Fair enough. 😁

Problems associated with climate change tend to grow exponentially. Meanwhile, resource management tends to reach a point of diminishing returns. So, yeah, any increase in fire management will be outpaced by climate change.

including after the federal government under trump reduced maintenance of federal lands.

In other words, if there is a lack of fire prevention maintenance, it’s not on California’s part, but on the Fed’s.

The Times isn’t a Gaming news source. They’ve got readers that aren’t familiar with all the platforms.

Don’t worry Donnie. We’re all dying just a little bit more each day.

Life: It’s terminal.

How many of them are the “It’s not a religion, it’s a personal relationship with Jesus,” types?

Anything else backing this up?

I’m on some text lists. There are definitely some people putting out feelers for Kamala. Got a couple requests for surveys about it.

Worth adding that “unemployment” in this context just means people who are claiming unemployment benefits, a things that runs out, and when they run out, they no longer are counted by it.

✋ This is where I’ve been for the past year and a half.

I managed to do that with Abbey Road of all things, though a Round Trip example. Started the album on my way out. Paused it while doing some errands. Went home, and it finished up just as I pulled in. Of course, I had to get lucky with traffic flow, so I don’t expect to be able to intentionally repeat it.

They think that just because they never heard of puberty blockers before last year that they are some new and novel thing.

Oh, I love that metaphor.

One of the primary reasons Reddit cited for its API rule changes was LLMs profiting off its data for free.

Its data? Seems to me that most of that “data” was actually generated by users. Which Reddit, in turn, profited off for free.

Only one punch? Letting them off easy, I see.

I tend to go with the “distract myself” method. Think about some song, movie, game, etc. Keeps the brain from ruminating on that shit. And usually can manage it long enough that the thought’s barely a vague memory afterwards.

Basically, the idea is: Don’t feed the demon.

Watts was reportedly turned into police by a nurse. Of roughly 1,400 cases where people were criminalized for their pregnancies between 2006 and 2022, one in three cases were instigated by a medical professional, according to an analysis of the cases by the reproductive justice group Pregnancy Justice.

What a motherfucking bunch of evil assholes!

The trial that has taken place over the last 44 days has no jury, and Engoron will directly determine the final penalties that will be leveled against the Trump family and its company.

Totally makes sense to verbally attack the one person who will make the decision, right?

So this is what “free speech absolutism” looks like, eh?

Hm. Saw the name, but didn’t make that connection. Thanks for pointing that out.

So what do they think the Q in LGBTQ+ stands for?