With as much as a piece of shit DeWine is, I’m still impressed that he breaks with Trump when he needs to. He did pretty ok during covid compared to other GOP governor’s like DeSantis, but that’s about where the praise ends.
Puts him in a tough spot though right, like he almost has to go on and say ‘no this is not happening on my watch, the people of Ohio don’t need to worry about this happening’. He’s probably really pissed and rightly so at Trump for putting this on the national stage.
I’m not too worried yet. Took like 8 tries to generate an image and it kept coming out wrong. The AI acknowledged that it was wrong, correctly identified what was wrong and promised to rectify it. 8 tries later and I gave up and it actually thanked me for letting it off without further tries.
Does that mean that AI can successfully read handwriting? I have some very old family letters, but I think I'm the last generation that'll be able to read them.
I’m a scientist who is contracted through NASA and work at one of the NASA facilities. As an early career scientist, working here is a dream job. I get the opportunity to work with absolute world class scientists everyday. That said, the funding situation is dire at all NASA facilities due to funding cuts. The current saying is “flat is the new up” in terms of funding. That means if NASA maintains its funding, it’s a win. As a result, NASA would rather maintain science and engineering with the limited budget, but at the expense of the facilities themselves. I can attest that it is a stark difference between someplace like the Applied Physics Lab at Hopkins (lots of military contracts) vs Goddard Space Flight Center in terms of the quality of the facilities.
The problem is Congress looks for funding cuts in discretionary funding. Mandatory funding consists of social security, healthcare, and veteran programs. Discretionary funding is everything else, which makes up only roughly 25% of the rest of the budget. Military takes half of the discretionary budget. Democrats nor Republicans dare to touch the military budget despite the fact they fail their audit every single year. This leaves 900 billion for everything else. NASA gets about 4% of that.
Since the tax code is totally fucked up in this country, the richest people pay the least percentage through loopholes and corporations barely pay anything (9% of the total revenue), it’s up to the working class to make up the difference. Since understandably no one wants their taxes raised, in order to reduce spending they look to the “everything else” part of the discretionary budget. And NASA is part of this and is considered expendable. It’s sad to see such an important institution for the U.S. slowly dying. I want to believe the outlook is promising, but I just can’t see the future looking any brighter.
Coincidentally, my UPS packages have all been delayed over the last two weeks. One was supposedly delayed from CA to OR because of “weather” which is odd as it has been sun and mostly mild temps over the last week. Another had it’s tracking showing “we don’t have the package yet” right up until the morning that it was delivered.
I’m curious to find out what Mayor Adams and his cronies are suspected of doing. Seems like a long investigation, but it’s best that they don’t rush it if they want results.
She hired too many middle management types and not enough drivers, then after the union forced her hand to hire more drivers, she had to lay off the non union guys and gals that she shouldn’t have hired in the first place.
She also, in her grand $100 million a year wisdom, closed all the customer counters because fuck you that’s why.
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