Republicans complain Joe Biden had too much energy at SOTU
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I did watch the state of the union address, and Biden did a wonderful job overall.
There were a few word stumbles, and his stutter came out at a point; but I know I couldn't give an hour long plus speech, and not stumble several times. There was one spot he stopped mid-sentence to respond to a heckle, which will probably be clipped, but I cant remember the exact words.
Republicans need to learn to just shut up during his speeches and not heckle. He is on the ball, and at his best when responding to their heckling, it makes him look good, and he gets concessions out of them every time.
Gaza was probably the toughest segment he tackled in the SOTU; primarily that he repeated several things I've heard to be false, but may well be stuff that either stuck in his memory hard, or the US intelligence community has more information than the media I've seen, and could be accurate.
Overall, he did look energetic, intelligent, and delivered on a lot of the messaging for what his office had helped accomplish, that people generally don't hear about.
If your issue with Biden is his age, or you think his office hasn't done much of anything, I suggest you watch. If your issue with him is Gaza... likely nothing he does is going to placate you, and this address won't change that. He clearly is for a two state system, and not anti-Palestinian, but also is anti-Hamas, and is well aware of Hamas tactics of blending in with civilians, and using them as a shield (which isn't new, it has been how they operate for a long time prior to the current conflict).
I don't know if it meets your purposes, nor do I use mac, but I just bought this keyboard:
https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/combos/mk850-wireless-keyboard-mouse.920-008219.html
Created exclusively for and at the direction of someone who has cancer maybe?
"We're close, we promise, we don't want to fall out a window."
This article does not actually mention the chatbot being AI. As chatbots have been around for many years, it is possible this is just a normal non-'AI' chatbot that someone programmed that information with (potentially old information that had long since changed, but no one has updated).
Either way, they are liable for what it tells customers. If it is AI, well... no company should be using AI to make legally binding statements, or advertisements to customers (without human review).
At the moment, companies deploying an AI, should be doing so with AI as the product, not integrated into selling non-AI related products, or services.
Have them skip the leeches, go straight to being a blood donor.
Similar health benefit, but also help others. Last I checked, the Red Cross has declared an emergency from blood shortages, caused by fewer donors than ever.
Just tell people it will reduce the microplastics in their bloodstream.
Awesome. Thanks for the info.
I would also have concerns of if congress only requires 50% of the vote or not, but as things stand, we at least have enough who support NATO and view Russia as an adversary, that it is unlikely.
But house republicans have proven over and over they are weak. They cave to pressure on Trump when he isn't even president.
To use one of Trumps phrases, Republicans got a 'sweetheart deal' on immigration and the border, and they gave it up over pressure from Trump to not fix the border issue if he isn't in office. Every day the border crisis continues is on Trump, and republicans hands (I want to say house, but even the Senate caved to him).
Burger King has a new burger that I like, and it's $10 (burger only). I would order it lots if it was $7 to 8, but $10 is a tad much.
Eating out now days is just too expensive in general. If I'm going to eat out, I rather go to an actual restaurant, because fast food costs about the same now days. $14-16 fast food mean vs $12-22 for sit down meal. I can keep the fast food costs down, but that's usually without a meal, and/or ordering inferior products.
I feel like when he was in office before, I recall him wanting to pull out of NATO then.
I hope we have legislatively done everything we can to ensure whoever the president is, is not able to unilaterally pull out of alliances, and membership in the UN, and WHO, without first getting congressional approval as well, and any such action would be null, and void without such approval.
We were a joke on the world stage when Trump was in office, and lost the trust of much of our allies. We are finally taken seriously on the world stage again, and not laughed at for our president, but we have not fully regained that trust; it is there now, but the world now see's weather they can trust us at any given moment is depending on elections every 4 years at minimum, and our current congress is even swayed by the whims of a former president that isn't even in office.
The trust, standing, and soft power the USA lost from Trump's time in office, may never return to what it once was.
I feel like Little Bobby Tables has grown up, and should now be Robert'); DROP TABLE loans;--
I'm much more a fan of the thumb trackball Logitech used to make:
https://www.newegg.com/logitech-910-001799/p/24W-001B-00008 as an example.
I've seen red or blue marble varieties. I think I've owned both, have bought like 5 of these over the years.
Currently using just a regular optical mouse, because it came with the keyboard, and is bound to the same usb plug, but I think I have one somewhere.
Version numbers I'm guessing.
Do they not have actual version numbers maybe?
Which means, Ubuntu may have several separate entries, whereas Arch gets all combined altogether. If that's the case, then likely not a very accurate Linux distro list without additional data cleaning to combine versions of distros.
I'm with you, but for my wife's sake I'd move Dr. Pepper at least one tier above all others.
I use python occasionally at work.
