For the record below is what the State Bar dinged Jenkins on. tldr; The prior DA's office let a guy with 73 felonies and 34 misdemeanors in S.F. alone be allowed to be free before his last crime which was armed carjacking and then killing two people in his getaway attempt. Jenkins emailed the criminal's record using her city gov email to outside address.

https://thevoicesf.org/exclusi...

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"The subject line of Jenkins’ email was “Troy McAllister Police reports.” It contained three police reports regarding the serial offender who, while driving intoxicated on Dec. 31, 2020, struck and killed two pedestrians. All three police reports were unredacted and, significantly, one contained a lengthy, unredacted rap sheet for McAlister, dating back to 1993.

Following their exit from the District Attorney’s office, both Jenkins and du Bain officially joined the nascent recall effort of Boudin, and highlighted the details of McAlister’s extensive criminal history contained in the police reports and/or rap sheet."

Separately I am curious on how a criminals 'rap sheet' is not public record. Note I voted for Brooke and will vote for her again. She is an important part of the re-making SF livable again.

Wish I had mod points. Very interesting paper from 1999 no less. That's an informative keeper for me and to have my kids read.

It's dispiriting but not un-expected to see comments in /. basically to the effect of scientists being corrupt, dumb, something, something.

As though the USGS of all groups is some politically motivated shadow group. The USGS. And 100 years of a parade of people measuring the sea at Fort Point and writing down the measurements.

I need to sit down and record myself today doing a testimonial on my perspective, ideals, thoughts etc. And then send it to my extended family. That way when I become older and somewhat un-hinged people can point me back to video when I was not a kook and hopefully it will knock some sense back into me.

Except Europe doesn't actually have all of these. Some of them yes, but not all. It's still super-expensive to raise one child (let alone two+) in Western Europe. Same as it is in first world Asia like Japan, Korea, etc

This data shows a huge drop in U.S. fertility rates going into the Great Depression leading into WWII. Why? To quote "It's the economy stupid." That and perhaps a certain level of optimism/pessimism for the future.

https://www.researchgate.net/f...
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data-...

The initial instinct is correct. Parent is off his rocker. Simple formula is to make having 2.1 kids on average easy and pleasant.
IMHO that means
-free childcare from 4 months to Kindergarten
-free public schools K-12 that are good nationwide
-Very low cost education incl state colleges and training + apprenticeships for trades
-Affordable health care
-Available work that pays the bills, keeps up with inflation, puts a roof over your head

There are solutions to each of these none of which require unseemly new -ism's nor Eisenhower era 90% tax brackets. But it does require taming the corporate and political interests that have effectively sabotaged childcare, education, healthcare, retirement and wages. We see it again and again decade after decade, and somehow don't have the stones to fix it. Oh, and the foreign wars. Those have proved to be absolute wastes of treasure. Back to watching the intro to Idiocracy again

I just wanted to let you know that you have successfully driven me off of /., after some 25 years.

Not just you, obviously, the site has been in steep decline for a long time, but you were such a huge asshole that you managed to be the last straw. So, congrats for that. I won't be back.

In real life Hegseth would be fired, Palantir would be replaced. The Civilian Protect units would not have been eviscerated.

Even in the current administration, stuff that smears the president will usually get you canned. But looks like Heggie is pretty invincible given the pass he was provided on this tragedy, Johnson calling his sheep back to the barn early to prevent any on-the-record votes about Heggie. I hope that the next session of congress will propose a bill to cancel as much of the Palantir government contracts as is feasible.

I think there is great value in having the military interface with the general public. Especially in an all voluntary military situation. It's an opportunity for the public to see how servicemen/women are living, the sacrifices they are making compared to the civilians, and how tax dollars are being spent. I am fortunate that annually the Navy comes to town and offers tours of the vessels they've docked. It super interesting to see the level of sophistication / lack of sophistication on these ships. The morale and conduct of the enlisted and officers. It's just a weekend but provides excellent insight, to my a civie. You also tend to get a little of the 'real' from jokes and side comments the service people present.

