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Something else, that I'm shock no one really talks of, decrease in falling numbers for wheat. Wheat today has way higher alpha-amylase activity than it did not but fifty years ago. And every decade or so it is getting worse. Flour with higher alpha-amylase activity will not rise in the same way that flour with lower activity has.

So say you plant an acre of wheat and expect 3000 pounds of flour, but that flour has a low falling number value. No one is going to buy it, so now you have to plant say 1.05 acres and you take that 0.05 acres to enrich the content of the flour so that you have 3000 pounds of flour that people will buy.

You can see where this starts getting troublesome. At some point the falling numbers continue to drop, now you need 1.1 acres for 3000 pounds, ten years later you're now up to 1.25 acres to get that 3000 pounds and so forth. And we KNOW what is causing it. When wheat begins to germinate too early, you have increased alpha-amylase activity. Wheat germinates when you have unexpected rainfall when you shouldn't and then temperatures that fluctuate wildly. And the thing driving continued decreases of falling numbers is climate change, there's not even remotely a dispute about this.

We're having to grow more and more wheat and get less and less from the wheat. I mean it's not massive overnight changes, but when you look at scales like just the last fifty years, we're having to enrich wheat more often than not to hit gluten content assurances. That's a non-zero cost and it keeps going up, which in turn is making anything that's not unleavened bread, increase in price.

I don't know if anyone has done a study on this, but it's got to be costing everyone a bit of measurable money. It's absolutely happening in pretty much every wheat farmers haul on this planet in such regularity at this point, you just cannot pretend it isn't happening. And yet, I don't think I've ever heard anyone really discuss this very real and concerning thing that literally happening right in front of us, outside of maybe a few AG sites and what-not that regularly talk about it.

In San Francisco, under the in-law and illegal space legislation of 2016, tenants are granted the right to refuse an inspector onto the premises. So for the San Francisco area, residents are granted the right to refuse inspectors into the building.

This doesn't prevent the inspectors from lodging a formal complaint, which SF has indicated that, that's exactly what they're going to do with Musk's office. This would start throwing the whole thing into civil court which can lead to civil penalties. Which combined with Musk not paying rent in several locations and facing evictions and the associated fees with that, any penalties will just be added to the pile of money that he's currently setting "ablaze".

even if I find a convention or rare place to explore them with others, they are often filled with people who already found their people and aren’t seeking any new applicants

Any group like that doesn't deserve your awesomeness my fellow person ✊.

My only regret is, that I have, swoleitis.

Necessary and proper clause:

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

— Article I Section 8 Clause 18 US Constitution

Under this clause congressional power encompasses all implied and incidental powers that are "conducive" to the "beneficial exercise" of any enumerated power. This is established by the SCOTUS in 17 US 316 McCulloch v. Maryland (1819). This includes any power enumerated in Article III of the US Constitution which is what establishes the third branch of Government, the Judicial branch.

Alito is just trying to play semantics with the term "regulation". In that "regulation" has a formal understanding of deriving from rule making and not legislating. But no member of Congress is pitching that we need some executive or legislative office extending a regulatory power over the court. Congress wishes to establish by fiat a code of conduct that the Justices must abide by.

And by the exact same clause in the Constitution, Congress has the right to open investigations into anything that they may legislate upon, including this.

The biggest question is can Congress compel the Justices to divulge any information. And the answer is something we've really been needing ANYWAY. We have laws to properly identify crime. We need either Congressional rules or actual laws, that indicate what's an impeachable offense. Congress has the ability to pass a law that if a judge doesn't come clean about their dealings, that the Judge is to face an automatic impeachment vote.

That's the part where Congress gets wishy washy on it. Because if a Judge isn't coming clean about their dealings and we have such a law, suddenly all the members of Congress have to go on the record for "do I approve of underhanded dealings?" But YES, Congress absolutely has the power to "regulate" the Justices. The Founders absolutely intended for Congress (for better or worse) to be the branch that's supposed to keep all the other branches from being corrupt, and it's up to the voters to keep Congress from being corrupt. That's how we made this form of Government.

Can confirm. This shit happens to me all the time in Civ6.

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

— Article I Section 8 Clause 18 US Constitution

The Constitution indicates that Congress gets to set the laws that are necessary for proper execution of all the powers enumerated in the Constitution.

New York University professor Steven Koonin has presented data

Who is also the chief scientist for BP. Just so we've got that out there.

in his bestselling book, “Unsettled,” to show that the science is not as settled as many politicians would have us believe.

