Wonder how much of Windows 10 was written by Stack Exchange?

Upcoming crisis-es:

-May 2nd : End of De minimis exemption: Orders under $80 will no longer be exempt from tariffs from China

-May 7th: All flights will require a driver’s license with real ID (new licenses after ~2015)

-The X date: Day U.S. spending cap is reached. Earliest is June, expected around August. Would cut off all federal spending including SS and Medicare.

-The X date bill: Bill that would raise the spending cap through reconciliation – but also cut either Medicaid or the Obamacare Medicare expansion. This would lead to, among many things, most rural hospitals being shut down.

-August-September: With the Department of Education no longer working student loans and accommodation requests will be thrown into chaos

-August – November: Harvest season w/o immigrants and w/o USAID contracts. Mass farmer bankruptcy , but limited time cheap food.

-Nov-Dec: Big Box stores see empty shelves due to tariffs. Smaller stores see it earlier, but Target and Walmart will have warehouse inventory until Black Friday.

-Dec-Jan: New COVID variant and flu variants will cause more strain on hospitals due to the previous closures and anti-vac NIH.

Variable dates: Terrorist attacks, something with Russia and Ukraine, Trump “assassination attempt” that turns out to be a false alarm, Trump health scares, and at least one Cabinet member will be forced out due to crimes and/or incompetence.

Looks like American girls are up to 113 dolls

Wikipedia had bots writing US census gathering-place articles in 2002, 20 years before LLMs were a thing. They’ve got decades of regulations in place, so I am not scared that the quality is going to drop.

So you are saying that crooks could just type up fake ICE warrants and rob rich people?

Lean inventory and just in time supply management for the win!

Ah, Pinterest. The site I would go to to look at things, it would say “you can’t look at things without an account” and I would say, “then I won’t” … and I would then leave.

Trump: with all the port traffic drying up, let make sure it is only non-whites that loose their trucking jobs.

There are still some family owned farms. Can’t go back to feudalism without all the family farms going bankrupt and selling out to mega-farm conglomerate corporations.

Why? Because now is the time to do things that people won’t remeber in 19 months when the next poll that matters takes place.

The sun is 8 light-minutes away from the Earth - meaning if it were to disappear the sun would still shine in the sky for 8 minutes after it had vanished.

It takes 30 days for Chinese cargo ships to reach the U.S. from China.

‘Liberation day’ was 24 days ago.

They have been stockpiling these since the USSR days. Two years worth of production is a lot, but they started the war with 70 years of production in storage and have been dumping ~5 years of production per year on Ukraine.

No DNC officer should ever attempt to influence the outcome of a primary election, whether on behalf of an incumbent or a challenger

I’ll believe it when someone gets kicked off the DNC for helping incumbents.

It costs $40k/year for daycare. Start handing out $5k to moms, daycare now costs $45k/year.

Does Hunger Games, Star Wars, and the Matrix all incorporate a plot of “good guys win, get complacent, government goes back to fascism and they have to defeat it again only it is harder this time around because they are old and people question if doing the same thing again will lead to the same results?”

Wow. Last time I paid attention to him he was leading the push for gay marriage in California before SCOTUS legalized it. Then I remember him running for governor and I stopped hearing about him since I didn’t live in Cali

I haven’t heard bad stuff about Gavin Newsom. Did he turn corporate when I wasn’t paying attention?

stepping back from DOGE after May

Appointed temporary government employee which means he only could work until June without congressional approval. Set this up from the start to take heat off of Trump and allow Trump to seem reasonable compared to Musk when Trump ‘fires’ him in June.

I still think if we could have car charging stations at work and then go home and plug our cars into our houses to power them at night we could smooth the solar energy demand cycle and have dual-use batteries for transportation and solar storage.

RFK looking over the Autism data: The health implications are clear!