There was a deal between the US and Iran that was negotiated during Obama's presidency. You might argue that it wasn't the best of deals, but it did lower tensions, and constrained what Iran could do.

Trump didn't attempt to improve the deal, he just withdrew from it in 2018, which removed the constraints on Iran enriching uranium. He has done nothing to fix this in either of his terms in office.

Ah, so it took place during Biden's presidecy, therefore it was purely down to Biden, no other factors whatsoever.

Iran is a vile, authoritarian theocracy. So what success has Trump had reducing or eliminating the authoritarianism of the regime? How goes the negotiations to end the war and reopen shipping in the Middle East?

True to a large part, but it also depends on which population you're referring to, and I don't tend to be very America-centric. For example, Britons made over 91 million overseas trips in 2024, of which 71 million journeys were to Europe:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplep...

That's for a population of 69 million. Of course, there are people like me who went abroad eight times that year, and plenty who don't. Except for Portugal or Iceland or Western Africa, all of those trips involved a time zone change. Of course, you said "most", which could be 51%. The point is: a large number of people do regularly travel across time zones.

You have a theory, in this case General Relativity, that has been confirmed by testing for many decades. Experimental data shows anomalies that the theory cannot explain. So either:

- The theory is wrong (or incomplete)
- Our ontology is wrong
- Or both of the above

So, what do you do? Do you abandon the theory, in spite of the huge amount of evidential backing, or do you change the ontology while you investigate further?

Yeah, it's a well known fact that all astrophysicists are coining it, they are all as rich as Zuckerberg, if not Musk.

Oh and "Prove it"? As anyone who knows anything about science is aware, you don't prove things in science. Our theories are the best, current explanation for phenomena, but they are both tentative and provisional. Proof is for mathematics, logic and whisky, for science we have evidence.

Can't you just run the following instead of installing something, or did these change with Arm Macs?

pmset -g therm

sudo powermetrics --samplers thermal,cpu_power -n 1

The other clue is the kernel_task process unexpectedly running at high CPU load.

Exactly. And Vmware's calculus is that as long as it has a dozen gigantic clients (governments, huge enterprises) that it can charge whatever it wants, then the small fish aren't worth it.

Why would you care?

And how does DST help anyway? My kids schools all started at different times. I'm pretty sure they re-used the same busses. The bus would pick up the first group of kids and take them to high school, then come back and pick up the junior high kids, then come back and pick up the middle school kids, then come back and pick up the elementary school school kids. DST was of no use whatsoever in knowing what time any given bus was going to pick up my kid or what time any given school started or ended classes.

And now that my kid has graduated, I don't have any reason to care about what time any school in my district is open, let alone anywhere else in the world. I can't figure out why you care about what time some random school in some random part of the world is open. The vast majority of people in the world at any given time do not have school age children.

Democrats are not "prioritizing trans athletes". It is Republicans who talk about them all the time, incessently. You are example #1.

We have bubonic plague infections every year in the United States. Very, very few, admittedly, but it's not like it's been eradicated. So there's still benefit in studying it.

The more I hear about this so-called "SF Democratic Party," the more I'm convinced they don't speak for the majority of SF voters. Seriously. They seem to be some strange, centrist organization that no voters belong to and nobody knows where they get their money from.

So can I say: "I did not shoot him, my gun only ejected the bullet at high speed when the trigger was pulled, which is what the thing is made for."

I retract what I said about healthcare, that needs exactly one single payer only - health insurance is a scam we have to be done with. As far as service providers, there should be many, but maybe not competing ones, that hasnâ(TM)t exactly driven down prices.

If we ever again have even remotely sane management, it will be time for the U.S. to break up that industry into at least a dozen actual competitors. Also healthcare. And a lot of others.

turned himself in at a local police station saying that he is the head of a criminal hacking organisation and that he should be arrested and the rest of Open AI shut down with immediate effect.

No ? If your are rich enough the normal rules increasingly do not apply to you.

You have a medium memoruy. I remember how USENET was, prior to the web forums you complain about. Reddit has blocked the possibility of a real discussion forum that works for complicated topics, locking in a short term popularity contest with ever-shifting "hot topics".

This "new" site is part of a larger effort by that slob to kneecap or compromise US government Web sites, and steal your personal data.

I first read about the effort here: https://thedreydossier.substac...

Yesterday, she took a look under the hood of America.gov, and yes, it's as bad as everything else the DOGE vandals have been doing: https://thedreydossier.substac...

Up until this point, government Web sites were designed, built, and maintained by the agencies responsible for that government service. For example, if you wanted to apply for or renew your passport, you would go to state.gov, which is run by the US Department of State, which is responsible for processing applications for and issuing passports. No other department has lawful jurisdiction over passports.

From the point of view of the law, that's still true. But the slob, without anyone's permission, kluged together passports.gov. This site was built and is run by the White House's "National Design Studio," completely outside the law and without any independent oversight. The State Department was not consulted and has nothing to do with it. Further, the site is filled with third-party trackers, analytics, and some custom code that copies every page you view, including form contents, to an unknown third party.

Oh, and the guy leading the National Design Studio and in charge of building these fake sites? He's Joe Gebbia -- cofounder of Airbnb. Read both articles for more details.

In short, you should treat America.gov as a malware site and stay well away from it. Under no circumstances should you feed it any of your personal information.