The centrist American perspective is that we’re the richest, strongest country in the world with deep-rooted systemic problems that are destroying us and that absolutely nothing can be done about it.

You know, one of these days a family member of a victim is gonna drop one of these people on the street and we’re allll gonna have to hear about how violence is never the answer in a just society.

This brilliant idea strikes him just as the law he has so vocally opposed lands on the ballot. Right.

He probably thinks this is very clever, but I think voters will smell blood in the water.

Ok, I read the article. It doesn’t state why he’s stepping down. It does comment on how Hegseth is fucking up the top brass, and how yet another review of the withdrawal from Afghanistan is coming down the pike. It does mention there are talks about downgrading the rank of the command he held.

I don’t think you have a point!

I am very sorry to report that after a bit of searching, I sincerely believe that all three of these entities are real.

That is absolutely brutal. I really hope people are finding ways to escape the heat.

Separately, this visualization is bad in a way I have never seen before: a scale of pink to dark red, where dark red actually represents 2 completely different numbers!

I think an important corollary of this is that contemporary programs stand on the shoulders of MKULTRA, which did them the favor of testing a lot of hypotheses that didn’t pan out.

There’s a reason why low-quality high-bias infotainment, social media echo chambers, and controlled opposition platforming are so prevalent, and the only satisfactorily complete answer in my mind is that it’s something a quorum of the population will stomach that also gives them the degree of control they think they need.

At first blush it sounds like hyperbole, but after reading the article and musing on it I agree for two reasons:

1. Ukraine is the only EU candidate with actual experience in a ground war for survival, and would bring seasoned veterans and tested methodology to international war efforts
2. Fast-tracking an EU candidate that is being actively invaded tells Russia (and future belligerents) that the EU is keeping military interdiction on the table even for current non-members

I wonder if Putin’s allies will shoot down his plane, poison him, or throw him out a window. They surely aren’t gonna wait much longer now that he’s plainly losing his little war.

Yeah, it’s been a long time since I studied the various ice shelves in Antarctica, but what I remember is that a mechanical failure on pretty much every identified coastal fault line had a corresponding global sea level rise in the tens of cm over just a handful of years.

If you’re under 50, you’re gonna see tens of millions of people get displaced. This is going to create some incredible pinch points all over the Earth. It’s not entirely our fault but it’s 100% our problem.

Is this the bridge too far, or will his supporters power through and find a way to believe this?

I skimmed the paper and wouldn’t take too much stock in it. One glaring issue I see is that the “control” for their analysis is another cell network that is absolutely tiny by comparison and services a completely different population from AT&T, so they’re not really isolating other variables, they’re cherry-picking data and over-indexing on it.

The other thing that immediately jumped out at me is the format-- it sure looks an awful lot like an academic thesis, and the authors are a professor and a student who started this work during their undergrad. There’s surely no way a respectable journal would publish this document in its current iteration, so why is it in the news? Weird.

The webpage he hosted was a copy of his own blog post explaining the hack. It just about fit into the 20KB of available flash storage.

We can infer that on every request, the whole static page needs to be spooled out of flash onto RAM (in chunks no larger than 3k), then sent out over Ethernet.

That’s an awful lot of work for the chip. I’m not surprised at all that it errors out under heavy load. The request queue probably grows until it collides with the buffer that bucket brigades the web page to the network.

I’m afraid to look up what optimizations were necessary to get that level of performance. It’s damned impressive work.

Your quote actually made me go and read the article. Thanks a lot dude, I’m fucking pissed now.

“The city’s role is significant as much as Ms Grossman’s and Mr Erickson’s. The city was on notice of the problem,” Grossman’s attorney, Esther Holm, said in court, referring to a previous complaint issued to the city.

Ms. Holm, your client hit those kids in a crosswalk at 73 MPH. Are you really trying to say the city’s landscaping had equal responsibility in these deaths?

“As we flirt with a prospective IPO for our hilariously unprofitable company, I would just like to say our product is so good it scares me.”

I’ve been reading this for years, and the hypothesis always seems to be that zipper merging is good because it maximizes road usage. You know what else maximizes road usage? Bumper to bumper gridlock.

I am guessing that if anyone actually tests that settlement in a court of law that it will not be worth the paper it’s written on. All it takes is one person in the IRS to grow enough of a testicle to actually call for the audit.

This is so dumb. I absolutely love it.

Yeh it’s peak, really goes downhill from there.

It will be such a weird case, too! Stealing taxpayer money from one organization to be used in direct opposition of another? It’s such awful fiscal policy that trying to entertain a defense of it might cause Thomas or Alito to have a stroke lol