The protest was staged before Mayor Daniel Lurie announced around 9:30 a.m. that Trump had told him in a late-night phone call that he was “calling off any plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco.”

Wait, what? This is the first I’ve heard of that.

There are actually two issues:

• The most obvious effect of inbreeding is the increase in homozygosity for deleterious mutations, causing more birth defects.

• A subtler effect is the loss of genetic diversity reducing a population’s ability to continue to evolve in response to future selection pressures. This would be especially important when migrating to a new environment with new selection pressures the species has never encountered before.

The building served as office space for the first lady and her staff […] which are relocated until the renovated East Wing is built.

Is this whole thing just a passive-aggressive ploy to kick Melania out of the building?

Cucumbers or radishes?

No—unless you’re eating eggs from your backyard hen, the eggs are unfertilized. Laying hens on commercial farms never even come into contact with roosters.

Nah—see Goodhart’s law (“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”).

As soon as Santa published his lists, people would start figuring out ways to game it.

Historians don’t talk about “good” or “bad” unless there’s some unambiguous metric within the historical context.

The logo is for SE Asia Stats, so their purpose is probably to compare SE Asia to the rest of the world.

There’s not much value in money that can only be used to purchase land/raw materials.

On the contrary—with automation converting raw materials to finished goods essentially for free, raw materials would be worth more than ever.

There are still (some) consumers—other capitalists.

Labor might become worthless, but money would still have value derived from ownership of capital (factories and raw materials). A tiny capitalist class would still produce and sell to each other, while the rest of humanity would be left with literally nothing to work with.

If you think of them as errors made while copying letter by letter from a clean source, sure. But if it’s a scribe copying sentence by sentence from scribbled notes taken during the sermon (say), the first error would make the scribe more likely to misread the second word as well.

You’re not wrong—the protests in their current form aren’t going to achieve anything by themselves.

But adding some specific set of demands will accomplish even less: it will alienate supporters who don’t agree with all the demands, and it will allow Trump to claim to address the issues by cherry-picking and distorting the demands beyond recognition (see the Black Lives Matter protests a few years ago).

If we reach a critical point where mass protests can achieve some real, concrete good, it will be due to contingent circumstances that neither side was able to predict. But the contribution the current protests can make to that moment is to give everyone the confidence that the numbers are on their side, once a productive channel is found.

If a bus driver is trying to drive off a cliff, the passengers can band together to stop it even if they haven’t all agreed on a preferred destination.

You could specialize in types of crime the cops don’t usually get involved in, like corporate wage theft.

Reminds me of the Berkeley balcony collapse during a student party ten years ago.

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Sen. Mitch McConnell, 83, fell to the ground in a Capitol hallway Thursday afternoon as he made his way to Senate votes. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

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McConnell, who announced in February that he would not seek reelection, fell to the floor while two volunteers from the environmental advocacy group Sunrise Movement approached the senator and asked him a question about Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions. He did not respond to the question. The senator seemed unsteady, but got up and kept walking with the help of his detail. He then waved to the two individuals who were questioning him.

Attack by environmental terrorists confirmed.

The way Linux treats many things as part of the file system (devices, sockets, etc.) that Windows doesn’t.

Jenkins in the article: “there has to be an arrest that takes place of an agent, which requires an intermediary set by another law enforcement agency.” Seems she’s passing the buck to law enforcement.

Edit: I’m not trying to defend her, I’m just quoting her actual excuse for reference.