals?

As well as what they are for any new technology: what is the replacement cost? Can they be installed in existing technology via drop-in or with a simple retrofit, or do you have to replace the entire unit? How long before they come to market? Can they maintain supply to match demand?

Probably a lot of those questions are business-related rather than technology-related (i.e. “will the companies developing this stuff put enough into R&D to solve these problems before releasing them?” not “do the laws of the universe allow this?”). I am not an expert, but before I put all my chips on solid-state batteries (something I’m pretty confident will be the norm eventually), I would want those answered.

Cookie autodelete would be great, though then you potentially have to deal with the cookie popup every time you visit. Not a terrible thing, but worth noting.

ETA: Yeah, you can zap it with uBO, but then you might have to do it again if it comes back.

If you’re on Firefox, you can also have certain sites automatically open in containers. “Sure, put cookies on my machine if you want. You can see me only browsing your website ever.”

(Hey, non-Americans: “pubs” means “Republicans.” Bars and pubs don’t care whether we vote or not.)

I’m gonna start checking out Ghost, at this point. This is ridiculous.

And if Ghost doesn’t work, then ClassicPress it is.

I think this just illustrates (1) how much Elon has locked down the API access, and (2) how much less Twitter matters in culture now.

Actually, since the hurricane season keeps starting earlier and earlier, that would benefit the top of the list (since early-season hurricanes tend to be weaker) because the ones that everyone hears about will almost certainly be several names down the list. For instance, the only ones that anybody’s heard about this year are Beryl (second named storm), Helene (eighth named storm), and Milton (thirteenth named storm). Even Kirk (eleventh named storm and a category 4) went by without a fuss, because it never made landfall.

So my suggestion is, we keep going with the naming system we have, but go with your list–maybe use the Carbon Majors report–and apply the company’s name when they make landfall as a Category 3 or higher, when they cause more than ten fatalities, or when they prompt the evacuation of more than 5,000 people. At that point, the storm gets a tag: “Hurricane Chinese-Coal Beryl.” “Hurricane Saudi-Oil Helene.” “Hurricane Russian-Oil Milton.”

lmao you still believe in the sun