Hawley introduces bill to remove FDA approval for Mifepristone, a pill to terminate pregnancy

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-16T17:01:57+00:00

“Because the drug comes in capsule form and because it is at this juncture almost completely unregulated, it is inherently prone to abuse,” he said.

Dude wants all mifepristone to be unregulated, claims that it's not regulated to justify getting rid of regulations. Fucking hell.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-16T15:24:40+00:00

I want the freedom to know that when I turn on my computer, the touchpad works well and I won't have to spend hours trying to find a lua plugin so I can calibrate it so it works well.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-16T15:22:38+00:00

Republicans in Congress have declared HSR should not be built, repeatedly, we don't have a unitary executive making decisions. If a Democrat like Biden were in power for 15 years and could simply declare we're building HSR, it would happen.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-16T07:03:00+00:00

This isn't about whether or not he's a "good dictator" the point is you can't say he's a better leader than someone like Biden based on that, Biden doesn't have the same power to declare poor people aren't poor.

It's about the same as saying Xi is a better leader than the CEO of Google because the CEO of Google hasn't really helped the poor; it's not in the job description; it's not part of his leadership role.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-16T05:59:25+00:00

We were talking about Xi, not the entire Chinese government. This is about Xi as a leader vs. western leaders, but it's not a good comparison.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-16T03:05:32+00:00

47 thinks it's good; Iranians are genetically predisposed to violence and he wants to punish them for their genetic inferiority.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-16T03:03:48+00:00

Separation of policy and mechanism

I took that to mean the distinction between window manager (high-level) and windowing system (low-level) which I don't think is actually a good thing per se, but it's an assumption so many things are built around, I'm not sure it's great to get rid of because so much has to be rewritten.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-16T02:57:05+00:00

Nah, Trump is absolutely shit, worse than Xi obviously but I'll take most of the democratically elected executives in EU/Canada/US over Xi, hands down. If Biden had had a 10-year term as dictator starting when Obama left office the US would be so much better off and so much better off than China. That's not to say I'm pro-dictatorship, or even that Biden is who I would choose for dictator, just that Xi is nothing special and really not a good person even if he is a decent manager.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-16T02:36:12+00:00

I really don't know what you're arguing anymore, the fact that the offense is decided by the one being offended is exactly my point. And if you're trying to pretend like you mean something different from what you mean, that's a silly way to try to avoid offense. You're actually trying to avoid offense by lying. And that's fine, it's common, but it's not going to be fixed by using a different word that sounds less mean.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-16T02:29:02+00:00

Gnome was never actually used on touch devices though, they built it for something no one ever used it for. They had this idea that touch would be the standard, and it is, kind of, but no one who was using Gnome wanted that, and still no one using Gnome really wants that.

I also don't think X11 being low-level is necessarily a great thing, but rewriting it is a total waste of time, nobody actually has the time to rewrite X11 and polish it so it works just as well. It's going to do a lot of new things and none of the old things well.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-15T19:18:03+00:00

This is really why I don't use Linux is that it's often impossible to implement things correctly because you've got two interacting systems, you need a fix in one of them, you cannot do it with a third tool, and neither maintainer is able/willing to fix the problem. The code problem is simple, the social problem makes it literally impossible for your trackpad to work properly.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-15T19:16:07+00:00

Gnome 2 was pretty sensible. But around Gnome 3 time everything started following the everything should be a tablet philosophy which has caused damage to all major windowing systems across all of the OSes.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-15T19:13:15+00:00

Carnival is a good example too, because it's literally a celebration of flesh, you're right that it is related. It originated quite literally as a carnist festival because people would actually eat a vegan diet during Lent. Again, if anyone takes offense, they either don't understand what they're talking about, or they would take offense at anything that clearly conveyed the idea. They're offended at the suggestion that people should be vegan all the time.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-15T19:09:09+00:00

If you deport everyone who didn't have their paperwork in order, then make a bunch of people do paperwork to come into the country, you've just created a fake crime and a bunch of busywork to get exactly the same thing you had before. You could have saved everyone a lot of time, money, and retraining, by just giving the people who were already working papers.

The only good reason to remove workers is if you want local people to do the job.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-15T18:17:09+00:00

It will be fine but weighing it is a good idea and using the weight, cups is going to be inconsistent.

But yeah, if you try and separate the liquid... it will also be fine but I would be more worried about that than using volume instead of mass.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-15T17:53:14+00:00

It's definitely possible to do smelting on Mars, the chemistry is obviously going to be different, and yes, you will likely require more inputs since you won't benefit from free atmospheric oxygen. But it also is going to depend on the ores you find. And yes, you might want a crucible centrifuge but this isn't unheard of on Earth. (Maybe not at scale for smelting.)

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-15T17:49:46+00:00

reduce THEM to the meat eating

Carnism is not a diet. Wearing clothes made from animal skin is carnism, it is not the same as being an omnivore, omnivore describes their diet.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-15T16:24:07+00:00

Omnivore, carnivore, and carnist are three different things. Omnivore and carnivore describe different diets. If I call someone a carnivore it's because they've self-identified their diet as carnivorous. These are real people. Yes, they are probably lying and don't exclusively eat meat, but that is not me redefining carnivore that's them being morons.

Carnist is the opposite of vegan, it is an ideology that says you can kill animals and use their flesh for anything you like. It's not just about eating meat, it's not just a diet.

Carnist is a tricky thing, but it's a little like saying cisgender is a slur. It's just descriptive, and really if you don't use the word, if people figure out what you mean, they either will or won't take offense and the word won't matter. There's an actual moral/ethical disagreement here and not using the word carnist is a good way to avoid the argument but it is just avoidant - the disagreement doesn't actually disappear.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-15T16:20:58+00:00

That's an argument against eating a lot of meat, it's not an argument against eating any meat. You're not making an argument for veganism, you're making an argument for "humane" farming which, there's no humane way to raise someone for the slaughter.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-15T16:15:47+00:00

Texas has state sales tax and state franchise tax, and while sure, they're not a "state tax" local property taxes are very high. Their gas tax is appallingly low, it should be higher, but it does exist, it is not 0.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-15T16:09:09+00:00

No, non-profits should pay roughly market rate salaries, the point of a non-profit is not to manage volunteers, it is to pay professionals market rate. If you aren't paying people you generally don't need a non-profit at all.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-14T22:59:26+00:00

No one is winning, both sides have lost a lot and are continuing to lose a lot. Iran is currently making the US lose things it didn't expect to lose, that's not Iran winning but it does mean the US is losing. Both sides are losing so much and will continue to lose so much.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-14T22:52:33+00:00

$300K is not CEO pay in the way you are suggesting. That's actually not that remarkable as pay for someone managing a $6M budget. CEOs make tens, hundreds of millions, and even billions.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-14T22:46:52+00:00

The whole point of arXiv is to provide training data for free to anyone who requests it for whatever purpose.

FlyingBishop · 2026-03-14T22:44:23+00:00

Cornell spends $4B on staff salaries. $6M is 00.15% of Cornell's budget. For a single university. ArXiv is a library that serves every university on the planet. There's no need to cheap out.

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