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House Passes Resolution Declaring "Christ Is King"

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www.theguardian.com 3y ago

Roald Dahl threatened publisher with enormous crocodile if they changed his work

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www.reuters.com 3y ago

Astronomers astonished by ring around frigid distant world Quaoar

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about.netflix.com 3y ago

Netflix Update on Sharing

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techcrunch.com 3y ago

Affirm stock plunges as it misses earnings, cuts 500 jobs and shuts crypto unit

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techcrunch.com 3y ago

AI is eating itself: Bing’s AI quotes Covid disinfo sourced from ChatGPT

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asia.nikkei.com 3y ago

Adani's debts exceed 1% of Indian economy

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www.bloomberg.com 3y ago

Surprise Used-Car Price Jump Adds to Fed’s Inflation Worries

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www.cnbc.com 3y ago

Microsoft’s big ChatGPT event has started

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www.k12dive.com 3y ago

FTC approves order requiring Chegg to tighten data security

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www.theverge.com 3y ago

Google is holding an event about search and AI on February 8th

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

More Airbnb Woes

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

More Airbnb Problems

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asia.nikkei.com 3y ago

China stages 'strike drills' around Taiwan, citing provocation

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www.theatlantic.com 3y ago

China’s War Against Taiwan Has Already Started

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www.economist.com 3y ago

Minsky's Moment (2016)

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www.newyorker.com 3y ago

The Minsky Moment: subprime crisis and possible recession [Jan 2008]

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www.theatlantic.com 3y ago

The fall of FTX shocked everyone. Except this guy

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asia.nikkei.com 3y ago

China battles to keep hospitals open for Covid patients

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asia.nikkei.com 3y ago

EV battery maker LG Energy allots $3B to boost South Korea plant

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asia.nikkei.com 3y ago

U.S. should brace for '10-year' chip curbs against China: analyst

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www.ft.com 3y ago

Escalating air war depletes Ukraine’s weapons stockpile

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asia.nikkei.com 3y ago

China's GDP unlikely to surpass U.S. in next few decades: JCER

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www.barrons.com 3y ago

SEC to Propose the Biggest Trading Reforms in Decades

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apnews.com 3y ago

Eight Hurt in fire at NYPD warehouse where evidence is stored

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asia.nikkei.com 3y ago

China abandons Covid case reporting as infections explode

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www.newyorker.com 3y ago

Why Xi Jinping Changed His Mind on “Zero Covid”

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www.newyorker.com 3y ago

A Professor Who Challenges the Washington Consensus on China

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www.reuters.com 3y ago

Dutch chip equipment maker ASML's CEO questions U.S. export rules on China

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asia.nikkei.com 3y ago

Zero-Covid exit throws China's economy into disarray

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I spoke at the December 2024 Norman Public Schools meeting. Their yearly budget exceeds $200 million. The next day, NPS sent police to the place of my residence to ban me from a board meeting venue and a high school where I volunteered at a debate tournament. This is a misdemeanor per Oklahoma Open Meeting Act §314, and violates the First Amendment. It was protected speech. Police arrived when I was showering. I stepped out in a towel. They did not initially permit me back inside to get dressed. I went anyway. Police talked about whether I would return with a firearm. They had false information about my actions the day before. I said that banning me from the meeting venue violates the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act.

Ryan Walters is investigated by Attorney General Gentner Drummond at the OSDE. I spoke to them about Revelation 9 describing a star of David descending at Alma oilfield, Abadan north of the Persian Gulf.

Drummond runs for Governor and investigates the state school board. He did not respond when I reported school board crime to him. I downloaded a complaint form from his website, filled it out with specific references to statute, and delivered it to Drummond’s offices in a suit and tie with evidence: a USPS certified letter from NPS. I was not allowed indoors; a patrolman came to the door to collect the criminal complaint and the evidence; I handed them to him. He said he would take them to the appropriate place.

I never heard back from Gentner regarding NPS using police to commit crime under color of law. A man with a $20 name stomps the yard when Ryan Walters is gone and claims to enforce the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act.

