Actually, if she legitimately did think plastering Trump’s made-up name for Lake Ontario all over the Internet wasn’t a political statement, then she probably doesn’t have the awareness to be running a lemonade stand, much less a credit union.
Terraforming Mars to escape climate change is as dumb as a bag of hammers.
I think the people who advocate for this feel that once we have the technology developed to terraform Mars (and put in the effort to do so), we will also have the political and social will to not make the same mistakes we made on Earth.
But every plan I have read about relies on also harvesting the resources of the remote site. So how sure are we, really, that we can not ruin the next place, too? Seems like a lot about Human Nature has to change first.
I can think of a few reasons.
First, there is a school of thought that says that the planet is ultimately doomed, and if we want to survive as a species, we need to get off of it. The first step is setting up an off-world base and maintaining it. The Moon is the most convenient place for that. Once we establish that, Mars is the next logical step.
But from there, we also need to get to other places in the universe. The gravity on the moon is significantly weaker than Earth, and it would cost much less fuel to launch to other planets (and beyond) from the moon than from Earth. Of course, that advantage is negated if all that fuel needs to come from Earth, so the space nerds would need to learn how to make rocket fuel out of lunar materials, which they are working on. (A moon base could also allow us to mine passing asteroids for raw materials economically, brcause it will burn far less fuel to get there and back.)
There are also definite scientific benefits. We are currently launching remote observation satellites from Earth into the Lagrange points so they can point outward and be shielded from emissions from Earth. But we can put a much larger manned apparatus on the dark side of the moon (using the moon itself for that shielding) and get all sorts of data that those remote telescopes alone can’t gather.
Finally, there is the simple competition between nations. The US will try and establish a moon base first, to try and call “dibs”. Eventually, we may end up sharing scientific endeavors there, like we “share” Antarctica. (Actually, the Antarctic situation may be a good analogy for how we will eventually manage the political situation on the moon…)
I don’t really love hats on guys, it makes me think they are hiding balding. I like bald guys fine, the hiding it is what I don’t like.
Have you considered that they might be wearing a hat because their head is cold?
Many times that AI summary is just something that is in the first two or three links anyway
Maybe they’ll be hired for a new Alphabet-owned project to do the same thing. Hey can call it “Gaggle”…
Why the downvotes? It is a legit tech article, even if it’s about tech nobody asked for.
My wife and I manage a lot of coordination just by sharing our Google calendars. And, in fact, she was a whiz at using the Google Assistant to do all sorts of cool stuff. But, this was Google Assistant before it got infected with all the newest AI. Google’s (Generative) AI actually made it all dumber.
Your vote is tied directly to where you live here, all political offices cover some territory (a state, city, district, village, town, etc). So your vote is directly tied to where you live.
But it’s not necessarily the case that the state always knows where someone lives. Yes, there are property deeds and utility bills and what-not, but there is no official place where everyone’s addresses are held.
Therefore, “Registering to Vote” is really more like registering your address, so they know which ballot you need to vote on. Even ex-pats what no longer live in the country (but are still citizens) get to vote at the last US address they lived at.
There isn’t always an “unregistration” process either. When you move, you just re-register. Since most of these are administered at the State level, if you move between States you may end up registered in two places. In most cases, that is perfectly legal! You only break the law if you actually vote in the same election in more than one place.
He is easily America’s Greatest Hero
No, that was another guy
In a related decision, Judge Illston criticized FEMA and Homeland Security officials for using the Signal messaging app on personal phones to discuss the workforce cuts and deleting the text records. The judge said she will presume that the deleted messages contained evidence showing the government acted unlawfully.
Shouldn’t someone have gone to jail just for that?
#1 thing is to make sure all accounts have beneficiaries. Accounts should have a primary beneficiary (your spouse), and if there is the ability to make a secondary beneficiary, see if they will divide it among any children you have . This is of paramount importance.
I know someone who passed away suddenly, and did not have a beneficiary on his “play money” stock account. His widow had to go through a lot of hoops to get access to it.
From there, I am a big believer in paper. I want those statements coming to the house. I file them all, and my wife knows where I put them. If I were to go poof , I’m sure she (with a lot of help from her siblings) would make sure nothing goes unpaid.
The Crypto is a different story, of course. When you can Be Your Own Bank, there are no beneficiaries or contingencies: it’s all keys. I have a bit of crypto in a HW wallet. But, years ago I moved some BTC to Coinbase, and it’s still there after all these years. I am thinking of moving the rest, just to make it easier for people to sell if I do go poof. Yeah , Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins. But it would be tragic if my crypto got lost because I bit it and nobody knew how to operate my wallet.
I don’t disagree, but the problem is that once you set up a particular oversight mechanism to monitor an official office like the Presidency, it is ripe for abuse. Just imagine what Republicans did to the Supreme Court, but laid as a boobytrap to cut any Democratic President off at the kneees. I think the Founders had it correct there, giving the Presidency broad powers but giving the Legislature equally broad oversight authority, because the Legislature answers to the People every two years.
It’s not the founders’ fault that the Republicans in Congress choose to abandon that oversight when the President breaks laws to push their collective agenda.
It’s served its purpose. It has funneled money directly into Trump’s pocket, by hosting LIV events at his golf courses. After laundering Saudi bribe money, the Saudis can now stick all the other investors with the bill.
I am surprised we still keep the UN HQ and General Assembly in NY, to be honest. Isn’t there enough space for all that in Geneva?
How long until the insanity ends?
Until we all stop being pussies
“I asked someone to get me a list of cases similar"
I’ll bet that “someone” goes beep boop and uses emdashes
You need 64 GB or RAM to use it? Seems like it’s just a marketing gimmick to find dumb developers who can afford 64GB of RAM in the first place. Kind of like that “I am Rich” app…
I’ve been using ChatGPT a bit at work lately, since they’ve already paid for the subscription for everyone. I’ve learned that it is a bad idea to ask it any leading question, because it is likely to just give you the answer you want to hear.