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IIRC TurboTax has a bunch of loaders / spinners like this, similar idea.

> General NIMBY-ism Mamdani explicitly campaigned on building more, especially housing, so not sure where you got that idea. NIMBYs show up at community board meetings, sure, but y…

In the vast majority of venues, ID checks are happening anyway to verify eligibility for drinking.

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

They're being evicted from their home, but from the landlord's property. It would be the landlord's home if the landlord lived there, but they don't, because they're renting it to …

That's not true, a number of Jan 6 people were convicted of seditious conspiracy, it's just that those convictions have now been vacated because the coup plotters have now ended up…

That's a feature, not a bug

Yeah, we're talking about the guy who leased a new car every 6 months in order to avoid having to put a license plate on it, and then parked it in handicap spots, right? Absolute s…

It's not 2019 any more.

This one is probably popping today because of the simonw post yesterday about using an LLM to basically one-shot port a lib across languages with the help of an extremely robust te…

So they gutted and destroyed USDS in order to... Create it again?

In practice, "egregious" in English never means very good

We have the opposite problem, where if you live in NYC or LA your vote basically doesn't matter at the national level

It could put you in Guantanamo Bay: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W#Usage_in_terrori...

Being able to walk to the store "sounds worse than hell"?

The Marketwatch link, which is paywalled, just links here: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-can...

a friend recently described bouldering - which I understand is also fairly popular with engineers - as something to the effect of "solving problems in a physical space with your bo…

The "heist", which presumably gets covered in part 2, is that a lot of these items were originally looted from Iraq after the US invasion in 2003. US Customs ended up seizing a lot…

DOGE's shared data has been consistently off: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/doge-says-i... https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/nx-s1-5313853/doge-savings-re... https:…

*Norquist

Which was basically the point of the USDS, which has now been gutted of its original purpose and turned into DOGE

Really not enjoying the fascist-eugenic turn this place seems to be taking.

I also got this, felt like a cold that just took forever to clear. Wasn't covid, but didn't feel as bad as proper flu. I got my flu shot going into the season late last year.

I find that I actually sleep worse the night I've worked out (3x / week)