It’s also largely a majority-minority area that has sent a person of color to Congress previously.

It’s just the current iteration of phone callback culture from the landline era. People had strong opinions about if you should call back dates or friends immediately or wait until the next day. The expectation of immediate response is a newer phenomenon.

Classic Gbay99.

I’m not sure I would call NH and Maine blue states. They are more purple. E.g., both chambers of the NH legislature have Republican majorities right now.

Your argument sounds more like you find AI reliably good at creating Muzak, but not music. I could see that argument.

I don’t think AI is definitionally capable of creating music that matters and has a soul. I don’t mean that religiously, but in the sense of imbuing sound with the expression of meaning and intent. It doesn’t have to be deep or fancy. However, art is human expression on some level. Perhaps a very collaborative version of AI could help a person accomplish that, but nothing that just spits out an entire song or section on its own.

We are not so devoid of available music (the opposite) for it to be necessary. Art is also one of the things we should have more time for if AI delivers on its promises.

It’s also a crime anywhere in the US. Whether the police will do much to investigate beyond typing up a report probably depends on how easy it is for them to solve, whether you matter, etc.

If this was in the US, you didn’t have to do that. The most they can do is detain you until the police arrive if they have probable cause under shopkeeper’s privilege. They would have to be able to articulate which behavior rose to that level. It may make things easier to comply, but removing clothing is unreasonable.

Post Mikulone.

Yep, that sort of capture is definitely one of the major causes. It is designed to prevent working people from being able to build wealth through sensible development that they can actually control. Everything has to run through huge developers and big projects that average people have no hope of participating in or holding power over.

This is why I’m trying to make the point that it is not a single problem issue. The market alone isn’t going to solve the problem even if you remove corrupt situations like this as you said. But it’s also not going to solve the issue just to address “greed” by whatever regulatory mechanisms that might take shape as.

Supply is absolutely part of it that needs to be solved, obviously with reasonable housing and not luxury condos. Other things are too. Anyone who tries to make something as big and complex as housing into a silver bullet, black and white concern is not actually trying to solve the problem. They are trying to do something else and using housing as an excuse.

From what I have read, there is usually little overlap. Higher homelessness and high priced housing is in areas with low vacancy rates, and vice versa. That’s not to say you’re wrong about greed being a real problem (it definitely is), but I think it’s multifaceted rather than a singular “real” problem.

Beyond the angle already mentioned about Musk’s racism, black communities in the US have disproportionately been affected by polluting industries. It is worth mentioning when it happens yet again.

There is some good advice here on dealing with this particular plant. Assuming it’s not native for you, that’s worth pursuing.

I’m going to be that annoying person and suggest this is a good opportunity to rethink the concept of a lawn. A lawn forever requires a lot of maintenance because it’s usually a monoculture and usually non-native. Allowing that space to become a habitat for a variety of useful native species is very rewarding. You will need a reliable way to identify plants (like an app) to determine what’s good to keep or remove. It will require a lot of maintenance initially, but a robust native ecology once established will require less attention with time. Your local fauna will thank you.

Are you sure it wasn’t Kidde, one of the largest manufacturers of smoke detectors?

I find it humorous that the one thing it immediately falls back to a human for is checking in for a mobile order. You’d think that would be the easiest thing to automate since it already has the complete order!

How would this hand over taxpayer dollars? The 50% stake would come from a one-time tax on stock that hands over that stake; it doesn’t call for forcing the companies to sell to the government.

I agree. The author presents a thesis that Democrats have tracked left, and then presents two issues where they have (abortion, job guarantees), one issue where they have returned to where they were in 1990 and the working class has tracked right (healthcare), and then just an identity question (liberal) which is not actually an issue. It’s far from a comprehensive data analysis.

The author misses out on a huge area where Democrats (and the left in general) have consistently gotten worse at: communication and persuasion. Part of this is the failure of the Democrats to identify, push, and promote charismatic candidates (find a single human being who feels more excited about left ideas after hearing Pelosi, Jeffries, or Schumer talk). The other big part is the concentration of media power in fewer organizations and more ideologically right owners. Even more, the party of the young whiffed on social media entirely which could have lessened the impact of the latter part.

That’s not really how trials for treatments like this work. The non-experimental groups would get standard of care/a comparator which would be used to determine efficacy. It would be unethical to give sugar pills to patients with advanced NSCLC.

Edit: yep https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12568215/

I think specifically the oligosaccharides in beans that, if your digestive system has not been accustomed to, will be unpleasant if you all of a sudden ingest a lot of. Also poorly prepared beans that have not been sufficiently soaked, etc. to draw these out.

No idea if this was an official explanation, but I always heard drop rates like this were simulating the item/body part/etc. being too damaged during combat to retrieve.