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Comment Re:Slashdot is VERY Left Wing. (Score 3, Informative) 162

I think this bill isn't perfect by a long shot. But NONE of what is in the headline is true.

Why, because you don't want to believe it? Everything stated is literally in the bill. This is from yesterday:

The bill now in the House takes an ax to clean energy incentives, including killing a 30% tax credit for rooftop residential solar by the end of the year that the Biden administrationâ(TM)s Inflation Reduction Act had extended into the next decade. Trump has called the clean energy tax credits in the climate law part of a âoegreen new scamâ that improperly shifts taxpayer subsidies to help the âoeglobalist climate agendaâ and energy sources like wind and solar.

Of course the hypocrisy from those who applaud this cutting isn't lost on people with at least one brain cell:

âoeIf you require a money-spigot from Washington to make your business viable, it probably shouldnâ(TM)t have been in business in the first place,â said Adam Michel, director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.

Funny how they never mention the money-spigot from Washington the oil and gas companies have received since day one, or the huge subisidies companies like Haliburton receive every year.

Oh look, here is the actual wording from the House bill posted on the congressional web site. But they're lying about this as well, right?

Comment Re:Eating the seed corn (Score 1) 191

Those who complain about lack of worker protections, tax evasion, etc., should similarly be opposed to illegal immigration, which only serves to enable all of that.

Correction. Those who complain about illegal workers shouldn't be hiring them, which only serves to enable all of that.

Time and again, those making the loudest noises against illegals are the ones hiring them, Trump included as well as those who voted for him.

Comment Re:What is the use case? (Score 2) 23

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.

Submission + - Sterilized flies to be released in order to stop flesh-eating maggot infestation (cbsnews.com)

Beeftopia writes: From CBS News: "The targeted pest is the flesh-eating larva of the New World Screwworm fly. The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to ramp up the breeding and distribution of adult male flies — sterilizing them with radiation before releasing them. They mate with females in the wild, and the eggs laid by the female aren't fertilized and don't hatch. There are fewer larvae, and over time, the fly population dies out.

It is more effective and environmentally friendly than spraying the pest into oblivion, and it is how the U.S. and other nations north of Panama eradicated the same pest decades ago. Sterile flies from a factory in Panama kept the flies contained there for years, but the pest appeared in southern Mexico late last year.... the U.S. and Mexico bred and released more than 94 billion sterile flies from 1962 through 1975 to eradicate the pest, according to the USDA. The numbers need to be large enough that females in the wild can't help but hook up with sterile males for mating."

A similar approach to certain species of mosquito is being debated. The impact on ecosystems is unclear.

Comment Re:First... (Score 1) 58

Once we wipe out enough of the species that it begins to show up on quarterly reports as loss of profit, maybe we'll consider doing something about it.

Interesting you should say that. I just heard this morning that as more immigrants get sent out of the country we may experience a net loss to the population for the first time in decades. In addtion, because of all these people no longer in the country, GDP will decrease because they aren't buying goods and services nor helping to produce goods and services.

We know this is already affecting industries such as housing where one MAGA voter whined it will take him years to replace the immigrants taken from him. Of course, in Florida, they're already aware of what happens when you go after immigrants. Food rots in the field and businesses can't fully operate.

Perhaps these extended droughts will accelerate these issues.

Submission + - US Embassy: open your social media profiles (usembassy.gov)

rastos1 writes: U.S. Embassies in countries around the world, have following on their website:
Notice: Effective immediately, all individuals applying for an F, M, or J nonimmigrant visa are requested to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to ‘public’ to facilitate vetting necessary to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States under U.S. law.

Submission + - Trump's feud with Harvard endangers 50 years of women's health samples (cnn.com) 2

quonset writes: For fifty years, Harvard has been collecting medical information and samples from female nurses. The data have led to deeper insights and contributed a better understanding into human health. However, President Trump's feud with Harvard may see all the information and samples being discarded.

Study data gathered through the years from some 280,000 nurses in the United States has contributed enormously to improving how we live. The work has informed dietary recommendations, including national dietary guidelines; led to hormonal therapies for breast cancer prevention and treatment; and contributed to research about how nutrients, inflammatory markers and heavy metals influence disease development.

Funding for the Nurses’ Health Study and its companion study for men, the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, had already been abruptly withdrawn in mid-May, said Harvard nutritionist Dr. Walter Willett, who has led the studies since 1980.

Willett and his team were left scrambling to find the funds needed to protect freezers stocked with stool, urine and DNA specimens gathered from thousand of nurses for nearly five decades. Just the liquid nitrogen needed to keep the specimens frozen costs thousands of dollars a month.

“Of course, we would all love to have an agreement that lets us get on with research, education, and working to improve the health and well-being of everyone.” said Willett, a professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, who has published over 2,000 papers on nutrition.

“But this can’t happen if we turn over admissions, faculty hiring and curriculum to governmental control.”

Submission + - Amazon Deploys Its One Millionth Robot, Releases Generative AI Model (techcrunch.com)

An anonymous reader writes: After 13 years of deploying robots into its warehouses, Amazon reached a new milestone. The tech behemoth now has 1 million robots in its warehouses, the company announced Monday. This one millionth robot was recently delivered to an Amazon fulfillment facility in Japan. That figure puts Amazon on track to reach another landmark: Its vast network of warehouses may soon have the same number of robots working as people, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. The WSJ also reported that 75% of Amazon’s global deliveries are now assisted in some way by a robot.

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