Apparently they’re not even allowed an open floor to talk, but Hakeem Jeffries at least took the opportunity for 08:44

No, you don’t blame the bear. You cage it in a zoo or euthanize it for getting too comfortable around people.

Think of it as creating a new non-MAGA Republican Party, including a few right wing Democrats.

Democrat party continues as before, minus a handful of Jim Manchins

In general, even up here in woke-ville, punishments have gotten a lot more strict for kids. There’s a lot more involvement of police, courts, jail. As a parent it causes me a lot of anxiety - whatever happened to school being a “sandbox” where a kid can make mistakes without adult consequences, without ruining their lives? Did that ever exist?

They apparently don’t realize that. I have no idea what’s in the mind of people voting so against their own interests, but

• if they’re low information, she speaks up to communicate more
• if they’re gullible, she speaks up to get them to realize
• if people have a general despair, she speaks up to connect that to the perpetrator.
• if people have no attention span, she speaks up to keep it in the spotlight
• if people think “both sides the same”, she speaks up to say we’re different

At this moment I guarantee you that way too many people still think we’re reducing ” waste, fraud and abuse”, way too many people believe 150 year old dead immigrants are ruining our Medicaid. In the next congressional election, only a little more of a year from now, I guarantee you that far too many voters will have forgotten this issue existed or who created it, believe that this time Republicans support family values and being fiscally responsible.

I mainly tip for social pressure, and custom.

• I’ve always considered it unfair because even if you think the customer is responsible for the income of waiting staff, what about the rest of the crew? But that’s the world we live in and it’s also unfair to individuals to make a point of stiffing them
• Also, why is it reasonable that waitstaff get a larger tip simply based on how expensive the food is?
• tipping for drinks is the worst. Not just the highest percentage, but usually to get any service. It’s rarely good service and it rarely improves

That being said, I’m sticking with the traditional amounts, even if I need to fumble with buttons. And I’m not tipping in all these new places that never had that expectation. And I really don’t care about the social pressure anymore.

A couple places made it difficult to enter a traditional tip to the point where I decided 0% was easier.

I’m having this argument with one of my junior guys who wants to just go with the generated code. We finally got his code functional, months late, and now need to get it maintainable

AI is a useful tool that can help speed up some of the tasks of coding but it’s not magical. It’s never a final result

AI could really help me get more done if we could weed out people following it blindly

Yes, I get that Trump and most of his owners are old, but even if you ignore climate change, ignore the health impact of petroleum, ignore the instability that petrowealth has created, etc, we’re left with a short term solution. We’re ignoring development of new industry, new jobs, new technologies that could benefit us indefinitely, for short term profit, someone finite and non-renewable. Even if they wanted to milk the petro-profit as long as possible, why destroy the possibility of competing in the future technology?

How are they so short-sighted?

No, it would be blue states (not just California) setting aside in escrow money owed to the federal government, while pursuing a legal suit for the federal government to follow through on its commitments. This is a legit approach for an individual with a complaint against a business like a landlord, so it seems like you could pursue similar logic

The law does allow you to withhold payments to someone who owes you. For example, it’s legitimate to withhold rent from your landlord as long as you are setting it aside and have a legitimate habitability case ongoing.

This should follow the same logic

Not enough info. Why have they never used it? If they don’t feel like enforcing consumer protections, they should be replaced. But if price gouging isn’t happening or the law is poorly defined, I have more sympathy for repealing a law that isn’t being g used

I’m sure he means evil, but wearables really can be a boon to health. His agency really needs to be more proactive with establishing privacy protections and certifying accuracy’s/correctness, to make this really take off.

Canada will be stretched just keeping fighting out of its borders.

Canada just needs to send one guy over to say “you should be our eleventh province” and most of New England will say “yes please, I’m sick of whatever shit the regressives are doing now”

• looks around * …… now

The meme was always “100 men vs 1 grizzly”. And yes we could, as long as I was in the back and could climb over the blood soaked bodies of those in front to confront an exhausted grizzly pinned under the weight of mutilated corpses.

The timber part is no big deal - it’s all farmed trees and sawmill waste product. The water and energy use to make them, store them, ship them is more significant.

That’s how I got dozens of reusable plastic bags at 10¢ each. Eventually I started remembering to bring them into the store. Now it’s a good habit, so I’m ready for cloth bags …… no hurry, might as well reuse these a bunch more

Consider being an electrician: you’d be shocked

Or how about the variant:

• submit prescription refill request
• check back
• check back
• check back
• escalate
• “we don’t have your insurance info”
• yes you do but here it is again
• resubmit prescription refill request
• check back
• check back
• check back
• escalate
• “we don’t accept that insurance. Find a new doctor”

New doctor

• “why don’t you take your prescriptions regularly?”

I mean yeah, I didn’t claim this action was morally or even strategically acceptable, just that it seems consistent with the way past administrations have used the same power.