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The law recognizes a difference too, and I think the DSM does as well.

Wasn't that Epstein to Wolff, not Wolff to Epstein?

Again, that was the /stated/ objective, yes. But I don't know if very many Senators actually expected Republicans to agree to it, especially after the first few days.

Maybe they hoped Republicans would give in after Election Day, but they didn't, so it was time for Dems to cut bait.

That is very, very true.

What exactly is the red flag?

But all anyone wants to talk about is the AI slop image.

Meanwhile, there's a serious discussion to be had here on the merits of the article itself.

For my part, I wonder how much of the AI's plot summary of A Song of Ice and Fire came from Wikipedia in the first place.

That was the stated objective, yes, but I don't think it was ever a realistic expectation.

Nothing else was on the table, realistically.

Democratic electoral wins and a restoration of SNAP benefits? I'll take it.

Presented without evidence.

People who vote for Democrats vote for people they expect to be compassionate, logical deal-makers. Why do we then get upset when that's exactly what they try to do?

Are AI models trained on properly licensed material okay then?

In theory, it would be to protect people who may appear in some form in the files -- e.g., visiting the island, communicating with Epstein -- but not actually be pedophiles.

Nothing but clouds here in WNY.

I didn't even know that Dr. Oz was Muslim.

Are Dems afraid of the GOP base or of the moderate conservatives whose votes they need to win when progressives don't turn out?

Yep. Snuffleupagus is easy compared to Aloysius.

It's no worse than Batman acting over nine decades. James Bond uses comic book time. He never aged in Flemings' novels either.

There's been a fan theory that "James Bond" -- being such a generic name, and one he throws around freely despite being a secret agent -- is a cover name that different individuals assume upon reaching 00 status.

But in the fiction (particularly "Skyfall") it seems it's just his real actual name.

It's Utah. Every Congressional district has been solidly red for decades. They weren't going for a new gerrymander; they wanted to retain their old gerrymander.

Well the basic idea is mitigating the effects of catastrophic medical bills. In theory, if a bunch of people pay $200 a month for insurance then when one of us gets cancer the insurance company will cover those costs so that she doesn't go bankrupt.

But in practice...

Competition.

That doesn't look right.

Look how a Charlie McCarthy toy appears in the 1940s scene and then Charlie himself with Edgar Bergen on the Muppet Show.

I don't use HF enough to be invested in this controversy, but I think it's a bad thing if you cannot find a way to pay for the production of IP-specific assets.

He actually encouraged women to play -- and he continues to do so to this day. His concern for "golf's future" was that international players would come to dominate the PGA Tour because the U.S. would be unable to produce the superstars we once did.

They do and I signed up for a free trial to read it.

The headline is way more incendiary than Nicklaus' words. His only concern was that the popularity of golf -- including among women -- was making it harder for potential world-class golfers to get tee times. He cited England's decline as proof.

If not, a virtual machine would do it.

But you'd still need an optical drive.

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.

If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

It’s trials w real punishments.