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How is that germane to this discussion? I already made it clear I didn't think the Venezuelan migrant in the segment should have been deported to a third country under those condit…

Note that the accused TdA member claimed to be a college student in Venezuela. He was not enrolled in any US school. Not saying he deserved to be deported to a third country, just …

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This seems like a reach: > Print inevitably precipitates a face-to-face community, giving it the capacity to represent and in turn catalyze real-world movements. I've never gone to…

As far as I can tell, I'm doing that right now with a new higher-end Samsung television. The installer showed me how to make it boot directly to the active HDMI source and skip the…

Existing LTE is fine. If they wanted to embed modems in the TVs they could do it now. I'm guessing they simply don't have to, simply because a huge number of consumers will dutiful…

El Salvador is making a case for it, and other countries are paying attention.

Uh, no. They stopped because they were being punished for pulling over ethnically disproportionate numbers of drivers. This is likely due to several factors but the end result was …

That got labeled "mass incarceration" and even Joe Biden (a 'law and order Democrat' to the core) had to walk back support of what he viewed as one of his greatest achievements, ch…

A large part of the deal is that ALPRs flag on hotlists and cannot be accused of racism. There's no way to argue a vehicle stop is the result of profiling when it's a machine recog…

TIL, thanks!

Re: random countries, sometimes with PIA the Panama exit has a crazily low ping time (I'm physically in California). I wonder what leads to it? Hawaii I can understand, there's a c…

I am all in favor of broad cannabis legalization, but there there is something to the gateway theory. Most users of harder drugs indicate past use of marijuana. Additionally, marij…

If it's smart it won't be what you planned, but it'll almost always be what you like. If you thought the Vader scene at the end of Rogue One was stupid fanservice, it leans one way…

It's not just that: generative AI tools make it so easy to make content that you run into discoverability problems. The pool of available content becomes huge but without a way to …

Now I'm picturing Hasidic robots.

They could if there are human pickers. In any event, delivery doesn't always mean the worst of the produce aisle, and while I noted that the incentive of tips might not transfer to…

Yep. Instacart. I work from home and sometimes I don't want to go to the store (or it would be difficult because I'm on Zoom/Teams a lot), but I need vegetables, meat, milk, etc. f…

I like not going to the store more. Because tips are important to the income of delivery shoppers, I find that I generally get good produce selections. It might be difficult to tra…

My problem is the knee-jerk "Google will sell/read our data" that suggesting any of their suite seems to engender. It doesn't really matter what Google says in their contracts, too…

I wonder how much piracy really impacts their pricing strategy? I honestly don't know.

The issue is that Netflix doesn't control those restrictions, the content creators (well, rights holders) do, and their incentives don't always align.

It happened to Joe Biden. He wasn't swapped out until it was clear he would lose the popular election.