[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

Indiana is one of the four states (IN, TN, TX, and OR) that require a 2/3rds majority to conduct business. But, sadly, the Indiana House is is 70/30 Republican and the Senate is 40/10. Even if all the Democratic legislators copied Texas and left the state, there would still be enough in both the House and Senate to pass new maps.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago

I honestly can't tell if you're serious. You do know that the vast majority of the chips in all the devices you use are not manufactured in the US? Doubling the prices of the chips imported to manufacture devices here will obviously jack up the prices of those devices

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

If you treat the idea of (conscious) life after death as a scientific theory, I'm afraid it wouldn't be a very good one. Good theories provide testable predictions. As far as I'm aware, no theory of an afterlife has ever made such a prediction that was experimentally verified. It it had, there would be headlines everywhere, a new Nobel Prize category, and probably every religion but one would close up over night.

Also, even if you experimentally confirm that NDEs are caused by psychological and physiological factors, and are not related to any sort of afterlife, that doesn't prove there is no afterlife. It just proves you have no evidence and absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 5 hours ago

Reddit changed their algorithm. I remember when it came to a boil almost a decade ago. They said they experimented with some changes to the algorithm but they changed it back. Somehow the front page slowed down to a crawl. I don't know that it ever changed back.

Maybe this article is right and the algorithm is failing under the weight of upvotes, or maybe they tweaked it to better steer conversation, or maybe it's just broke. Either way, I quit watching the front page long before I left Reddit for good.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Demand is irrelevant. We're talking about an administration who is trying to bring back coal despite no one wanting them to other than those directly profiting off it. They seem to think that anything bad for the environment is a good thing for business. Trump signed an EO back in March demanding increased timber production and this is just him getting back to that.

Cutting logging roads into forests is what logging companies do. They certainly have the ability to do so already so I'm not sure what you mean by that.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The Trump administration is rolling back a landmark conservation rule from the Clinton era that prevents roadbuilding and logging on roughly 58 million acres of federal forest and wildlands.

This isn't about the roads. They will cut a road into all those pristine acres so they can bring logging trucks in and out. They won't bother maintaining any roads once they've devastated an area.

[-] [email protected] 93 points 12 hours ago

The evidence covers months of interactions and includes text messages in which Mills—who says he separated from his wife in 2022—warned Langston he posed a threat to anyone she wanted to date in the future (“Strap up, cowboy,” he said in one text) and threatened to release private images shared in the context of their relationship. Langston submitted the evidence to back up an incident report she filed with the Columbia County sheriff’s office last month.

Woah! With this kind of evidence out there, this man is probably first in line to be the next republican presidential contender.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Make sure you put in on the docket right after a trial addressing human trafficking charges against Abbott for shipping bus loads of immigrants from Texas to northern Illinois in the middle of winter with no warm clothing or arrangements to get them to shelter.

"You are now sending asylum seekers from Texas to the Upper Midwest in the middle of winter — many without coats, without shoes to protect them from the snow — to a city whose shelters are already overfilled with migrants you sent here. Chicago's temperatures this weekend are forecast to drop below zero. Your callousness, sending buses and planes full of migrants in this weather, is now life-threatening to every one of the arrivals. Hundreds of children's and families' health and survival are at risk due to your actions," Pritzker wrote. - From a letter to Abbott published in the Austin, TX American-Statesman newspaper

[-] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

True, but apparently the attempt to resurrect its use uses it for both the voiced and unvoiced dental fricatives where current English usage uses 'th' rather than resurrecting both characters.

[-] [email protected] 110 points 1 day ago

You're entitled to release the complete Epstein files.

[-] [email protected] 89 points 1 day ago

California's actions have nothing to do with keeping Texas from becoming less democratic. They are thwarting Texas' attempt to help secure republican control of the US House of Representatives and maybe stopping or at least slowing down the fascist take over of the country.

If it helps take the House away from the GOP and limits the damage Trump can do in the following two years, I'm all for it. If blue states do nothing, then the GOP could end up securing an unassailable majority in the US House of Reps just like they've done in so many state legislatures.

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In the video, several marked and unmarked Customs and Border Protection vehicles can be seen pulling into the parking lot as several apparently armed agents got out of the vehicles.

School officials in Pico Rivera are calling for a federal investigation after immigration enforcement officers were seen on surveillance video appearing to urinate in the campus parking lot.

The incident happened on the morning of June 17, at Ruben Salazar High School in Pico Rivera. The El Rancho Unified School District shared surveillance video from the school parking lot on YouTube on Wednesday.

Over the next few minutes, nearly a dozen agents are seen walking to a part of the parking lot, near a couple of shipping containers. The agents seem to reach for their pants while walking to covered areas, stand still for several moments, then walk away. The district says school staff saw the agents peeing.

ICE agents exposed themselves to staff in a parking lot next to a preschool playground and an in-session elementary school. These agents need to be identified and prosecuted just like anyone else would be in such circumstances.

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Not all searches get AI answers, but Google has been steadily expanding this feature since it debuted last year. One searcher on Reddit spotted a troubling confabulation when searching for crashes involving Airbus planes. AI Overviews, apparently overwhelmed with results reporting on the Air India crash, stated confidently (and incorrectly) that it was an Airbus A330 that fell out of the sky shortly after takeoff. We've run a few similar searches—some of the AI results say Boeing, some say Airbus, and some include a strange mashup blaming both Airbus and Boeing. It's a mess.

Always remember that AI, or more accurately, LLMs are just glorified predictive text like on your phone. Don't trust them. Maybe someday they will be reliable, but that day isn't today.___

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More than two months after the Trump administration admitted it mistakenly deported Abrego Garcia from Maryland to his native El Salvador, a federal grand jury has indicted him for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the United States, ABC News has learned.

A two-count indictment, which was filed under seal in federal court in Tennessee last month, alleges Abrego Garcia, 29, participated in a years-long conspiracy to haul undocumented migrants from Texas to the interior of the country, according to sources briefed on the indictment.

I can only assume this means charges will be forthcoming against Texas Governor Abbott soon for the same charges.

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The incident occurred around 2:30 a.m. on May 21 and was captured on video, showing the officers exchanging blows and shoves. One of them, visibly agitated, used her radio to request the presence of a supervisor, warning that "I need a supervisor here... immediately before I beat this girl up."

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To absolutely no one's surprise...

Marko Elez, 25, who worked for a number of companies run by Elon Musk and was part of the billionaire’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force engaged in dismantling federal offices, resigned Thursday, a White House official told The Hill.

Elez’s racist, now-deleted social media posts were uncovered and first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

“Normalize Indian hate,” the account associated with Elez posted in September, regarding people of Indian ethnicity who work in the U.S. tech sector, the Journal reported.

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote on Elon Musk’s social media site X, the Journal reported.

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HHS has sent out letters terminating all DEI employees and programs. The letter included instructions that the email [email protected] was available to report people for non-compliance.

Personally, I am very concerned that radical elements might attempt to flood that email address. That would be a real shame if that were to happen.

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Actual quote (video included in link):

“I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term,” he threatened. “Because listen here, sweetheart: We’re not messing around this time, and we will put your fat a-- in prison for conspiracy against rights, and I promise you that.”

Welcome to the new regime.

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No video released yet but the right wing blog-sphere is already claiming it's AI. Put on your seat-belts and keep your hands inside the car at all times.

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Forgot to include the [OC] in the title.

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Alternative headline: Trump finally tells the truth about something.

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Republicans, in one of the more moronic takes of the election season, say that if Biden is too old to run for office, then he's too old to hold the office and should resign.

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