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Trump admin drawing up plans to stop processing intl flights in sanctuary cities(theguardian.com)
17 points by standardUser 4mo ago|2 comments
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by standardUser 4mo ago
As an American with mostly headline-level knowledge of Canadian politics, this Mark Carney seems unusually competent and effective, as far as heads-of-state go.
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by standardUser 4mo ago
The end of driving as a profession is going to hit the economy hard. Teamsters may have the organizational strength and political influence to protect themselves. But they only represent ~20% of US truck drivers and none of the other ~3 mil
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by standardUser 4mo ago
Creating a food system that is more cruel to animals than what we already have is a very high bar. Not that I doubt we can clear it.
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by standardUser 5mo ago
Jargon isn't a scam. I get more and better work done with AI, to my own satisfaction and to the benefit of my employer. People using dumb terms to describe this doesn't make it less true.
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Operation Epic Furious (Trump-Inspired Game by the Secret Handshake)(epicfurious.com)
5 points by standardUser 5mo ago|0 comments
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by standardUser 5mo ago
> It produces code, declares victory, and moves on. Not when I'm in charge. It proposes changes based on my detailed instructions, I review the proposed changes, only then do I have it implement code, and then I review it again. I u
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FCC Orders a Review of ABC's Broadcast Licenses(nytimes.com)
35 points by standardUser 5mo ago|16 comments
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by standardUser 5mo ago
Waymo and Baidu are the only big players and both are working on launching in foreign markets for the first time this year, in addition to big expansions in their home markets. But country roads are not on the agenda. I predict an eventual
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by standardUser 6mo ago
https://archive.is/2026.04.18-123609/https://www.sfchronicle...
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SF is obsessed with the safest drivers – and ignoring the ones killing people(sfchronicle.com)
4 points by standardUser 6mo ago|2 comments
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by standardUser 6mo ago
I find it hard to blame the young ambitious teenager and much easier to blame the grown-ass adults in supervisory roles who apparently can't cite a single violation by name and later violently steal a kid's phone. The kid might ha
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by standardUser 6mo ago
In the US, student loan interest rates tend to be close to market (which I find despicable) and there is no automatic forgiveness. In fact, student loan debt has extra rules in the US making it difficult to get discharged in bankruptcy, so
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by standardUser 6mo ago
There was the strike that massacred a school, which was the result of DOGE cuts. There was the double-strike on the bridge the other day, for no apparent reason other than to kill first responders. I'm sure there have been other instan
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by standardUser 6mo ago
Via the NYT: Mohammad Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament and a key government figure overseeing the war, took to social media to mock the Trump administration as U.S. forces searched for a missing American airman from a downed fight
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by standardUser 6mo ago
Even the Philippines, a US ally, has struck a deal with Iran for safe passage. Meanwhile, Oman is working with Iran on a toll scheme. There's an emerging chance that no US-flagged vessel crosses the Straight of Hormuz again in our life
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by standardUser 6mo ago
We don't know what downed it yet, so it's hard to say. Iran is hiding and rationing their offensive munitions, we know that, so it's not surprising when the number of drone and missile attacks spikes after weeks of bombing. T
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by standardUser 6mo ago
That's not a concern it's a reality. Iran is not shut-off or blockaded to any meaningful degree. It has tons of unmolested border crossings and Caspian sea access, and maintains full control within it's own borders (minus the
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by standardUser 6mo ago
Iran's deep investment in asymmetric warfare is paying serious dividends. You wouldn't expect a nation that's being bombed day and night, essentially at will, to still hold so many cards. Not only is the US completely incapab
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by standardUser 6mo ago
Spoken like one of the small percentage of Americans who can afford to tag on extra days to their PTO to enjoy a nice view.
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by standardUser 6mo ago
Years ago I tried to book a train from San Francisco to Chicago as part of a trip I had planned but found it to be more expensive and, more significantly, a multi-day journey instead of a few hours. If you happen to be an American living
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by standardUser 6mo ago
The second the first bomb hit, the Republican Guard went from a standing military force to a guerrilla army, similar in a lot of ways to what the US faced in Iraq, just vastly better-trained and better-equipped. The US couldn't subdue
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by standardUser 6mo ago
China is building force projection rapidly. But it's a huge gap.
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by standardUser 7mo ago
Take China for an example. No one knows China's true military capabilities, because they're rapidly evolving and because they virtually never use them. If there's an element of surprise to be had, they have it. But that cut&#
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by standardUser 7mo ago
Iran will not stop harassing the region, and perhaps not even allow the strait to open, if Israel is still bombing them or fighting a proxy war in Lebanon. So Trump can pack up and head back to this side of the planet, having made our count
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by standardUser 7mo ago
There's something funny about watching global markets react to Trump's every lazy lie as if Moses himself just passed down orders. Maybe funny is the wrong word. The kicker is that this isn't even Trump's war and he like
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by standardUser 7mo ago
There's an entire academic field called statistics you seem to be forgetting all about.
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by standardUser 7mo ago
They are taking money committed to a wind project and redirecting it towards burning fossil fuels - because what other lesson can we take from a global energy shock other than to increase our exposure to the next one? The company itself (Fr
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by standardUser 7mo ago
Trump wrecks the global energy economy and his next move is to increase our dependence on it? They don't make enough dimensions for the type of chess this brainiac is playing.
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by standardUser 7mo ago
The ones with limited recourse are the flight crew who are trapped with you and a hundred other asshole for hours with no escape and very limited options in case of a serious disruption. If there is one space that has justification to act a

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