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Not to be mean, but I thought he had a stroke and left politics? Or was I dreaming the second half 💔

They also had a "fire" stick, didn't they? Not to be confused with Amazon's fire stick

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchstick_TV

matchstick

My initial take was that first sentence lol then realized that context should be added. Its a complex issue that's hard to really put to a single comment.

"Tough on crime, damn the torpedoes, full speed!"

My guess: elections are almost here, so that need to be "tough on crime." This is just despicable

Aight, so long as we're including other religious texts and having the class be a deep dive into similarities and differences and what might make the "human condition" between all of them, I'm game.

Oh no? Just American Christianity? Sounds like something that goes against the Constitution there.

sips tea

But...but...I was told W10 was the last OS I'd ever have to install!!

Edit: context

Might be easier to actually nail him with something instead of having N ongoing trials, but I understand "courts take time for a reason."

Just feels like it's getting down to the wire with him.

It struck her that officers appeared to ignore they had been dispatched to a medical call. By the end, instead of rushing Turner away in an ambulance, police and paramedics spent six minutes recounting the violence.

"Gee boys, sure am glad we got this bad guy, he could've hurt those ladies in there with all this thrashing around! Don't you hate when women yell annoying things like "don't hurt him!" and "he's having a seizure!"? They just don't* understand what sickos like him could do to them."

This is the same Blinken that actively ignored investigations into Israel blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza and said everything was above board?

Yes, I know it's a separate conflict. But his actions there kinda make it hard to take much from him. These are probably valid accusations, but also: the US is providing weapons for use in Gaza.

rabblerabble

"Could it be that we pay the top brass too much? Nonono, that's not it. Cut workers that depend on us to survive."

So...they just lost the international court case then, no? He legit just said "we're taking it over."

'Course, this is me just being hopeful there is some recourse for the blatant disregard for humans 🫤

I read this as "counterfeit Costco gear" and the only thing* I can think is that they'll at least have plenty of giant bags of chips

If only they shipped to the US...at least, I didn't see that option.

"Nonono, I was told it was Hamas!" 😐

side-eyes Gaza

I think there are a few contenders...

"Cruel and unusual punishment" then?

rsync gang when?

That was legit how I read the name initially 😂

Yo, why'd you change the title?

A mission of mercy, then a fatal strike: How an aid convoy in Gaza became Israel’s target

"Why do you make us do this! Oh woe to me, there is no other way to get these hostages other than to bomb a populated area. What else am I to do? pushes button How terrible that you made me do that! ...now, I wonder how soon we can get some settlers over here."

Should note that right at the beginning he jokes about how long it took them to get this video out (notes the writers' strike as "ongoing").

Also, I knew none of this stuff. His long-form video essays are always a great watch because they aren't shot out 5m after something happens and consist of mostly opinions.

Eyyy Biden, welcome to 6 months ago!

Soon you'll notice he seems a bit too giddy accidentally killing civilians.

😘

Unsure wtf I just read (upvotes)

This was my take after an initial thought "...nsfw?" 😅

“Mint has always been a money loser,” Mr. Agostino, a former product manager at Mint, said in an interview. “Given the revenue Credit Karma was generating, it makes sense to go that path.”

Translation: "Eh, all it does is help people without bringing us significant revenue. Let's try to push the users over to a more spammy based app!"

I remember when both came out, and used them extensively. Finally dropped CK, then Mint, as they both started including more and more loan ads. We certainly had a good run of actually useful free stuff, but that's finally catching up.

"Fat trim" is the other one I recently heard, and it's absolutely the worst one I've heard so far. Glad they consider humans working their best as "fat"...

To be fair, anyone that wants to run in a primary against the incumbent is already going to receive less due to the "never run against them" unwritten rule. We've been primed to see it as a failing strategy, and anyone that tries gets shouted down because "now is not the time."

I'll readily admit that some great things have been done this presidency, and Biden needs to be more vocal about that. However, his age being part of the conversation means that they're too afraid to actually have him talk about it (it seems like).

I dunno. I haven't felt less excited to vote in my life, and that's due to the pressure all around.

"Vote or it's fascism" is a great motivator to get out, but when it turns into a yearly thing it no longer it no longer feels like duty.

