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Well, of course. They wouldn't be able to research and implement innovative excess billing without excess billing.

Your overpayment today funds your children's and grandchildren's more effective overpayments.

It's your legacy.

JD Vance urges billionaire Peter Thiel to help bankroll [alleged billionaire] Trump campaign.

FTFY

Haven't we been saying for years that corporations getting away with everything will never change until CEOs start going to jail?

Simple solution: Only let contracts where verifiably senior company technical employees are to accompany equipment in war and peace, and to have all technical data in their possession, verified unencrypted.

After they're all dead, the president signs an executive order confiscating all on-site data and equipment, and authorizing military to repair. This would also be spelled out in the contract.

Effing great.

It's shocking how so much can be unsurprising yet still shocking.

On the other hand, what good is [effectively] owning executive agencies if you can't use them for your own ends?

There won't even be any pushback from department analysts and lawyers, since they'll all have been replaced by loyalists.

As the article is overtly political, I'll make a political response and cut to the chase:

Trump is the most for-sale candidate and president in history. He solicited $1B in campaign contribution directly from a meeting with oil execs, in return for signing any Executive Orders they cared to submit.

As for Vance, he was brought to Silicon Valley and re-tooled, Manchurian-like, then sent back to Washington.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Trump+oil+executives+meeting+one+b...

My phone is hidden in its case. It's just a shallow black tray with a screen. I barely remember what the phone looks like.

I think the only compelling use case that applies to every IoT user is selling their data; the user as product.

In that sense, every connected device is just another implementation of the exact same thing: a surveiling data collector. What the user thinks of as the device's main purpose is a mere implementation detail.

I had peanut butter toast on sourdough yesterday. The Man knew nothing about it. Bwa ha ha ha!

In the future, AI will write our manifestos for us!

> For example, you may not: Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.”

Ah, the old Microsoft "Cannot use our compiler to develop a compiler" restriction.

"This free app syncs across devices"

If you're logged in to the app and web site, what needs to be synced?

According to Microsoft it is, because [they assert] anything on the web is in the public domain: "freeware." [0]

Eric Schmidt says it doesn't matter, just do it and let the lawyers clean it up. [1]

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2024/07/01/has-mic...

1: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/ex-google-ceo-schmidt-t...

> It's basically reduced them to a Chinese vassal state.

I like to think of them as North Korea's client state.

A script to connect to my phone's hotspot, and then mount it via sshfs. Need to turn on hotspot and start the DropBear ssh server on the phone first.

A script to copy new photos from the phone to the laptop, and then resize them all and copy those into a 'small' subdirectory.

A script to unmount and disconnect.

Those three scripts invoked in sequence in one command line.

Invoke that line from history with ESC-K.

Those are quite nice, and so much more fluid than I would have imagined.

"On the sixth day—I’m skipping ahead here—the internet was born. The Word needed to be rewritten in HTML."

No no no no NO. On the sixth day there was still no need or use for HTML.

On the sixth and a half day, the Web was born, in blinking HTML text and tables.

Disappointment. I thought it was going to be about art with the kind of nails that you hammer.

Ob on-topic: I'm a truck driver, and have to check in with the gate guard to gain entry at pickups and deliveries.

While I was going through the drill with a gate guard, I noticed that her nails were safety yellow and exactly matched her safety yellow vest.

Coolest thing I saw all week.

Create and sustain a society where people feel secure, and they'll have kids.

"At Disney, we strive to put humanity above all other considerations." [When we're caught out.]

Very enjoyable watch. One of the few times I allowed time to watch a video.

Does the drug itself cause the risk reduction, or is it the weight loss? Or also, if you're less hungry, are you eating less high-carb junk?

I'm not saying people shouldn't take these drugs.

These questions come to me because of my own anecdata. I'm a T2 diabetic, using metformin and Trulicity, a similar GLP-1 drug.

Six or seven months ago, for reasons, I stopped taking Trulicty, with no lifestyle changes. My daily blood sugar tests went up, no surprise. Started Trulicity again.

About three months ago I found it really difficult to find Trulicity. There are shortages, combined with my 48 state truck driving job, where my pharmacy is whatever Walmart I happen to be near that allows truck parking.

I flipped the fuckit bit, went on a diet that i mostly follow, do some exercise, and diligently watch carbs and calories.

I've lost a lot of weight - I was on the low end of BMI obese, now I'm closing in on the high end of BMI normal.

My blood sugar self tests are as good as they ever were when i was first diagnosed and stabilized on metformin. Haven't had an A1C test yet.

This is not an "If I can do it so can they" screed. Take the drug if you need it, it has benefits.

My personal anecdote of one makes me question, where the article is not clear: is the risk reduction from the drug itself, or from its intended effects?

The speedometer on most cars is a kilometers - miles - kilometers calculator.

Tunnels are often labeled "no hazmat."

I wonder if electric semis, or even cars, should be kept out of tunnels.

Betteridge's Law of Headlines says "no."

That's so cute. It's like birds waking up in a tree just before dawn.

"Is that ..."

"It's the sun! Again!"

"Worms! Seeds!"

"Gravel!"

"The sun!"

"Light!"

"Bath!"

"Light!"

That I'm a Dunning-Kruger idiot, and that I wish I had never asserted most of what I've asserted. I've cut myself off from most people that I've ever known because of this. End-stage embarrassment?

I assert that I'm 67 years old.

I had the same question as your first sentence.

I'm not sure I understand your second sentence, as I don't follow "entanglement news." Is entanglement currently being seen as taking part in everything, everywhere? Specifically in brain processes?

I'm intrigued by your third sentence.

I look forward to more sentences.

I am blessed with the Don't Exercise gene. That's how I do it.

Study of people born during Ukraine's Holodomor - Soviet inflicted famine of '32 - '33 - confirms other studies showing increase of diabetes and obesity in later life.

I heard this on the Science podcast. First result in the linked search is Science's related article.

The study is a demographic-heavy study, taking advantage of Ukraine's project to reconstruct demographic records of the time, which were hidden or destroyed by the Soviets.

This particular study's control was Western Ukraine, where Russia had less influence and so was not much affected by the famine. According to the author's interview, anyway.