Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@ct_bergstrom

A couple of years ago we would occasionally toss snacks (toasted walnut pieces, unsalted peanuts in the shell) for them on our walks. We stopped for reasons I won't go into.

But they haven't forgotten, they still fly right up and land right next to us, sometimes swooping overhead close enough to feel the rush of air. I'm trying to teach them the waggly-fingered "empty hand no snacks" gesture.

Now that a 20-year NDA has expired, one of the original producers of The Apprentice exposes every step of how they concealed the real character of Donald Trump and created a new public persona for him -- one that almost certainly made it possible for him to run for President and win. It's every bit as bad as you might imagine.

https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/donald-trump-news-2024-trial-verdict-apprentice.html

@w7voa They'll need grounds. And given how crappy his lawyers are, the only way it'll be granted is if they get a Trump appointee for a judge.

@JamesGleick

Also, do they take into account a guy outside the courthouse wearing a fur vest and a horned helmet shouting "Soros bought the jury"?

@zackwhittaker

For some reason I keep thinking of Iraq War refrains like "I beleive The Surge is working! Don't you believe The Surge is working?" By the time intelligence gets as far as congress it's been bowdlerized into whatever article of faith they want to hear.

@buherator

They didn't leave any room in 2.10 for

79x FFS server using cloudflare god help us

@dshan @fesshole

It's a rehash of an old gag.

@jmaris Speaking as someone who's actually tried to use things like ChatGPT to speed up coding simple and relatively obvious tasks, it's ridiculously obvious that it's trained substantially on StackExchange, without even the to ability to distinguish the problem code from the solution code -- where the latter is even present -- nor bad answers from good ones -- ditto.

@Newmy I strongly suggest not touching that shaped foam speaker covering. While it'll probably be somewhat preserved by never being unpacked and exposed to light, it's nevertheless almost certainly brittle by now and might crumble and disintegrate with any handling.

(Yes, I once had speakers of that era with that kind of facing. And that was in fact their fate, after a lot less than 40 years.)

@Kencf618033 @randahl @w7voa

(Now if they just implemented self-tip-the-valet, there'd be no need for a driver at all.)

@Kencf618033 @randahl @w7voa

Clearly he not only had self-drive enabled, but also self-park and self-read-traffic-control-signs as well.

@randahl @w7voa

Base on my intimate personal knowledge of an embarrassingly large number of Tesla owners, I still think the problem isn't so much with its self-driving technology as with the sort of people who would use it, and when.

@bruces

I'm reminded of the Bloater Drive from "Bill, The Galactic Hero"

@MorganV @rbreich

The Constitution says almost nothing about the how the Supreme Court should be constituted or even how its members be selected, only that we should have one. I don't see how any of its language precludes it sitting with existing higher court judges on the bench on a per-session basis.

Hell, at least that'd guarantee they'd be real judges, unlike the attempted Bork or for that matter Amy Barrett.

@rbreich

The Supreme Court should probably be reconstituted as a subset of all current circuit court judges, 11 of whom are selected at random to sit for a given session.