Drummond did not police Norman PD and weeks later, I was attacked on Good Friday while praying by myself in a room with a locked door. The attacker called 911 and when Norman PD arrived, I was peeing in a bathroom. Police did not observe me commit any crimes, yet they kicked in the bathroom door. I saw a weapon drawn. They handcuffed me and did not charge me with a crime or question me. They did not take me to a police facility at all. Norman PD, about whom I had filed a criminal complaint to Drummond, took me in custody to a mental hospital where I was injected repeatedly and held against my will for weeks without shoes and without being taken before a judge. That is a violation of habeas corpus.

Gentner is a wickedness in a state crossed by a dark railroad to unlikely reality: for all his un-Christian hardheartedness toward Catholic immigrant kids, Ryan Walters respected a lawfulness in rendering law “flexible enough” as Alfred P. Murrah might say, not simply ignoring legal responsibility as the Attorney General has. Law is not justice. Good judgment establishes justice contrary to law, in accordance with the law, in truth and by the natural power of fact.

When I regained my senses after being knocked out by the first injection, I went to an employee in the mental hospital and could barely move my face. I was given a crayon.

Over the course of weeks, I was not taken before a judge. I was injected without receiving documentation detailing the substances injected. They said I was court-ordered but they never took me before a judge or showed me a court order. I saw multiple patients in the mental hospital have seizures and be treated by other patients and a janitor. I was not medically evaluated for about two weeks, and my first comments to a doctor lasted seconds before he accused me of having grandiosity when I told him about me being on television. He did not medically evaluate me at any point at the mental hospital. He stayed in the back, away from patients. I called 911 repeatedly and said that I was being held against my will yet not being medically evaluated by a doctor nor taken before a judge. You might determine my precise words based on recordings.

A state AG did not enforce law where a school district and police force willfully broke state and federal law.

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See below for excerpts of law in the United States.

The Supreme Court of the United States has opined that a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to three men who were Baptists is a basis for American jurisprudence. Use of the letter describing a "separation of church and state" is case law in the United States. That phrase is not written in the Constitution. Oklahoman legislators who style themselves as Christians in society could try to set up honeyed cases that hook the loops of existing jurisprudence in court cases that explore the logical and moral constraint propagation of American courts. As a body of two bodies, they don't seek such a path to freeing America from the extant tyranny of Thomas Jefferson's Danbury letter over the mind of man. Instead of fighting consequential cases like McGirt by using the state legislature to bulwark the statehood of Oklahoma, the legally ineffective legislature rebels against the law in the United States as applied by the incorporation of the First Amendment. Lawyers in Oklahoma are generally inept and frequently accustomed to courts that are bad for trust in government. Oklahoma has become pricey makeup densely applied to deep boils upon an erstwhile sonship of liberty. Other states give their peoples better government. Thomas Jefferson wrote about Jesus in a way that was malformed in reason and incoherent in its essential nature in a letter to William Short dated August 4, 1820, but the Supreme Court does not appear to have applied that letter explicitly in its interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. The state lets the federal government inhibit its lawful ability to enforce laws against child sexual abuse, and the legos in the legislature insult God by being unholy and setting aside Matthew 5:17 as a guideline for how the Son of God was as a Jew with the Jews: a fulfiller of law and prophecy. O, redness! How you desecrate your food!

The legislature of Oklahoma does not adequately consider law as its primary area of professional responsibility. Breaking the law in the United States by passing an intellectually underformed resolution about elves or Jesus or turkey is not a religious honor toward God. It is better to destroy the bad religions, and set ablaze the good one, too, in the public forum that is the Oklahoma legislature, than to burn incense for God and Mammon equally. If the legislature were to break the law in a better way, one that sets the state up to win battles in the Supreme Court, perhaps they could honor God by breaking the law in a way that establishes precedent: litigation of contested action. Oklahoma is a fat cat state. The cat sits around and waits for financial inflows based on petroleum, mineral resources, government injection of monies from tax revenue, and inflow of business competency from non-Oklahoma-based companies. We have Hobby Lobby, too, and that is not a bad thing. The problem is that the legislature principally serves nobody and then high-fives itself for wisps of bicameral nothing. That is their practice in general and in truth.

Mardel is nice, too.

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Amendment I:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947):

The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at least this: neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will or force him to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion. No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance. No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion. Neither a state nor the Federal Government can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups, and vice versa. In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect "a wall of separation between church and State." Reynolds v. United States, supra, at 98 U. S. 164.

