Bureau of Land Management Instruction Memorandum 2023-010 talks about refunds for leases. It is dated November 21, 2022, right in the middle of the Biden Administration. It has been superseded by newer versions that contain very similar language.

The purpose of the memo is to ensure that BLM practices are compatible with various laws, including the then-recently passed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

Additionally, refunds are standard practice everywhere.

The headline is retarded.

He isn't "paying" them. The Department of Interior is refunding fees. Refunds are normal practice and not something that Congress needs to approve on an individual basis.

No one has ever made that argument in the entire history of humanity.

The argument is that because EVs can't do everything, we shouldn't legislate the demise of gasoline cars and diesel trucks. That if an EV doesn't cover every possible vehicle use case, then we shouldn't take away the vehicles that do cover those use cases.

Are you deliberately trying to avoid understanding what he is saying?

With a mirror, if the sun is at a bad angle, you can move your head and change the apparent position of the sun. With a camera, you are fucked because the camera is in a single fixed location and can't be moved.

Sometimes "where you need them" isn't actually where you need them.

"capitalism" is a slur invented by Marxists. The people that you call capitalists don't believe in capitalism, they believe in free enterprise and private ownership.

I don't think the calculus on his death changed at all, and probably still favored letting him live. My understanding is that he's never been difficult to find, and his office was never particularly secure.

I think what did it is that he had an in-person meeting with around a dozen other top officials. While the balance might have said to leave him alive, the chance to take them out with one shot changed things.

More fundamentally, AI models may not understand 'stakes' as humans perceive them.

No shit.

AI models don't "understand" anything.

It is a common term in northern states. I live in a state that borders on Canada, and my next door neighbors move to Arizona every November and come back in April.

Torrent files are pure metadata. There is no copyrighted (or copyrightable) content in them.

Then use more sophisticated methods.

If only OpenAI had access to a giant computer brain that could analyze this problem and offer some solutions...

What the fuck is unfair? If you don't like how they are using your service, stop them. Cut them off, feed them garbage, get clever and solve the problem.

What are lawmakers going to do about it? Order President Trump to nuke China? More tariffs? Sanctions on Russia?

You are incorrect. No one has given any ethical reasons. They just claim that it would be unethical without giving any reasons.

Sorry, I didn't realize that you were such good friends with these 100 million people. I guess if you are sure that every last one of them skips the current flu shot for political reasons, and not because they aren't particularly at risk from the flu, who could argue?

Are we talking about $20 worth of sterile saline here? What is that on a per-taxpayer basis? I can spot you a few millicents if you are short this week.

It would certainly be unethical to do it without telling them, but I don't see what would be unethical about conducting the trial after obtaining informed consent.

Roughly 100 million American adults currently don't seek the annual flu shot. Surely a few thousand of them would be willing to take part in a trial where they have a chance to be no better or worse off than they were before. Tell them what each group is going to get, and their odds of being assigned to that group.