I also am a super-fan of air shows, displaying the speed, precision, and sheer power directed to making that 20k kg aircraft burn through the sky. It's the kid in me, but that's awesome. Likewise with a slow, and low flyby of the bigger planes. Helos the whole deal.

BUT what Heggie and the like are pursuing is much more related to the desire of a-holes like Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un, Gaddafi, and other dear leader types. I feel certain if they could swing it, they would put on one of those military parades with the pointy missiles on trucks and scores of troops with heavy boots walking in lock-step. No. Not in the United States of America please and thank you. More, planned, organized interactive events between military...less show of power nonsense. RPMs of founding fathers within sarcophagi increasing with every passing day

More like 99.99%. Maybe need some more nines in there. Large C codebases without regular critical CVEs are basically nonexistent.

What bankruptcy-prevention actions are they asking for?

15-25 kWh drawn by the utility is quite a bit! I hope they're paying him well for that.

They're bringing outside scrutiny into their processes; that's going to slow them down, too.

Not "at the same time". You're conflating what AI can do now with what it will likely be able to do in a year or five, or 20.

Amodei and others are worried about what AI that doesn't yet exist may do, not about what current-generation AI can do. AI is getting better, very quickly, and unless there's some blocking obstacle that no one has been able to identify will at some point become far, far smarter than humans, individually or collectively. So before that happens, we need to figure out how to make sure that superintelligent AI wants to help us, and wants to do it in the right way.

A solid 25% of my electricity bill goes to wildfire costs and that's up from 13% in 2023. Keep in mind that this is 'revenue requirement' money which means the cost also includes "and includes an opportunity for the utility to earn a fair return on its investments." That fair return was apparently helpful in buying Xavier Becerra the governorship

My question is why aren't these costs amortized over 20, 30, 50 years since the benefits of such measures presumably will endure over that period of time? Or put another way, why should rate payers in 2023-2033 bear the entire cost?

Also insurance situation in California is badly . The top job, Insurance Commissioner is a port of call for legislators who have termed out. And bad ones at that. They skew the insurance rates, not accurately reflecting the risks nor costs. It's a veritable giveaway with a typical CA politician thought that these costly benefits will come for free. Nope. Homeowner insurance rates are rising through the roof, if you are lucky and not having your policy cancelled.

Keeping watch over this mess for the past 8 years? This guy:

Ricardo Lara - Straight from college to being a staffer in the statehouse. Then elected to State Assembly (2010–2012) and State Senate (2012–2018) before becoming Insurance Commissioner.

Wikipedia: "After the election, Lara faced significant criticism in which he admitted to receiving donations from the insurance industry he regulates despite pledging not to do so during his campaign.[23][24][25][26][27]

Since assuming office in 2019, Lara has missed nearly all key Senate Insurance Committee hearings, few of which were held each year, often due to international and cross-country travel. Public records revealed at least 46 such trips, including a minimum of 11 taxpayer-funded international excursions to destinations like Bogotá, Paris, Bermuda, Toronto, and the United Kingdom. In many cases, the Department of Insurance has been unable to provide clear documentation of the business purpose of these trips."

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Is this actually a substantial amount of energy? I'm in Utah (Rocky Mountain Power) and RMP also pays me to use my batteries... but the amount of energy they draw is tiny. 8-10 times per week they draw on my batteries, but it's like 4 kW peak draw (my batteries can sustain 20 kW), and generally for less than 30 seconds, so in any given week I'm only contributing like 0.2 kWh. As I understand it, this is because RMP uses my batteries not really to "serve loads", per se, but just as grid stabilization; brief backfill to keep the voltage from sagging.

Obviously my batteries do serve *my* loads, which reduces the load on the grid, but that's not what RMP pays me for.

Does CA make heavier use of residential batteries to feed the grid?