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Someone who is not a citizen is in the country with a removal order, and they are working and raising a family and haven't committed any crimes unrelated to their immigration status. What should we do?
Nothing. We should do nothing.
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When Republicans get steamrolled on Tuesday, think of this map.
This is my Sunset Park, Brooklyn neighborhood voting in 2024. The left map is how they actually voted: mostly blue in Hispanic Sunset, less so in Asian Sunset (and red in Orthodox Jewish Borough Park).
The right map, however, is how the voting CHANGED from 2020. Almost every precinct leaned harder for Trump than it did in 2020. Democrats had screwed up (immigration, inflation, culture war overreach), and they were being punished. My own blue precinct, for example, went from 14% for Trump in 2020 to 25% for Trump in 2024.
If Republicans had capitalized on Dem's mistakes, they could be solidifying their power on Tuesday, but instead Trump pissed away that goodwill with excessive behavior by ICE, horrible economic policies that raised prices, and a very dumb war that's done the same.
"for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap"
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I hate the bit where politicians pretend to be like an average citizen just reading the news and figuring things out. You're supposed to be an expert representing people for whom politics is not a full time job. The line should be "here's how we communicate this to them."
JD Vance on ranked choice voting: "I don't understand it. It seems to me that you have an election, the person who wins the most votes should win. That seems to be not what happens with ranked choice voting. The fact that it's so confusing to a person who pays pretty close attention to politics I think suggests we should do our elections in, like, the normal way."
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Killing people who are trying to klll you may not be as traumatic as we’ve been led to believe
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Casting a UN ballot to declare food a human right costs nothing and means nothing. What country actually does something about it? I'll give you a hint:
Despite what the media constantly tells you, the United States is the true rogue state in the world.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The images show US votes against certain non-binding UN resolutions citing concerns over wording and legal issues; the US is by far the largest donor of global food and humanitarian aid.
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So called federalists when they have to read the constitution
I actually agree, except that stupid abhorrent memes are not serious criminal calls for violence
For example, something far more egregious from the right. People say stupid shit and then regret it, but cancel culture is a greater evil that we have lived under for a decade with the woke left and I don't want it from the right
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True, but... the right could recognize that the woke left was wrong for trying to dox and cancel people, but can the right recognize that about the woke right?
I've already seen that not many conservatives support the first amendment, so probably not.
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here's you regular reminder that carseats have probably saved very few lives in aggregate vs. general improvements in road and care safety
despite massive increases in carseats for 0 & 3 year olds since 1959, their mortality declines have been entirely typical
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America has made large strides against crime in my lifetime but it's still the case that the highest-crime French city has a substantially lower murder rate than Montana to say nothing of actually high-crime US cities.
It's a big problem.
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I'm far less concerned about a world ruled by today's Chinese than I was about a world ruled by the old USSR. So I'm far less invested in conflict w/ China today than I was in the old cold war.
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The first iteration of our #minecraft world-gen overhaul
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Jared has that dog in him. It’s amazing watching him get into it with people on here. He doesn’t let a single point slide. He’s not nitpicking or being rude, he’s just obviously committed (and willing) to take the time to correct every single misrepresentation. So many political figures would have ignored, or dunked at best. He’s actually being very generous with his time and energy. We all benefit from watching him do this.
You are moving to a different point now, which is fine. But I want you to know that I was respectful in my reply, as I have been to the critics. You were not correct about the public display of the Moon rocks or about prior presidents having rocks in the Oval Office. Now you have pivoted to the budget request.
The President submitted a budget request that challenged NASA to do more with less. I provided testimony on the budget because, as you would see in OIG reports, there are examples where NASA was not the best at resource allocation and outcomes suffered. But ultimately, Congress appropriated funding, as is its responsibility.
