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skhuntedon Google Pixel Buds Pro 2

I’ve had to move around my airpods to get them to charge but often times when i close the case they stop charging. I will never again Apple headphones.

skhuntedon Google Pixel Buds Pro 2

I’ve had 3 pairs of Apple Airpods. All three of them eventually had problems with charging. One bud would be full charge and the other empty. Sometimes I’d put them in the case and the light indicates they are charging but come back later and they didn’t charge at all.

Does Google’s pods suffer the same issue?

skhuntedon US Air Force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing Supreme Court's Chevron ruling

A base assumption that every law comes with an implied "lets the Executive define, without any restriction, what this agency should do" is certainly not something I'd want…

You badly misunderstand what Chevron deference was about and how it worked. This is not at all how it worked.

skhuntedon US Air Force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing Supreme Court's Chevron ruling

There wasn’t a capricious change with every administration. You can point to isolated examples but not some over arching, wide ranging scheme. Your view about it being a good thing that Chevron is gone will not age well. You will be like the Texas ranchers that vote Republican and complain about oil companies polluting their water.

skhuntedon US Air Force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing Supreme Court's Chevron ruling

For 40 years or so laws granting regulatory authority to federal agencies were written with the understanding that Chevron Deference was the law of the land. Now those laws grating regulatory authority are going to be considered too vague. What will happen is that regulatory agencies will be thwarted in their duty to protect the public. Where the court is headed is that they will require a level of specificity in writing laws that grant regulatory authority that is impractical. Read what the dissenting opinions were and see where they think things are headed.

skhuntedon US Air Force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing Supreme Court's Chevron ruling

Congress has the power to impeach and remove judges. It’s a political decision to do such a thing. I advocate that Congress exercise this power. This is no way means I don’t want a judiciary. The reason Congress was given this power was precisely in case the Court went too far in its rulings or otherwise did things that are politically unacceptable.

I agree with the dissenters in the ruling under discussion. The ruling was badly wrong and it’s clear that the Court is going to expand on this rulimg and it’s going to have dire consequences. Removal of justices is warranted.

skhuntedon US Air Force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing Supreme Court's Chevron ruling

We will soon see what a huge and harmful deal the recent Chevron ruling is. The Supreme Court needs to be gutted.

skhuntedon Working from home allowed him to be a more engaged dad. Now it's over

Firstly, sprawl is the result only if it is around a central core(s) to which many people need to travel on a frequent basis.

This is wrong. As an extreme example consider this. If all families in the U.S. were as evenly distributed as possible with each family having at least a 1 acre lot then it would be correct to say that we are sprawled out. Sprawl in the sense we are taking about refers to spreading out.

skhuntedon Working from home allowed him to be a more engaged dad. Now it's over

I don’t care where anyone lives. I’m just stating the fact that being more spread out, having larger homes, larger yards, etc. is not a low carbon option.

skhuntedon Working from home allowed him to be a more engaged dad. Now it's over

Having houses spread out and lowering population density is bad for environment. More roads need to be built, more infrastructure needs to be built, etc. We consume too much. America is not in danger of having too much population density. We are too spread out as it is.

skhuntedon Working from home allowed him to be a more engaged dad. Now it's over

Car commuting is a carbon problem. So is buying a larger house, lower living density, and larger yards. I’m addressing solely the claim about this being lower carbon footprint. I’m not addressing any other issues or concerns.

skhuntedon Working from home allowed him to be a more engaged dad. Now it's over

Buying larger houses further spread out decreases population density. This is not low-carbon to boot.

skhuntedon New doctoral thesis proposes Buckminster Fuller was a 'charlatan'

You have a capacity for missing the point.

skhuntedon New doctoral thesis proposes Buckminster Fuller was a 'charlatan'

Historians of science would be interested in the topic as would those studying the sociology of scientific communities. In this day of rampant pseudoscience and distrust of scientists it is of interest to know if and how fellow scientists were snookered.

Intelligence agencies like to study and understand the propagation of false information.

skhuntedon Elon Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott'

I mentioned to someone I game with that I was no longer following the NFL since there are too many things about it that I find repugnant. He responded with, “Oh, cancel culture…” I didn’t engage with this response but I found it quite bizarre. Do these people think I’m obligated to engage with companies/people that I find morally repugnant?

Does Musk really feel entitled to a portion of every major corporation’s advertising budget? It’s weird that he thinks everyone else ought to change their values to accommodate him and not the other way around.

