This will finally help hold your respective Congresscritter more accountable, and it puts an important leash on federal agencies that have overreached.

This is not the end of the world as many are aruging here at Ars, nor does it mean an end to clean air and water. It also doesn't mean judges gain more power, as the dissent argues - again, it pushes Congress to be more explicit (read: careful, and deliberate) in its legislating.

Congress doesn't want this because it means that Congressional members will have to sign their names next to things which may be controversial and cannot duck behind broad, sweeping legislation that lacks definition.

We've allowed the bureaucratic state to become its own branch of government, and this will help return a much needed balance. It is not the end of the world.

Also to note that back is May Ohio was in the news adding Biden to November's ballot. (Ohio requirement deadline for making the ballot is two week before the Democratic convention.) Are there any other ballots that would be disrupted swapping Biden/Harris out of the ballot slot at a late date?

The refusal of professional car writer to say what needs to be said EVERY TIME--that a touchscreen should be ILLEGAL in any motor vehicle--is baffling.

These are not toys. This is not a video game. The people making these choices are idiots that have no business in the business.

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Just a PSA: in spite of From games looking like they don't have a save game function, they actually do save the current state when you exit the game. So you can stop playing at any time.

They just reset everything when you die, not when you exit because rl calls.

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Yeah, the autosaves are also super common. Pretty much everything you do saves immediately (so you can't nope out of the consequences of eg. attacking a merchant).

Bridges don't run Pi level hardware and software. They don't want Linux, keeping that up to date is far more work than an Arduino with no processes, and your C main() function gets called and that's it, boot completed. No CVSS, you can't do shit on them with 256 KB RAM.

Okay on modern platforms like EPS and other ARM boards there is more on the background like wifi / bt handling but asking those IoT vendors to go Linux is asking for security issues. And no frikken way they will allow third party code to run.

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Tear the stupid thing down. Walls don't work.View attachment 84306

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I'm on your side, but while this is very cute, it's also patronizing and has no numbers. Without them it's not the kind of thing that would convince people that already have an opinion.

If you're effectively telling someone they're dumb, at least back it up with numbers. Again, I'm against the wall (heh), but this isn't gonna help.

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DNC held a damage control conference call including the following tidbits:

• Biden has no plans to step down
• in a hypothetical scenario where Biden did step down, the campaign war chest would (mostly) go to Kamala Harris
• Harris likely end up as the nominee
• "some donors even asked about having their contributions refunded"

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jo...-keep-fighting-donors-alternatives-rcna159694

During a tense call with a group of about 40 of Biden’s top financial backers, campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez laid out what could and could not be done with the campaign’s infrastructure if Biden were to step aside while emphasizing throughout the call that he had no intention of doing so.​

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Most of the campaign’s significant war chest would fall to Vice President Kamala Harris, Chavez Rodriguez said, according to two people familiar with the discussion. Only a smaller pool of money would be kept by the Democratic National Committee.​

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As several donors posited what a participant derisively referred to as fanciful “West Wing”-type scenarios for replacing Biden, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., who joined for part of the call, emphasized that the process would be “messy” and predicted that Harris would ultimately end up as the nominee.​

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Don't forget the lessons of 2020: Harris had quite a large war chest then too, she was a good fundraiser. But things fell apart when she had to actually face the voters. When she dropped out of the race, without winning a single delegate, she was polling around 3% and had spent nearly all that money.

If the D's actually held a series of events to determine a winner, it's unlikely Harris would come out on top, despite any funding or initial name-recognition advantage. She's faced D primary voters before, and her performance was dismal. (And for those of you who seem to insist that she's popular with black voters just because she's black, remember that black voters are around 25% of the D primary voters and she was polling at 3% when she dropped out. )

All that said, it does seem like there's a lot of fear in the D inner circles about angering certain voters if Harris doesn't get special treatment. And it seems like there's a lot of fear in D inner circles, period, and that that fear may lead to paralysis rather than taking the kind of action that's needed. Not over yet though.

Two nights in a row I have had vivid dreams.
I can’t remember having dreams for over a decade now outside of the REALLY weird illness dreams I got during COVID. But it appears, from what I recall from these last two, I have a lot of anxiety about work.

CrystalCowboy said:

The good thing is that if you run out of pills, you can just lick your EV battery.

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You would have to chew it. Probably easier just to nibble on your phone.

Looks like the performance of the Riven remake is somewhat disappointing on M1 machines, with a Max pulling 30fps at 2560x1600 vs a 3080 getting 120fps at 3840x2160 with the same maxed settings. Pixel for pixel, that's something like an 8x difference in performance. I can understand it being half as good, maybe a bit worse, but 8x worse is insane. Is it just a bad port? Does the remake use ray tracing which isn't supported directly via hardware on the M1?

MechTechNz said:

If I remember correctly 2 thrusters failed in the second unmanned test, is there any reason they didn't keep that one on station, run two weeks of trials and find the issue then? Instead they called it at 5 days and reported it as a success. Im just surprised they are surprised that the thrusters are failing like last time

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There are people on this one. Changes a lot of things.

ferzerp said:

Now the seamless coop update needs to come out so that my friend and I can get back to our run where we had just killed Renalla.

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It now works with the dlc. Version number is 1.7.2. It does require that you remove the old version.

Looks like it is time for a constitutional convention again. The founding fathers grossly underestimated the corrupting levels of power they granted SCOTUS by effectively making them Royals.

