True but the more popular rules and legislation that the Supreme Court strikes down the sooner the Democrats are in a position to balance the courts. Thomas and Alito are both at retirement age and both very likely going to face criminal investigations for their obvious bribery scandals as soon as the election is over. If the Democrats are still in charge of the Senate and the White House then those two are likely to retire so that they can cash out and the Democrats will have a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court again with Roberts deciding. He's not exactly the most liberal judge but he tends to side with the liberals if they are the majority

Seriously fast food workers have non-compete clauses now and they have been used to bully workers into not changing jobs.

It doesn't have to be legally enforceable it just has to be a threat to someone who's in a weak position.

Tennessee is just as terrible about women's reproductive health as anything else. It's a problem for trans kids too and sure they only make up 1% of the population but when you've got several thousand employees you're going to have a few in there. That's just how math works.

I'm not exactly prime breeding age here but I wouldn't want my kid trying to set up a family in a red state with the way things are right now. Too much risk of criminal prosecution even for a miscarriage

It's the kind of thing Karl Marx predicted would happen but all anyone can remember about him is that a couple of tin pot dictators borrowed his books for rhetoric.

Private health insurance just spends half a trillion dollars scaring our old people with death panel talk, even as they're running active death panels deciding who lives and who dies. They do keep pushing the retirement age up and they've pushed it above and beyond what it can reasonably be so it's possible that will eventually bite them in the ass because old people won't be able to kid themselves if they'll make it into Medicaid. But the real problem is you have to convince people over 55 that healthcare isn't a limited resource. We can just make more of it in the form of cheaper medication and training more doctors and nurses.

But I mean damn when somebody is literally going to spend half a trillion dollars lobbying against something that's hard to beat. And fun fact if you're an American and you're reading this now you paid for that half trillion dollars with your health insurance premiums.

It's texas. They moved from California to Texas so that they could get away from the regulations that required them to treat employees well when they fired them in Mass.

If they're moving to Tennessee it's probably just a tax Dodge. Texas has notoriously high taxes and they've probably started to shake down Oracle. The governor is spending literally billions of dollars showboating on the southern border and that money has to come from somewhere since it's not coming from the federal government... Seriously look it up they've spent something like 6 billion dollars mobilizing the national guard. You could take every single migrant for the next 20 years and pay him $50,000 a year to sit on their thumbs and you'd come out ahead

No paywall here: https://archive.is/5Y7DF

You think you can tell. Experimentation does not bear that out. I'm not claiming you can never tell. But you said 95%... not a chance, not even close:

https://www.timeshighereducati...

Interesting that AI is being used to accomplish this, yet if you ask ChatGPT4 itself what happens when milk turns sour, you get nothing but a straight answer:

When milk turns sour, it is undergoing a process of fermentation, primarily due to the action of bacteria. Here's what happens in more detail:

1) Bacterial Growth: The primary bacteria in milk that cause souring are lactic acid bacteria. These bacteria are naturally present in the environment and can find their way into milk from the air, from milking equipment, or from the containers used to store the milk.

2) Lactic Acid Production: As these bacteria consume the lactose (milk sugar), they produce lactic acid as a waste product. The increase in lactic acid lowers the pH of the milk.

3) Change in Taste and Texture: The increase in acidity gives the milk a sour taste. Moreover, the acid affects the milk proteins (mainly casein), causing them to coagulate or curdle, which changes the texture, making it thicker.

4) Preservation and Spoilage: While souring can act as a form of natural preservation (in products like yogurt and sour cream), further bacterial activity can lead to spoilage, where the milk develops an off smell and flavor and may become unsafe to consume.

The souring process is essentially a form of fermentation and can be both desirable and undesirable. In controlled conditions, it leads to the production of various dairy products. However, when unintentional, it indicates that the milk has gone bad and should not be consumed.

Actually, I find it to work pretty well for that — better than a laptop screen, anyway.

