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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • My biggest issue is with how AI is being marketed, particularly by Apple. Every single Apple Intelligence commercial is about a mediocre person who is not up to the task in front of them, but asks their iPhone for help and ends up skating by. Their families are happy, their co-workers are impressed, and they learn nothing about how to handle the task on their own the next time except that their phone bailed their lame ass out.

    It seems to be a reflection of our current political climate, though, where expertise is ignored, competence is scorned, and everyone is out for themselves.






  • Each country sets their own laws, so it’s ultimately up to the destination country. When an ordinary citizen visits another country, they have to meet requirements for entry, but countries can negotiate any terms their government allows them to. So as long as the US government works out terms with the other country in aadvance, they can send anyone.

    The US government does have an advantage other countries lack: we have military bases all over the world, including a lot of “shithole countries”. There are separate agreements negotiated over the use of that land, but I bet that the US can send whoever they want there without declaring to fhe local authorities who they are. Then the US can “conveniently” lose track of them and… poof! No more undesirables…


  • There is an important and subtle distinction to be made here. A lot of noise is made calling people who are here without authorization “illegals”, but that’s not always true. Being present in the country without authorization is not automatically a criminal matter. It is true that many of the avenues for being here without authorization (crossing illegally, overstaying a visa) also violate the law, but that is handled as a separate matter.

    Since immigration status is mostly a civil matter, ot a criminal one, these immigration courts are not under the Judicial Branch, like criminal courts are. They are actually “administrative courts” which are part of the Department of Justice, under the President, just like ICE is.

    So while the courts occasionally provide a check on this Predident’s power, the immigration courts never will. They ultimately report to the President through the DoJ, and the President has much more direct influence over it. So it doesn’t surprise me that these people are stuck in a Kafkaesque hell, where ICE ignore their pleas that they are citizens and says “tell it to the judge”, and when they finally get to the judge they get ignored.

    Is it any wonder that Trump was so dead set against the immigration bill last year? He needed the process to stay chaotic, in order to have a better chance of winning.









  • It is likely the car USB port is looking through directories for MP3 files, and thats not now those iPods present themselves when hooked up via USB. You might be able to find an audio-to-bluetooth adapter, but it is likely you will not be able to control the device through the car’s interface, so you would have to press play manually.

    (Side note: older cars with USB might have a very low-level relationship with the USB sticks, where they read files in the order they were written to the device, without regard to what folders you put them in. There are utilities that can reorder the files’ physical position on the stick so that albums play in order)



  • It’s because the administration is not counting on winning the case on its merits. They are counting on winning the case because they expect judges that Trump appointed to create new precedent in his favor. He wants “his” judges to do what he wants. Judges that don’t immediately comply (particularly conservative judges) will immediately be put on the “nasty” list.

    Do not forget all the J6ers he pardoned. These people showed they would do violence for Trump once, and they got rewarded for it. They will do it again. Also, the administration has already started arresting judges they don’t like. And for all the compliant judges, we all know that the Supreme Court recently made bribes gratuities legal, and the President is literally making his own currency now. So he has both sticks and carrots to use to get his way.

    Congress has rolled over in submission to King Trump, and he is now working on the judiciary.