Thank you for explaining the closing joke of my comment. If anyone did not understand that the bit about checking between sofa cushions was a joke, I hoped the truism would indicate that the earlier suggestion was not intended as a serious approach to finding dark matter. Now I don't have to worry about people understanding that the finale was written with tongue in cheek.

(Full disclosure, in the interest of clarity: It is a lot easier to write things with one's tongue in one's cheek than to say things that way.)

Did they check between the sofa cushions? That's one of the places I always look for stuff I can't find. The stuff always ends up being in the last place I look, though.

JSON is an improvement over XML and easier to transmit than YAML.

Ipse dixit is, as usual, not convincing here.

Does your definition of "press" require a literal printing press?

Demanding "Bribe us, you fucks" is not acting like an adult.

Your blatant ignorance or denialism is not an excuse for calling people names. Scientists have been making the same point as the GP for at least 40 years now:

Lol, Politifact. You'd have to go to Tucker Carlson or Truthout to find a more dishonest source. The headline says the law would not have allowed that many illegal immigrants, but the text explains why it effectively would. The bill was primarily intended to give political cover for record-setting paces of 4000+ encounters a day for months from well-deserved criticism on lax border enforcement.

Trump was against it because it would have codified lax enforcement of border security, you dipshit. He wants strong enforcement, not a norm of ignoring it until illegal crossings reach emergency levels.

7 billion hot dogs / 350 million Americans / 3 months = on average, about two per nine days

"As little as" four and a half times the average summer consumption of our infamously gluttonous country.

Yes, that was the bill that would allow (some would say strongly recommend) the government to ignore up to 5,000 illegal border crossing every day -- 1.8 million each year. With proper enforcement of immigration laws, it's now typical to have about 8,000 encounters per month: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/s...

One of the key parts of ACME is that cert issuers are supposed to check the certificate from different points on the Internet, so that they have a good chance of seeing different answers if that kind of MitM attack happens. They won't necessarily know which is the true server response, but they will not issue a certificate if they see a mismatch.

Bell Labs (cosmic microwave background radiation, among other things) did its best work while it was a state-authorized monopoly.

Perhaps you missed The Fine Headline ("In Last-Minute Move, Canada Rescinds Digital Services Tax, Restarts Negotiations", emphasis added) and the rest of TFS? I am sure you were not being intentionally off-topic....

Canada's Digital Services Tax was promised in 2019 and passed in 2024, so it's pretty safe to say it was not "a response" to anything Trump did as president. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politi...

There's been a broad obligation to do that for four years: https://www.canada.ca/en/reven..., although maybe some companies claim their goods or services are exempt. Google, for example, apparently collects and remits GST/HST for sales through its platforms unless the seller provides documentation that a Canadian official has determined that the good or service is exempt.