What doesn't work well are:

• Low rate of iOS app compatibility — most iOS apps don't run on it, despite it theoretically being able to run them, because most developers don't check the checkbox
• No Mac app compatibility
• Zero keyboard or mouse control when controlling your Mac (i.e. you're still 100% tethered to the Mac when using it as a display)
• Almost zero games that are not part of Apple Arcade (subscription-only)
• Frequent inability to connect to nearby computers, and no way to figure out what's wrong, with the only reliable fix being a complete reboot of the Vision Pro

Basically, you can't do anything with it except in a few limited situations, and when you can, it's still a pain in the a**. It can give you a private screen for working in a cube farm or on an airplane, and that's about it. Mind you, its Wi-Fi support is miles ahead of what you can do with non-Apple hardware, which at least makes those things practical, but it is nowhere near good enough yet, IMO.

At some point, when the apps are there, this could be pretty cool, but right now, it really just isn't there.

You can at least see the silver lining - the regulatory firewall being constructed to block high-tech globalization hurts Apple's sales in China, but in exchange they got protection from Chinese competition, namely Huawei.

Let's back up to step #1 where you claim Apple didn't make massive profits on the iPhone.

both sides want to use military spending to keep their flagging economies going. Eisenhower warned us about it, but if it's one thing we never do it's listen.

Yeah, I'm overstating things a bit. I'm sure there are a certain percentage of people who aren't in power who want peace. But the problem is that the people with power mostly don't seem to want peace if it comes with any strings attached, and most of the people voting for them are too blinded by the rhetoric from their leaders to realize that both sides are the problem, not just one.

Until the overwhelming majority of people are willing to do what is needed to actually bring about peace — specifically, throwing out the people in power, running for office against them, amplifying the voices of the sane and reasonable, and speaking out constantly against abuse, oppression, prejudice, and violence, without regard to who is being abused or oppressed or being prejudiced against or committing the violence — I don't expect anything to change.

People have to not just want peace, but want peace badly enough to choose moderate leaders, knowing full well that their long-time enemies could easily take advantage of reduced militarism to do them harm. And that's hard. I get it. That's really, really hard. The tendency to "other" people who are not like us is so ingrained in human nature that even when we're taught not to do it, most people still seem to go out of their way to find different ways to do it. And that's doubly true when your actual life could be on the line.

But that's what it takes to have a lasting peace. That's the only way. One side has to take the first step by standing down, and given the lopsided power dynamic, nothing the Palestinians do will change anything, because all it takes is one bad seed deciding not to do so and killing some Israeli settler while shouting some anti-Israel chant, and Israel will send in missiles again. Israel, being the side with all the power, is the only side that is truly in the position to end this long-term, by actively choosing not to use their enormous military might against the Palestinians on an ongoing basis — actively choosing not to overreact — actively choosing not to punish all Palestinians for what are presumably the actions of a few — and instead using diplomatic means to coerce the Palestinian government into bringing the responsible parties to justice.

But that also depends on there actually being a functioning Palestinian government that isn't a branch of an extremist group. And that's not going to happen unless a whole lot of things change, and that change will take decades, and it only takes a single aggressive response by Israel to set such changes back by decades overnight, losing any goodwill that might have been built up prior to that point.

At this point, I don't see an obvious way out that doesn't involve massive third-party intervention. The Israeli and Palestinian governments have simply both done too many bad things over too many decades, creating an environment of distrust that won't be easily fixed. IMO, the threat of international action against both sides would go a long way towards pressuring both sides to come to the table in earnest and to stick to their promises for once.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe in the near future, Israel will stop this latest wave of attacks and will begin working to help the Palestinians rebuild (without putting Israeli settlers and businesses in the newly built houses and buildings). That would at least help repair trust a bit. The longer this goes on, however, the less likely a positive outcome seems.

That's how it works. It's basically a WinModem. Passes the raw sampled RF to the computer, and the CPU does all the decoding.