This video is exactly why I am in favor of voting booths over mail-in ballots.

If you are unable to vote in person, then voting should be easy to do early. But we should try hard to get people into the voting booth.

Don’t you mean 5/7?

I don’t see much negatively. But I use lemmynsfw.

Warning: Taken from decades-old memories of things that I wasn’t involved in or paying much attention to! Anyway…

In Virginia a man sued the state like 30 years ago because they wanted to charge him to change his name, when a woman could change her name free when she got married. The state could either have charged women or made it free for all. They chose the later.

In the Netherlands a number of cities were banning fossil fuel for deliveries in the city. It was in planning for years, easing into implementation.

Our new government just scrapped all of those plans because the largest party doesn’t believe in climate change, and another party in the coalition is the “farmer’s movement” party and opposes environmental regulations.

😢

I work at a company big into AI. We build our own models. Our senior management drank the Kool-Aid. We don’t have search on our Intranet any more, just LLM chatbots.

Our TLS certificate expired last week on our main web page. I tried to find the contact details for the team responsible and the thing just hallucinated e-mail addresses.

Needless to say, I’m less excited than you.

I mean… if something is illegal but the penalties are low or enforcement nonexistent then it’s more like a recommendation. Fines become a “cost of doing business”.

I totally agree. In Holland we have woon corporaties, literally “companies for places to live”. Of course, these have struggled in the face of decades of center right, pro-business governmental policies.

Meh. I had much better luck with corporations than private landlords. The people working for corporations generally want to do a good job and keep people happy. Owners want to minimize costs and invade your privacy to make sure you aren’t causing too much wear and tear, since that’s money otherwise going in their pocket.

Both will end up with shitty carpet and cheap appliances, of course.

UK intentionally omitted from consideration.

The only nukes actually owned by a European country are French, which just disregarded the winners of the election and are ruled by a center right/fascist coalition. We’re fucked.

According to the Forbes article she later received a postcard in 1993, not that the groping occurred in 1993.

There are infinite prime numbers. This has been known for thousands of years. You can find numerous proofs of this online, and go through them until one makes sense to you.

Also, quantum computers are on track to make division-based cryptography useless in the next decade or two. (Note that this only affects public key cryptography, and not shared key cryptography. So your online backups should be safe as long as you have a password for them.)

Jerry: “Aren’t you going to see what the message is?”

George: “Nah.”

Kramer: “Why not? It could be important!”

Jerry: “It’s not like you to ignore a message…”

George: “Okay, okay! I’ll tell you. I was sitting at home.”

Jerry: “Doing what?”

George: “Nothing.”

Kramer: “Oh yeah! I love doing nothing! I love it!”

Jerry: “Nothing? Sounds boring.”

George: “Spoken like an amateur. I have it down to an art.”

Kramer: “We should compare notes!”

Jerry: “Anyway, then what happened?”

George: “I get a text from this girl I had lunch with.”

Jerry: “Lunch? Like a date? A” lunch date?"

George: “I don’t know, I don’t know! How can you know? Who suggests lunch when someone asks them out? I don’t know, but she did!”

Kramer: “Yikes!”

Jerry: “Okay, so you get this text message.”

George: “That’s right.”

Jerry: “From the lunch maybe date maybe not woman.”

George: “That’s right.”

Jerry: “What does it say?”

George: “What are you doing?”

Jerry: “I’m asking what the message said!”

George: “I know! The message said, ‘What are you doing?’”

Jerry: “Ooooo. Okay. And?”

George: “So I sent her a reply, that said ‘nothing’.”

Kramer: “Classic mistake.”

George: “Well I wish I had known! How am I supposed to know?!”

Jerry: “I don’t get it. What’s the mistake?”

George: “After I told her that I wasn’t doing anything, she called me!”

Jerry: “On the phone? What for?”

George: “To talk!”

Jerry: “About what?”

George: “Nothing! I wanted to do nothing, not talk about nothing!”

Kramer: “You got yourself a phone talker.”

George: “A phone talker!”

Jerry: “Seems like it. So what are you going to do?”

George: “What can I do? I’m going to have to tell her talking on the phone causes me migraines. It’s the only way…”

Kramer and George leave. Jerry sees a message from Elaine that says, “What are you doing?” He puts the phone down.

If a company has a lot of money in assets and those assets are worth less than before, the valuation of the company drops. This should mean lower share prices, which is basically the only thing a company cares about.

Will you please explain this?

I feel like I understand each sentence but not why you put them together.

Is this fictional? I thought that this was actually true from the Social Union in WWII. Maybe in the battle of Stalingrad?

I think it’s an oversimplification to say that it was never enforced:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam

By the way, my tinfoil hat uses Arch Linux.

EDIT: now I see that I’ve just repeated the same joke that someone already made better in a different post. Leaving my post up for posterity so I remember my shame.

Except that a recent study shows that a plastic bag charge in the UK significantly changed behaviors:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00266/full

So the suggestion that people are unchangeable is plausible, but turns out to not be true.