My experience: Even if you pay Google, they don't offer adequate phone support and they don't take customer support seriously.

Google Ads sent me an email saying my ad was rejected, then billed me anyway. No idea if the ad ever ran, but they attempted to charge me and suspended my account when the charge didn't go through. It was difficult to get in touch with a support person because they do not offer phone support for accounts that are suspended, and I ended up paying for the ad without ever talking to someone over the phone to figure out why the ad was run after it was rejected. I filed a web form request after payment asking that they reinstate the Google Ads account, but they rejected the request.

I was billed twice for a certain month of Google One, and I had to file a web ticket and send emails with screenshots in order to get one of the charges reversed. There was no option to talk to a person.

How do you propose that we maintain an all-volunteer military without recruitment?

Returning veterans are going to carry military culture back into civilian life. That's just the reality of the situation after so many years in Iraq and Afghanistan.

China is a real threat to American primacy and this time the battle is economic, but there are major military risks and we can't carry a big stick unless we keep the military in shape.

I don't agree with you. Comprise is a directional word, similar in that sense to surjective. If someone were to write injective when they mean surjective, I might be able to correctly interpret the intended meaning based on context, but that doesn't make the language consistent and it serves as a hurdle to understanding the text.

You're assuming randomness among the US population. Might be a good assumption.

However, there are externalities to this suicide that may affect others who work at Google or in NY, and so the story is worthy of being contextualized. It might be clickbait to put the word "Google" in the title but not because of probabilistic irrelevance. People who kill themselves at work have an impact on coworkers and company, no two ways about it.

I think your take is spot on.

Airbnb customer support isn't equipped to handle complicated cases. They pass the buck from one support person to the other and their staff doesn't understand the company's own policies. I'm hesitant to use Airbnb nowadays after three bad experiences where hosts lied to customer support in order to avoid refunding some or all of my money when things went wrong.

Never had that problem with Booking.

Half of the probability mass is below the average in a normal distribution so, yeah, it makes sense for the average to sit at a nonzero and nonunit number. The fact that it's a nice and neat number like 100 is interesting. That's about one box of bananas.

Maybe someday the banana industry will address your concerns by making the fruit more radioactive.

By your logic, user-replaceable filters create a waste stream of "used" filters, and user-replaceable light bulbs create a waste stream of "used" light bulbs.

I personally like nonserviceable batteries because I want my devices to be water resistant, but I'd be more hesitant to throw a battery in the trash than I would be to throw a dead device in the trash.

People have the option of recycling used devices, whether they be battery devices or smartphone devices, at a multitude of retailers.

I don't think "networking" relationships have ever provided any benefit to my professional interests. In my view they're pointless, like an orange without juice in it.

I haven't read the Ferrazzi book but my understanding is that he shuns networking to instead reframe the concept as "connecting," and this is more in line with my own viewpoint.

I'd appreciate a better explanation of his viewpoint from someone who has read the book.

Not everyone subscribes to Science Advances. I can't even get their page to load. Humor us and try to explain your thoughts instead of complaining about the "effort" of the GP, please.

The answer to GP's objection is not explained in the linked article, as far as I can tell.

The writers of a research paper have a vested interest in seeming smart and displaying their findings as a novel contribution to the greater corpus of research. It's better to think skeptically and critically about any new research paper than to accept it as fact.

On the other hand, what's the point of sitting on the toilet if you're not allowed to think while you're there?

Or less flippantly....

It's like making a budget before you spend. The money is still real, you simply evaluated where to use it and set ground rules for yourself.

I think you have to genuinely take an interest in the other person and look for areas of commonality. That gives you ground to interact with the other person.

Networking is complete bullshit because people who are highly social recognize potential areas for self-interest in relationship-building and any behavior that follows that path gets flagged subconsciously as disingenuous. Make friends and treat other people as you would like to be treated.

There is also a need to communicate, in order to give the other person a sense of your investment in the relationship (as represented by your time, effort, and candor) and material with which to formulate substantive responses and reciprocate with their own time, effort, and candor.

You have no control over how other people connect with you, and frankly, their opinion and feelings toward you are none of your business. Don't overtrain your behavior upon your perception of the progress of bonding. Just do what is right, fun, kind, and ethical. The rest falls into place.