And yes, voting to stop fascism is a good thing. What I'm getting at is that apathy is going to win until we get someone that we can actually be excited for. Another Neo-liberal win isn't the victory that gives me high hopes for the future.

My wife and I recently moved to a smaller town in the Northeast from Colorado. It's been an adjustment, but honestly I've found some wonderful communities here supporting each other much more than I had out West.

This isn't to say that it's a hellhole out there. It's more that I wasn't expecting to find it here, which gave me a bit of a recheck to my thoughts on the state of things.

It also isn't perfect, but I'm not letting that bring down the hope it brought me.

Now back to being jaded 🙃

Ah. Glad to know I can put a damper on my excitement for motorcycle riding season to be back...

Granted, this is possible with any car in any state. Just need to make sure I'm explicitly on the lookout for teslas driving behind me.

"Hamas-run media office" feels like "y'know, the baddies!" in title-form.

And if it doesn't load it all, just reload the page 😘

Almost looks like they bumped up the light saturation as well...what a time to be alive.

I think they meant that the movie Her was 10 years earlier? In any case, this was definitely generated to some degree lol

States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat Matt Reynolds 8 - 10 minutes

Unless Florida governor Ron DeSantis has an unexpected change of heart, it will soon be a crime to sell or make cultivated meat in the Sunshine State. A bill passed by the Florida House and Senate is now awaiting the signature of DeSantis, who has already indicated his opposition to what he calls “fake meat.” If he does sign the bill into law, anyone who sells, makes, or distributes cultivated meat in Florida may be subject to a fine of up to $500 and 60 days in prison.

“Beating somebody up and selling cultivated meat are the same in the eyes of the law in Florida,” says Justin Kolbeck, CEO of cultivated seafood startup Wildtype, who has been trying to persuade legislators to ease up on a number of proposed bans. As well as the Florida bill, there is also proposed legislation to ban cultivated meat in Alabama, Arizona, Kentucky, and Tennessee. If all of those bills pass—an admittedly unlikely prospect—then some 46 million Americans will be cut off from accessing a form of meat that many hope will be significantly kinder to the planet and animals.

The wave of proposed legislation, including very strict labeling laws, may come as a surprise given that cultivated meat isn’t on sale anywhere in the US at the moment. Floridians were already very unlikely to get their hands on a cultivated chicken cutlet, but the proposed ban shuts off that option altogether. “It is really significant. And to prohibit a food before it’s on the market for that whole population, before they’ve had a chance to try it and see if they want to buy it, feels absurd,” says Jessica Almy, senior vice president of policy at the Good Food Institute, a nonprofit that lobbies for alternatives to animal protein.

Almy says that there may be legal grounds to challenge the Florida ban, although it is not clear whether the bill will be brought before courts if it becomes law. In a letter, the North American Meat Institute (NAMI), a trade body representing meat companies, opposed the ban, saying that it conflicts with federal law and is “bad public policy that would restrict consumer choice and stifle innovation.”

The proposed bans raise questions about possible tensions between the conventional meat industry and the cultivated meat industry. Although NAMI opposes the Florida ban, the text of a proposed ban in Arizona and a failed ban proposed in West Virginia both position cultured meat as a threat to the cattle ranching industry in each state. In the Florida House, Representative Dean Black, a cattle rancher, was vociferous in his opposition to cultivated meat. “Me and my Earthling friends will eat real meat here on Earth, and let us reserve this fantastical meat to outer space,” he said in a speech that was greeted with whoops and cheers from legislators. The bill—which included a much wider set of reforms, including to electric vehicle charging—passed the House with 86 votes in favor and 27 against.

Representative Anna Eskamani, who voted against the bill on March 6, argues that it was an example of corporate capture designed to protect an industry that was “losing its footprint.” “And instead of acknowledging that, you’re going to stop a new footprint from appearing. It’s very protectionist, it’s anti free-market, and at the end of the day, it’s also allowing a monopoly to continue,” she says.

The pushback from legislators sympathetic to ranchers and the broader meat industry puts cultivated meat companies in a difficult situation. Major meat producers Cargill and Tyson have both invested in cultivated meat companies, while Brazil’s JBS is working on a cultivated research site in Brazil. “We see ourselves as an ‘and’ solution, not an ‘or.’ We’re never looking to replace conventional [meat],” says Sean Edgett, chief legal officer at Upside Foods, a cultivated meat startup which counts Cargill and Tyson among its investors. “We think there’s always going to be a place for it on the market. So as I look at these bills, they seem very protectionist.”

