When I bought my house, one of the lights was a dumb switch, but smart bulb. Normally, it works like a normal light. But if you turn it on, off, on quick enough, it changes color temperature!

Discourse 5 years from now: Why are there so many Venezuelans trying to cross our southern border? No solution other than increasing immigration enforcement I guess.

Would China agree to that. They don’t want to get dragged into a conflict with the US. Besides, if the US’s strategy is that we control the Americas and stay out of the rest of the world, China will happily take that deal and go after Taiwan.

There’s been experiments around changing speed limits. What they found is that people consistently speed by about a constant amount over the posted limit, so they keep the posted limit lower, and have all enforcement be at around 10mph over it.

Yay path dependence!

As someone who actually does read the rules for a bunch of places; they often have no relationship to what actually gets enforced.

This isn’t just a problem for social media communities. A bunch of business use boilerplate contracts and terms-of-service that again have no relation to how they actually operate.

The full expression is “all models are wrong, but some are useful”

Take your SFW selfies somewhere else.

Still don’t do that in a public bathroom. Someone else may walk in.

For new construction, nothing.

For existing construction, it requires you to run a new circuit.

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Also, it ignores the clear intended meaning of the work to attack the artist for a completely different interpretation.

To be clear, I am fully in camp Death of the Author, but if that is how you analyze art, you do not also get to attribute your interpretation back to the original artist.

This is particularly annoying in this instance, because “your argument just proves my point” is a thought terminating cliche that is highly utilized in this particular discourse, from the side that the commentator appears to be from.

I wouldn’t quote Colbert on this one. He is a well known bearphobe.

A lot of people want Trump dead for reasons that have nothing to do with this; and he is entitled to lifetime secret service protection.

Also, his documented and adjudicated history of rape; and his documented hobby of “inspecting” the girls changing room during his Miss Teen USA pagents.

The “He” here is not redacted. Although is confusingly listed as a “witness” instead of a “subject”. I assume this was because the subject of the particular investigation this was filed under was Epstein, not Trump.

The Epstein files themselves are a major story; independent of the truth of what is contained within them. There is serious talk about impeaching the US attorney general over her role in illegally suppressing these documents due to loyalty to president Trump. And there has been major public discussion about why the Trump administration has been so hostile to releasing them.

This all makes the mere existence of an allegation against Trump in the documents genuinely newsworthy.

Trans and bisexual Jew here. As with all questions of Jewish law, the answer can be found, and optionally ignored, in the Talmud:

From where do we derive the prohibition and punishment for homosexual intercourse with a male? It is as the Sages taught in a baraita with regard to the verse: “And if a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood shall be upon them” (Leviticus 20:13): The word “man” excludes a minor boy. The phrase “lies with a male” is referring to any male, whether he is an adult man or whether he is a minor boy. The phrase “as with a woman [mishkevei isha],” referring to lying with a woman, appears in the plural. The verse teaches you that there are two manners of lying with a woman for which one who engages in intercourse with a woman forbidden to him is punished, vaginal and anal intercourse.

Sanhedrin 54a

Another fun law I just learned by looking this up

A man who engages in intercourse with a male or with an animal, and a woman who engages in intercourse with an animal, are executed by stoning. The animal is likewise stoned to death.

Sanhedrin 54a

The mishna teaches that Rabbi Yehuda says: A bachelor may not herd cattle, nor may two bachelors sleep with one covering. It is taught in the Tosefta (5:10): They said to Rabbi Yehuda: Jews are not suspected of engaging in homosexual intercourse nor of engaging in intercourse with an animal.

Kiddushin 82a

https://www.chabad.org/torah-texts/5299425/The-Talmud

Possibly TPM backed remote attestation. Having said that, once you are at the point of being worried about hardware DMA attacks, TPM attestation is not as full proof as you might think.

You do not need a constitutional amendment. Until 1911; part of a Supreme Court Justice’s job was “riding circuit”, to serve on more local circuit courts. This practice was established and abolished by Congress. Congress has the existing constitutional authority to assign Justices to circuit courts.

There is also a recently proposed TERM act, which would promote Justices to senior Justices after 18 years. A senior Justice is still a Justice, but would not actively decide cases unless there was a shortage of active Justices.

Congress could also impeach some of the current Justices. Either for partisan political reasons; perjury at their confirmation; or blatant corruption.