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Do such breaches make it trivial to lie to age and identity verification systems?

Merchant Marine Act of 1920 ("Jones Act") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920

Section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act is known as the Jones Act and deals with cabotage (coastwise trade). It requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried on ships that have been constructed in the United States and that fly the U.S. flag, are owned by U.S. citizens, and are crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents

Why did they make this accessibility hack necessary?

Where can authors sell books without such obnoxious and saboteurial obfuscation as intentionally using custom incompatible fonts that fail with screen readers?

Does Amazon intentionally stop users from reading books they've purchased aloud with TTS because they want you to buy the audiobook copy too?

And also back then we had Enron speculating on electricity while there were rolling blackouts even for hospitals in CA.

Tapes reveal Enron's secret role in California's power blackouts https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/feb/05/enron.usnew...

the energy corporation Enron shut down at least one power plant on false pretences, deliberately aggravating California's crippling 2001 blackouts with the aim of raising prices.

Rolling blackout : USA : CA 2000-2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_blackout

Enron scandal: 2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal

Iraq was 1% of global oil production prior to Bush-Cheney Iraq War II.

Why did global oil prices change so much post 2003?

2000s energy crisis / disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_energy_crisis

End of the crisis:

By the beginning of September 2008, prices had fallen to $110. OPEC [...]

World oil market chronology from 2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_oil_market_chronology_fr...

From the mid-1980s to September 2003: under $25/barrel.

  1998: $10
  2004: $40-$60. A series of events led the price to
  2005: $60
  2006: $75
  2007: $60-$99
  2008: $141.75

How did costs change over that time given efficiency growth year over year

Renewables are more lucrative with higher gas prices.

High gas prices typically lead to consumer price inflation and then prices never go back down.

How did Trump force platforms to allow him to harass and disrespect and incite, despite all of their TOS reserving right to ban such conduct?

"David Letterman Was DISGUSTED When Trump Showed His True Character" in re: to promoting professional boxing and boxers: https://youtube.com/watch?v=E9MB4CUraGc :

As soon as he gets out, he's going to fight in my casinos

These loans can be extremely risky because they're expensive: The national average annual percentage rate (APR) for a payday loan is almost 400 percent. That's over 20 times the average credit card interest rate.

And often, borrowers can't pay back the loan right away. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found that nearly 1 in 4 payday loans are re-borrowed nine times or more, while Pew found it generally takes borrowers roughly five months to pay off the loans — and costs them an average of $520 in finance charges. That's on top of the amount of the original loan.

500 + 520 = 1020

What were some of the things that Trump claimed right and need to use tariff funds on?

Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130 Billion in Tariffs https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/judge-orders-government-...

See also: "Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291406

They either win the election or get all their expenses refunded.

How would that work with something like the WH Press Secretary who has refused to give back some $350K in campaign donations (though currently FEC can't prosecute any campaign finance violations because they don't have a quorum because Trump has not nominated and confirmed enough FEC commissioners.)

That's like "South Park" S01E10 (1998);

Damien (South Park) - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_(South_Park) :

The majority of South Park's residents bet on Satan to win the match due to his enormous size and muscular physique, but Satan ultimately throws the fight and reveals he bet on Jesus, thus winning everybody's money.

With legal betting, it's literally impossible.

Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_v._National_Collegiate_... :

State of New Jersey, represented by Governor [Chris Christie], sought to have the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) overturned to allow state-sponsored sports betting.

How does Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association affect or affirm states' rights on cannabis regulation and legalization?

Wasn't Christie against Medicalization and Legalization?

IMO it's less fun to see scared gamblers at sporting events.

A quote from the film "Two for the Money":

"See, most gamblers, when they go to gamble, they go to win. When we go to gamble, we go to lose."

Recommended prayers for any faith: Devotional Field Book (MCRP 3-30D.2/6-12D)

non-commissioned officers were told that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that President Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” as originally reported by journalist Jonathan Larsen. Between Saturday and Tuesday afternoon, MRFF logged more than 200 similar complaints across 50 installations encompassing every branch of the military,

Following multiple public reports on the growing influence of prediction markets and their potential for corruption, Merkley and Klobuchar introduced the End Prediction Market Corruption Act — a new bill to ban the President, Vice President, Members of Congress, and other public officials from trading event contracts. The bill will ensure that federal elected officials maintain their oath of office to serve the people by preventing them from trading on information that they gained through their role.

