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Bender recommended hookers and Blackjack then fell asleep, drunk, and murmured, "Kill all humans."
Probably all good advice, but one sounds like too much work.
They'll find a way to pretend Democrats are the only ones responsible for the rapidly-growing budget deficit.
And Democrats will have to be good about pointing out that the House "Freedom Caucus", who claim to be vigorous fiscal conservatives against raising the debt, voted for this.
What scares me is that there was absolutely no attempt to sell this bill to the voters.
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is on video saying she didn't like the bill, but voted for it after getting carve-outs for Alaska exempting it from strict new food stamp rules for two years - the state with the highest SNAP error rate in 2024. Though, because of reconciliation rules, they had to write it a little more obscurely. From Republicans' Absurd Food Benefit Policy Could Reward States Who Waste Money
Because Senate Republicans passed the bill using a special “budget reconciliation” process that doesn’t allow “extraneous” provisions — such as policies directly targeting individual states with only incidental budgetary effects — they had to write the Alaska SNAP carveout so that it didn’t look so obvious.
So the bill would delay the crackdown for any state with an error rate above 13.3%. (To make it even less obvious, instead of setting the threshold at 13.3%, the text says the exemption applies for states whose error rates exceed 20% when multiplied by 1.5.)
According to the SNAP error rate numbers posted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture this week, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and the District of Columbia would win a delay of the cost-sharing burden if it were based on 2024 error rates.
[States that worked to lower their error rate would be subject to the new stricter rules.]
This bill seems tailor-made to fuck red states. It will massively suck, but the reactions will at least be entertaining for a little while once people start noticing what happened.
Yup. Also, apparently, many people are unfamiliar with what's in the bill, and will probably be very surprised.
To any rural USians - I sincerely hope you stay healthy, you won't have a hospital soon enough.
And this will affect everyone in those areas, not just people on Medicaid / Medicare.
The Republicans, very cynically, set most of these healthcare cuts to hit shortly after the midterm elections.
And the temporary tax cuts -- no tax on: tips, overtime, auto loan interest; and the $1,000 initial Trump Account deposit -- expire in/after 2028, the $6k SSI bonus for low(er)-income senior expires in 2029 and the SALT deduction reverts from $40k to $10k in 2030. The tax cuts for the very wealthy and corporations are, of course, permanent.
If there's one thing I'll give this Administration, they know junk science - just ask RFK, Jr (HHS) , Dr. Oz (Medicare)
Having to show ID to access free speech online is the surest sign that US is sliding towards a China style dystopia. Thanks Supreme Court.
Or simply walking/driving...
US citizen detained by immigration officials who dismissed his Real ID as fake
Family members outraged as U.S. citizen detained by federal agents in downtown LA on way to work
Even after proving they're U.S. citizens, many are still detained because they "assaulted" the usually masked, unmarked officers refusing to identify themselves as LEO and/or their agency, which make things seem more like a kidnapping. The "they assaulted/resisted us" excuse is getting a bit old, especially when there are usually 5-10 "officers" attacking someone. But, you know, as long as they're only going after "very bad criminals", and not people going to work, simply because they're brown
And mp3s average about 1 MB/minute. So a data CD with a 700 MB capacity will hold 700 minutes, or about 200 songs.
Like I said, the capacity is a lot more.
Sure, but the quality isn't. Everything's a trade-off. My point, though, was that your estimate of a music CD's capacity was way off.
Plus, a music CD will hold maybe 7 or 8 songs, but most CD players can play mp3s, and a 600 MB CD will hold a hundred or more of those.
Standard music CDs can hold 74 minutes and the average pop song length is 3.5 minutes. Even at 4 minutes, that's 18 songs. The CD Louder than Bombs by The Smiths, at 72m 44s, has 24 songs on it, most between 2.5 and 3.5 minutes long. I'll note that one of my devices can't play the last song -- it's probably to depressed by then.
Google: average length pop music
Compact disc
This is probably why Microsoft has been aggressively pushing users to upgrade to Windows 11 after the previous version of the OS loses support -- so that its users would install the latest version of Windows on their current system (or get a new PC if their system is incapable of running the latest version).
Rather, "not allowed". Sure, my Dell XPS 420, that a friend gave me, is old, but it runs Windows 10 like a champ - though I did replace the HDD with a SSD; I imagine it would run Windows 11 just as well if not for the (arbitrary) hardware "requirements" Microsoft imposed for Windows 11. Same for my other systems. Instead of buying something new(er), I'll be switching to using my Linux Mint 22 system full-time instead - which is also old, but works great (i7-3770, ASRock Z77 Extreme3, 32 GB RAM, Samsung SSD).
Storing these records on the SSD has the benefit of ensuring the data is persistent even if the operating system is reinstalled or some other drastic change in software environment occurs.
Good thing SSDs can't be replaced.
Until your phone dies and then you find that you don't have a backup, or if you did backup the authenticator app, it requires the same login, gated by the authenticator app that you just lost access to in order to recover from the backup.
Yes, if you plan things carefully, you can work around these issues, but most people don't have the knowledge and skills to do this.
I had thought about this and was why I initially used Authy as they had a Windows app I could use as my backup/alternate - "had" being the operative word. I've since switched to 2FAS where I can export the data to JSON and manually copy the TOTP seeds into KeePassXC, which runs on Windows, Linux,
Between all the permafrost melting across Russia to methane to massive fossil fuel use, how can anybody be surprised?
I recommend this NOVA episode Arctic Sinkholes (full episode) from Feb 2022, described in the articles below.
In the Arctic, enormous releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, threaten the climate.
Colossal explosions shake a remote corner of the Siberian tundra, leaving behind massive sinkholes. In Alaska, a huge lake erupts with bubbles of inflammable gas. Scientists are discovering that these mystifying phenomena add up to a ticking time bomb, as long-frozen permafrost melts and releases vast amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. What are the implications of these dramatic developments in the Arctic? Scientists and local communities alike are struggling to grasp the scale of the methane threat and what it means for our climate future.
- Methane craters documentary highlights rapid Arctic warming
- Nova episode explores Arctic methane explosions
This place just isn't big enough for all of us. We've got to find a way off this planet.
