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FYI: It’s “past time”. But I’ll admit, I wasn’t 100% sure, myself, so I had to double check before responding. grammarpartyblog.com/…/pass-time-versus-pastime/

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Headline at NBC now says “more than $350 million”. I imagine it was a typo earlier rushing to get the story posted.

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www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/travel/…/index.html

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“With this outstanding landmark judgment, the ‘client-side scanning’ surveillance on all smartphones proposed by the EU Commission in its chat control bill is clearly illegal,” said Breyer.

“It would destroy the protection of everyone instead of investigating suspects. EU governments will now have no choice but to remove the destruction of secure encryption from their position on this proposal – as well as the indiscriminate surveillance of private communications of the entire population!”

I hope he’s right, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

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The partnership between Google and the Environmental Defense Fund

I interpret that to mean that Google is getting paid for this work. They’re not doing it out of kindness.

ETA: So, yes, PR BS.

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Bill didn’t “pass,” it was just kept alive

18 Republicans joined Democrats to advance the measure, which leaders hope the Senate will approve as early as Tuesday.

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Pretty sure the person you’re responding to didn’t think a /s was necessary, seeing how obvious the sarcasm was.

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I’m not aware of anything that’s made to be used as a heat source that doesn’t need electricity to work properly. Gas furnaces have fans that circulate the air. Gas boilers have pumps that circulate the water. Even most fireplaces I’ve seen have a fan system for circulating air (and those that don’t are obviously just for ambiance and not meant to heat the room they’re in, much less the house). All require electricity.

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If you need to add insulation to make switching to a different heat source worth it, then adding that insulation without switching will reduce your current utility bill. It’s not like the insulation (or lack ther of) cares how the heat was generated.

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*I’ll *than

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I did too, so went back to find it…

The Class A misdemeanor charges, the highest level short of a felony,

So, not a felony.

Here's how 2 sentences in the Constitution rose from obscurity to ensnare Donald Trump (apnews.com)

It took months before the first mention of Section 3 in a public document. Free Speech For People, a Massachusetts-based liberal nonprofit, sent letters to top election officials in all 50 states in June 2021, warning them not to place Trump on the ballot should he run again in 2024 because he had violated the provision....

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I honestly can’t imagine how anyone could convince themselves that, if someone could go back and ask the authors of Section 3 if they thought it applied to the office of the president, that they would say, “No” . It’s ridiculous to me that this is even something we’re discussing.

ETA: Not disagreeing with you. Just complaining.

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You didn’t even need to click on the link. It’s right there in the last paragraph OP posted.

With two children and nowhere to go, the suit states the disabled veteran mother switched both children to car riders while searching for steady housing. While the family remained in the same city, they were not located in the same school zone following the eviction.

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Exactly, and this also contradicts the “few bad apples” defense. If there were only a few bad apples, then the police unions should be bending over backwards to eradicate them sooner than later to protect the many good apples, not to mention improve the long suffering reputation of police.

Instead, they’re doing the exact opposite, making it clear to anyone paying attention that it’s mostly, if not entirely, bad apples.

Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN::A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong...

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I’m highly doubtful that scammers could get enough real video of multiple employees in the same company to train an AI to pull this off convincingly. Celebrities, yes. Regular people, no

However, Occam’s Razor tells me this employee knows exactly where that money went and plans to quietly slip away to a tropical island to retire, after getting fired for being “gullible.”

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You need lots and lots of real video of a person to train an AI to make fake videos of that person. So, unless the CFO and the other allegedly faked employees are all youtubers, there’s very good reason to consider more plausible explanations.

To your point, you are correct. There are lots of stupid people. This includes people that will blindly believe that AI can just magically do anything and not even consider simpler explanations for things like this.

I think it was just last year there was a story about some school official claiming to have been duped into paying scammers millions from the schools funds, only to later have been caught making the whole thing up in an attempt to steal the money. (Maybe somebody remembers enough to find a link) So it’s not remotely far fetched to think that’s what could be happening here.

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No serious investor is dumb enough to be swayed by data that’s easy to fake. Public companies are required to publish their financial reports every quarter.

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That’s a far cry from investors just counting how many job listings the company has on Indeed without knowing if those positions are actually being filled, and if they’re new positions or just replacing people that quit

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Name and shame

Israel’s campaign in Gaza ‘plausibly’ amounts to genocide, US court finds (www.theguardian.com)

A federal court in California has ruled that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza “plausibly” amounts to genocide, but dismissed a case aimed at stopping US military support for Israel as being outside the court’s jurisdiction....