Which many scientist have indicated is just being contrarian to seek more books and the arguments within the book are easily debunked.

Koonin is a respected academic physicist

Yeah in physics he knows his stuff.

Koonin finds that daily record high temperatures have not increased over the past 100 years and daily record lows have become less common. This is directly at variance with media headlines.

Yes, because his dataset is from the 1990s. There's zero reason to think any conclusion he has is in step with modern data. His modeling method even pre-date the 90s. Everything he has used to provide argument is not via a method that is modern. His data is right just that is using methods no one uses because it's wildly inaccurate. So right in this case just means he's consistently inaccurate. Everyone please refer to your seventh grade science class on the difference between accuracy and consistency.

The media covers climate change as though doomsday is approaching. Bad news sells, and well-funded organizations support the crisis message.

The irony of this statement while completely missing the notion that someone can just say a lot of opposite things to sell a book is... Interesting.

Even if rising “greenhouse gas” emissions were affecting the climate, actions by the United States will not be helpful in the absence of changes by China and India, the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases.

Yes. Let's not do something because China isn't doing it. That's fine argument. You know China isn't doing human rights so I guess we can nix that here too.

If the United States were to get rid of all fossil fuel emissions, this would only reduce global temperatures by 0.2 degrees Celsius by 2100.

Just FYI, 0.2 is equal to 2,100 Tsar Bombas going off at once. That's the largest nuclear device ever created by humans. Decreasing 0.2 is like not blowing that many nuclear bombs. 0.2 is super significant. This is what happens when you have some mid-sixty year old economist talking science.

The EPA’s proposed tailpipe and power plant regulations will reduce economic growth by raising energy prices.

Lady, I don't know if you've had a change to exit your private jet, but fuel cost are going up, no matter what. Everyone was like "if you increase minimum wage food prices will go up!" And then we didn't increase minimum wage and prices still went up. I'm just going say, I don't think it really fucking matters what we do or don't do at this point, prices are going up no matter what. I used to buy eggs for fifty-nine cents way back. What happen? I didn't get any nice shit or saving the planet and eggs are $4, what happened?

Raising the cost of energy at any time is poor economic policy, but especially when economic growth is slow. U.S. annualized gross domestic product growth was 2% in the first quarter of 2023, with data for the second quarter expected on Thursday. It’s summer, but now is not the time for Democrats to use the excuse of climate change to slow the economy further with more regulations.

Well the cost of energy is going up anyway, so it doesn't matter. And economic growth is slow, because for the last fifteen years its been at breakneck pace. So maybe look a bit more than just a single year for your data points. And also, y'all just hate regulation, that's what it boils down to. But every time regulations get removed, "Oh no! The Housing Market crashed! The econmy is getting tanked!" There's just been no demostrated self-restraint so, yeah, nah, I don't trust you mfers. I think you all need more regulation.

Also, the econmy is going be in more pain later than now if we can't fucking grow food. I know, none of that is your 65 year old ass' problem, but I mean people who are 12 right now, might want to eat when they get to their 50s. I know, you'll be dead and all, so it won't matter to you, but it kinda of matters to them. So I mean, pardon if we all take your perspective with a nonexistent grain of salt.

Trump's lawyer.

"It's 1°C. That's not a lot."

It's 1°C on average. That means every molecule of air has AT LEAST 1°C extra thermal energy. And I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, there's a lot of air molecules. So while taking one cubic centimeter of air and increasing it by 1°C isn't a ton of energy. Do that for roughly all 109 tredecitillion molecules and you get about 2.2 zettajoules of energy. Annual US energy consumption is just 0.094 zettajoules. So one degree increase is equal to more energy than the US uses in 23½ years. The biggest nuclear bomb humans ever made, that pulls in at about 0.00021 zettajoules. So one degree is roughly 10,500 Tasr Bombas going off and then the resulting heat just never leaving.

All of that energy. It has to go somewhere. Sometimes it makes ice turn to water, sometimes it increases the speed at which some wind is moving, sometimes it increases the surface temperature of land, sometimes it evaporates water leaving an area very dry. But it has to go somewhere. And it cannot just radiate back out into space, it hits a CO₂ molecule, bounces off of it, and flies right back down to Earth. And the more CO₂ molecules we put out there, the more often that happens.

WEI is not designed to single out browsers or extensions

Let's take a look at exactly the things from Wiser that he indicates was inspiration for WEI.

