This also ignores that the brain is not wholly an electrical system. The are all kinds of chemical receptors within the brain that alter all kinds of neurological function. Kid of the reason why drugs are a thing. On small scales we have a pretty good idea how these work, at least for the receptors that we’re aware of. On larger scales it’s mostly guessing at this point. The brain has a knack of doing more than the sum of all parts on a pretty regular basis.
the law is written specifically to disallow people from boycotting companies that destroy the environment, hate LGBTQ, actively promote anti-LGBTQ ideals, etc., but it DOESN’T stop the alternate
That’s correct! The law is written to be non-commutative. That is it works one way, but the lack of indicating the other, implicitly indicates that it is not true. Here are the sections from the bill.
(a) Engages in the exploration, production, utilization, transportation, sale, or manufacturing of, fossil fuel-based energy, timber, mining, or agriculture;
(b) Engages in, facilitates, or supports the manufacture, import, distribution, marketing or advertising, sale, or lawful use of firearms, ammunition or component parts and accessories of firearms or ammunition;
© Does not meet, is not expected to meet, or does not commit to meet environmental standards or disclosure criteria, in particular to eliminate, reduce, offset, or disclose greenhouse gas emissions;
(d) Does not meet, is not expected to meet, or does not commit to meet any specified criteria with respect to the compensation and composition of the company’s corporate board and the employees of the company;
(e) Does not facilitate, is not expected to facilitate, or does not commit to facilitate access to abortion, sex or gender change, or transgender surgery or medical treatments;
As you can see they are worded to have meaning in a single direction but aren’t reflexive in language. So this allows people to boycott the opposite of the above, but prohibits boycotting anything above.
It’s literally a law compelling conservative belief. And they know it’s not going to survive a legal challenge, but they also know they’ll get something like two or three decades out it before being completely overturned. It’s literally a legislative Hail, Mary.
Yeah, that’s already a thing. New York, California, Florida, Missouri, and Illinois enforced their anti-boycott laws in 2018 against Airbnb when Airbnb said they would remove Israeli listings that were in areas where the land was taken from people. Airbnb stood to be completely forbidden from the largest economic markets in the United States at the behest of the Israeli strategic affairs minister Gilad Erdan.
There’s been challenges to these kinds of laws like Arkansas Times LP v. Waldrip, but the State upheld the Legislation and SCOTUS refused to hear the case letting stand Arkansas’ ability to force all companies operating within the State to “stand with Israel” or face removal from any State program and anyone whom they did business with removal from State funds. Because that’s what happened with the Newspaper. The Newspaper itself had no contracts with the State, but those who advertised might and they would be prohibited from purchasing ad space in the newspaper.
There’s Jordahl v. Brnovich where a lawyer was providing legal services in Coconino County, Arizona and was found by Arizona’s anti-boycott law with regards to Israel. Eventually appellate courts sided with the lawyer that such a ban on boycott’s was against the State’s Constitution, but Legislators eventually carved out an exception for legal firms and rendered all further cases moot before it could make it to the Supreme Court of Arizona.
There’s Martin v. Wrigley where a filmmaker would not sign a pledge for State film making funding that they would not “boycott Israel” per the State of Georgia’s anti-boycott laws. In the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the court ruled that the law was compelled speech. The State then amended the law to not apply to businesses under $100,000 rendering any final challenge moot. And any losses were indemnified as the State of Georgia claimed qualified immunity. In appeals, the Eleventh Circuit in a per curium that was unpublished affirmed the lower court’s ruling but did not rule on the full Constitutionality of the law. The Eleventh dropped the case completely in June of 2023.
There’s Koontz v. Watson where a Mennonite church boycotted Israel and the State of Kansas required a math teacher who was a member of that church to sign an affidavit that she did not boycott Israel before she could attend a required teaching seminar. That one went really complicated, very long story short, the State carved out an exception in HB 2482 and the court’s dismissed the matter as moot. The Teacher was allowed to attend the training.
