We (well, not me, but someone) airlifted food into Berlin for almost a year. The pier is theater, meant to look like they're doing something. If they really wanted to help, they would make sure the supplies actually got to the people that need it, and not leave it on the beach waiting for more fish to evolve legs.

June 27 - Patriot

June 28 - Criminal

that's what a sea urchin looks like after it's been out of the water. They unroll so they can get back to the ocean.

That's not fair! You guys already get Spaghetti Wednesday, now you want pasta in the classroom?

https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/2024/TESLA/CYBERTRUCK/PU%25252FCC/AWD#recalls

You can always go to the NHTSA website to get info about recalls.

"And the state has an obligation to protect children."

Unless it's protecting them from hunger. Or lead in water. Or child labor.

"Bad" memory that lasts 45 years in interplanetary space.

#BringVoyagerHome

anti-Israel ≠ anti-semitic

Until they declare bankruptcy and reorganize as JP's Construction.

When people tell me 'money doesn't buy happiness', I tell them 'it removes a lot of anxiety'.

These people don't have any anxiety anymore, and believe they can do anything. Most of the time they're right.

Death Panels are only good when Insurance Corporations and Republicans are making the decisions.

No, it's okay. He deleted it and nobody saw it. Absolutely nobody. Any rumors otherwise are just that, rumors.

Nickel-63 is pretty safe as radioactive elements go. It's proposed as an energy source for pacemakers.

Standford says 0.1mm of plastic will absorb all emissions.

10 years ago my daughter had an ectopic pregnancy. Without an "abortion" (I wish we would stop calling it that), she would have died. Without "health care", she would be dead.

Now I have a daughter, and a granddaughter that's almost 2. Republicans wish they were both dead. When I see and read about things like this, I understand intuitively that these people wish my daughter was dead, and my granddaughter never existed. It's unfathomable to me, but that's what these people wish upon my family.

And part of me is no better than they are.

"Are we the baddies?"

I do this for a living, let's sort this out....law is here, starting on page 403.

Section 24220, here we go:

SEC. 24220. ADVANCED IMPAIRED DRIVING TECHNOLOGY.

yada yada yada...bullshit legal-speak, definitions...yada yada...

(1) ADVANCED DRUNK AND IMPAIRED DRIVING PREVENTION TECHNOLOGY.—The term ‘‘advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology’’ means a system that—

(A) can—

(i) passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired; and

(ii) prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if an impairment is detected;

(B) can— (i) passively and accurately detect whether the blood alcohol concentration of a driver of a motor vehicle is equal to or greater than the blood alcohol concentration described in section 163(a) of title 23, United States Code; and

(ii) prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if a blood alcohol concentration above the legal limit is detected; or

( C) is a combination of systems described in subpara- graphs (A) and (B).

So far, not a kill switch, but some kind of technology to detect if you're driving like a drunk person and disable the vehicle. Not really ideal, I personally don't know if technology like this currently exists, if false positives would be a problem etc. Let's continue

( c) ADVANCED DRUNK AND IMPAIRED DRIVING PREVENTION TECHNOLOGY SAFETY STANDARD.—Subject to subsection (e) and not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue a final rule prescribing a Federal motor vehicle safety standard under section 30111 of title 49, United States Code, that requires passenger motor vehicles manufactured after the effective date of that standard to be equipped with advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology.

(d) REQUIREMENT.—To allow sufficient time for manufacturer compliance, the compliance date of the rule issued under subsection ( c) shall be not earlier than 2 years and not more than 3 years after the date on which that rule is issued.

OOF, Congress is mandating a new FMVSS. And with only 3 years to do it. This is impossible. NHTSA (National Highway Safety and Traffic Administratiion) doesn't do anything...I was about to write "quickly", but a better term would be "not slow". So, for NHTSA to issue a new FMVSS, here is a thumbnail sketch of the process:

0. I'm numbering this "0" because it will be entirely behind the scenes, and I don't have any idea how much time it will take. Theoretically, NHTSA could already have a team working on this, but I doubt it. NHTSA will hold focus groups, industry meetings, etc. requesting input on how they can deal with this mandate from Congress.

1. NHTSA proposes a new Safety Standard. Someone writes a draft, and this is published to give the public a chance to read it (in the Federal Register, hereon FR). Most of what they publish will be page after page after page of justifications for what Congress has mandated, some of it will be an overview of what they've found from the meetings they've held, and a little of it will be the actual text of the draft. The will also request comments, and open a docket (https://www.regulations.gov) where they will publish the comments. Usually there's a limit of 90 days on comments.

2. The comment time limit will get very close to expiring, and someone from the Automotive Industry will request an extension. NHTSA will extend for another 60 days.

3. Time will pass. More time will pass. You will forget this was ever an issue, because you have other things to deal with. I won't forget though, because every once in a while I go to the docket to read absolute batshit anonymous comments from the public (yes, you can comment anonymously.)

4. Out of the blue, NHTSA will publish another notice in the Federal Register. This one will be page after page after page of analysis from the public comments. They won't mention any from the actual public, just the ones from the major car manufacturers and industry lobbying groups. They will also either publish the Final Rule (and give a time limit for implementation), or say they are scrapping the entire thing and going back to the drawing board.

