bought in exchange for political capital

That’s a very uncharitable assumption of his motivations.

Dropping out of an (FPTP) primary is like awkward manual runoff voting. Once you clearly aren’t winning, you drop out so those votes can flow to the next preferred candidate.

People voting for Buttigieg switched to Biden because he was the most similar candidate. Of course Buttigieg would support the candidate that best matches his policy preferences – and the preferences of voters.

We find that a 10% minimum wage hike translates into a 0.36% increase in the prices of grocery products. This magnitude is consistent with a full pass-through of cost increases into consumer prices.

Reminds me of the book Beyond the Veil of Stars. People travel between worlds by putting their minds into alien species, some of which are quite foreign (e.g. a rodent with multiple bodies), and folks get pretty messed up.

Immigrants’ devious criminal plot (Key and Peele)

Those “richest people” lists are based on publicly known wealth, which is almost exclusively public stocks. There is a lot of dark money out there.

For more context, this is in part the result of a 2021 settlement with the state of Washington over them doing the opposite: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040968238/greyhound-warrantless-searches-lawsuit-settlement

The settlement only forces this behavior in Washington though, so good on Greyhound for deciding that it is the right policy everywhere.

That is not the correct form of a syllogism. The second premise should be “Some C are A” leading to the conclusion “Some C are B”. With the structure you provided, it is easy to produce invalid conclusions from true premises:

• All planets are round
• Some fruits are round
• Therefore: Some fruits are planets

Whereas a correctly structured syllogism might be:

• All coconuts are round
• Some fruits are coconuts
• Therefore: Some fruits are round

Slappy the Firbolg Barbarian

Strange things are afoot

7 bills have passed the Senate, one has been signed into law: Congress.gov search

(note: the filter doesn’t include bills starting in the House, but there aren’t any relevant ones)

Also, the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025” and “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” were “filibustered” (failed to reach cloture).

In the EU-wide survey conducted by Eurostat, participants were asked whether their household could afford the adequately heat the home. No fixed temperature was specified; answers are based on self-assessment.

Could have been worse:
https://lemmy.world/post/24169630

Most of them are leaving. I think the ones remaining rely on bundling with other insurance or services.

For perishable items, you’d get a bathtub curve. For humans in particular one more precise estimate is the Gompertz–Makeham law of mortality.

My biggest frustration with OneDrive is in combination with Office (on my work PC). You browse to a local folder and save, but instead of saving it locally and syncing to the cloud, it saves to the cloud and downloads, and it is slow.

A progressive individual tax would be far more complicated, as you would have to assign, track and audit individual use. And that doesn’t even get into secondary uses (e.g. manufacture and transport of goods).

The flat rebate makes the tax progressive. Typical people pay $0 net tax, or even come out ahead, while heavy polluters pay almost the full tax. Just raising the tax will effectively make it progressive.

Seems to mostly be called “Screaming Seagull” or “Inhaling Seagull”

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/inhaling-seagull

why did it take so long to pass Congress

H.R.4277 never did pass Congress; it didn’t even make it to a vote in the House. This new policy is coming from the CFPB.

Also Biden did not pardon those 1500; he commuted them to time served.

Paper is paywalled, but from the SciTech article it looks like mostly it was sodium sulfate. They did also make some “ocean-degradable plastics”.

Thanks for the link and breakdown.

It sounds like a better description of the estimated thinking speed would be 5-50 bits per second. And when summarizing capacity/capability, one generally uses a number near the top end. It makes far more sense to say we are capable of 50 bps but often use less, than to say we are only capable of 10 but sometimes do more than we are capable of doing. And the paper leans hard into 10 bps being a internally imposed limit rather than conditional, going as far as saying a neural-computer interface would be limited to this rate.

“Thinking speed” is also a poor description for input/output measurement, akin to calling a monitor’s bitrate the computer’s FLOPS.

Visual processing is multi-faceted. I definitely don’t think all of vision can be reduced to 50bps, but maybe the serial part after the parallel bits have done stuff like detecting lines, arcs, textures, areas of contrast, etc.