They have almost definitely archived data and around the time of the API bullshit, made sure they didn't delete those archives. They have that content if they want to use it.
They're almost definitely trained using an archive, likely taken before they announced the whole API thing. It would be weird if they didn't have backups going back a year.
No, people like that drink their right wing Flavor Aid and assume the talking points reflect reality. The person everyone is arguing with also believes that rent will come down if Starbucks employees leave, ignoring both the actual price fixing scheme in the rental market and the fact that prices keep being driven up by external factors unrelated to the labor and consumer markets in San Francisco.
I am not recommending that anyone do this but you don't need anything more advanced than Orgo 2. The issue isn't making the compound, at least once you have the precursors, it's ensuring that it's not contaminated with other products in a way that harms or kills you. It's not enough to get any yield, you need a safe yield.
Since there's nothing to appeal (he won and it wasn't filed), ethics investigation into the special prosecutor based on language used in the report. Maybe it comes back that these are all legitimate conclusions based on verifiable evidence, maybe it comes back that it's hyperbole to score political points, which is not officially permitted in an investigation. Biden will probably not pursue it further because the only win now is to make it go away, adding an investigation could seem like whinging and keep it in the public eye leading up to the election.
It was already established. It's just a theoretical framework in various social studies. It was deliberately bastardized by the right as they were seeking something to hate. It wasn't even in the public consciousness, just something academics used and that get taught in some higher ed classes. It's a very useful framework but it's not something that you'd actually teach a kid.
No, they can't guarantee Sinema or Manchin so they don't for sure have 51 votes to confirm. If Sotomayor leaves before there's a guarantee she'll get replaced with someone else on the left, the consequences could be very bad.
I'm actually curious how you'd even do it logistically. There's like three separate sets of people minimum for the tests, a whole anonymous grading system you'd have to game somehow and for that I'm pretty sure the person grading doesn't know the number of the paper they're grading, and then the actual admissions committee. I guess you could just bribe the admissions committee and have them fake a result but, again, there's a separate national multistate test whose results get factored in. Maybe pay someone to take the test for you but the chances they get caught are...medium.
The more I think about it, it's actually easier to just memorize law and pass the bar.
1 and 2 are more likely. It's pretty damn hard to bribe your way past the bar, you'd have to pay a lot of people and trust none of them care about their careers or potentially getting prosecuted.
Okay, so obviously it has to come from the top officially. Unofficially, in the DC area, which is the region where I have personal knowledge of what happened, it was local pressure. The administration probably got the same nationally, hence the universal decision.
Edit: Plus, as the article says, OPM was willing to let agencies do whatever they want. The Biden administration got involved as Republicans introduced legislation to force RTO. So I guess I missed that part of it.
RTO in the DC area is as much due to pressure from various local governments to "save downtown" as it is a top-down program from the Biden administration. From everything I've seen, the local governments care way more about this than the feds do and they're getting pressure from businesses.