“If police can come to your door in the middle of the night and put you behind bars based on nothing more than an entirely false and contrived interpretation of a Facebook post, no one’s First Amendment rights are safe,” Steinbaugh said.

Much as I hate being on the side of a cop, retired in this case, the sheriff needs to be criminally charged. At minimum this was false arrest and it appears that Weems and Morrow fabricated evidence that there was “mass hysteria” over Bushart’s posts.

They also have depth and warmth that most if not all republicans lack.

The judge will throw it out. Trump will then call him or her an activist democrat judge (only in all-caps and with more misspellings) and then pardon her “in the interest of justice.”

Yes, Isaac Asimov, back in 1980, referred to it as a Cult of Ignorance.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

Great video, thanks! I learned some stuff about cooking scrambled eggs.

AI firms “ask public officials to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) preventing them from sharing information with their constituents…

How is this even remotely legal? Is this even remotely legal?

Worse than that. If any republican is killed, over their politics or not, it’s a heinous crime. But if a democrat, like Rob Reiner for example, is killed over their politics then they deserved it because of “the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”

Sorry. I meant good that it hurts American oil and gas companies.

Um… good?

That’s a good point.

Headline is misleading. That is one sentence from a list of three points.

• First: Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.
• Second: our business model must align with trust. We will grow through transparent monetization that people recognize and value.
• Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

I think the more important statement, and one that I agree with, is in the first point.

AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.

If this is the goal then I agree. Mush as AI annoys me, I don’t care if they build AI features into the browser. There are enough people that do want AI features for it makes sense to do so. But it needs to be optional. I don’t want to have to keep going into about:config to disable AI features that should have been opt-in in the first place.

Bill for bombs or corporate bailouts: We have infinite money!

Bill to assist paying for health care for poor people: We have no money! We must cut other spending on services for poor people to pay for this!

President Donald Trump said Monday that the White House is “very strongly” considering signing an executive order to reschedule marijuana to a lower drug classification, which would ease federal restrictions.

What a nitwit. You can’t reschedule it with an executive order. The substances on those lists are there according to legislation passed by congress and signed by presidents who could actually tell their ass from a hole in the ground. The legislation defines the steps needed to change the classification of drugs on those lists. And an executive order is not one of those steps.

I suppose Trump didn’t notice, but he could arrange for marijuana to be reclassified fairly quickly by just continuing the process that Biden started in October of 2022.

Moving to Schedule III isn’t the right move anyway. He should be pushing Congress to amend the current legislation to remove marijuana from the drug schedules entirely and treat it like tobacco and alcohol.

The return of company towns. You won’t have to pay federal income tax, but you’ll be paid in company scrip that you can only spend at the company stores in town.

Clearly a conspiracy theory because no one in the USA is ever killed because of their political activism.

Good. I hope they win and start a trend.

Maybe not completely. There were several references to AOS in Wandavision. For example, the Hydra Soap ad is believed to be a nod to the AOS Framework story line where Coulson was sure that Hydra was using soap to mess with everyone’s memories. Also, the Darkhold from AOS which was taken to the dark dimension by Ghost Rider, was returned from there by Morgan Le Fay in the Runaways series. Somehow, Agnes Harkness took possession of it after that and it appeared prominently in Wandavision.

Man, you’re not kidding.

Also, she was 75 and driving that beast?

I would also suggest nail trimming. The rule in my house is that if someone uses their claws inappropriately (on furniture, me, whatever) then it’s time for a nail trim. If you’re not sure how to do it, have your vet show you how to do it properly. You need to be very careful. If you trim a nail too short and hit the quick it’s very painful for your cat and it will bleed, maybe a lot. As I said, have a vet show you how to do it if you don’t already know how.

You do NOT want this to be a traumatic experience. This is not a punishment. It’s just a consequence of using their claws when they shouldn’t. If you do it right, it is not painful for them but they do not enjoy the feeling of having short nails without points. I think it just feels weird to them. They will spend a lot of time afterwards at the scratching post working on resharpening them. If you promptly trim the nails after they misbehave, they will associate the two experiences and stop clawing inappropriately.

Also, you might want to give them a treat immediately afterward to console them, if they are food motivated. After several years now, my cats will actually line up to get their nails clipped because they want the treat.

I can’t speak to the mindset of people who are superstitious. I’m just repeating what the alleged basis for the superstition was.

The belief was that when the first soldier lit his cigarette, the enemy would see the light; when the second soldier lit his cigarette from the same match, the enemy would take aim at the target; and when the third soldier lit his cigarette from the match, the enemy would fire, and that soldier would be shot.