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This sentence is a lie.
I was going to say feng shui, but the handful of times I've seen it brought up in the context of food plating the whole point was harmony and balance . . .
Having food askew is probably messing with the eater's qi.
What sort of issues are you thinking?
Plenty of defense contractors with classified projects are already publicly listed, so this is not uncharted territory.
Lockhead Martin for example: https://investors.lockheedmartin.com/news-releases/news-rele...
Gives this level of detail:
Aeronautics classified program losses $(950)
MFC classified program losses -
It seems very safe from a national security perspective.
I suspect that too, and the US is not the only country to be having issues with some of the citizenship by investment countries.
Norway for example, appears to have de-facto banned 5 countries (all on the list) that have such programs: https://www.imidaily.com/europe/confirmed-norway-quietly-den...
Their justification is interesting too, because if the threshold is "citizenship must require personal attendance", then Canadian citizenship is almost certainly invalid too if you obtained yours over Zoom, which is how most new Canadians obtain it.
Boil them, mash them, stick'em in a stew.
n = 1, but if we get UBI, I will immediately start a precious metals brokerage business.
The Executive Order has now been published:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/rest...
If you don't want to read the pre-amble, you can skip straight to the second "Accordingly" to see the details.
Also worth thinking about inflation with this one.
The $10,000 figure originated with the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act[1]. Back then, that was a lot of money.
If it had kept up with plain old vanilla government-reported inflation, the number would be closer to $83,000 today[2].
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[1] https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-and-regulations/ba...
[2] https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=1...
It does, but almost all the major platforms/companies are members of NetChoice, a trade organization that fights this sort of thing. This presser from Bluesky doesn't mention it, but the case is "NetChoice vs Mississippi", so that's how involved they are to this.
Here's their write up on the Mississippi case: https://netchoice.org/netchoice-v-fitch-mississippi/
And obligatory Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetChoice
What method are you using to predict what future governments won't find offensive/illegal?
Short of time travel, this seems impossible.
Polls were also showing the Liberals would be wiped out - possibly not even the opposition party - and Conservatives would form a super majority.
Which is why it's important to remember that polls are a moment in time and the circumstances of that moment.
One divisive comment from Carney or his cabinet. One Trump truth. One more set of tariffs. That's all it takes for a 20% swing in polling that already shows that shows that 36% of Albertans are for leaving[1].
Also worth adding that everyone is sleeping on Saskatchewan which is crucially important to Canada, even more ignored by the Liberals than Alberta, and just as likely to leave.
Saskatchewan is also suffering China's tariffs on Canada, which Carney has not ever responded to and ignores almost as much as he ignores Saskatchewan itself[2].
[1] https://angusreid.org/referendum-alberta-saskatchewan-smith-...
[2] https://www.rbc.com/en/thought-leadership/the-trade-hub/food...
Yes, it's very much anathema to put ketchup on a hot dog, at least among Chicago hot dog enthusiasts.
For those unfamiliar, Chicago is also one of those American cities with its own style hotdog, so it's something of the local culture:
All-beef frankfurter, on a steamed poppy seed bun, topped with yellow mustard, chopped white onions, bright green sweet pickle relish, a dill pickle spear, tomato slices, and a dash of celery salt.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago-style_hot_dog
Obviously, this is only as serious as you take hot dogs, but they are very good and compared to deep-dish pizza, the Chicago-style hot dog feels almost healthy.
It's also quite telling that this gets attention and rampant cries about the oligarchy and cronyism, but not a peep about:
New York state lawmakers have launched an effort to shut down Tesla’s stores in the state
From: https://electrek.co/2025/04/28/ny-lawmakers-shut-down-teslas...
WA Legislature considers new tax aimed at Elon Musk’s Tesla
From: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-legisl...
"For my friends? Anything! For my enemies? The law [and new taxes]!"
Just the participant, a tall deck of blank IBM punch cards, and a punch. None of that fancy punch card machinery either.
Return to tradition[1].
Don't forget the third option: false flag.
The objective may not have been to obtain access or any useful data. The objective may have been to get the scary headlines about Russians and use the existing media and political agitprop to further destabilize the government you seek to color revolution away.
Also for anyone interested, some of Flight Director Gene Kranz's recordings are available online. Here's the first part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWfnY9cRXO4
The comments have time stamps for some particularly interesting moments, but the incident occurs 8 minutes in, and the infamous "Houston, we've had a problem" remark happens at 9:20.
The blog post talked about how everything had to be communicated verbally because you could not share images, but since we're so used to Hollywood adaptions or documentaries, I find the recordings really drive the point home.
I enjoyed reading your post on Startup News. ;)
This is the interview this article references. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6DiMIJIvYw
I've watched it. I think this is a somewhat dishonest characterization, but you can listen to the specific part at 14:35: https://youtu.be/T6DiMIJIvYw?si=1ijmgtI0kbhOWPuM&t=875
On the same topic, earlier in the interview Musk also references 20 million deceased people who apparently still receive benefits.
What do you make of something like Reddit (RDDT, down -15% at this moment)?
It's unaffected by tariffs, but its insane valuation is driven by the narrative that Reddit posts can be used to train AI. Without that narrative, you have a semi-toxic collection of forums and the valuation would probably be somewhere in the millions at best, not the current $20 BB.