(e) TIMING.—If the Secretary determines that the Federal motor vehicle safety standard required under subsection ( c) cannot meet the requirements and considerations described in subsections (a) and (b) of section 30111 of title 49, United States Code, by the applicable date, the Secretary—

(1) may extend the time period to such date as the Sec- retary determines to be necessary, but not later than the date that is 3 years after the date described in subsection ( c);

(2) shall, not later than the date described in subsection ( c) and not less frequently than annually thereafter until the date on which the rule under that subsection is issued, submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report describing, as of the date of submission of the report—

(A) the reasons for not prescribing a Federal motor vehicle safety standard under section 30111 of title 49, United States Code, that requires advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology in all new pas- senger motor vehicles;

(B) the deployment of advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology in vehicles;

( C) any information relating to the ability of vehicle manufacturers to include advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology in new passenger motor vehicles; and

(D) an anticipated timeline for prescribing the Federal motor vehicle safety standard described in subsection (c); and

(3) if the Federal motor vehicle safety standard required by subsection ( c) has not been finalized by the date that is 10 years after the date of enactment of this Act, shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representative a report describing—

(A) the reasons why the Federal motor vehicle safety standard has not been finalized;

(B) the barriers to finalizing the Federal motor vehicle safety standard; and

( C) recommendations to Congress to facilitate the Fed- eral motor vehicle safety standard.

Okay, here it is. The time limit for this new rule is actually 6 years, but what Congress has really mandated is that NHTSA submit a report to them in 10 years on why they can't implement a Safety Standard on how to implement a (passive) way to disable a vehicle due to an impaired driver.

One thing that NHTSA is very good at is using "vehicle safety" as a reason not to do something. For example, Europe and Canada already have regulations requiring Daytime Running Lights. These turn your headlights on automatically during the day. But NHTSA says there's no data that proves DRLs improve safety, so they won't make a rule requiring them in the US.

Instead, NHTSA will say that intentionally disabling a vehicle while it's potentially driving on a busy highway will "impact safety in a negative manner", and they'll be completely right. The mandate isn't to give law enforcement a way to disable vehicles, but to disable vehicles "passively" when the car itself detects it's being driven by an impaired driver.

This rule will die in committee. We'll have self-driving cars before this technology ever becomes possible, and by then it won't be necessary.

I think the most important word in the original post is "Hunter".

Are you telling me, that my US rep Tim Fucking Walberg, that useless fuck, actually accomplished something? I'm actually kind of impressed. The bill is straight up dogshit, but he actually submitted something and dogged it through committee and got the full chamber to vote on something.

I call bullshit. Someone else did this, and pawned it off onto Tim. Either because they didn't want to be responsible for it, or they felt sorry for him. Hell, I feel sorry for him.

Plus, Arlington was taken from Robert E. Lee specifically to become the National Cemetery.

I once worked with a Puerto Rican. I'm not being racist, he literally couldn't go more than an hour without reminding someone he was from Puerto Rico. He tried playing it like some kind of race card at least once a day. One time I heard one of my coworkers say loudly from across the room "No, being Puerto Rican has nothing to do with it. I don't like you because you're stupid."

I don't see how it could NOT affect power output.

But the thing about recalls is they're completely voluntary. You don't have to bring your truck in to have it fixed.

“After prayerful thought and talking with my family, I have decided not to run for re-election..."

WTF, why do these people always blame God when they get caught? God wasn't responsible for your own shady shit, and he's not responsible for you cuttin'-and-runnin'.

People with 3D printers will remember how we were lied to about PLA's biodegradability.

I just bought an MSI motherboard. The memory slots are labeled, A1, A2, B1, B2. So of course it makes sense that the first populated slot must be A2. Followed by B2. Then A1, and finally B1.

Make sure the memory is in the right slots.

Turn it into a bedroom. I've heard a single person can eat up to 12 spiders a night while they sleep.

Do they accept NFTs?

lol, not the rich. If only there were some legal mechanism to freeze his accounts...

Libertarians often mistake deregulation for freedom. However, I kind of like being able to buy food without worrying about deadly pathogens.

I see "anti-government" and "against government tyranny" in this story a lot, but these people are NOT anti-government. They're very pro-government, as long as the government uses its power to enforce their beliefs. They're very willing to use the power of government to enforce the laws as they see them, and ignore the laws they don't like.

Alexa has a feature where you tell it you're leaving the house and it will listen for smoke detectors or breaking glass, alerting you through your phone if it detects something. Amazon is putting that behind a paywall next year.

The Taliban used to be free of restrictions

Haha lol.

I spend most of my time on Twitter.

Concerning.

An argument I hadn't seen until recently was "Man-made climate change is real, it's an existential problem, and the only way to combat it is to burn as much fossil fuel as we can right now to boost the economy and increase our efforts to find a solution."

Because scientific endeavors work in real life exactly like Sid Meier's Civilization?

If I learned anything on the middle-school playground it's that "there isn't any statue of imitation on murder!"

I canceled Netflix, but I stayed on their mailing list so I know about new shows I might like to watch. My frigate is now a submarine that goes beep, beep. (it has sonarr, I guess would be the main point I'm trying to make here)

Remember all the hysteria over "death panels" during the ACA debates? Fooled you, they were already here, invented by insurance companies.

Hamas killed kids at a music festival. They're terrorists.

They're also freedom fighters, the two aren't mutually exclusive.

And lead. Don't forget lead.

Texas: defies Supreme Court

rest of the country: wait, we can do that?

There have ALWAYS been death panels. There are death panels RIGHT NOW.

They're occupied by insurance corporations balancing the profit from your premiums and the cost of your treatment. Is it cheaper to let someone die? Can we save the life so they will continue to pay premiums? Can we deny treatment without a media circus that makes us look bad? If there IS a media circus, will they die soon enough that everybody forgets?

I would rather take corporate profit out of the equation.

There's a big difference between "always vote for the Democrat" and "always vote for Trump".

The only reason I voted blue last time around was because my third-party vote wasn't anti-Trump enough in 2016. And I will continue voting blue until Republicans understand what Americans truly want from their politicians, and act accordingly. I will probably be voting blue for the rest of my life, but will be pleasantly surprised if there comes a time when I don't have to.