The first impeachment was because of betraying Ukraine. Do you think he’ll do any different after so many examples of making everything Putin wants go to Putin and Russia? He’s betraying every ally who doesn’t give him massive bribes.

I was born in a old era swing state, moved to a seriously blue (so, you know center right) state, and now I’ve left the country altogether. Sorry you got dealt an even worse hand.

Not just that, but a lawyer known for representing J6 insurrectionists. This is a stunt to create a supreme court case and otherwise damage civil society.

Samantha’s mother is a lawyer and conservative activist known for representing two Jan 6ers and for fighting COVID-related mandates. She has been in national news before.

Yeah, your evidence is pretty convincing. It may not have been an explicit setup, but it sure feels like it. If nothing else, it’s the perfect storm of factors that would lead it to be a supreme court case in the stew pot simmering away.

Because we’ve seen 30 years of the Web? Because streets used to be (and some sill are) nothing but a place to put up billboards and ads? Because corporations are led by psychopaths and they care absolutely nothing about your well-being or personal health in your home?

OF COURSE if they can put an ad in your kitchen they’ll by all means put an ad in your kitchen. It’s literally the goal of giving out brochures and pamphlets of ads: to make you take the ads into your home. Why are there brand names on everything? It’s advertising all the way down. Giving them an Internet-connecting screen they control in your kitchen is just asking for ads to be displayed in your private space.

Never 51. Elbows Up, my friend.

You hate to do it, but when the other persons gloves come off Canada answers the bell.

Thank you, I try. Huge high fives all around.

“Risk” You mean waste, kill, demolish, guarantee the loss of, wreck, harm, fuck over.

The US has seen incredible increases in physical harm to people from these monstrosities. They’ve been seeing damage to cities as roads are widened. Families consistently lose family memories or have someone harmed by injuries due to oversized vanity vehicles being significantly more dangerous to everyone around them.

Add in the increased pollution, road wear, plastics in the air from tires, new waves of loan debt to finance that shit, and the noise pollution that’s just starting to be researched (the results to date demonstrate massive issues for communities from the noise alone). Allowing these shit box machines into the EU would be horrible for the continent.

Source: yes, I do pay attention to the research. Yes, I do work with advocacy groups to improve city infrastructure and reduce car dependency. Yes, I did live in the US for 45 years. Yes, I did have family and friends lost to these oversized vehicles. Yes, I moved out of the US, partially to escape the road-car-truck-storad shithole my cities became ot accommodate cars over people. Don’t let it happen here, EU.

In the words of the Australian Transportation Secretary: “when deciding what to do, look at the Americans and don’t do that”.

The student didn’t use a technical nor scientific process to address the scenarios from the original assigned reading. This is a psychology course grounded in logic and scientific processes. The student was asked to practice the use of researching positions and supporting arguments with data, prior research, and logical structures. The student did not do that work so it’s an F, regardless of what they wrote or the position they take on the topic.

In my ethics class I made it clear from day 1 that some students would take or hold positions I disagreed with. I also made it clear that their work would be judged on the rigor of their reasoning and the quality of the use of supporting works, not my opinion. I failed some papers that I agreed with because they were emotional outbursts (like our OU student’s work) and passed ones that I detested (because they used the right process and forms to argue a case).

If OU’s leadership doesn’t back the use of science, logic, and formal argument in a course designed to teach scientific principles, then the school isn’t a University of Merit anymore. It’s just a religious shit hole like Liberty University and any graduates should be treated as with as much regard. But it is in Oklahoma so the locals will likely be mostly okay with their children being ill educated if it protects their incorrect Bronze Age worldviews.

Having PERL be a shell style environment was hilariously slow. Entertaining, but slow.

I feel bad that I read that page in Chrome. I’m a failure of a techie.

Tomorrow I must atone by teaching more students terminal commands. Maybe using web API calls with cURL. Or get and some eviloverlord.com quotes?

During the era it wasn’t rare to upgrade components on the motherboard and ISA/PCI bus cards. We’d had some relatively stable CPU socket standards and you’d do things like change out CPU and ram for upgrades.

Was this a stupid marketing gimmick? Oh yeah. Was it unreasonable to talk about upgrading a system at home? Not really. We did do it for a while.

The San Francisco systems have at least some of that. You’re supposed to use a card to get in and out of the trains and you’re charged by distance.

Most systems don’t really have such a thing, though many have one way or time-based tickets (like 2 hours).

“I tried switching to Hannah Montana Special Arch Edition and it wasn’t easy!” – Is it ever easy? I dunno, but computers are complex things so trying any new approach is expected to take work. Picking a weird, unsupported, and possibly out of date software package isn’t going to help the effort.

Look at that: putting remotely accessible sensors in your home opens it up to attacks. Who’d have thought?

I bought a single €2 snack while walking through a Christmas market. Other than that, it was a day of riding public transit (monthly pass), walking through parks, and eating a packed lunch.

Out of pocket total: €2.

People not knowing when to use ‘is’ and ‘are’ in English.

For reals, though? Mostly energy put into conversations, who spends the effort to initiate topics, and whether someone actually has hobbies other than just watching TV.

I used to eat my Jimmy Johns sandwiches like that a decade ago. Back when they were big and cheap sandwiches. It just made it easier to no have it fall apart as much.

I never stopped halfway, though. Once you begin, there should be no survivors.

To the fascist dictator, the enemy is both weak and strong.

With so many bikes it’s going to make it impossible for cars to go through quickly! reeeeee!