He’s not a politician. He’s a career spook.

It appears to be in sleep mode to conserve battery life.

I’m reading the full text of the bill, and midribbon_Action is correct. It says nothing about legally validating a user’s age. It just says that an OS must offer a way to input a DOB or age during account creation, and a way to provide info to a requesting service provider about whether the current user is a minor or not based on the provided information. Nowhere does it say that the OS provider must validate the information.

This is basically the same as a web site asking you if you’re 18 or older before letting you in, except the OS will be answering for you. Ostensibly so that a parent can set up their child’s account on the device with their actual age. But realistically this doesn’t do anything you couldn’t do with parental controls that are already available in every modern OS.

I’m not sure any of the teams will be safe here. ICE might pick them up in a sweep and deport them. “What’s that? You’re here to play football? Who do you play for, the Cowboys? Bullshit, we’re sending you home, amigo.”

One thing you need to understand about chain restaurants is that they are not all micromanaged by a central corporation. They are franchises. Usually, a franchisee pays for a license and owns one or more stores in a region. They have certain standards they need to meet to fulfill their franchise requirements, but small day-to-day decisions about how to run the store are up to them. Chili’s corporate might espouse all those values they list in their talking points (though I’ve personally seen companies turn their values on a dime when they think it is hurting their bottom-line). But they probably have very limited, if any direct input on hiring/firing decisions at a single restaurant. At most, they might step in and pressure the franchise owner to reverse this decision if they think it hurts the brand image.

People will always pay if they can afford it and there are no other options. That doesn’t make it okay for them to form a monopoly.

That’s certainly a threat to my waistline.

they’ve been Republican for well over two decades.

That’s not entirely true. At least when it comes to presidential elections, Florida has been a swing state for the last two decades. They went for Obama in 2008 and 2012.

He isn’t claiming they aren’t dead. He’s claiming that it isn’t worth reporting.

Decide for yourself which is worse.

She still has to finish out her current term in the House of Representatives. She just won’t be continuing her run for the Senate. I don’t think she can run for re-election to the House now, since she would have to take the place of Frederick Haynes, who won the primary for her seat. If she wants to run for another position in the fall, it would likely be something at the state level.

“Well, because it happened all very quickly. We thought, and I thought, maybe more so than most, I could ask Marco [Rubio], but I thought we were going to have a situation where we were going to be attacked,” Trump said, going off on a tangent about Iran attacking countries around the region.

So… he revealed (again) that he’s an incompetent leader who takes drastic action based on limited/bad information?

Primary elections are where a political party selects their candidate to run in the general election in the fall. Jasmine Crockett will not be on the ballot as a representative of the Democrat party. She could still run in the general, but it would be for a different party or, if Texas allows it, an independent. Some people do that, but it’s usually considered a real dick move, as it tends to split the vote and make it more likely for the opposing party to win. It’s basically a good way to end your political career for good.

They basically handed him the primary via Streisand Effect.

The voters approved a bracketed state income tax back in the day, but a lawsuit from it basically said “income is property.”

The state supreme court overturned that ruling in 2023, though. Income is now considered a transaction of property, so an income tax is no longer a tax on the property itself, but the transaction thereof.

The 1930 statute states that we can’t have a “graduated tax on property”. Since then, it has been accepted that income/money was part of that property definition. If that were the case, then any income tax would have to be a flat percentage for everyone. The state supreme court overturned that in 2023 when we instituted a state capital gains tax. Their new ruling is that a tax on the transaction of goods or capital does not constitute a tax on ownership of same. That means income is taxable at variable rates now.

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?”