All transactions will be done using $Trumpcoin -- two birds, one scam - I mean, stone - and all that. :-)

Several articles have noted that pennies will remain exchangeable for the foreseeable future and legal currency forever. So people in the U.S. should be able to use them up / get rid of them (through payments) eventually.

The Treasury and trade/retail groups are looking at guidelines and/or legislation for a national standard on transaction rounding. The latter to protect themselves from potential state lawsuits from rounding short-changes (last paragraph below).

US Mint to strike last penny as Trump’s phaseout rattles retailers

Joke's on them, I'll just put my outgoing mail in boxes. :-)

Just to nit-pick... (a) Ryanair doesn't have any flights in the U.S. (according to Google) and (b) there are procedures available to fly within the U.S. w/o a Real ID, and other forms of ID are also acceptable (also listed on page below), like a valid passport or DOD ID.

Acceptable Identification at the TSA Checkpoint

I'd be more surprised if it was some other kind of flare from the Sun.

Immediately kicking people out of their in-progress reservations doesn't seem like winding down. No mentions of compensation for any inconvenience Sonder imposed on their now-former guests either.

Guessing you really can't ClickFix it. :-)

Certainly don't ever, "copy a string of text, open a terminal window, paste it in, and press Enter".
Seriously, why would any legitimate site ask you to do that. [*smacks forehead*]

This is a misleading headline, making it sound like more PS5s have been sold than all Xbox models combined. What this article is really saying is that more PS5 consoles have been sold than any individual generation of Xbox console. So more PS5s have been sold than Xbox 360, and more than Xbox One, etc.

Less PS5s have been sold so far (84 million) than any previous generation. The most popular was the PS 2, having sold 160 million.

https://www.vgchartz.com/chart...

That's because China's industrial production has been flat to declining for 18 months.

https://ycharts.com/indicators...

First of all, lying is a strong word. You can't know there was any intention behind the error.
But if the judge had thrown out your case, then a person who committed an act that was against the law would have gone free. Which isn't a good thing, regardless of what was or wasn't legalized after the fact and regardless of how you and I feel about that act. (For the record I couldn't possibly care less about pot possession or use.)

Why didn't he? Presumably because clerical mistakes aren't sufficient cause for mistrial.

It doesn't matter if AI fabrications represent or misrepresent the spirit of the law. Case law citations need to reflect the actuality of prior case findings so the judge can rule based on those previous rulings. Giving a judge fake material that encourages them to rule the way legislators intend is fraudulent regardless of a convenient outcome.

Look, if you don't see a difference between "your honor, here is the video evidence of the accused stealing cars that night... five in total... wait, what... three... sorry, here's the video evidence of the accused stealing three in total" and "your honor, in the 1984 case of Santa Clause v The President of Mars, the judge found that wearing green is grounds for conviction... wait... you don't believe that's a real case? I told ChatGPT to not make shit up. Huh." then we don't have anywhere to go. While I am sympathetic to the specific cause for your court visit, I just don't see it remotely the same as knowingly using a bullshit bot.

In one case, lawyers knowingly used a product famous for fabricating fundental case law. Said product should not be used. In yours, a human transcribed a number incorrectly. They are not the same. The error in your case us one of degree... a question of how severe your punishment should be. The cases where fake precedents are presented as factual guide a judge to determine legal basis for guilt or innocence. You could - and did - correct the error in your case because it was possible for you to recognize the error. No accused is going to recognize fabricated case law. It's the difference between a name mixup getting you sent to the wrong seat on an airplane versus being wrongfully detained in Gitmo because they think you're on a no-fly list because someone knowingly looked it up on a fake web site instead of the official source.

I watched the first two episodes yesterday (which are the only two released so far), and I have to say it's some of the best sci-fi I've seen in a while. Now how much they'll stick to the sci-fi type premise is yet to be seen. They have set this up so open-ended that they can go in so many directions with it.

The beginning absolutely invoked Contact (an awesome sci-fi movie based on the book by Carl Sagan), complete with the radio telescope array and so on. My concern is that now that they've established the premise they may go in other directions, and it sorta end up a bait-and-switch. Regardless I'm definitely looking forward to the next episode. I've watched all the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul episodes, and based on Vince Gilligan's past creativity and ability to flush out so many nuances in a show, I'm actually pretty excited to see where Pluribus goes. First time I've been excited about a TV series in a very long time.

Employees only got paid for their time during mouse and key presses, not releases.