wtf, are they really expecting one guy to make up for the governments abandoned commitments? Why don’t they put that Nazi toady right on it?

Don’t lose sight that you are committing a crime, you are destroying an innocent persons property, and you really have no excuses if caught by either the owner or the police

White, some level of fame, voluntarily coming in from the “right” side of the border, had some sort of paperwork, her work visa apparently hadn’t yet expired?

Seriously , that’s what happened? I was going to say, the article wasn’t clear on whether there was actually a problem but it sounds like not

Not really, no. Plenty of laws are not just wrong but also illegal. This is the biggest issue with the current US administration: a flood of illegal actions but the people who need to say no do not have the moral fortitude or even self-preservation to do so. Hopefully our service men and women are more ethical than our congressmen

The thing is, if you don’t know what they might follow through with, you need to take it all seriously.

Or if you’re one of our allies, you have to take seriously what would directly affect you

Since Vietnam, supposedly they have a duty to disobey illegal orders

We always include the dog for Christmas. In my lifelong total of four dogs, they all were uncertain the first year, a little better the next year, and after three were all set to jump in and unwrap their presents. While they have no concept of Christmas and probably no explicit memories of previous Christmases, they do seem to learn year over year

Autopilot is great, auto landing is great. Humans are needed for decisions and planning, adaptability, handling unexpected circumstances, and are worth every penny

The problem with eugenics is proposed solutions, or criteria based of prejudice.

I claim it’s both fine and correct to state that the wrong people have too many children. You’re the wrong people if you have more children than you can adequately care for, to raise sufficiently for them to have a successful life. You’re the wrong people if you have children you’re not prepared for or otherwise can’t commit to raising or don’t have the ability to raise.

It’s wrong, eugenics, when

• it’s prejudicial such as based on race, culture, religion
• you’re judging another person’s worth, their rights on that worth, or their opportunities on their worth
• you take it to an extreme, such as only the wealthy should have children.
• you prescribe a solution that imposes your will on other people, or worse, legal or medical intervention

Better answers include

• better education helps people make better choices
• better medical care helps people know their choice will succeed
• better safety nets help each child succeed even when their parents made a poor choice or had unexpected life events
• better childcare options help give the parents a chance to succeed with trying to earn a living while raising a child

If you’re in a contaminated area, you’re contaminated. Hopefully not enough to make a difference if you don’t eat paint chips.

• But smaller chips are part of the dust that gets everywhere.
• Chips and stripped paint is part of the soil that may be pulled up into any vegetables grown in that soil.
• heavy metals bioaccumulate so even small exposures over enough time can add up to a problem
• it’s not just lead, mercury is notorious for bioaccumulating up the food chains for many seafoods

Every building before like 1978 has lead paint, but people forget that so does the land around them. I live in an area with older homes and we’re frequently warned not to grow vegetables within 10’ of the house because the soil is too likely lead contaminated from peeling or stripping exterior paint over the years

And mercury. And other heavy metals. They’re not just neurotoxic but biocumulative so even small exposures over a long time can add up to a lifetime of problems

Thanks, Lemmy, now I’m “that Dad”. After reading this, I went to dinner with my two teens and one of their girlfriends, so of course I had to bring this up. All three have started working after school and will need to file their taxes this year so they need to know.

But holy crap is that a seriously uncool conversation

That was an entertaining 90 minutes of YouTube! And I definitely saw that face

Thanks

I keep reading west Virginians understand the impact on coal jobs of automation over the decades. Even if coal were to come back, the jobs won’t.

A little bit of searching through the data shows West Virginians are the least productive coal miners, most labor required, least automation. Even if coal were to come back, jobs won’t be going to West Virginia nor will mines pay well for lack of productivity.

The economic case against coal is open-shut. Even if you disregard the environment, coal is not coming back.

The funny thing is apparently US coal production had a huge drop during trumps first term and actually increased a little during Biden’s

• https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/united-states/coal-production

But it’s not coming back

But you have to keep it going to highlight how much wealthier people pay (although that’s tougher since their income is not “income”). Maybe throw in a few examples of the wealthiest Americans and wha recent age they pay, to not only clarify it, but retarget their anger where it belongs

What? Is this the onion?

Maybe, but they may lose more customers than they expect ….

There are privacy based devices for “always listening” voice assistants coming on strong

• https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

I already use Siri with a button for a lot. recently it seems able to recognize more of my smarthome devices and it will now prompt to forward more complex queries to ChatGPT

I’m really down to the intercom feature being the only reason to keep Alexa - I can’t control the devices my kids use at their mom’s house