Wildtype cofounders Justin Kolbeck and Ayré Elfenbein have visited legislators in Arizona, Alabama, and Florida to try to persuade them to vote down or amend proposed legislation in those states. “The shift we’re seeing is toward something that is far more extreme, which is talking about outright bans,” says Elfenbein. The cofounders are particularly keen on a carve-out for cultivated seafood, pointing out to legislators that the US is a net importer of seafood and that a new source of fish would improve food security within the country.

Also worrying for cultivated meat companies are a number of proposed bills that would impose new labeling restrictions. A proposed bill in Arizona would prevent companies from using meaty terms to describe products made from cultivated meat, plants, or insects. A similar bill in West Virginia that passed in March requires any cultivated meat product to be labeled as “cell-cultured,” “lab-grown,” or a similar term. The fact that legislators are proposing legislation that lumps cultivated meat together with insect meat—a category that many would-be consumers find gross—is a worrying sign, Almy says.

A political backlash against cultivated meat isn’t surprising, says Sparsha Saha, a lecturer on meat and politics at Harvard’s Department of Government. “I think it was always going to be political fodder, because you have conglomerates, you have a very powerful and increasingly integrated meat and dairy sector,” she says.

In Florida, the debate was particularly extreme. On the House floor, representative Dean Black called cultured meat a “bacterial culture” and “nitrogen-based cellular protein paste.” Representative Daniel Alvarez compared the cells found in cultured meat to cancer.

Such arguments are extremely misinformed, says Elfenbein. “A lot of the arguments that were made were made under the false pretense of safety,” he says. On X, Florida’s agricultural commissioner has compared the Food and Drug Administration’s conclusion that cultured meat from two US companies is safe to eat to mask mandates. “It’s inherently a political war,” says Saha.

Behind closed doors, lawmakers strike a more balanced tone, says Edgett. “Our conversations with all these lawmakers in their offices are very different to what they are on the floor,” he says. Upside Foods has released a blog post urging prospective customers to ask Governor DeSantis to veto the bill.

Resistance from lawmakers to cultured meat is also bubbling in Europe. In November, the Italian parliament approved a ban on the food, which is not currently available to customers anywhere in Europe. It is not clear, however, whether the Italian law will stand, as it may violate a European Union directive designed to stop regulatory barriers within the bloc. In a meeting of the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council on January 23, a number of delegates called for “a renewed and broad debate in the EU specific to lab-grown meat.”

“The kind of laws popping up in the US and EU appear to be largely political theater but have the potential to negatively impact research, at the very least within those regions,” says Dwayne Holmes, director of research and innovation (EU) at the cultured meat research nonprofit New Harvest. “These laws are also arguably the unintended byproduct of a race-to-market hype cycle designed to create excitement, which in practice can cut both ways.”

The prospect of more state-level proposed bans lurks in the background. A proposed ban in West Virginia was introduced this year but is no longer an active bill. In 2023, Texas legislators brought a proposed ban that didn’t make it into law. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see that bill pop up again,” says Almy. Her hope, though, is that if a similar bill rears its head, legislators will have heard enough from nonprofits like the GFI and cultivated meat startups that they don’t take the same route as Florida. Cultivated meat might be approved for sale in the US, but the race to convince legislators to accept it is only just beginning.

Started at college in 08. Multiple Debian internal servers, and now daily driving PopOS since 2018.

No ragrets.

Defenestration when?

I...are you being intentionally obtuse here? My point is that "putting in the work" quickly is overshadowed by the DNC having the largest megaphone available.

And a lot of us are working to just live. "Putting in the work" means either taking away what little time you have to decompress, or not working and instead stomping for that ideal candidate, by taking leave from work.

And aside from that, I was pointing out the "why" of it. Stop being abrasive and actually come into a topic willing to listen and talk.

See, both report and record signify different things in my mind. The original code was just printing to stdout.

In my mind logMissingData makes more sense because it's not actively sending anything; it's just logging.

Huh, seems really interesting that it happened during a live interview. And that guy seems really non-surprised that it happened.

I'm sure it's totally real.

/s

Bees!?