Wheels Of Confusion said:

What real election interference looks like is what Trump et al. did. Not "natural born citizens casting votes."

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Non-natural citizens exist and can vote as well, FYI.

I have doubts about how this is being reported here:

"Strikingly, these tail prints come complete with scale impressions—at 300 million years old, they’re among the earliest scale impressions we have. This may seem small, but it shows us that some of the hardened skin structures necessary for our ancestors to survive on land had evolved much earlier than previously suspected." ... what?

This is in Permian already, amniotic eggs are already common etc, this isn't that particularly early, certainly not for "surviving on land" to be anything at all novel for vertebrates at the time. And why would scales be anything odd after the Carboniferous rainforest collapse, climate has dried up and presumably that's why the, loosely speaking, reptile-like amniotes have become dominant over their other, again loosely speaking amphibian-like, tetrapod cousins, some millions of years prior to this? Far from much earlier than suspected, isn't this in fact exactly when you'd expect scales to appear?

The abstract seems to be saying something completely different from this article's perspective:

"... still unresolved question of whether the ability to form corneous skin appendages is an apomorphy of a common ancestor of amphibians and amniotes or evolved independently in both groups. ... The traces can be unambiguously attributed to diadectids and are interpreted as the globally first evidence of horned scales in tetrapods close to the origin of amniotes.Taking hitherto little-noticed scaly skin impressions of lepospondyl stem amniotes from the early Permian of Germany into account, the possibility has to be considered that the evolutionary origin of epidermal scales deeply roots among anamniotes."

Soo, the key thing is that these are scales on a lepospondyl, not an amniote! Its not just the age of the trace, but who left it that suggest the origin of these reptilian scales might be even older than amniotic eggs, which IS kinda surprising! But it still makes sense as we're seeing it in a group that is pretty close to amniotes.

The deal, which is subject to regulatory approvals, would result in the breakup of Spirit, with some of the Kansas-based supplier's assets going to French planemaker Airbus(AIR.PA)

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I assume this is the factoring making A220 wings in Ireland and the A350 line(s) that I forget the location of — is Spirit currently building anything else major for Airbus?

e: should have searched first. https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/...rbus-enters-agreement-with-spirit-aerosystems

ColdWetDog said:

Serious question - what's an 'SUV' these days? In my archaic brain, that's something like a Ford Bronco or Toyota 4Runner. This ain't that by any stretch. It has more ground clearance than a Prius but not by a whole lot. 4 doors and a hatch. So, a hatchback? No. It is sort coupe like...

Gonna go see who is walking on my xeriscaping.

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Is the term crossover still used? Because this looks like one. I wonder if the chassis is a truck/SUV chassis or if it’s riding on a call chassis.

CHASSIS!

Many years ago I very nearly got hit in the eye by a bumblebee at 40mph - I was out on my motorbike and, in those days of wearing contact lenses, decided to flip my visor down as the wind was starting to dry out my lenses.
Two seconds later, I hit a bumblebee - I saw it coming towards me but didn't have time to duck. It hit my visor directly in front of my right eye (bumblebees make a big splat) and actually rocked my head back.

I'm sooo glad I put my visor down!

LizandreBZH said:

RN politicians and electors say they don't like Arabs/muslims and (too much) colored people.

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For now. Once they have enough power, I think that that “too much” will change. As will other criteria. It’s pretty inevitable.

josephandrews222 said:

And since a fish rots from the head, I have no expectation that anyone connected with the construction of the wall that 'Mexico will pay for'...gives a tinker's damn about science, either.

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So did the Mexicans pay yet? If not and if I were Trump's competitor, I'd make it one of my selling points. "This time the Mexicans really are going to pay for it". Would be fun to watch those fireworks. Beat the guy with his own tactics.

gregorerlich said:

We do that in the West, too. Lots of places have old fighters on a pedestal somewhere.

A neat list for my home province: https://www.airic.ca/html/onav.html

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oh, so its not just here.
i would like to note that they far better left with minimal maintenence (if any) than elmos monstrosity.

Le Monde just published some really good graphs showing the results for RN (brown), Macron's party (yellow) and NFP (pink).

• Solid colors mark where a candidate from a given party arrived in first place, with the color indicating the percentage.
• Stars mark where the candidates won in the first round.
• Hashed colors mark where a candidate arrived in 2nd.
• Circles mark where the candidate arrived in 3rd or 4th place, and qualified for the second round.

Some analysis:

• It's just scary in how many places the RN arrived in first place, and managed to win in the first round in their usual bastions (North and Southeast)
• Macron's party got a single spot in the first round, at least in the metropolitan France.
• The NFP got second place in several areas, and a lot of votes in the Parisian region.
• Results in Brittany (Northwest) and in the rural South-ish were way more evenly split than expected.

Golgo1 said:

Why do you assume this was on purpose?

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i do not assume that. i specifically stated "contamination" which is not intentional.

CalJake said:

The wack-a-mole you're describing is precisely what the Federal Analogue Drug Act was created for - addressing the availability of 'designer drugs.' This is one of the best examples of what it should cover. It shouldn't matter if it's known enough. The propionyl, butyryl, etc. psilocin derivatives would also dodge routine lab analysis and are lesser known than the acetyl analogue, but they would all still clearly be analogues of a Schedule 1 drug.

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fair. i'm not familiar with analysis methods used to detect analogues. are they specific for each of them or are there any nonspecific that would cover multiple ones? if we need to test for separately it seems like a sisyphus task since making new analogue would require additional test.