George would have some confusion about the “planet Vulcan” bit long before Star Wars, though.

Trump said Tuesday that it’s a “good thing” Kent resigned over his objections to the war with Iran, deriding him as “very weak on security.”

Yeah, I’ll say. What a loser! What kind of numbnuts hired that guy, anyway?

You give somebody who’s used to living paycheck to paycheck a few million bucks and they will spend it.

So they become job creators?

Is the goal to become a rich asshole? Or is the goal for everyone to make $19/hr?

Well I guess those are definitely the only possible outcomes, aren’t they?

We could view this as “MS pushes for stupid direction that clued-in tech people are opposed to,” or we could view this as “MS gives up on native apps because everyone else of consequence already has.” I hate it but I have eyes.

If AI enhanced coding is really so great, we might expect to see a Renaissance of small, efficient native apps, even on platforms like Android. I’m not holding my breath, though.

The term “kill chain” reduces the slaughter of human beings to an engineering problem. It tacitly admits that modern militaries are murder factories. If we had caught ISIS or a drug cartel speaking and thinking this way, that would be a Fox News headline for months. What a dispiriting bit of jargon. It tells so much more than it says.

Stovepiping.

But do we believe that the pooper-in-chief was hanging on every word coming out of the intelligence apparatus in the hours after the first bombings, alert for any rumor that could be leveraged for the noise machine? Or is it more likely one of the many wormtongues in his orbit whispered this in his ear?

So, next up, the way things have been going: “Windex cured my kid’s autism, now Google is censoring me!”

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I did this with gemini to so…

I haven’t got any experience with, or any paid access to, these LLM things.

Can you get Gemini to give you the figures (since there are only two for each year) and a URL source for those figures, along with the chart? I’m just thinking the output could be specified in a way that made it easy to double-check, and that could be an education, however double-checking turns out.

My absolute top priority is size. If the camera isn’t small and easy to carry, I know that I just simply won’t use it enough. Ideally it should almost as easy to bring as my phone.

My own travel experience has led me to agree with this priority 100%.

I figured this out with a different approach, though. In 2022 (or so), when they were dirt cheap on Ebay, I bought a couple of the cameras in this roundup . Which means they’re old. But clone batteries are still cheap and readily available. The Canon in that list will run CHDK alternative firmware, which opens up some new features. And they really are small enough to be “as easy to bring as my phone,” but they have real optical zoom lenses, RAW files, and none of the computational HDR stuff.

The asking prices for these things have gone bonkers, but they could still be cheaper than the interchangable-lens systems you’re contemplating. I’ve had a ton of fun with mine, way more than I ever anticipated. Having a 400mm zoom in my pants pocket still feels like impossible spy movie stuff to me. One way to see sample pictures from a camera model is to search Flickr for that model, for example: Flickr pictures taken with the Canon SX230HS.

Best of luck with whatever you decide!

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That headline, “left him at a cafe,” is offering the regime some scrap of moral cover that is not justified by any facts of the case, as far as I can see. There is barely a reason to bring this up in the story, let alone the headline. That’s just the NYT kissing the regime’s ass.

This takes some effort, some talent. If you asked me to write a headline that made ICE look ever so slightly less evil, I would not have considered this, I wouldn’t have that creative capacity. Someone has made this their mission in life, to paint the murderous thugs of ICE in a gentler light.

So the national anthem tells us we’re “free” and “brave.” Maybe it’s time to update that.

The Center for Biological Diversity noted that this order would mark the first time that the Defense Production Act was used to force an oil company to restart out-of-use Infrastructure and to disregard the state permitting process.

So this must be that “free market” I hear so much about?

I’m concerned in a general way that the federated design of Lemmy / Mastodon etc. is by its nature (arguably even by its intent) likely to lead users to construct isolated media bubbles. But I don’t know how to improve it. I’m not going to subscribe to a (hypothetical as far as I know) fascist community just to “broaden my mind,” that wouldn’t work.

It’s hard to know how much of the division we see and feel is meatspace division facilitated by social media, and how much of it is social media reflecting divisions in meatspace. There’s no reason to suppose the answer would be simple or easy.

Remember when the alt-right guys were prosecuted for their khakis-and-polo-shirts, escape-by-blending-into-a-crowd uniforms that demonstrated malice aforethought?

No, me neither.

Wow!

I like this, but it also reminds me of something else, something I can’t quite remember, and that is going to drive me mad.

Butter chicken is one of our family’s favorites. The recipe we use ([gift link](Enjoy this complimentary ATK recipe—no login required—for the next 30 days. https://www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/11519-indian-butter-chicken-murgh-makhani?gifted_recipe=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdHJhcGlJZCI6Ijk5NCIsImlhdCI6MTc3MzQyMzU0NCwiZXhwIjoxNzc2MDE1NTQ0fQ.--AlhoRhr84gwtLHEZsugAgHB7R7K2R-DZOPZh21SZA)) has a couple of noteworthy features:

• The yogurt isn’t really a marinade, there is no “marinating” time. The chicken is coated with yogurt and cooked immediately. The notes explain that this is a strategy to enchance browning and to imitate a tandoor.
• The chicken is cooked on a wire rack under the broiler. Under those conditions, plenty of searing / charring is possible. We also do this on a grill when the weather is agreeable, and that also works, as you predicted.

We’ve had butter chicken at restaurants that was better than what we make at home. And we’ve had butter chicken at restaurants that was nowhere near as good as what we make at home.

Its not climate its just weather, bro. The climate has always been changing, bro. Solar? The sun doesn’t even shine at night, bro. Your insurance company is just ripping you off, bro. Not every species deserves to make it, bro. How about this April snowball, bro?

…it wasnt a slippery slope. They didnt make laws a little bit invasive … before slowly nudging it further

I disagree.

There was a certain (large) amount of government surveillance and eavesdropping going on before the GWOT, which was used as an excuse to massively expand it. There was already inspection and security and traveler record-keeping at airports before the GWOT, which was used as an excuse to expand those. CBP had long had the legislative authority to do all kinds of nastiness within 100 miles of a border before the GWOT, which was used as an excuse to step their activities up, to legal limits and beyond.

In every case, an initial claim of urgent, exceptional authority was used to create both the physical infrastructure and the cultural permission required to make later, expanded claims of urgent, exceptional authority much easier to implement when an excuse presented itself. That is the slippery slope, we really slid way down it, it’s a real phenomenon. It doesn’t have to be smooth or gradual, it can happen in jerks and waves. It doesn’t have to come as a result of a plot, a plan, a deliberate conspiracy, it can be an accretion of individually opportunistic acts.