Comment Re:I'm surprised it had any trails at all (Score 1) 19
I'm not surprised it had the trail, but I am surprised it wasn't sending a bunch of cars down it.
I think that's more of an Apple Maps thing.
Comment Walking isn't hiking (Score 1) 19
Walking and hiking are usually two very different things, and 18 miles in 5 hours requires an average of 3.6 mph, which isn't a stroll.
Comment Re:This already exists (Score 1) 48
I think the IRS certainly qualifies as BDSM...
Paradoxically, and/or ironically, my safe word is "audit" -- though I'm thinking of changing it to Fluggaenkoecchicebolsen.
Comment Re:You're assuming that's not the point. (Score 2, Informative) 48
At this point, I've stopped giving politicians the benefit of the doubt. If they support regulations that look like they have the potential to drag the United States into becoming an authoritarian hellhole, I assume that they're actually trying to do just that. It makes it a lot easier to convince myself to vote for another candidate in every election afterwards, even if that candidate isn't as good in other areas, because at least the other candidate isn't trying to destroy our basic freedoms.
Look up the sponsors of the bill, and vote against them from now on, whether it's a primary or a general election. Repeat until ousted.
Currently, all the cosponsors are Republicans - 26 on the House bill and 4 on the Senate bill.
(Links to bills noted here.)
Comment I'll take Republicans for $100 Alex. (Score 0, Flamebait) 48
As of this posting, the SCREEN Act bills are cosponsored solely by how many of this political party.
What is 26 Republicans in the House and 4 Republicans in the Senate?
Comment Pretentious backronym (Score 3, Funny) 48
From the actual House/Senate bills:
This Act may be cited as the “Shielding Children's Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net Act” or the “SCREEN Act”.
[rolls eyes, *sigh*]
Comment Kyla Scanlon discussed this ... (Score 1) 38
Kyla Scanlon had a pretty good explaination of this on Instagram...
Comment This already exists (Score 4, Informative) 48
Under the SCREEN Act, the "bouncer" will be a digital age-verification service that captures your personal information and saves it to a database for an unspecified amount of time.
Some sites already require the use of ID.me -- like the IRS, SSA and Medicare, the latter two also allow Login.gov. Here are 77 Companies that use ID.me in United States
Not trying to give them ideas, just sayin'
Comment Re:Iranian meddling or ... (Score 1) 47
It's not clear that "48.3% who wanted a black woman". It's quite plausible that a reasonable fraction of those just didn't want Trump.
That's fair; I should have worded that bit better. There can be different reasons people vote for/against someone or some thing.
Comment Re:Iranian meddling or ... (Score 2) 47
I don't think a woman can be elected. This isn't a statement that one shouldn't be, it's an estimation of the voters.
Adding that 49.8% of voters did re-elect a man found liable of sexual assault, who undeniably, obviously, constantly lies, over the 48.3% who wanted a black woman and 36% (90 million) of eligible voters who did not vote at all. I'll add that the first and third stats are pretty sad. On the upside, we didn't get those sky-high prices and new Middle-East wars Trump promised Harris would give us - hooray!
Comment Iranian meddling or ... (Score 5, Interesting) 47
Trump puts the blame on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. From Trump blames governor, not Iran, for Minnesota cyberattack
"They blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I think I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent," Trump said [w/o presenting any evidence] at a July 31 Cabinet meeting at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland. "I would blame it on Minnesota and the governor, the corrupt governor of Minnesota."
Governor Walz has a different theory (also from that article):
"Trump knows exactly who is responsible for this attack, and knows that other states were hit too," Walz said in a statement in response to the president's remarks. "This is what modern warfare looks like, and it further illustrates there’s no plan to win a war with Iran."
Walz blamed Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, the former government-slashing agency once led by tech executive Elon Musk, for gutting the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. "DOGE took an axe to CISA and left the U.S. exposed to cyberattacks. Thankfully, our experts in Minnesota were able to identify the vulnerability quickly and work with local communities to stop it," Walz said.
As seven states have been impacted, either Iran or Governor Walz has been very busy
Submission + - Drifting Falcon 9 upper stage heading for accidental collision with the Moon (space.com)
fahrbot-bot writes: Space and The Guardian are reporting that the Falcon 9 upper stage leftover from the launch of the Firefly Blue Ghost-1 lander on Jan. 15, 2025 is due to impact the Moon on Aug. 5, 2026.
Onboard the same flight was the Hakuto-R Mission 2, called Resilience, a robotic lunar lander developed by the Japanese company ispace.
According to a new study by an international team, the resulting impact plume may briefly be bright enough to see against the dark sky near the moon's edge. That means it might be visible to moongazers with sufficiently sensitive telescopes.
This head-on collision of the errant stage is expected to occur near the Einstein and Bell craters near the western lunar limb. It may well be visible to ground and space-based assets.
Onboard the same flight was the Hakuto-R Mission 2, called Resilience, a robotic lunar lander developed by the Japanese company ispace.
According to a new study by an international team, the resulting impact plume may briefly be bright enough to see against the dark sky near the moon's edge. That means it might be visible to moongazers with sufficiently sensitive telescopes.
This head-on collision of the errant stage is expected to occur near the Einstein and Bell craters near the western lunar limb. It may well be visible to ground and space-based assets.
Comment Re:Governments don't have the right (Score 1) 124
I suppose if one were to ignore 250 years of constitutional law, your opinion might make some sense.
Shhh! Don't give anyone any Alito replacement suggestions for SCOTUS.
Comment Re:Here's the thing (Score 4, Informative) 62
FYI, "The View" bills itself as a daytime talk show -NOT A NEWSCAST.
Similarly for many/most Fox News evening shows with the added irony that the network literally has "News" in the name. Then again , they tend to says things the Trump administration likes to hear.
Comment Re:If he is found guilty (Score 1) 182
I think what you say is not as strong as you think it is.
Perhaps you missed this bit in my comment:
An example is that naturalized citizens can have their U.S. citizenship revoked, if, for example, it's proven they lied on their application, while that of a natural-born citizen cannot.
