John B

I agree people have that ability. What I think varies is how often they choose to really exercise it, with that sweet bias-confirmation playing on the next channel over, saying relax and don't make hard choices.
"After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?" (Bilbo, LotR)

Feels like there has always been an uneasy tension between "genuinely newsworthy" and "reliably profitable" and that has become even more obvious now than it previously was.

Welcome to 2026! Here is a "new-normal" work email:
"Update your emergency contact information in ADP (re: CA SB 294, eff. 2/1/2026). Employees can designate and update emergency contacts. Indicate if those contacts should be notified if you are arrested or detained at work."

To a lot of people, it does seem fairly clear. The unclear part might be if the goal is enough unrest for the SCOTUS to permit full military control?

Why are the alleged federal officials unwilling to put their name to this claim? What can be alleged without evidence or examination, may be dismissed likewise.

"And yet..." if you have enough cartoon assets, you can borrow real money against them, and the ultra-wealthy can do so until they die. Not a cartoon. smartasset.com/investing/bu...

If you have a lot of money, you are in a position to make a lot more money. But is there some extreme point beyond which this looks less like a meritocracy, and more like a feudal system?

Nice if Musk could define exactly what he means by radical left. Is there a moderate left, does that exist in his mind? Is there a moderate right, and a radical right? Does he have sole naming rights on all of them?

The $1.8B number is misleading, not a cash value. Relies on investment income from maybe $800M now, which came from over 1 billion tickets sold, and virtually all buyers get $0.

I asked if LLMs losing focus after a thread of work had run on a while, was like humans needing sleep.
Chat: "...for LLMs, _you_ are the garbage collector."
Truer words were never printed, chat.

"impermissible and factually inaccurate". I anticipate this will be the historical judgement on the collected works of this administration.

By that point, they're in the water trying to survive, and that alone means death? Does this administration listen to itself?

Hegseth: "This is called the fog of war."
Conventional wisdom: "Truth is the first casualty of..."

It isn't legally a war, either. But if we insist it is, how about the other phrase: "truth is the first casualty of..."?

There's the uncertainty of a battlefield where more than one group is shooting. Then, there is strategic misinformation. The parties directing both armed conflicts and crimes have motivations, when providing information.

I wonder if Congress can distinguish the "fog of war" from the "fog of Hegseth".

Who among us has not read or seen this story?

Would it be raining on this parade to recall today's full pardon of Mr. Juan Orlando Hernández, "at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world”, already tried and convicted in the US?

Lovely image- same to you! I look forward to a time when every public figure feels such a day is suitable to share a positive message of goodwill to all.

Certainly gaslighting but also: it was not just generic stuff, but less stuff in total. The actual 2024 list is now more expensive in 2025, as every shopper knows. That is the main point.

Witkoff:
1. Wrote plan of Russian demands & coached top Kremlin aide.
2. His 28 points favor Russian land + security over Ukraine’s.
3. Long ties to Russian money & sidelining pro-Ukraine officials.

That's another good point. All this was a reaction to the initial bogus claim about a so-called "Thanksgiving Dinner" as packaged by Walmart being cheaper in 2025 vs 2024 as if it was an apples-to-apples comparison.

As if. They do not seem to be trying very hard.

(to elaborate: there were two main HS groups, headed for college, or not. AFAIK very few of the HS smokers were planning to go to college. That was highly correlated with whether their parents did, and their job categories.)

Very interesting data! I wonder if "smokes" is more tightly correlated with other health-significant habits in the US, than it is in other countries generally? In my HS there was a group of kids who smoked during lunch, and they were also otherwise demographically distinct.

With nearly half a year of data, a histogram of car speeds past my house shows a slightly non-gaussian shape. I labelled the residuals according to my guess about driver thinking.

If it was legal, it would break from all prior U.S. legal doctrine since 1945, and arguably since the 1793 Neutrality Act and 1973 War Powers Resolution. There is no reasonable claim within current law that it is.

Pretty sure that publicity got a lot of people to check the records, and YouTube, and see for themselves. Quite effective I think!

"Fury said to a mouse that he met in the house, 'Let us both go to law: I will prosecute you. Come, I'll take no denial: we must have a trial: for really this morning I've nothing to do.' (Lewis Carroll)

Over 900 Protesters Turn Out for 'No Kings' Rally in Twisp Despite Cold Weather - Methow Valley Examiner About 940 protesters attended the 'No Kings' rally in Twisp on Saturday, which went peacefully.

The event in Twisp WA at 940 people reached 85% of the town's whole population (1100), not counting tourists and surrounding area. Yet Okanogan county leans Republican. mvexaminer.com/methow-news/...