Yep, straight to SCOTUS.

The thing that makes the outcome suspenseful is that Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have been signalling “but not the Fed” when they’re attacking agency independence. Probably because they have stock portfolios.

So it seems like they may try to carve some distinction that saves the Fed from the same fate as the FTC, CFPB, NRLB, and merit protection board. It’s not at all clear what’s that might be.

How’s that reunification of Ireland going?

The Pennsylvania charge is for an illegal gun.

“Groyper” is a corruption of goy / goyim, right? A Yiddish word for non-Jews.

So is it fair to say that most of the 26 character message was on the shell casing, rather than the bullet itself?

The deal with Utah is it’s actually only 40% Mormon. And when you have a bunch a kids growing up in the Mormon church, a decently large number of them will crash out. And when they crash out, they tend to crash out pretty hard.

So Utah has large communities for various countercultures and alternative lifestyles. You can visit a random business, and often find both types working together side by side. And it is usually quite obvious which is which from external signs.

Just to be clear, even a small check fraud is a “crime of moral turpitude” that allows a green card holder to be deported. There is a legal definition of “moral turpitude” that maybe doesn’t match up with people’s normal intuition.

Any presidential administration since 2015 could have legally started deportation proceedings against this woman. But only this current administration has actually done so.

Predictive mathematics is highly accurate and quite useful at predicting the future already for many types of problems.

As one example: we can use math models to predict where the planets in the solar system will be.

The problem with LLM hallucinations is not a general limitation of mathematics or linear algebra.

The problem is that the LLMs fall into bullshit, in the sense of On Bullshit. The deal is that both truthtellers and liars care about what the real truth is, but bullshit ters simply don’t care at all whether they’re telling the truth. The LLMs end up spouting bullshit, because bullshit is designed to be a pretty good solution to the natural language problem; and there’s already a good amount of bullshit in the LLM training data.

LLM proponents believed that if you put enough compute power at the problem of predicting the next token, then the model will be forced to learn logic and math and everything else to keep optimizing that next token. The existence of bullshit in natural language prevents this from happening, because the bullshit maximizes the objective function at least as well as real content.

On September 30, the fiscal year will turn over, and the funds will not be available anyway. The case will be moot, so they will never be able to argue the merits in court, and the court will never come to a final decision.

The money will disappear. (Where? Somewhere, who knows?) And Congress’s will, expressed when they passed a law that said to spend this money on foreign aid in this fiscal year, will have been defeated.

The original auction of Girl with Balloon went for 1 million pounds in 2018. Love is in the Bin sold for 18.5 million pounds in 2021. That’s an 18x appreciation over 3 years. And a good move for the 2018 buyer to follow through with the purchase.

That is an excellent and profitable plan for someone, right up until the wall starts sledge-hammering itself to bits on the auction floor.

I agree that it’s lazy copy editing. “Allegedly” is used in the newspaper business as a magic “get out of any libel suit” word.

However, I don’t think it’s necessarily safe for the news flat report that Trump “did” the thing. They can report on what Carroll says he did (those are the allegations). And they can report that a jury determined it’s more likely than not that he did the thing.

This is a situation where explaining it correctly requires several more words than the editors wanted to spare.

Except it wasn’t a criminal conviction. “Conviction” is not a suitable word here.

Trump was found liable in a civil lawsuit for the tort of sexual assault. He was not convicted of the crime of sexual assault. Many crimes also have corresponding civil torts.

You don’t wanna risk getting detained re-entering the US and this racist ass administration denying your citizenship.

Since OP stated they are a natural-born US citizen, this scenario would be a significant escalation towards authoritarianism if it does happen.

Even doing this to a naturalized citizen would be an escalation.

Right now, most “border surprise” cases involve green card holders, not citizens, who have old criminal charges that rendered them deportable a long time ago. Just no previous federal government has cared enough to go find them and put them into removal proceedings.

This is also only an interim decision that only officially applies to operations in Los Angeles for the duration of that litigation and further appeals (e.g. 1-2 years). There was no opinion or explanation on how this ruling comports with existing 4A and 5A case law.

In addition to the WWII rations and OPA stuff that others have mentioned, there was a fair amount of general deflationary pressure during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

I haven’t looked at what happened to sugar specifically.

The US has universal jurisdiction to prosecute pirates and to seize their vessels. Seize does not mean “sink.”

As far as I know, they don’t have a lot of facts in this case to spin into a “the bad guys escalated a law enforcement boarding operation” scenario.

I gave you the downvote because I once attended a public lecture by Stephen Hawking, near the very end of his lifetime. It had to be one of the few, very last, public lectures that Dr. Hawking had in him. And the topic of that lecture was the nature of time, and how all of the equations of motion are fully reversible, etc, etc etc.

Out of all of the topics Dr. Hawking could have discussed, that one is the one he chose. And to me, that means that the nature of time was interesting enough to him to spread around to the public. That there are live issues that are not well settled. And so on.

Since that time, I’ve not seen any major developments in theoretical physics or philosophy to shift the status quo to an appreciable degree.

This leads me to the final judgement on your comment: You are wrong. There are live issues to discuss here, and OP deserves to further explain, defend, and debate their philosophy.

I need to get you to sit down for a philosophical discourse with the Time Cube guy.

Bush and Obama had the legal cover of the original Congressional AUMF from 2001. That has now finally fully expired.