And I could go on and on and on, because at the State level there are several legal challenges in pretty much every State to the various State laws that prohibit boycotting Israel. So yeah, on this “it’s already a thing” pretty much everywhere and we are nowhere near through enough court cases to get some final resolution on these kinds of “you cannot boycott Israel” laws. They’re likely going to be around for another ten to twenty years if we just keep chipping away at them via legal challenges.
And that’s likely the success that Missouri is trying to get with this law. Get a good solid thirty or so years out of “you cannot boycott conservative values” and seed things into a new generation by force, since allowing people to measure these conservative values by their own accord isn’t working. But yeah, if this law passes, it’s golden for at least three decades or enough of Missouri’s Assembly changes to remove the law.
There is absolutely no reason to rush this sham to trial except to injure President Trump and tens of millions of his supporters.
Because if Trump is elected President there stands a chance that a President Trump would attempt to pardon himself from any former crimes related to his attempt to overthrow the US Government.
There are zero ways someone can convince me of any of the following:
There’s just zero logical sense to a notion that a President can do anything with impunity, sky’s the limit. There is no historical basis on even the loosest interpretation of the intent of the Founding fathers of this nation that supports this notion. And even knowing that, man I have very little hope that SCOTUS is actually going to pull though on this. I honestly think they’re going to find some very niche technical weasel words to grant Trump literal absolution on his crimes.
And then that’s just it. There’s no meaning to law, if there exists a single person who can be above it all. Law makes no sense if there’s a single person who can ignore it. That’s was one of the major sticking points for us leaving the Kingdom way back and starting our own country. The President was never meant to be a King and if SCOTUS grants that immunity, I mean we’ve got a King in all but name. That’s just how it is.
It’s surreal that we’re here now. That the question laid before the highest Court of this Country is this one. And literally any other composition of the Court I wouldn’t think twice about it because that answer would be a “hell no” without a nanosecond of delay. But I couldn’t honestly tell anyone how SCOTUS will weigh in on this, but if they say “yes”, it’s over, there’s no way anyone can ever prosecute Trump for literally any crime even to the end of time. And I just cannot imagine that any Founding father thought, “Yeap, this is exactly how I intended things to go.”
I mean fuck, I don’t think people honestly appreciate how massive this question before the Court is. It’s literally asking “Do we have a President or do we have a King?” And fuck, I couldn’t tell you how they’re going to rule. A coin flip would be as likely a correct answer as the current Court could possibly muster. And even worse, I have a feeling they’re going to try an apply a very specific ruling here even though Jack Smith’s request is much broader in scope. And then that’s just going to indicate that “it’s a King if SCOTUS says so” which would be an even worse outcome.
For those wondering, the State’s Supreme Court is hardlining the Legislative language here.
While I don’t know medicine enough to give real percentages, the lower Judge ruled the abortion could continue because there was like a 70% or something chance of dying and the letter of the Texas law requires something along the lines of a 95% chance of death.
Again I don’t think one can attribute hard numbers, but the Supreme Court is saying that the laws indicate that only when death is pretty much assured can an abortion happen, which is a completely insane stance. And in this case death was only mostly going to happen, not absolutely going to happen.
Roughly speaking, the Texas Supreme Court basically said that the person needs to be closer to death than the defendant in this case. How much closer? The Court isn’t super clear, but clearly much more closer to death than this person was.
Because clearly taking pain and suffering into account is just beside the point at this point for Texas.
deleted by creator
AH! Silly me, I was thinking of “benefit to the customer”!! LOL. No idea what happened to me there, swear it won’t happen again, at least for today.
Now, Grok has been launched as a benefit to Twitter’s (now X’s) expensive X Premium Plus subscription tier
To the benefit of what exactly?! Instead of having conversations with the echo chamber, I can now have conversations with a spicy RNG autocorrect? I am clearly missing the part where that connects back to, what I would assume, the definition of benefit is.
