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My thought exactly. OTOH, I feel like the anti-Musk ball only really got rolling in March, and this report can't possibly cover March - it's got to be Dec24-Feb25, so probably just a hint of things to come.

Even if there's a coherent policy goal behind the tariffs, which I doubt, achieving that goal with punitive taxes on undesirable goods means that the greatest burden falls on people with the lowest income. Reaching the same goal with promotional tax incentives means the burden is paid through our normal, slightly progressive tax system and falls more on the wealthy. Tariffs and sales taxes are the worst kind of taxes.

I'm OK with a live filibuster. Being able to "filibuster" a bill by passing a note to the teacher threatening to talk all night does not promote compromise or good lawmaking.

It kind of amazes me that, in this day and age, email has turned out to be the lynchpin of security. Email as a 2FA endpoint. Email password reset systems. If email is compromised, everything else falls. They used to tell us not to put anything in email that you wouldn't put on a postcard...how did this happen?

He's not the majority leader any more, and without all the sycophants flattering and distracting him, it turns out that someone has been systematically sabotaging US democracy going back years.

Wonder if there's an opportunity there. Some way to archive one's self-hosted, public-facing content, either as a static VM or, like archive.org, just the static content of URLs. I'm imagining a service one's heirs could contract to crawl the site, save it all somewhere, and take care of permanent maintenance, renewing domains, etc. Ought to be cheap enough to maintain the content; presumably low traffic in most cases. Set up an endowment-type fee structure to pay for perpetual domain reg.

At least my descendants will own all my comments and posts.

If you self-host, how much of that content disappear when your descendants shut down your instance?

I used to host a bunch of academic data, but when I stopped working, there was no institutional support. Turned off the server and it all went away (still Wayback Machine archives). I mean, I don't really care whether my social media presence outlives me, the experience just made me aware that personal pet projects are pretty sensitive to that person.

Your articles seem to say that congress has periodically rearranged and eliminated "Article III courts," recently avoiding the Constitutional crisis of not paying judges of the eliminated courts by posting them elsewhere. But I'm no lawyer, so maybe I'm misinterpreting "In 1891, Congress enacted legislation creating new intermediate appellate courts and eliminating the then-existing federal circuit courts." and "In 1982, Congress enacted legislation abolishing the Article III Court of Claims and U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals"

I mean, he's technically correct: the constitution gives congress the power "to constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court." The only court the US technically has to have is SCOTUS, although it's hard to imagine them hearing every single federal case.

Interestingly, Congress does not have the power to fire or reduce any judge's salary, except by impeachment.

Disapproval is a temporary condition, anyway. Soon enough, it'll be illegal (or at least dangerous) to express disapproval, and Trump's numbers will be right up there with Putin and Kim.

Nevermind including a reporter in the group chat. Can we talk about why these people are using a commercial service to hold classified discussions in the first place? Like, isn't bombing another country SCIF-type stuff? Isn't that stuff subject to the Federal Records Act?

As a long-term non-exerciser, routine and coupling it with a reward was definitely key. I started out just walking, and walking to get lunch was a key motivator. Upgraded to a rowing machine, and it doesn't even feel like a chore to sit on the machine and watch a movie in parts or a show, going on 5 years.

Still have to figure out how to get some strength work in there. Just can't seem to find a system to consistently do a few push ups, pull ups, and stand ups.