... Not IT approved, but well... we use an MSP, and I get to be a decision maker in the company for certain things, and just do it, because well.... I can, and the company keeps me around partially for the things I do with python and sql.
I would like to say Pandas should be used for much of that excel stuff, maybe even replace it, but... Microsoft has decided to bring Python capabilities into excel, so that will likely cement them in your workflow even further:
To preface, I disagree with the death penalty in most cases.
It may seem a strange idea, but as long as the death penalty is a thing, I wonder if there is an opportunity to instead of killing the person, provide the option (after serving a sufficient term for 'punishment' and/or 'rehabilitation') of instead killing the person's citizenship; as an alternative, if they have dual citizenship, allow the other country the option to take their citizen back in, drop their US citizenship, and permanently make them ineligible from regaining citizenship; and in cases of only US citizenship (because you aren't allowed to make someone 'stateless'), allow another nation to sponsor the individual by granting them citizenship (should the person accept) and taking them in.
The other country in such a case would be responsible for whatever further 'punishment'/'rehabilitation' they feel is appropriate before re-integrating them into society. There's only a couple thousand death row inmates in the US currently.
I'm not saying other nations will be jumping to take in murderers, but with the high number of false convictions in the US, and risk of executing innocent people, some nations with a high moral standard, may be willing to take some people in if given the opportunity.
Just a random thought that occurred; if it is extremely crazy sounding, I don't know. But the US is basically a prison nation with plenty of innocent people being convicted of crimes all the time, it may be nice for there to be another option.
Edit: Treason, and crimes against the nation, is one of those things that probably shouldn't be allowed such an exception, because you are just sending someone who 'committed treason' to a place they can continue to act against your nation, that's just not a smart thing to do.
Before Oct 7th..... ummm... the economic pain for bankers caused by forgiving student loans? Inflation did suck for a while, but the Biden admin walked a tightrope with almost guaranteed recession below, and managed a soft landing to avoid recession (which honestly, everyone was expecting a recession). The Biden admin has a long list of things they actually have done, just their PR sucks (Biden tends to quietly work to accomplish stuff in the background, and not throw a victory parade for every little thing they do. Not that I want him to do that, I consider it tacky, but Trump does it constantly and gets all the media attention, so hopefully that changes for the duration of the elections).
Even with what is happening in Gaza, Biden and the Biden administration are not 'pro-murder Palestinians'.
Bibi isn't going to listen to anyone unless made to, this is an ambition of his.
What I would say the Biden admin, AND CONGRESS, are guilty of, is not being heavy handed with Bibi and Israel. They have no actual power to stop it, but they do have the power of influence by enforcing our standard policies for military aid; ie: condition continued aid on not murdering Palestinian civilians/make (and show) great effort to specifically target Hamas... if not, stop selling weapons/providing aid to Israel (beyond maybe the Iron Dome).
I do want someone younger for President, but if it's Biden v. Trump, I'm voting Biden. The Gaza situation sucks, Israel has gone too far, and is rightfully being viewed as the villain here, but not being able to control the leader of a foreign nation isn't reason to be ANTI-Biden, and let fascists/authoritarians come into power.
The world suddenly acting like Biden should have ultimate control over foreign leaders is a weird new twist I did not expect. Israel has long been an important ally and partner; we do need to be firmer/heavier handed, but not so much as to turn a partner/ally into an enemy, unless absolutely necessary. Ideally, Israelis would take care of removing Bibi from power on their own.
I don't want Newsom as president.
I'm done with him as governor. It's not an all bad policy thing, I view the CPUC in bed with utility providers with unlimited energy rate hikes, as very much a Newsom thing.
Every single CPU Commissioner was appointed by Newsom. Yes it needs Senate approval, but he is the one who chooses who to appoint, and the senate approves it.
PG&E's rate just went up again upon CPUC approval to $0.42/kWh
Actually... I see your point.
Are they made of leather, or just.... super fake looking low quality fabric?
All for reducing copyright to 25 years or less.
DMCA... I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, been a while, and the media mostly talks about DMCA take down notices. DMCA includes the clauses that prevent people from tinkering and modifying things they bought/own if manufacturers put any preventative measures in place right (including repairing)? If so, I'm fully up for revisiting that.
But never, NEVER, NEVER touch Section 230. And anyone attacking it is likely being disingenuous , or doesn't really understand how Section 230 and the internet work (and are unlikely to write better legislation).
When he was the senator, he pushed forward a lot of bad policies we are stuck with to this day. Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act and Anti-Drug Abuse Act are only a couple of bad laws he's helped advance while in the Senate.
His age is not of concern for me either. I'll vote for him, because the alternative is Trump. But if the country weren't under the threat of MAGA, Fascism, Nazis, and white/Christian Nationalists, and there were other reasonable options, I probably would vote for someone else.