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Russian fear of a liberal democracy - Mearsheimer’s words - in Ukraine comes from the fact that Russia is a personalist autocracy and its autocrat fears this. The fear is not rational in that it is a threat to Russian sovereignty or territorial integrity. It is a threat because the autocrat does not want his people to see Ukrainians thrive whilst they do not. It would make him look bad.

In no sensible way can this war be blamed on anyone other than Putin. It is Putin’s ego combined with a desire for control that caused this war. Russia is Europe’s last old style colonial empire and Putin pines for the days of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe.

Russia aggression in Moldova, Georgia, Belorussia, and elsewhere similarly can’t be blamed on anything other than Russian imperialist desires for control.

skhuntedon Taiwan is behind schedule in preparations to fend off Chinese invasion

Yes. I was referring to the comment about “blood kin”. Not all peoples native to present day PRC borders are “blood kin” and certainly not all people from Taiwan are Han.

skhuntedon Taiwan is behind schedule in preparations to fend off Chinese invasion

I do not understand Xi’s abandonment of Deng’s wise policies. The One China, Two Systems approach was working and had it gone well may have induced Taiwan to similarly integrate with the PRC. Now, I doubt that will ever happen.

skhuntedon Taiwan is behind schedule in preparations to fend off Chinese invasion

We have thousands of years of examples of two “blood kin” groups attacking each other. In addition to this is the fact that not all peoples with roots in present day PRC are Chinese. Tibet is a region of PRC that is not Chinese, for example.

skhuntedon US Gen X and Millenials face higher risk of developing cancers than older gen

Dump enough forever chemicals, petro chemicals, pharmaceuticals, micro plastics, and other junk into the water supply and environment then eventually there will be negative consequences.

skhuntedon Senate Passes Kids Online Safety Act

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skhuntedon Senate Passes Kids Online Safety Act

Thanks for the summary. Sounds like a good bill. I hope in the future there will more of an emphasis on online sites designed to encourage in person interactions. Meetup was great for a while in my area but now Discord seems to be used more. I don’t know what the solution is but there is too much mindless scrolling and this doesn’t seem to me to be healthy.

skhuntedon Elon Musk posts deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy

That is not my reasoning. You believe people who despise Musk stay on Twitter because they are too stupid to know of alternatives. You assert this to be true. I believe the reason is something different. We have two opposing beliefs. Neither of us has proof. I believe objective observers will conclude that my reasoning is more likely to be correct. Your belief that it is stupidity that causes people to not go to an alternative platform is not credible is my opinion.

skhuntedon Elon Musk posts deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy

Too many smart, savvy people who despise Musk stay on the platform for it to be believable that stupidity is the reason.

skhuntedon Elon Musk posts deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy

The evidence is that there are lots of people who despise Musk and what he has done to Twitter who still use it. That's what speaks to it's dominance and speaks to the network effects it has.

skhuntedon Elon Musk posts deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy

When Twitter enforced their policies on Trump and other right wing posters Republicans complained about “mainstream” media manipulating elections by suppressing their messaging. Those people ought to be consistent and decry Musks’ shenanigans.

What is interesting to me is that the a great many established accounts on Twitter would love to leave the platform due to it being owned by Musk. They don’t/can’t/haven’t left Twitter due to network effects. How long these users remain on Twitter is a measure of the power of Twitter’s entrenched position. The only real policy on Twitter is whatever Musk wants at a given time. No one should expect consistency in policy enforcement on Twitter.

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This is from the article:

“Christians, get out and vote. Just this time,” he said at The Believers’ Summit, an event hosted by the conservative advocacy group Turning Point Action, in West Palm Beach, Fla. “You won’t have to do it anymore, you know what? Four more years, it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.”

He’s not claiming he’ll install an autocracy. He’s telling a group of voters that they need to vote for him and he’ll “fix” the country by making it better and that in 4 years they can safely go back to their non-voting ways.

skhuntedon Elon Musk Wants to Use 5B from Tesla to Bail Out XAI

He is not a strategic asset for the U.S. He isn’t taken down like Jack Ma because the U.S. is a different system than China. SpaceX would not collapse if Musk were replaced as CEO. Same for the other companies.

skhuntedon Senate to Vote on Web Censorship Bill Disguised as Kids Safety

This answers the question asked in your first sentence:

You know what I don't see even at my kid's young age?

Sometimes parents suck or just lack knowledge or means to do the right thing and thus society in the form of government steps in.

skhuntedon Senate to Vote on Web Censorship Bill Disguised as Kids Safety

I don’t know how well or bad this bill will be but it’s a good idea to try to stop the mental health assault being inflicted on users of social media. Humans haven’t evolved to be able to handle the targeted messaging that is common on Facebook.