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After all the Doge and Big Beautiful Bill cuts and downsizing, now they put up a AI powered services search site?

ourmandaveon US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

Will they accept Trump $1 coins?

ourmandaveon Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't

Ignoring the legal document that's supposed to be proof and going with the system is following your phone navigation into a lake level bad.

ourmandaveon Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't

He didn't need to run any check. She showed him a current insurance coverage card and he ignored it.

I don't even want to blame Flock for this level of incompetence.

ourmandaveon Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't

This is 100% cop's fault.

She presented a current insurance coverage card to the officer and he still ticketed her because Flock said she wasn't covered.

What would have happened if she showed the current coverage using the insurance app on her phone?

ourmandaveon EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon

The Chevy Silverado EV will go 492 miles.

With a 30 year mortgage the $56K base model payments could be doable.

ourmandaveon Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

As long as it has a built-in "VBScript like" lang, they'll be fine.

Are they going with Copilot for Dutchies or Kaaskoppen.NET?

ourmandaveon The darker side of being a doctor

It's a double whammy in the US. Lose your income (job), lose your insurance.

Lose your job from injury and you're well and truly screwed.

ourmandaveon The darker side of being a doctor

And depending on your insurance coverage, having a preterm baby in the US can bankrupt you.

ourmandaveon The darker side of being a doctor

I don't know anything about those countries healthcare problems.

Hospital bills causing bankruptcy.

Deciding between meds or food.

Donation jars at gas station checkouts begging for money to pay for a child's cancer treatment.

Putting off preventative care because of endless co-pays.

Out-of-network providers being a thing I have to worry.

Those problems I do know.

ourmandaveon The darker side of being a doctor

Universal healthcare solves the problem. The US is #1 in science and tech, but spends the most with worse outcomes in general healthcare than other peer countries by far.

ourmandaveon Vacate a drone restriction that criminalized recording immigration agents

The slightly less monstrous rationalizations I've heard:

It's fake news!

It's staged actors (funded by Soros)

They could have self deported.

They're criminals! (who overstayed their visas).

ourmandaveon NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

Well, at the very least they can pump the brakes on the stupid by giving power back to congress.

Stop rubber stamping stupidity like RFK, pass a war powers resolution, and reign in the vengeance based tariffs.

ourmandaveon NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

Jan 3rd is coming soon to an impeachment near you.

Steady as she goes, Mr. Sulu.

ourmandaveon ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You

Or someone can just turn off updates and never download the patch.

ourmandaveon ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You

I hope the Microsoft marketing dept is paying attention, because ZuckOff is amazing branding.

Instead of Copilot for Counter Spying, or Anti-Creeper.NET.

ourmandaveon US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution

Also worth noting that they are being revoked.

ourmandaveon Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?

This sounds like a student in algebra class asking, "when will I ever use this in my life?"

ourmandaveon There's no point at which turning your brain off will work

Fuji also sells an Instax printer so you can "print your smartphone images in seconds."

https://www.instax.com/printer/

Also the AI powered instax Up! app...

Have even more fun with the instax UP!™ app. With the introduction of AI, you can now scan an instax™ photo regardless of the background or angle, or even in your hand.

ourmandaveon Global Glacier Extinction Explorer

There was an episode of Northern Exposure where an entire frozen mammoth was exposed. Before the main character could report this amazing find to anyone to be preserved in a museum one of the locals dragged it to house and butchered it for steaks.

ourmandaveon John Margolies' photographs of roadside America

I'd add a google maps street view link to each photo so you could see what is there now.

ourmandaveon Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

I'm a complete layman but it seems like we've got a long way to go and history will look back on us like we do on Newtonian Physics.

Just given dark matter and energy, things the standard model doesn't answer, and our evolving tools (e.g. Grace telescope, etc.).

ourmandaveon Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

That's like Hubble funding cuts back in the '70s.

The NASA budget was $5M as a placeholder, but Noel Hinners cut it to zero to light a fire under the community, instead of a bogus pretend-its-still-happening number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope#Quest_f...

ourmandaveon Casio F-B100W-1A

...evidence that you're a terrorist

Or more recently, to some officials, showing up at a No Kings rally.

ourmandaveon High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons

With the Interplanetary Unlimited Plan.*

* Data exceeding 10GB/month will be rate limited to Voyager 2 speed.

ourmandaveon England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

The fraudulent Lancet paper gave "credibility" to the grifters and conspiracy theorists world wide.

But the King of Graft installing the halfwit RFK to run HHS is next level and I assume fellow grifters are making serious bank off this shit.

Reminder, the vengeful Orange also installed a climate change denier to run NOAA after he lost the election, who posted bogus claims on the official NOAA website which grifters used to give legitimacy to their bullshit.

ourmandaveon Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

...provide air coverage for Texas leadership.

The GOP runs Texas. The governor, sec of state, AG, and both houses are republican. Since when have they ever wanted or needed air coverage?

ourmandaveon 50k Boat Names

The Ocean Trader comes up, but it's not the same specs as the MV one.

Which is special forces support ship hiding in plain sight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Ocean_Trader

ourmandaveon Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

Dividing generations across decades might work for marketing to them in general, but it's otherwise about as useful as horoscopes and the BMI scale.

ourmandaveon Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

I like this for the clarity. No more wishy-washy Is Amazon Evil?

It's just Amazon ~ Fuck Yeah We're Evil