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Thank you! This meme is reposted often, and that non-word always jumps out at me.

This came up a few months ago when people were saying “But wait, congress has power to set tariff policy”. That was true until the Smoot-Hawley act that is often blamed (probably correctly) for triggering or at least greatly exacerbating the Great Depression. After that, congress ceded tariff control to the executive. AFAIK, there’s nothing stopping congress from taking it back, but I can’t see the current congress doing that.

As popcornpizza called out, most of the answers in this thread unfortunately seem unrelated to your question.

I live in the US and haven’t been to the UK in years, but I do visit Romania every year or two. I don’t notice a big difference between Coke Zero sold in the US versus Romania. I’m certainly not a Coke Zero expert, but they taste pretty much the same to me. My hunch is that Coke Zero tastes the same across Europe, but I’m happy to be corrected.

Huh… I had always assumed that it related to having one and a half feet/legs.

At Costco, they’re less “greeters” and more “people who check your membership card”. Actually, since Costco switched to automatic card scanners, they’re “people who watch to make sure you scan your card and the machine makes the happy beep”.

That said, at least at my local Costco, they also smile and welcome you into the store – it’s just not their primary function.

Is it its own continent? Because each sphere is a continent.

Sorry – I misread it as you reported it. Makes sense, thanks!

If you read the copyright notice on the website, it links to the relevant law, which starts with:

Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.

So it’s not a copyright violation, since it’s a US government work (and doesn’t fall under the exceptions listed in the law).

Ooh! There was an episode of the Past, Present, Future podcast a couple of months ago that touched on this very subject. Tariff policy was set by congress up until the Smoot-Hawley act, which was considered such garbage that they decided that it should be left to the executive.

Back when it was a congressional power, it was also the source of some of the worst horse-trading, as representatives from rural areas would seek protection on agricultural imports (with low tariffs on imported machinery), while representatives from manufacturing areas would seek to lower food prices and increase the cost of imported manufactured goods.

Edit: Not saying that handing it to the executive is the best plan, as we can see by what’s going on now, but letting congress do it was also problematic. It’s funny how a lot of us grew up with the idea that no/low tariffs are the natural order, when it’s actually been a fairly short-lived anomaly in historical terms.

The problem is that a lot of the people that attend sporting events come from the 905 areas outside of TTC service. There are commuter trains to those areas, but they taper off as the limits of “working late” are hit.

Oh, maybe! I didn’t understand how it chose the points, but it does look like the random convergence approach.

Nice, thanks!

I’m disappointed that none of them seem to have gone with the random convergence approach.

Set the three corners of an equilateral triangle. Pick a random starting point on the canvas. Every iteration, pick a random corner from the triangle and your next point is the midpoint between the current point and that corner. While the original point is almost guaranteed not to be a point in Sierpinski’s triangle, each iteration cuts the distance between the new point and the nearest Sierpinski point in half.

If you start plotting points starting with (say) the 50th one, every pixel is “close enough” to a Sierpinski point that you see the triangle materialize out of nothing. The whole thing could be programmed in about 20 lines of QBasic on DOS 30 years ago.

I may be remembering incorrectly, but after the 2019 Supreme Court ruling that federal courts can’t address partisan gerrymandering, a couple of blue states (New York and Illinois maybe?) tried doing some gerrymanders after the 2020 census. Then their state courts struck them down.

Several blue states – I think Washington and Oregon are among them – created non-partisan redistricting commissions before 2019, so they can’t be gerrymandered.

FFS, “between Lando and me”. Grammar, folks. Use it.

They installed efficiency modules to reduce biter expansion?

The article summary in the post explains that it will be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation just before he leaves office. So it won’t be available for future presidents.

Huh… That sounds like the 16th century anabaptist argument (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptism). This is almost a coherent argument from the sovcits.

Almost.

Wow… Indiewire should find someone who reads their own site to proofread their articles.

If you click on Jeff Bezos’s name, it links to other articles mentioning him, like the 2021 article saying that he would step down as CEO of Amazon in 2022, which is what happened. Yet this 2025 article refers to him as “Amazon CEO”.

Sure, he still owns a lot of Amazon stock and nobody knows who Andy Jassy is, but getting facts that that wrong is pretty ridiculous.