Fusion - Frequently asked questions | International Atomic Energy Agency http://www.iaea.org/topics/energy/fusion/faqs :

Does Fusion produce radioactive nuclear waste the same way fission does?

Nuclear fission power plants have the disadvantage of generating unstable nuclei; some of these are radioactive for millions of years. Fusion on the other hand does not create any long-lived radioactive nuclear waste. A fusion reactor produces helium, which is an inert gas. It also produces and consumes tritium within the plant in a closed circuit. Tritium is radioactive (a beta emitter) but its half life is short. It is only used in low amounts so, unlike long-lived radioactive nuclei, it cannot produce any serious danger.

The activation of the reactor’s structural material by intense neutron fluxes is another issue. This strongly depends on what solution for blanket and other structures has been adopted, and its reduction is an important challenge for future fusion experiments.

And for a larger town in TN, this on GSA-granted land that was deeded/zoned airport-only:

oklo spent fuel reprocessing oak ridge https://www.google.com/search?q=oklo+spent+fuel+reprocessing...

Oak Ridge council votes to free up 'airport land' for nuclear company https://www.oakridger.com/story/news/local/2025/10/27/oak-ri...

More concern on nuclear fission in "Tennessee's terrible power choices" Tennessee Lookout https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/03/03/tennessees-terrible-...

Copenhagen Atomics' waste burner burns Thorium up. There's a video that explains that ~ One billiards ball of thorium covers all the energy that a person uses in their life

Thorium is lower cost and lower risk.

Waste burning is further along than what is being developed in East Tennessee, given an assessment of Copenhagen Atomics' published specs.

Recent administrations worked to develop strategic arms reduction agreements and limited expenditures on foreign conflict.

TIL that a foreign country being regime-changed this month has a 1% renewable energy mix

But for a small town in TN, all this

Accusation in a mirror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror

The United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention (OSAPG) defines mirror politics as a "common strategy to create divisions by fabricating events whereby a person accuses others of what he or she does or wants to do", and includes it as a factor in their Analysis Framework

The disclosures show that President Trump bought between $600,000 and $1.25 million worth of Netflix debt in January, adding to the $500,000 to $1 million in Netflix bonds that he purchased in December, shortly after Netflix’s megadeal for Warners was announced.

Those are not QBT assets.

Why would a country next have a 1% renewable energy mix?

"We want to be involved in the process of choosing the person who is going to lead Iran into the future," Trump said.

"We don't have to go back every five years and do this again and again ... Somebody that's going to be great for the people, great for the country

The US should be pushing for democratic elections. We don't like foreign non-interference in our own elections.

Foreign interference in US elections for Trump from the likes of Internet Research Agency (Putin, Prigozhin) and SCL Group / Cambridge Analytica (Bannon, Mercer, Nix, Oakes) is offensive.

United States involvement in regime change: 1952–1953: Iran [BP], 2026: Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

2025 United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_strikes_on_...

2026 Iran massacres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

2026 Iran conflict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_conflict

Could add: Civilian casualty ratio by party

(Civilian casualty ratios in recent conflicts and declared wars)

And thus an institution like a church or a state must track family trees.

But isn't it unjust to by design persecute by genetically damning the lineage of the victims of

Royal intermarriage > Inbreeding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_intermarriage#Inbreeding

"What if they're cousins instead"

Why hasn't God controls for ignorance of blood relation and conception?

In its first chapter, the Christian Bible suggests that we are all incestuous descendents of Adam and Eve and their children.

"You are all inferior"

Is God benevolent if there is accidental conception by incest, and it genetically damns the sinless child and multiple generations of their progeny by design?

Anything closer than first cousins risks the health of the child.

Is Trump still goading OpenAI into transferring SOTA AI to middle eastern countries that do not regard Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion as values and rights?

OpenAI was founded as an ethical AI research nonprofit organization.

Isn't it possible to jam and deny with any remote auth dependency?

Recently after we spent hours getting a Chromebook set up after a "Power Wash" due to remote auth failure, it wanted the old password and there was no option but to wipe the device.

They held our homedir hostage with required remote auth.

We were not able to log into our computer and lost all of our data because of remote auth.

Secure critical systems must not have a centralized remote auth dependency that can be denied.