Then we had a year like 2026: the Artemis II mission went very well and we immediately press on to Artemis III, not wasting time or money, six astrophysics missions set records; we held “too big to fail” programs accountable for being over budget and behind schedule; and we launched new initiatives in a logical, iterative way, like Moon Base and SR-1 Freedom. A flagship mission like Roman launched ahead of schedule. X-planes are actually flying again (and on their way to KSC at this moment). We have dramatically rebuilt the workforce, added thousands of civil servants, and put our machine shops back to building hardware. We have taken control of our destiny and put NASA back in the driver seat. And as a result, we have a President who has clearly taken notice and is showing a lot of interest in America’s space program, from Artemis to Roman.
This is how you go from being asked to do more with less to being asked to do more with more.
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The fact that it is illegal for an ACA-compliant healthcare plan to charge more for a 600lb morbidly obese 30 year old than a healthy 170lb 30 year old male is madness.
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Some color: Many previously impossible things are now both free and instant, some are free but take time, some are instant but expensive, and some are neither free nor instant but generally still faster than before.
The problem occurs when I scope some insane project and then it still takes a while. I refer to these as 1000-shot projects, because there's a lot of fiddling to get it right.
Generally these involve extremely large, ambiguous data sets and/or complex 3D graphical design, where the fact that the model is "blind" is unavoidable.
For example, the Tulainyo report at adventures.caseyhandmer.com was 90% functional within a few minutes and took hundreds of tweaks to get it right, including handling a series of regressions.
Over at domes.caseyhandmer.com we now have 6 functioning scifi environments, some with more effort than others. All of them required dozens of pieces of specific feedback to align the output with the vision.
A project looking at desalination has been going in circles for a long time because the model has been unable to internalize an aspect of the concept in a useful way.
The Moon DEM enhancement project has also struggled beneath the weight of the scope of the project and the ambiguity of the desired output, but has improved markedly with Opus 5.5.
A highly illustrated physics textbook has improved a lot with 5.5 but is still stuck behind 100s of hours of human judgment and feedback.
Any project that requires human intervention is slow and painful and gets slowed down.
The science audit project is running slowly due to the scope and complexity of the desired outcome.
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When a hypothetical thought experiment contradicts real world behavior, believe real world behavior.
If people would rather have higher status in a poorer society, then you would expect people in rich countries to take their savings and move to the third world.
Instead, people will give up being doctors in Africa to drive cabs in Washington DC.
As for surveys like this, when the money is just hypothetical, it’s easy to say it doesn’t matter. But in real life, higher GDP means things like a car, nicer clothes, dishwashers, air conditioning, etc.
People probably don’t think about that in a study where they’re just asked what kind of world they want to live in. In the real world, they face the reality of making a choice.
"While economic growth does bring real benefits, our well-being depends far more on our position or rank. Whether we realise it or not, we’re all playing the status game." aporiamagazine.com/p/life-is…
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Interesting that you should mention that. Since I took over as Administrator, we put three Moon rocks on display in the lobby of NASA HQ. They are there now, and anyone can walk in and see them. We also brought Moon rocks to multiple public events, including America’s 250th birthday celebration on the National Mall and NASA fan engagement zones in Cleveland, New York, Pittsburgh, and Tuscaloosa.
President Trump is the third president to have a Moon rock in the Oval Office. Presidents Clinton and Biden did as well, so you have your facts wrong. You should maybe try to put the obvious political bias aside for a second. If you love NASA, having a president who supports the space program and where we are going, the Moon, is a good thing.
And, as inconvenient as it may be for you, the facts are that POTUS established the Artemis program, the Artemis Accords, and the Space Force, and has now provided the National Space Policy calling for a Moon Base.
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I've been listening to some politics podcasts leading up to the midterms and it's all so funny, man. This is what people are consuming.
"Oh, I hope our team wins. Do you think they'll win? Well, in 2018 it was kind of like this and they won. But then in this other year it was kind of like this and they lost. So I don't know. Maybe they'll win. Maybe they won't. I hope they do! Gosh, I hope the do! I don't want the other team to win. I want my team to win. We asked some people who they thought was going to win. Let's talk about that for an hour."
This is what people who are "interested in politics" are doing with their lives.