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  • Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him

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  • Remember folks: they're making these admissions because they don't want the judge to order them to turn over even more damaging documents in discovery.

  • Pentagon list of service members killed in Iran war removes most recent four

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  • Technically, the war was "off" during that time, to avoid busting the 60 day limit without explicit Congressional authorization. We're now in a completely new "second war," by the way. So the 60 day clock has obviously restarted, duh.

    Anyhow, those casualties couldn't possibly have been war casualties, because we were dodging the war status for legal reasons.

  • What Trump’s newly declassified documents do – and don’t – tell us about threats to US elections

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  • Must 'av been that got danged Biden administration, I tell you hwat?

  • first it was @property, then @container, and now interpolate-size

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  • Haha, one year? How quaint. (Cries into ISO C++ standards)

  • ICE officers captured brutally body slamming woman protesting to 'make an example' of her

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  • You might beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride.

  • OpenAI's Codex app has 70% GPU usage while it is “thinking” due to tiny useless animation

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  • I thought the joke was that the bug reporter didn't realize the machine is doing its "thinking" on the GPU, in addition to maybe animating a singer.

  • Debugging in a nutshell

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  • Apparently TF2 added a "community-generated" map last week that was not only broken itself, it broke other maps too, causing game crashes.

    The issue was a model of a row boat that was added to the official game in 2009. cp_premuda was added to the official game in July, 2026. But Premuda is a lot older than that, and it references a version of the row boat model that is older than what was added to the game in 2009.

  • U.S. judge voids Trump’s settlement with IRS, refers lawyers for discipline - ("Anti-Weaponization Fund" and sweeping immunity are off the table)

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  • The plaintiffs are always welcome to motion to reconsider. That usually doesn't work.

    They can also appeal to the appeals court. Once there the fact findings need "clear error" to be reversed. But this decision also interprets the law... The meanings of "case" and "controversy" in this context. The legal interpretations are reviewed "de novo," meaning starting fresh all over again.

    My guess is there's a lot of room for higher courts to reverse some parts of this decision. It's one thing for the court to decline to enforce the "settlement.". And it's another thing for the court to take positive steps to stop the "settlement" from being implemented.

    Among other things, the order claims to enjoin Donald Trump personally from calling the settlement "agreement" a "settlement." That could be a violation of his free speech rights, perhaps. Or it could be an impermissible injunction against a sitting President (i.e. if this "lawsuit" gets twisted from personal business into an "official act").

    A big problem with the "agreement" if the "lawsuit" stays dead is that Trump doesn't give up anything else to get all these benefits besides dropping the "lawsuit." In contract law there has to be a consideration from both sides. That's why you sometimes see property being sold for $1 instead of being given away. That could be a hook for a future DOJ to get rid of their side of the agreement.

  • U.S. judge voids Trump’s settlement with IRS, refers lawyers for discipline - ("Anti-Weaponization Fund" and sweeping immunity are off the table)

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  • now of course, I think this means that the lawsuit is back on,

    The lawsuit now has a formal judicial finding that it is not a case or controversy. Under the constitution, the federal courts have no jurisdiction over this so-called "lawsuit".

    Nothing can happen with this lawsuit unless that finding is reversed.

  • It's just C with two plus signs, how hard could it be?

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  • People have written garbage collectors for C++, but just about no one used the standard library support that was in the standard.

  • Lindsey Graham, Trump ally who opposed LGBTQ+ rights and consistently denied being gay, dies at 71

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  • I found a news report that it was a tear of the aorta.

  • The gas is cheap. The Trump administration isn’t saying who’s paying for it.

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  • The SPR holds mainly crude oil, so you can't just open a gas station and start selling it. It has to be sent to a refinery first, and once that happens the product that comes out is fungible.

    In short it would be logistically simpler to just buy gasoline on the market and subsidize it. The subsidy is only 20-30 cents / gal as well.

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    Share of the world living in poverty, 1820-2025

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  • How is this meaningful? This graph doesn't account for inflation

    The purple line is adjusted to constant 2011 prices, and the green lines are all adjusted to 2021 prices. So the green and purple lines don't directly compare to each other, but you can still get some idea of scale.

  • Ads amirite?

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  • We used to record this show and DS9 on VHS tapes for the express purpose of fast forwarding through the commercials.

  • Judge Rules Against Trump, Says He Clearly Prefers White People

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  • The direction they're going in is that overt racism is now fine, in addition to covert racism. As long as there's also some other non-racial parallel reasoning.

  • ‘I made them do it’ – Donald Trump takes credit for FIFA decision to overturn Folarin Balogun ban

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  • And, like, how the heck is it Joe Biden's job to corruptly influence FIFA officials?

  • That's an order

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  • The pattern buffer under the floor of the teleporter room that makes it all work. (Also useful storage for transporter chiefs).

  • Trump tries again to delay $5m sexual abuse payout to E Jean Carroll

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  • The $5 million is earning interest at the "judicial interest rate". Which is 4% (and tied to t-bonds) instead of 100%. That's how the $5 million became $5.8 million during the appeal.

    Trump was also probably required to post an appeal bond in cash or other security to cover the entire amount of the judgement plus expected interest. So when Caroll does finally get her money, the check is probably going to come from an escrow service or similar, not from Trump directly.

  • Air Force ties recruit’s death to flu outbreak

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  • This includes several few vaccines that are not normally issued to the general public. Like anthrax, rabies, and the bicillin "peanut butter" shot that is known to be really uncomfortable and delivered straight to the butt.