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First three words…

A federal court

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You don’t need to apologize for it being hilarious

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Projection

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I am legally obligated to respond to your post to recommend Linux.

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Came in here just to find this comment, knowing it would be here, and upvote. Can’t help but think the few down votes are just people that don’t understand the reference. knowyourmeme.com/memes/orphan-crushing-machine

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Here’s a crazy idea. Every state has their primary on the same day so that no state gets to dictate who others get to vote for.

Here’s an even crazier idea. Ditch primaries altogether and use Ranked Choice Voting.

I’m sick and tired of other people deciding which lesser evils I’m allowed to choose between long before my turn to vote even comes around.

nulluser ,

How is that more fair than every state going at the same time?

nulluser ,

Gosh, maybe the people designing the web UI for the cancellation process for their employer should make it clear exactly what the customer is cancelling so they’re not going to make that mistake.

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As are Big Macs.

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Completely unnecessary, too. Like, once was an honest mistake, but TWICE!?

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Even then. I believe they’re given a form letter and all they’re allowed to do is fill in the blanks. At least that’s what happened the one time I was on a jury.

US Senate rejects measure to force human rights report on Israel (www.reuters.com)

The U.S. Senate rejected a resolution on Tuesday that would have frozen security aid to Israel unless the State Department produces a report within 30 days examining whether Israel committed human rights violations in its campaign against Hamas in Gaza....

nulluser ,

“How can we keep pretending that war crimes aren’t being committed if we get a report telling us that war crimes are being committed? Geeze Bernie!”

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Here’s a stupid idea.

How about a rule that just says that if the State Department has evidence that war crimes are being committed by other countries with money or weapons provided by the US, that it is obligated to immediately report said evidence to Congress. Congress should not have to ask for this kind of thing.

Edit: … and then wait 30 days for an answer.

ESPN returns 37 Emmys, disciplines employees after a decades-long scheme is unearthed (www.yahoo.com)

I’m not into sportsball, or the Emmys for that matter, so this has me very confused. Isn’t this a scandal for the Emmys as much as it is for ESPN? If you’re giving awards to people that don’t even exist, you clearly aren’t doing any due diligence to see if they deserve the award. And did the people getting these...

TIL eating 1 gram polar bear liver can be fatal due to an overdose of vitamin A that makes your skin fall off (animals.howstuffworks.com)

A healthy human liver contains 575 international units (IU) of vitamin A per gram while a polar bear’s liver contains between 24,000 and 35,000 IU per gram. Compare that to the tolerable upper level of vitamin A intake for a healthy adult human: 10,000. Signs of toxicity generally occur when approximately 25,000 to 33,000 IU...

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No, no, no. “It’s extremely delicious to the hunter, and only the hunter, when the hunter kills the bear with their bare hands. Oh, look, there goes a cuddly delicious liver bear right now. Bon Appetit, Mr Bezos.”

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And OP presumably read the article, knew there was no actual story, and posted it here anyway.

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On Friday, New York Supreme Court Judge Robert Reed, a Democrat, ordered Mr Trump to repay the New York Times for fees incurred by his failed legal action.

Asked Ordered

Who the hell wrote that headline?

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True, but in this specific case,

The child had not been vaccinated and the parent was offered medication usually given to unvaccinated people that can prevent infection after exposure to measles, but refused it, the Philadelphia Inquirer first reported.

This parent strongly deserves a good railing against.

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Don’t care. The only people that can get kicked off of shitter are people still on shitter propping up it’s waning credibility. There are no respectable people left on shitter because you can no longer simultaneously be there and be respectable.

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And what they can’t seem to comprehend is that “their guy” won’t be “their guy” as soon as he doesn’t need them anymore.

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Yes, I need to move around a bit to hit the mark, and generally ensure full coverage. Not sure how much I’m over doing it, but it works for me. Totally feel like I’m slumming any time I’m forced to use a toilet without one, now.

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Doesn’t poo go everywhere?

Not sure what you mean, but might be a misunderstanding. It’s not sucking water out of the bowl. It’s spraying a jet of fresh water. Some will even warm it up for you. 😁😌

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So?

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Confirmed. I had to check. 😏 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

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I wonder he ever tells himself, “This is not my beautiful house.”

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This is for Australia, but it applies to the US just as well. youtu.be/N3WTlyuhDs0?si=-xEDiCuN4bAeUWfa

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researchers designed a model that could generate 753 MWh of energy annually. That’s enough to power roughly 753 homes for about five weeks

Why can’t the writers of these articles make useful comparisons? Can they just not do basic math? Each tower can generate enough electricity for about 72 homes… period. Just say that. No apples and oranges required.

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