Claiming a job at Google is basically kindergarten isn't something new, but now that they're taking attendance it's one step closer to being true.

Has Biden considered nominating someone nearly all Democrats would accept?

It should be a nonexistent list. It's punishment without trial.

Simple: the state is too powerful to stand against. How would you (or Alphabet) stop it from raising interest rates.

If Powell says he's not lowering interest rates until there are mass layoffs, and high interest rates are worse than mass layoffs for companies, it makes sense for companies to do mass layoffs to attempt to influence Powell. Though in Google's case, a Twitter-proportion reduction in force would probably be good for the company too, they've been warehousing engineers for a long time.

So many people living in or near DC got a DJI drone, found out they can't use it anywhere within 15 miles of DC (that's right, the "restricted airspace" is the entire District and a good chunk of surrounding MD and VA), went online to figure out how to disable this misfeature, and then enjoyed their drones. Boo hoo.

I believe all the major C++ compilers enable STL range-checking by default these days.

Of course not; the performance hit would be enormous.

Monbiot is not complaining about corn-fed livestock.

In reality, grass-fed meat is by far the most damaging component of our diets, as a result of its massive land requirement, greenhouse gas emissions, and carbon and ecological opportunity costs.

Sure, it's playing poker with an unlimited bankroll. Even if they've got nothing they can make it too expensive to call. And if they drive the defendant to suicide... well, that sort of deterrence works even better than felony convictions and jail sentences. All it requires is a prosecutor with no morals... but I repeat myself.

The Ukraine war has resulted in extremely high energy prices in Europe which puts a damper on manufacturing there; in addition to that China is still hamstringing itself with COVID restrictions. Enjoy it while it lasts, factory workers, it probably won't last long. Most likely the recession will deepen and demand will drop off as well, but even if that doesn't happen, China will eventually get its act together. Maybe even Europe too.

It's a one-party state and CARB are unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats anyway. There are no adults to take charge.

US TV Manufacturers capture Chinese voices without telling them.

Not that one; there are no US TV manufacturers.

Or better, get a folding ebike and carry it.

I have one of those. It's about 60 pounds, so the exercise part is covered too, just not while riding.

We used to call this "poisoning the well". I wonder if maybe someone could make a video about the tactic of claiming that anyone taking a particular position is a no-goodnik, to try to inoculate them against that?