That's certainly one take, but I suspect historians will actually link the beginning of this trend to the European/Western reactions to Russia in February of 2022.
It could be framed as "cancel culture overruled the courts". The second Putin became the "literally Hitler" of the moment well anything could be done - even things they didn't do when actual Hitler was around.
This meant extra-judicial seizures including "preventive" seizures. No law was broken or sanction placed yet, but they're going to seize your assets now and figure out how to make it "legal" later on.
Even the Swiss - neutral during WW2 - abandoned over two centuries of neutrality and went along with the EU in this.
The message these countries sent was clear: if you ever oppose us, rule of law will not protect you.
The American Sunlight Project which coined the term "AI grooming" and is the reference for this article should be familiar to many:
The American Sunlight Project is a left-of-center organization that seeks to counter what it considers “disinformation” online.
Founded in 2024 by former Biden administration “disinformation czar” Nina Jankowicz, the organization supports President Joe Biden’s claim that modern people live in the age of disinformation, advances the idea that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to benefit then-Republican candidate Donald Trump, and conducts open-source investigations to undermine those who challenge disinformation researchers.
From: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-sunlight-...
The Appointments Clause of the constitution says that Officers of the United States must be appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Wasn't that the legal genius in how Trump structured it? DOGE is a re-branded USDS (United States Digital Service).
Given that USDS is not a federal agency, that clause of the Constitution would not apply.
That also would assume that Musk is the administrator of DOGE, which he is not. It's Amy Gleason, and she, just like every administrator of the USDS going back to Obama, was not confirmed.
You probably don't need the "in the future" part.
We know that CIA was looking into infiltrating the embedded systems in vehicles since as early as 2014, thanks to Wikileak: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15342464/cias-alleged-for...
One year before that, in 2013, the death of Michael Hastings was incredibly suspicious and matched what one of these assassinations would look like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#...
As a layperson I thought that was odd choice too and would be an Earth-centric measurement, but the paper on which this article is based references this paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac51d2
Where they spell out a formula for the speed of sound in this type of planet given some assumptions. It's beyond my understanding, but I thought it was pretty cool. Section 4.4 if you want to have a look.
Then back to the article paper: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa50438-...
Using their formula we obtain sound speeds of the order of 3 km s−1 for WASP-127 b.
Given that it's being done through xAI, it seems reasonable to think that most parties from December's series C would also at least entertain the idea:
A16Z, Blackrock, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners and Vy Capital, amongst others. Strategic investors NVIDIA and AMD also participated and continue to support xAI in rapidly scaling our infrastructure.
It bothers me that they didn't consider that this should be bilateral: a bot must confirm that it is a bot, and a human must confirm it is a human.
I wouldn't want humans pretending to be bots, for a variety of reasons.
19kg of Fentanyl got smuggled from Canada into the US in 2024, not even 1% of the total.
I realize this is the Liberal's talking point, but it just doesn't add up. For starters they are talking about detected/caught smuggling, which is a terrible metric to use.
Then there's the problem of how much is being produced domestically. Just in Q4 of 2024, in Canada found:
* Super lab with 55 kilograms of fentanyl, 390 kilograms of methamphetamine, 35 kilograms of cocaine, 15 kilograms of MDM - https://globalnews.ca/news/10840910/largest-drug-superlab-bu...
* 30 tons of precursor chemicals - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/30-000-kilog...
* 31 kg of fentanyl and 7.6 tons of precursors - https://edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/merchants-of-death-to...
So that leaves us in a very awkward position with three possibilities:
* Canada has busted virtually every lab in Canada within the span of one quarter and was consuming amounts of fentanyl domestically that would render every Canadian an addict.
* Somewhere in Canada, someone is stockpiling absurd amounts of fentanyl just for fun.
* Canada is catching a negligently small fraction of what their crime syndicates are smuggling into the US.
I know which seems more likely to me.
The Founding Fathers had 18, 20, 21 and 25 year olds in much more important positions.
And just like DOGE, they were working in a team with older people too, but that sort of rational framing just doesn't get clicks.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United...
While the policy is only meant to apply to work that might be seen as conflicting with President Trump’s executive orders, CDC experts don’t know how to interpret that.
This seemed key to me. The managerial/editorial layer is acting in a way that any manager would when there is unclear interpretation: risk-adversity.
It's much easier to do than undo, so you stop until things are cleared up.
However, it seems the organizational layer whose work is being affected is assuming this risk-adverse interpretation is the new policy coming from the top. No doubt, legacy media will take the same interpretation.
If I were to approach this rationally, I would probably want to see clarification before running with the Hitlerian comparisons.
I think you are referencing La aventura del Amazonas by Dominican monk Gaspar de Carvajal.
He was one of the survivors of the first European expedition through the Amazon and provides the only account we have of something resembling the pre-European Amazon. He talks about large cities with tall structures, roadworks, and very elaborate societies - nothing compared to our common notion of the Amazonian people.
His account was largely dismissed because it was never replicated, but those who believe it to be accurate theorize that this first Expedition unintentionally caused a population collapse by introducing European diseases. You can imagine that by the time other expeditions were organized, it was a completely different place and the jungle would have easily overgrown any abandoned cities.
Good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_de_Carvajal#The_Relació...
Write something that an LLM could never write.
(This is my latest favorite prompt and interview/conversation question)