Imposter syndrome kicks into overdrive
1 gacttgggta tctgaacctg ttacaagttt tgcatgccta ctcgaaaaga gagcactgca
61 cattttcaaa aaactcccct tgtcgtgcaa aaaatgccgc ctatacgcat acgccgtctc
121 aggctcgact ccgattccga cggagaagaa caagacccac tccaacccca atccgagcca
181 caaacccatt ttccggttga aatctccgac gacgaggact tcctcgacgt cctcgacagc
241 ctccctccgc cctctcccgc ctgtcctgtc accgacttcc tccgccgcct tggactgtca
301 cccaagagtg actggctcac ttcctgcctc cgcgaattcc agtcctccgt tccggccttt
361 gaacacctcg acgtcgccgc aaaagccaaa cgctgtttcg agcagtttct ctacgccgac
421 atgaatttct gcggaagtgg catactccct cccaacgtag acgccatgca ccttaacgtt
481 ctccccggtc cctatgtatt gcaggttgat gaaataatta atatgacttg tcctctacga
541 ggcagatatg aaaaggcaaa tcctggaatt aaaagatgtt tgaagttatc aatgactgat
601 ggcattcaaa gagtatttgg aatggagtat aggcccatcg aagctcttga agtttgtgcc
661 tcttctggtt taaaggttac tatctctaat gtacatgtgc gtcgtggact tcttatgctg
721 gtacctgaaa ccattgaaat attgggggga ttggttgagg agctggatgc tgcccgaaat
781 cgcctggttg gagaattaaa gaagccacct agacctaggg ggagaagaac tagaaacgga
841 gtgtttattc ctttagcgac tagagcaact cttgctgcgt ggcctccagg tggagttgat
901 gatcttgcac gcagtggctc cacgctgcac agtactgatc ctgtacagga aaacaatcaa
961 ggttctggcc cgagcatgtc tggcactggt aacagtaatt caatacccca catggcgtca
1021 aatgctgatg ctatgaacat ggatatgtct agagatacca attctgtttc ccgtggtagc
1081 tctatggcta accagctctc ttctgtcatg tcaaaggctg aggagatgca catagatgct
1141 tctaatgtca ccagggaata ttctgttgac catcagtctt ctaatatggt ttcaaatgtt
1201 tcagcagcat ataatgatac tgttcatata acaagagaaa gttctgtggc tactgagtgc
1261 cctcccgttg ttgaaagtgt tgagacatac agggatagaa ctccagtagc cacagatagt
1321 tctcatccac gaagaacctc ttccactgtt agggaatatt ctgttgacaa tcggttttct
1381 aacatggttt caaatgtttc agtggtgcat aatgacactg ttcatataac aagggaaagt
1441 tctgcaacta ctgagtgccc tcctgttgtt gaaaatgttg agacatacag agatagaact
1501 ccagcagcca ctgatagttc tcatccacga agagcctctt cctctgtttt aaacaccagc
1561 gatgtcgaga tgggtgatgc cagtgaccat ccactcatac tgtctggaga ccaagaggtc
1621 ccgttcacat acatggctag tttgtcagcc aagtgggcta aaatgaaaga ggaagctcct
1681 gcaattcggg gtaaaatcaa gtgctttttg actggtgtaa aaggattccg gtacaagaag
1741 aggacatcat atgagcttca ggcatatgta gacgatggta gccttatttc tgaaatcctc
1801 attgatcatg atgttgtaca gaaaggaatt ggtttttctc ctgaggaggt aactgcggcc
1861 atttcttctc ctgacacgaa aactgtccaa caaatgaggg atacaatgca taaatttcaa
1921 gcatttttag caaactttga gggaataatt cttgtggaat taaataaaaa atcttccctt
1981 ccacttgccc tagagatgag tcaaggctgt cctcaatctg atgcacggtt acttctgaga
2041 aggctgaagt ctcttaaccc tccacaagtt caaaaaccta cggatccaat tgaattatcc
If you will note ggatatgtct agagatacca you can see guy is genetically unable to feel shame.
Elon doing something stupid? Must be a day that ends with Y.
It tests vacuum tubes that would usually come from televisions. If a tube was bad you could hypothetically replace the tube and get your TV working again. The various holes are for the various tubes that were sold.
