James

This being a stupid idea in the first place aside, why are we only working to arm them *now*?

If this is the plan, shouldn’t the arms already be there??

I get that. I also imagine a lot of them wanted to give the military the 3.8% raise included in the budget, among other things, because bills are always extremely complex with lots of pieces good and bad. And no matter how you vote someone will use a piece as a hit against you next election

I wish everything were as simple as you make it out:

roughly half of Democrats voted for it 115-94

"Rep. Adam Smith (D) said the NDAA has a little something for almost everyone in Congress to both love and hate but that, on balance, it is a strong positive for U.S. national security."

It's a problem, but I'm not sure how to fix it. The ability to hold a policy debate or court hearing hasn't gotten much faster, but now it takes literally a second to tell someone on the other side of the planet to start a war

It may be most people can separate them, but 'most' isn't 'all' and it only takes one person to ruin dozens of people's lives. That's why it's bad for diaspora Jews.

And this isn't theoretical, we've seen a resurgence of attacks on Jews in America and elsewhere as a result of this conflation

It appears that PS was a joke, and the professor actually wrote it all. This is based on the replies where someone asked an AI if a human wrote it (lol, what a world), and a PPS by the professor saying it was a double feint

I will not be investigating any further energy into this.

Inflaming antisemitism. Ain’t complicated

That’s a good point, but I was trying to avoid all of the hand wringing over subjective “what that enough of an obstruction on the keeper to call a foul” or worse yet “was that inside or outside the 6yd box? Let’s go to VAR”

My other idea is setting a cap on the players per team allowed in the box, and making everyone else stand outside (a la penalty kicks) until the ball is touched.

Hoping the distance from the 6-yd box makes it easier/less important to enforce encroachment. Not a big deal if a toe is over the line

That’s much more a US specific political question, and not an internationally agreed upon ‘rule of war’ like no chemical weapons.

A mid to low level soldier/officer can’t make that determination individually. At best only the very top generals (who know the full scope of the plans) could refuse.

The real reason is that soldiers are taught bright red lines they aren’t allowed to cross, such as killing civilians. And there’s a long, international history around defining who is and isn’t a civilian.

Whereas the line between a military operation unconstitutional “war” is very vague.

"But why can't Dems pass anything when they have the majority?"

Problem is if you limit big leagues to fewer teams, then the games become less interesting as the few top teams will have even worse opponents

The party is just a collection of individuals

They are capitalizing on it at every election until at least November, and likely 2028

Sure, sure.

What did you love about the Dem party 60 years ago?

Some people have long had parents or friends willing to help, and LLMs could be replacing that w/o outright cheating

I loved helping my HS classmates with their math homework, trying my best to explain the process and reframe the lesson w/o giving answer, and others did it for me in college!

You are right. Tho survey doesn't ask if/how many students are fully cheating (e.g. AI does all the work). I'm sure some are, but I can see AI legitimately 'helping'

e.g. research or summarizing *could* be akin to googling or wikipedia. help in math could be teaching the method, or checking answers

Are we sure this isn’t a tide pod trend that isn’t real?

The emergency tariff law Trump used required a congressional vote within 15 calendar days.

So the GOP added language to a budget bill that all of 2025 counted as a single day, thereby avoiding the need to take a vote

I imagine they’d do the same here.

barack obama is giving a speech in front of microphones and says yes we can ALT: barack obama is giving a speech in front of microphones and says yes we can

Can we make “malarkey” happen?

"This is a big fucking deal"

Biden was only VP at the time, but I think we can count it?

Although my favorite may be "We did it Joe, we did it"

Right, but I'm assuming the player's remaining amortization will have some impact on the fee another team is willing to pay, if only indirectly via impacting the transfer the current team will demand?

I may be way off from reality but that's what I would expect!

For sure! But *surely* the professional agents have some understanding of amortization cost and how that impact's club finances, so I kinda expect it would be a factor during negotiations, even if not a major one?

Or is it all backgrounded by indirectly lowering transfer threats?

I know players don’t think this way, but Enzo and Caicedo are already 2 of Chelsea’s 3 most expensive players, while James is ~9th with Palmer and Garnacho once you include amortization costs.

James’ wages could go up significantly and still be well within the total cost range of the others.

It’s a very brief article and not addressed, but says it’s part of an investigation into misconduct by the Labor Sec. maybe his presence is part of the misconduct?

No. ideological here means consistent and uniform, the tariffs are an example of ideological because the whole party is adopting it.

In the past you’d have regional variations in party ideology, now it’s extremely national.

XCOM had a form of this at lower difficulty levels, including a hidden factor that decreased your odds of missing consecutive shots and aliens hitting multiple shots in a row.

At the lowest level there may have even been a floor on hit chance