As someone commuting to the city from the Eastside (now taking the train every day), I was unfamiliar with the sad state of the 8 line before this post.
There’s a dedicated website: https://fixthel8.com/
I learned from that site that all-girl punk band Tacocat wrote a song called F. U. #8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRFlROqgFwo
Usually the “trick” is the fact that the ring fits through the hole.
Huh… As a big The The fan (literally wearing a The The t-shirt while writing this), I’ve never really thought of Infected as being different from the rest of the catalog. Some of his other songs are pretty up-tempo and “noisy” in the way that Infected is.
Oddly enough, the same trick doesn’t seem to work for trips to the liquor store.
Then it sure is a good thing that the vast majority of the US census is not the result of door to door enumeration. Most people complete the census online or by mail.
Isn’t it a reference to the trick that mentalists have been doing for decades? My mind immediately went to Uri Gellar.
But terrapins are not tortoises, since they’re semiaquatic, but are differentiated from common turtles by their presence in brackish water.
The whole “Boaty McBoatface” thing is just a way of conditioning us for the next time someone named McGovern wants to run for leadership.
Zucchini on pizza works pretty well, but you need to cut it thin, so it has a chance to dry a bit during baking. Otherwise, it makes the cheese soggy, which is nasty.
In Canada, polling stations are also run by members of the public. I think they get paid, but it’s a small enough amount that most people think of it as volunteering. In my experience, it’s usually retired people. They also sit there for the day. On election day itself, they’re also responsible for counting the ballots and making sure that the ballots are preserved. (I was once a volunteer scrutineer for one of the political parties, so I got to be there to watch the ballot-counting process.)
Regarding early voting, my recollection is that a subset of polling places were open on two or three specific days in the weeks leading up to the election. Like, if my riding had 25 polling sites, only maybe 4 (one in each “quadrant”) were open for early voting. On the plus side, I think the early voting days were usually on weekends.
On the topic of “remote voting”, my wife is Romanian and used to vote at the train station in Iași, since her official residence was still her home town. I always thought that was an interesting solution to the “voting outside your home district” problem, since it kind of implies that you’re away from home because you’ve been riding a train. That said, since Iași is a university town and most people never seem to update their official residence (like, most of my tech worker friends officially “lived” in their hometown, even if they’d been in Iași for 10 years), the lineup to vote at the train station during a presidential runoff could be hours long. Of course, nobody needs to “register” to vote at the train station, since they just show their national ID card to prove they’re eligible to vote.
Not saying that he won’t try, but the president has no (constitutional) say in the sitting of congress.
I looked it up and in Powell vs McCormack (1969), the Supreme Court ruled that the speaker of the house has no authority to deny a representative sent by their respective state. So, unless the current Supreme Court decides to overturn that precedent, it would require a 2/3 majority vote of the newly-seated house to expel someone, assuming I’ve understood correctly (which is questionable).
Tl;dr: I think even this couldn’t necessarily prevent folks who win in November from serving.
I never registered to vote in Canada.
Since I was moving a lot before I left (student, then early-career renter), I would always show up to my local polling station with proof of address (usually a utility bill in my name) and proof of citizenship (usually my passport). They would copy down my details and give me a ballot. (I wasn’t a douchebag who would do this on election day. I’d always go for early voting when the polling station was empty.)
If it’s the shareware pinball game I think it is, that complete stranger who wanted your credit card number? Tim Sweeney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Pinball
I was able to convince my dad to give them his credit card number over the phone for the full versions of Epic Pinball and One Must Fall 2097.
I remember early in the run of BBT, when I had already decided the show was not for me (not helped by people comparing me to Sheldon – yay, neurodivergence), I saw Jim Parsons on the Craig Ferguson show. He picked up Craig’s TARDIS from his desk and giggled, saying “This is so cute! What is it?”
I think Kaley Cuoco would have recognized the fucking TARDIS.
I read an article from a somewhat progressive source a few years ago advocating for this very change.
The essential argument was that the “2 stairwells at opposite ends of the building” requirement was a product of an earlier era when building materials were more flammable, buildings didn’t have sprinkler systems, and some other code changes. The article said that it was much cheaper to build one stairwell in the middle of a building, adjacent to the elevator bank, and modern fire safety measures ensure that it’s still safe enough.
I don’t have a strong opinion, personally, but the argument doesn’t seem completely dystopian.
Exactly.
Most of the comments in this thread are accusing him of trying to take credit for the work of a machine that’s just imitating other work. It’s the FuckAI echo chamber and people who didn’t actually read the article.
In this case, it’s more like he’s claiming to have created a genuinely creative being that deserves rights previously reserved for humans (like copyrights and patents).
It’s a completely different (and IMO, much weirder) story than people are assuming.
Yeah… Checking his website at https://imagination-engines.com/founder.htm, he certainly seems like an “interesting” character.
My understanding is that he did do the work of creating the AI. This isn’t just someone using ChatGPT.
In this case, it’s not that he’s trying to claim copyright for himself based on coming up with a prompt. He’s spent years applying for patents and copyrights with the AI listed as the creator.
Speaking as a green card holder (who, by definition, went through the immigration process), I’m wondering if they’re alleging that he lied on his application.
It was a long time ago when I filled it out, but I do remember that there were a lot of questions about whether you’ve ever been convicted of or even charged with a crime.
Whoops… I saw a grainy promo photo and listened to the song and jumped to conclusions. Thanks for the correction!