App Attest and Play integrity API. Both of these APIs are used to ensure that the hardware is in a particular configuration. Namely to ensure that you aren't using a device with an unlocked bootloader. Now Google and Apple will say, "THEY are NOT the ones enforcing it, they're just telling on you but it's ultimately up to the remote if they wish to accept your unlocked bootloader or not."

That's the thing. WEI would be roughly the same thing. Chrome wouldn't "prevent" you from having an ad-blocker, it's just that if you had one, they would absolutely be telling on you to the website. It's completely up to the website if they want to show you a site with your ad-blocker.

The details are nebulous, but the goal seems to be to prevent 'fake' interactions with websites of all kinds. While this seems like a noble motivation, and the use cases listed seem very reasonable, the solution proposed is absolutely terrible and has already been equated with DRM for websites, with all that it implies.

— Julien Picalausa, a software developer for Vivaldi

And I agree with Julien. This has to be the dumbest way to do what the stated goals are. Because what if I have a browser on a custom compiled Linux kernel? What if I've turned off SecureBoot? How will the attest software KNOW for SURE, I'm not messing with it? And the only way, that can happen, is the exact same way that SafetyNet gave way to Android Play Integrity. Only particular models are allowed. It's why some APKs won't load on a custom Android. Your frankentablet just isn't part of the established crew, you don't get that app.

The fact that Wiser completely ignores the history that lead to the two APIs that they cite is so gross, there's no way Wiser just "forgot" to mention how all that played out. There's no way that this Google Engineer was that stupid to not see where this was going.

It is clear based on the feedback we’ve received that a bigger discussion needs to take place

Bullshit! You got called! That's what happened. You are not dumb, you knew exactly what this API was pitching. You even cited two APIs that went the exact way that you claim this wouldn't happen for WEI. BULLSHIT!!

No one should be using Google Chrome at this point because they are absolutely going to try this shit. They don't have any compunction for the ramifications of what WEI will do. No. They're just tail between legs right now because someone found out about their bullshit and sounded the alarm. The second everyone goes radio silence on the matter, it'll be back to bat for this shit.

Google is shit and they prance around like they are some sort of liberator. They talk mad about ASOP, that's Android's Open Source side of things. But ASOP is useless. There's no hardware today that you can compile ASOP for, and run native. You have to have closed binary blobs to compile into ASOP just to run on literally anything. And even when you do have ASOP, none of the apps use the native services any longer. It's all in Google Play Services now. Like you can tap on your GPS hardware directly, but your OS will report it GPS and not eGPS, why? Because eGPS only comes with a special stamp, and that stamp only comes with Google Play Services. And the hardware API, none of that is solid ground. Google modifies that shit in ASOP all the time, they just tell you that if you want a stable API, hit up the Google Play Services. Hell LineageOS, probably the best known custom ROM, even covers the blobs here. But most people just download an image and not actually build their own custom ROM. The fact that these binary blobs that we don't know what's going on inside of them are the goto way to make custom ROMS is likely the only reason Gapps (all the Google apps) still run on custom ROM. The attesting software sees enough of the closed off blob to assume some ability to secure the environment.

There's nothing open source about Android. Yes, they put out ASOP so that they meet the minimum GPL agreement. But you cannot run ASOP without making it closed. And this fucker indicated that "Yeah, this sounds like a wonderful way to solve a problem in web browsers." There's no way this Wiser person just oops missed all that history. Just absolutely NO WAY. They got caught and they're trying to walk it back to save some face.

I think this is a great time to point out that "making money" for 𝕏 is important. But his company 𝕏 has a $44B operating debt that has an insane serviceability. Dude's company could be making $100M a month, that's nearly forty years to make good on just the principal of the loan. No one is giving him that kind of time.

𝕏 doesn't need to just make money, it needs to act like a money printer on a cocaine fueled binger, just to cover the massive debt he has saddled the company with. Which when you hear him talk about aspirations for 𝕏 it sounds a lot like he wants to make it like China's WeChat. I don't know if the US is a good market for something like WeChat and even if it is, I think someone like Apple would be way better at it.

But does make sense because Tencent, owners of WeChat, rank in tons of cash on their various holdings. And that's the level Musk really needs to get at to put this debt thing in his rear view. So, Musk better hope that bird he's poking suddenly turns into way more than just a place to post one's daily rants. Like that bird has got to turn into the next Visa/MasterCard at this point.