Vacuum tubes would eventually be replaced with transistor designs as transistors were more reliable and required way less power to operate. Also they were vastly smaller than tubes. Today most TVs are, in essence, a small computer packed into a single chip called a System on a Chip (SoC), so they are way less user repairable. But they’re also vastly cheaper than the 1930s versions. In 1939 RCA’s TV that they sold went for ~$600 or about $13,280 in today’s money.
So there was a ton of incentive to make TVs as user repairable as possible. It’s also why we used to have a lot of TV repair shops that we pretty much have zero of today. Putting that much investment into something, you’d want to make it run for as long as possible.
Ah yeah everything in that document is just Corridor ID spending. I explain that here But basically it’s a feasibility study, they’re only getting $500,000 to do an in-depth study.
Looking at the details it indicates that it would stop at Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs, “and other points”. This money was to move the project into “Step 2” and is slated to use existing alignment (share freight train rails) and is going to be propped up by a different Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) grant. Apparently, this is all part of the Front Range Passenger Rail project that’s been an on-going thing there since 2002, when the 1998 “Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century” (that’s literally the name of the law) granted authority for the US DOT to designate eleven NEW federal rail corridors and Colorado decided “what the heck, let’s try!” and won.
So surprise! You guys won one of the eleven spots! It may take awhile to claim your prize it seems. But good news, some money is coming to your Department of Transportation to get them over the next hurdle that they’ve been working to get over since …checks notes… 2014. Good grief, does everything Government wise go this slow there in Colorado?! I’m from Tennessee, we tend to just embezzle everything, so everything goes really fast here.
Total Award: 69 (noice) that I counted multiply by $500,000 = $34,500,000
Remember that the Corridor ID program is money the indicated people can use to do a required study for ultimately asking to be in the next grant of the Fed-State National. Just because these people are handed the money for the study DOES NOT MEAN that a rail project will be funded by the Fed-State National program.
Total awarded amount by the FRA as directed by the President: $8,220,497,586
Also note this excluded explicitly funding already earmarked for Railroad Crossing Elimination (RCE) and Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) as required by law. Things inside the RCE and CRISI are mandatory spending line items.
Okay for those who aren’t aware of how this program works, here is a breakdown of what’s being handed out and a very brief summary of the programs.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021 creates two very broad categories for train development.
The Fed-State National is getting the most money because obviously it’s going to be building new things and repairing old things. The Corridor ID won’t be building anything, per se, but will be helping the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and “others” to identify locations that could join the current network of passenger rail. The Corridor ID is only handing out $500,000 per selection so I won’t be giving amounts there.
Total award: $8,185,997,586
Do note that for pretty much all of these projects, the awarded amount is NOT the total cost of the project. After each awarded amount, I have put / and then the current estimate for completion of the project. As example, the California high speed rail is currently estimated to cost $33 Billion. The year of TBD in parenthesis is the latest year the project is expected to be completed. The Nevada high speed rail project has a + on it’s cost because that $10.4 Billion is an initial estimate that was put into the program before the close date, the cost has increased since then.
The Corridor ID program can be divided into four sub-programs.
Remember that each of these is awarded $500,000 to do detail study in how to implement the program they’ve been slotted into:
(continued…)
I was promised that the COVID vaccine would make all my blood congeal. I’ve thus far have made it to promises of “God will punish us” without one hint of life threatening coagulation.
Grillo’s attorneys had argued that he “believed he was authorized to engage in the conduct set forth in the indictment.”
When your attorney wants to say something better than “he’s guilty as fuck, but he’s also paying me so could we not pretty please?”
For those wanting a bit of a summary.
transmitting up to 22.9 petabits per second (Pb/s) through a single optic cable composed of multiple fibers
The breakthrough isn’t things moving faster but more fibers per cable. So you can transfer more bits in parallel.
That’s still a good breakthrough because, for lots of reasons, packing more fibers in isn’t as straight forward as one would think.
I appreciate your commitment to this meme. I don’t exactly agree with you, but hilarious nonetheless.