Comment Now it's on! (Score 1) 84
Now it's on! Jack with my coffee and you're gonna have one hell of a time with me in the morning!
Comment Re: My mask your mask (Score 2, Interesting) 158
In my car, I have an after-market satellite radio and navigation system installed. Every time I turn on the car, I get some idiotic disclaimer saying not to use it while driving. The system takes a few seconds to boot up, so often I'm already started and in reverse by the time the stupid warning comes up. I back out, shift into drive, and start moving. Then I see the stupid warning, and it distracts me to dismiss it so I see the damned map. So it accomplishes nothing, and actually worsens what it tries to prevent.
Today I was in a Buick with the factory satellite radio, navigation system, and Bluetooth installed. I was the passenger. We're on a long trip, and I decide to change some settings on the device. This has no effect on the driver, and no effect on the safe operation of the vehicle. But it won't let me do it, and claims that it can't perform such and such an operation "while the vehicle is moving." So the driver pulls over on the interstate, in the dark, off to the side in the emergency lane, and halts the vehicle so I can change the damned setting and option. Then she has to merge from a stop on the highway back onto the highway, accelerate into traffic, and carry on. So this improved safety...how?
Comment Re:Another Famous Case (Score 0, Troll) 56
My neighbor has a potato plant called Joe Biden.
Comment Re:Solving a problem that... (Score 1) 34
Those same people would probably buy a solar powered keyboard and charge it with a 100 watt incandescent bulb while claiming how they're being environmentally conscious. It's the same mentality we saw during COVID with people wearing cloth masks they never washed while sitting at a traffic light alone in their cars.
Submission + - Game Theory of Police Interrogation (joehuffman.org)
schwit1 writes: Here’s the problem. When you agree to a police interrogation, you and the police are playing two different games.
As the suspect, you believe you are playing a multiplayer, collaborative game.
But the police aren’t even playing a multiplayer game. They’re playing a one-player game, like Tetris.
As the suspect, you’re not a player in the game. You’re more like the game environment, producing falling blocks for the player—the police.
The police play this game by collecting your statements like blocks and fitting them into a picture that incriminates you. When enough blocks have fit together, the police have won the game and refer the case to a prosecutor.
As the suspect, you believe you are playing a multiplayer, collaborative game.
But the police aren’t even playing a multiplayer game. They’re playing a one-player game, like Tetris.
As the suspect, you’re not a player in the game. You’re more like the game environment, producing falling blocks for the player—the police.
The police play this game by collecting your statements like blocks and fitting them into a picture that incriminates you. When enough blocks have fit together, the police have won the game and refer the case to a prosecutor.
Comment Re:How long before? (Score 1) 128
For all we know he's spending all his time masturbating to the females of Ukraine, because he fantasizes that he can just go into their country and rape them, whereby his Russian countrywomen might object regardless of what he looks like on a horse.
Comment Re:How long before? (Score 1) 128
I think Xi probably will be seeking a penis transplant pretty soon.
Well, Putin might need one with all the trauma of fucking Ukraine.
Comment Re:I sense investment opportunities! (Score 1) 27
Oh, God, we have reached peak stupid.
Peak stupid is when America elected a potato to be president in 2020. (No, Taco isn't any better.)
Comment Re:Oh no!! (Score 0) 100
Youtube was always going to hell, but Alphabet accelerated that to lightspeed with their insane monitization schemes. You can't say "suicide," you have to say "self-deleted" or something. You can't say "rape," you have to sanitize that. You can't say "sex," you have to bleep it out. This goes on and on and on. It's to the point that even political commentary is damned near unwatchable because of the censorship. Google redacted their "don't be evil" slogan almost a decade ago, and it really shows.
Submission + - Florida will work to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates in the state (apnews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, building on the effort by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to curb vaccine requirements and other health mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic.
DeSantis also announced on Wednesday the creation of a state-level “Make America Healthy Again” commission modeled after similar initiatives pushed at the federal level by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
On the vaccines, state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an “immoral” intrusion on people’s rights bordering on “slavery,” and hampers parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children.
“People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,” said Ladapo, who has frequently clashed with the medical establishment, at a news conference in Valrico, Florida, in the Tampa area. “They don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.”
The state Health Department, Ladapo said, can scrap its own rules for some vaccine mandates, but others would require action by the Florida Legislature. He did not specify any particular vaccines but repeated several times the effort would end “all of them. Every last one of them.”
Democratic state Rep. Anna Eskamani, who is running for Orlando mayor, said in a social media post that scrapping vaccines “is reckless and dangerous” and could cause outbreaks of preventable disease.
“This is a public health disaster in the making for the Sunshine State,” she said on the social platform X.
