finaljedi

I don't possibly see how they could have failed more than they did. If they ever make SWAT 5 is it going to be a series of missions where you use an MRAP to tear down the trailer wall of an emaciated crackhead who can barely stand and one where you spend an hour outside a locked door during an active shooter event?

The Democrats don't seem to give a shit about passing anything meaningful. Yeah they could propose bills every damned day, they could force cloture votes on every partisan piece of legislation the Republicans support to try and force them to the table. Or I guess I could just get another 5 emails asking if I've seen what Kevin McCarthy is up to and how they need to replenish their fast response fund. Then the Republicans get to move on and go back to talking about how Biden raising gas prices right around the time these parents are burying their kids and we start the clock counting down to the next time this happens.

I always find it depressing when powerful politicians ask when someone will do something about something. It's like hey, that's you, you can do something, I can't, I can just vote for you. It's like those shitty fundraising emails where Democrats are whining about losing their majority, it would be nice if they did something with it.

This just made me think of the "ten word answer" bit in The West Wing. I feel like the Republicans are in it to win and the Democrats are stuck trying to make a long dead and increasingly irrelevant TV show real. It was a well done show, but the America in that show was on an alien planet.

I think if Trump had come out swinging regarding the pandemic from the start then the chuds would have fallen in line. But he downplayed it, blamed liberal media, the whole thing and the downstream Republicans took that and ran with it. He had another moment to pivot to taking it seriously when he got sick, he was clearly scared, but after he didn't drop dead he used that to say it's no big deal once again. No putting that toothpaste back in the tube

He'd have gone on tour for 2 years talking about how he got the vaccine and cured the country and you'd get millions of hicks yelling about how he needs to be President for life after that.

Fortune favors the brave. edit: Also I feel like crypto bros have been harping about the immutability of the blockchain, shouldn't reversing any trade be impossible?

Anyone who had a coiner tell them "have fun staying poor" has probably been in heaven from the schadenfreude

I wonder what the percentage of wash selling made up all the NFT transactions.

I think an easy illustration is when you think back to your favorite teachers it wasn't the ones who read from the textbook and assigned the end of unit quiz. It was the ones where you felt a connection and that usually comes when they leave a piece of themselves out there for everyone to also know and experience. I had a long term sub science teacher once in like the 7th grade I think who was wearing a necklace with a medallion, I said that looked like a Buddha or something, she said it was and that she was Buddhist, the class got interested and she discussed that for that period, it didn't have anything to do with science, but wasn't bad. This weird notion now that class needs to be sanitized of anything personal related to the teachers doesn't reflect the reality that anyone complaining about it grew up in. It's just teachers couldn't discuss a non-heteronormative lifestyle back then and there are people now who really wish it was still like that because that makes them uncomfortable.

After the leaked Roe opinion, Justice Thomas says the Supreme Court can't be 'bullied' WWW.NPR.ORG Chief Justice John Roberts, speaking at the same judicial conference as Thomas, called the leak of a draft opinion striking down Roe v. Wade earlier this week "absolutely appalling." I guess he's right, the Supreme Court can't be bullied, they're the one branch of government who isn't really accountable to anyone. They can lie in their confirmation and it's fine.

The Republican primary got a lot more press and was a little more contentious. The Democratic nomination was going to be Tim Ryan and that's that. The Republican was the fairweather MAGA grifter vs the right wing loon.

Of course they hate "the squad", senior Democrat leadership has no plans at all for the future, just holding on to what they have now.

The funny thing is Mandel is a true believer that's been at the loopy right wing shit for years longer than Trump has been on the scene and Vance is some sort of MAGA carpetbagger who Trump endorsed because he's sort of a celebrity.

edit: Fuck me, got beat by a minute, it still fits and it's a message so nice it's worth saying twice

Yeah, Amazon kind of turned itself into this weird hell hole to buy most things. You search for something basic and get a shitload of brands that are just Scrabble letters pulled from a bag each with 4000 5 star reviews and 50 1 star reviews.

Pretty much. It's solvable, but the solution will be expensive for them and probably inconvenient for the police departments and other orgs that use this data. 2 factor authentication, like two people per police department who have access who have to be verified at the time of request. But I'm guessing some project managers sold it as cheap, easy, and good for PR by saving lives in imminent danger.

It seems largely to be a process issue, and yeah the weak human element. They have processes set up to process emergency requests for info from police departments without a court order. This relies on the police department accounts not being compromised and I'm guessing the people handling whatever queues they feed into don't have the capacity to do much in the way of verification.

Data in general being held and moved by large corporations is just a giant clusterfuck. I didn't realize it until I pivoted into working EDI feeds for large carriers how much no one keeps track of what they have or how it moves. That's just a narrow piece of the benefits side. I think there was an article in the Discord about how Meta has no idea at all how data flows or who gets it on their own fucking platforms and how compliance with GDPR is simply not possible. There are also pretty much no protections once you get access. The big Anthem hack back in 2015 or whatever, they phished a database admin's account login credentials and used that to extract like 65 million people's information, and it took them a month to catch it. Cool they're relying on police departments to practice good infosec. They either have the password literally posted everywhere on notes, if the city IT guy wouldn't budge on making a secure password, or it's something like "spurburypolice123"

Mexican food, it made it all worth while.

Probably Ron DeSantis. My own prediction is Trump will screw up 2024 for the Republicans and they'll get the White House in 2028. It's probably as good as we're going to get. Government is broken and I don't have much faith in real reform happening. DACA being pushed out 5 more years is nice though, a path to citizenship is what they really need, but again, broken.

I don't think they're so distinct. Their current debt is a symptom of the problem of the cost of higher education and I guess I have a problem separating the underlying cause from the current ongoing symptom. In 5 or 6 years when the student debt racks up again for a whole new generation we'll be right back here without some reform packaged with it. Also I don't want to seem like I'm jealous or whatever of people getting their loans forgiven. My finances are fine and my only large-ish debt is a Mazda 3 I bought right before the pandemic meant I don't need to use it as much. I'll never have a problem with the taxes I pay going towards helping people.

The point is the cost of higher education has blown up and the debt accrued hangs around these people's neck's for years. I get that you're going to disappoint some people in that there are people who payed off student loans who won't be able to take advantage of the forgiveness, and that's fine, that's unavoidable. But it's not free money, it's being paid off by the people who will start going to college after who are going to get saddled with huge debt themselves with no real plan for them as they're facing what is probably the continued rise in cost of higher education. I'm fine with student debt forgiveness, but I feel like it needs to be packaged with reform. Free community college, maybe significant help paying off 4 year year degree from a state school.

My question is still what happens next? Forgiving student debt without a plan for the people who accrue that debt in the future isn't the best plan. Forgiving student debt as a one off is a real bummer if you're in high school right now.