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Every time I read it, I just see it like the momentary pauses that President Obama made in his speeches. Makes it a little more interesting.

I always think of the song from Portlandia whenever someone brings up the 90s: https://youtu.be/U4hShMEk1Ew

Although, from what I've heard, tech bros migrated from the Bay Area to Portland and have radically changed its culture for the worse.

There are still a couple satellites operated by Canada and the EU that provide hurricane data to the US...until something fucks that up too, I guess.

Lead might also be the lead of our time again, if the reports about lead being in disposable vape pens are true.

I mean, yeah, kinda. They wrote it in an attempt at having language that doesn't influence the respondent, but you've got the idea. It's more about the respondent's opinion, not necessarily the reality of a president bound by laws.

It's a topic that has been discussed in the news elsewhere, usually with the quote from Andrew Jackson, "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"

The people who said no would probably love for Trump to have a similar quote.

Except that isn't how the question was worded...

As you may know, a number of Trump administration actions have been challenged in the United States federal court. If a federal court rules that a Trump administration action is illegal, do you think the administration:

Has to follow the court's ruling and stop its action. (81)

Doesn't have to follow the court's ruling and can continue its action. (19)

I bolded some words for emphasis here, the question is not whether he should but whether they think he has to. Important difference.

The person doing the spraying knows it's just a water pistol. The person being sprayed has just been exposed to an unknown liquid by an unknown person. Considering this is also how acid attacks work, it's not really that cool of a thing to do to people.

It took me a while to find, but stuff like this research from Yale, reviving organs and brain function long after the point of death, makes it apparent that what it means to die is just as complex a question as what makes us us.

Tbh I'm a little surprised he didn't say it was 88%

It's by Craig J Spearing on Bloomburrow Commander's Octopus token: https://scryfall.com/card/tblc/14/octopus

Sounds kinda similar to how Wikipedia was approached by instructors. I remember an English teacher proudly proclaiming she had participated in a "Kill Wikipedia" seminar at a convention. Just a few years later, they're instructing students on how to properly use Wikipedia as a starting point and not a primary source.

It's a deeper belief than just EVs. At the beginning of the Obama administration, when there was the "cash for clunkers" program to buy back inefficient old vehicles, these people made a show of going out and buying massive Hummers and other horribly inefficient cars they'd drive around town in. When new efficiency rules went into place for halogen lightbulbs, they flocked to the stores to stock up on as many inefficient bulbs as possible.

They can be pushed to be good little consumers when needed, but it's almost always to promote inefficiency and oppose environmentalism.

Not sure about other agencies but CDC and specifically NCHS typically had to anonymize their health data before public release. If you could use other data points from within the government to connect the dots, that might be valuable to someone.

Just in case you didn't know, Cara Cunningham is not a dude.

Not exactly a citation but it was pretty weird when someone found one of the DOGE staffers' participation in a hackathon around vote manipulation that got him real close with Musk as a result. Then he started wiping his connections once it was made public.

https://bsky.app/profile/denisedwheeler.bsky.social/post/3lhowh3ijgs2f

It really shouldn't be news, but remember....there are most likely a lot of morons out there who would still be shocked to hear about it. The ones who don't like to talk or read about politics, the uninformed voter. These are Americans we're talking about.

Mostly unrelated, but holy shit, it's taken me about a decade to realize that's why the play is called M. Butterfly and this comment just did it. I just never really thought about the title, but the ambiguity makes sense.

They have distinct blinking patterns as well. IIRC observing the pattern is one of the ways used to classify them.

TIL that's also the guy on the "hot fries" bag in the grocery store.

That's the thing that's confused me a bit. Project 2025 definitely calls for the dismantling and privatization of NOAA, but I didn't see anything specifically mentioning AccuWeather. IIRC the CEO of AccuWeather said it'd be way too costly for them to pick up all of the responsibilities they depend on NOAA for. At this point, I'd fully expect Musk to say his companies can handle it.