Meanwhile, the Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California announced Wednesday that they created an alliance to safeguard health policies, contending that the administration of President Donald Trump is politicizing public health decisions.
The partnership plans to coordinate health guidelines by aligning immunization plans based on recommendations from respected national medical organizations, according to a joint statement from Gov. Bob Ferguson of Washington, Gov. Tina Kotek of Oregon and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California.
In Florida, vaccine mandates for child day care facilities and public schools include shots for measles, chickenpox, hepatitis B, Diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP), polio and other diseases, according to the state Health Department’s website.
Under DeSantis, Florida resisted imposing COVID vaccines on schoolchildren, requiring “passports” for places that draw crowds, school closures and mandates that workers get the shots to keep their jobs.
“I don’t think there’s another state that’s done as much as Florida. We want to stay ahead of the curve,” the governor said.
The state “MAHA” commission would look into such things as allowing informed consent in medical matters, promoting safe and nutritious food, boosting parental rights regarding medical decisions about their children, and eliminating “medical orthodoxy that is not supported by the data,” DeSantis said. The commission will be chaired by Lt. Gov. Jay Collins and Florida first lady Casey DeSantis.
“We’re getting government out of the way, getting government out of your lives,” Collins said.
The commission’s work will help inform a large “medical freedom package” to be introduced in the Legislature next session, which would address the vaccine mandates required by state law and make permanent the recent state COVID decisions relaxing restrictions, DeSantis said.
“There will be a broad package,” the governor said.
DeSantis also announced on Wednesday the creation of a state-level “Make America Healthy Again” commission modeled after similar initiatives pushed at the federal level by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
On the vaccines, state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an “immoral” intrusion on people’s rights bordering on “slavery,” and hampers parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children.
“People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,” said Ladapo, who has frequently clashed with the medical establishment, at a news conference in Valrico, Florida, in the Tampa area. “They don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.”
The state Health Department, Ladapo said, can scrap its own rules for some vaccine mandates, but others would require action by the Florida Legislature. He did not specify any particular vaccines but repeated several times the effort would end “all of them. Every last one of them.”
Democratic state Rep. Anna Eskamani, who is running for Orlando mayor, said in a social media post that scrapping vaccines “is reckless and dangerous” and could cause outbreaks of preventable disease.
“This is a public health disaster in the making for the Sunshine State,” she said on the social platform X.
Meanwhile, the Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California announced Wednesday that they created an alliance to safeguard health policies, contending that the administration of President Donald Trump is politicizing public health decisions.
The partnership plans to coordinate health guidelines by aligning immunization plans based on recommendations from respected national medical organizations, according to a joint statement from Gov. Bob Ferguson of Washington, Gov. Tina Kotek of Oregon and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California.
In Florida, vaccine mandates for child day care facilities and public schools include shots for measles, chickenpox, hepatitis B, Diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP), polio and other diseases, according to the state Health Department’s website.
Under DeSantis, Florida resisted imposing COVID vaccines on schoolchildren, requiring “passports” for places that draw crowds, school closures and mandates that workers get the shots to keep their jobs.
“I don’t think there’s another state that’s done as much as Florida. We want to stay ahead of the curve,” the governor said.
The state “MAHA” commission would look into such things as allowing informed consent in medical matters, promoting safe and nutritious food, boosting parental rights regarding medical decisions about their children, and eliminating “medical orthodoxy that is not supported by the data,” DeSantis said. The commission will be chaired by Lt. Gov. Jay Collins and Florida first lady Casey DeSantis.
“We’re getting government out of the way, getting government out of your lives,” Collins said.
The commission’s work will help inform a large “medical freedom package” to be introduced in the Legislature next session, which would address the vaccine mandates required by state law and make permanent the recent state COVID decisions relaxing restrictions, DeSantis said.
“There will be a broad package,” the governor said.
Comment I sense investment opportunities! (Score 3, Funny) 27
If this keeps up, I might be able to invest in some oceanfront property in Arizona!
Comment LiquidASS (Score 1) 40
I see a major problem with these unmanned taxis. What keeps someone from blowing off something from Liquid ASS in one of these things and walking away?
Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 155
Hey, no mod points right now, but this should be modded up.
Comment Re:Being born and raised in Minnesota.. (Score -1, Flamebait) 61
Tampon Tim will have then distributing feminine hygiene products to all the young men of the state within hours. For purposes of inclusion, you understand.
Comment Re: Defensive gun use more common than criminal us (Score 1) 100
So is some teenage girl overdosing herself on acetaminophen and risking dying a horrific death by liver failure, but I see it at least once or twice a month. We need to ban Tylenol right now! Won't someone think of the children?!
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