Exactly. It has nothing to do with operating a motor vehicle. It’s just about persecuting an already marginalized population.

Ground turkey tacos are a staple on Tuesday in our house.

AI absolutely CAN use that many datacenters. The amount of compute resources it demands for training is immense.
It’s being pushed so hard because all the billionaire business owners are throwing huge wads of money at AI services based on the wet dream that they can lay off most of their professional staff and replace them with AI agents. Because AI doesn’t ask for pay raises or health insurance. It really is that simple.

Yeah… best we can do is contempt of congress.

Asked for comment, a DHS spokesperson said Noem was simply relaying the claims of an air marshal. “What ‘fabrication’ of the story of the cannibal?” the spokesperson said. “She was told that story on a deportation flight by one of the air marshals.”

What’s the over/under on whether this marshal was just fucking with her?

“Hey Ted, what do you think is the craziest story we can get her to believe?”

Cynicism is warranted. If you also look at inflation/CPI, it held pretty firmly at 2.7% for the year. That puts a 3.3-3.4% increase in salaries and benefits in a bit more perspective. I’m not even sure that 2.7% figure is very realistic. The way they measure CPI is pretty outdated. There are a lot of services we consider necessary now that aren’t covered, and those things have been going up a lot in recent years. Just as an example, my cell carrier bill went up 14% last year. I’m looking at other options, but it’s just one example of a service provider that either increased prices or watered down their product to try and squeeze more profit out of us in recent years.

That probably depends on the company. Costco famously makes almost all of their operating profit on membership fees. Their margins on sales are razor thin, and in several notable cases (rotisserie chickens, hot dogs, etc) they actually sell at a loss because they refuse to raise prices in response to market conditions.

“Don’t worry, I’ll get this baby purring.”

I did read the article, and that’s true, but insurance companies have been using that as an excuse to drive up premiums at record rates for years now (and making very healthy profits as a result, no pun intended). In my state, the exchange prices went up an average of 21% this year due to the loss of ACA subsidies. It doesn’t help a lot to know that they are legally required to offer you coverage if you can’t afford to pay for it.

I’m in my early 50s. Over my life, I’ve been very diligent about saving, and I expect to have what I thought would be enough to retire in my 60s. But I’m looking at the cost of health care going forward and I’m very concerned that I won’t be able to afford it.

Well, in this case there’s no HOA. It’s the city zoning board that is causing all the problems.

He doesn’t really give a good timeline, but based on context that’s $300K in early 80s dollars. When median home prices were about $70K. Or about $1M in 2026 dollars. Dude worked so hard for so long, he managed to pay off that debt and two mortgages, but he still works so they don’t run out of money and have to go into debt again.

Except that the Republicans in congress have refused to allocate funding for ACA subsidies, which means this WILL happen again. This is a lesson from the past about the sort of outcomes we have to look forward to.

The Idaho Democratic Party now even sells these posters and has embraced the message as their cause — making clear that even if this message was not originally intended as political, it undeniably is now. A teacher’s claimed ignorance of political connections does not render illegal displays suddenly lawful.

Yeah, buddy. They became political because YOU made it political.

Social conservatives have shown, time and again, that they won’t stop at simply refusing treatment for themselves. They want to make sure that everyone lives according to their beliefs. They will, of course, claim they are protecting children.

Why is Hazel going to the gym? Not getting enough play time at home?

Yeah… this is one of the (many) problems with generative AI. It’s trained to produce an end product. It doesn’t know or care about the process of getting to that end product, or what happens next. It knows how to make bits and pieces of code that look and function like the code it was trained on. If the problem you’re trying to solve has already been solved hundreds or thousands of times, you’ll probably be fine. But that isn’t why software engineers get paid good money. We get paid because we’ve spent years learning lessons about the advantages and disadvantages of different solutions and when to use them. AI doesn’t know or care about that. At best, it just knows “make thing work.” Trying to maintain or change AI-generated code is nearly impossible because there’s no reason or logic to how it made the decisions it made. Whenever it made a decision it just did whatever was the most statistically likely thing. If you want to make a change, the easiest thing to do is just modify your prompt and let the AI regenerate the entire codebase from scratch.

I mean, yeah… You’re not a prophet. It has been there in the background for many years. I don’t think many of us realized it could become mainstream so quickly and with so little resistance. The problem now is that it’s just subtle enough that for anyone not paying close attention and educated enough (sadly a large portion of the population) they can scoff and claim they’re just being “patriotic.”

Oh noes! Somebody danced provocatively on TV!

Anyway… who are the men that were redacted out of the released Epstein files?

Solid advice.

But how many does it take?