It's nice of you guys to allow everyone else to do the job you're not allowed to do anymore as a result of some political hack deciding he wanted to give Putin the best BJ of his entire life.

Cool, cool. Juuuust checkin'.

I used to work for a company that provided engineering services for various nuclear power produces. Somewhere along the way the licensing documents were described to me. The license for a nuke plant is contained in many binders (most nuke plants are older than most people), and contains every single item that was used to construct the plant, the plant blueprints, highly detailed instructions for replacing any item that may need replacing, and the expected lifetime and maintenance checks and services to ensure that there isn't the equivalent of a dirty bomb dropped in PA, TX, IL, or wherever.

There's other stuff, like the explanation for the process to replace some valve that hasn't been manufactured in 50 years with some other valve that both meets or exceeds the original specifications, and is available...which is a continual process because most plants are older than most people.

I'm all for the move fast and break stuff approach when it's not going to be a mass casualty event that just keeps on giving.

Nuke plants are the most highly regulated thing in the US. Given the consequences of a catastrophic failure, they should be.

This makes sense for ISPs, where the data is the service, and they have safe harbor laws that protect them in they just move bits around with minimal fuckery. It doesn't make sense for payment processors who would be staring down both the distinct possibility of significant losses due to various forms of fraud and legal liability for processing payments for illegal goods and services.

Are there safe harbor laws to protect payment processors in the event they have facilitated payment for illegal goods or services?

Regardless of any safe harbor laws that may exist, should a business be required to perform high risk services that are likely to result in net losses? How can a business stay solvent with a requirement like that?

What year do you think this is?

My work computer boasts a customized version of Windows 11 Enterprise, and I have no ability to turn off all the clickbait on the start menu that will persist across logins. Additionally, I can't click on said clickbait without running afoul of company computer usage policies.

Thanks, Microsoft.

To say that burning jet fuel can't melt steel, and therefore some conspiracy is afoot, is to advertise that you don't have the ability to discern real information from bullshit.

Any idiot can look up "structural steel temperature" and find tons of results on engineering specific sites describing what happens to steel at elevated temperatures. That idiot would then be able to read words to the effect that steel's yield strength drops by half around 1000Â F, and drops by around two thirds at 1100Â F.

Accepting that fact in conjunction with the fact that jet fuel burns much hotter than 1000Â F, and the fact that no engineer ever has designed a building to resist the impact of a passenger jet, and the reasonable conclusion that a building with structural member strength reduced by greater than 70Â isn't likely to be standing for very long would cause in that idiot's brain a transition from idiot to not as much of an idiot.

Somehow formed into the shape of muscles located in the legs of the cyclist?

Recognizing good performance and steering assets to those who perform better is good business.

Could we get those previous numbers adjusted for inflation?

He made Trump mad somehow. Biden preemptively pardoned a bunch of people Trump explicitly said he'd be targeting.

Anonymous cowards?

Said the state-sponsored anonymous poster.

I'd argue that the premise that AI is great and will solve all problems is false. Right now, of the things that are currently called AI, most of them are engaged in figuring out what ads to show you for the highest click-through rate. Right behind that are the ones that give you reasonable looking, but complete bullshit answers for questions you need real answers to.

AI has promise, but the marketing guys got ahold of a vague description of what it can do and saw nothing but dollar signs.

Can I get the tracker/mark on my forehead?