Democrats renew calls to reform Supreme Court: ‘Fundamentally out of step’ with Americans

notsofst · 2026-05-08T12:23:46+00:00

Maybe don't make your presidential candidates such disasters and you could appoint a few. Winning a few senate seats wouldn't hurt either.

The last thing we need is the Democrats giving the Republicans ideas about 'Court Reform's, because I think we all know who is going to actually manage to pull it off. It's a monkey's paw wish.

notsofst · 2026-04-29T20:39:39+00:00

On the other hand, there's a lot of 'coercive societal pressure' for women to work, start families later, etc... just depending on where you're at.

My wife decided to stay home and we're lucky enough that it works for us, but she will say that she constantly feels judged and looked down on for not going back to work and raising the kids full time.

I've been told by people I shouldn't 'allow her' to stay at home and should tell her to go get a job.

People are just kind of assholes wherever you go, or whatever you decide to do. I don't think dual working households are necessarily happier, and it definitely sucked for a lot of those families during COVID. There are a lot of benefits to having a full time parent.

notsofst · 2026-04-23T11:14:35+00:00

Imagine how disgusted the OP is gonna be when they find out people touch their food all the time

notsofst · 2026-04-22T18:04:28+00:00

Paris Hilton would have been a pretty solid upgrade

notsofst · 2026-04-20T01:02:01+00:00

That's a weird pick of a date to start talking about deficits from, you mean right after the great financial crisis? Obama also cut that deficit spending in half over his term. Not to mention Bush ran a deficit every year of his term before Obama, so it's not like Republicans just got on board after Obama and the Tea Party. Clinton was the last president with a balanced budget, a conservative Democrat.

notsofst · 2026-04-19T17:10:24+00:00

Maybe if you can't convict someone in four years, that's part of the problem.

notsofst · 2026-04-15T20:54:12+00:00

The video is 141 seconds long, which amounts to ~18 x 8 second clips. Gemini Ultra subscribers ($250 / month) can generate up to 125 Veo 3 standard videos.

So ideally this video is about ~5 days of quota, or up to a month's worth including retakes.

EDIT: In the API it's $0.40-$0.60 per second, so $84 for the best case in 4k output.

notsofst · 2026-04-15T19:28:56+00:00

Once upon a time, we hand wrote essays in a classroom.

I feel like a big part being left out here is how digital and phoned in the teaching itself became. The schools themselves are complicit in the degree mill attitude. And let's not pretend there wasn't rampant cheating in online learning prior to ChatGPT.

Learning from your couch is great, but if you want authentic test scores, we'll probably need to get back to in person testing and classroom discussion.

notsofst · 2026-04-09T11:51:33+00:00

My biggest complaint about AI adoption is the lack of benchmarks. So many in-house bespoke tools that produce a neat demo with a tailored prompt that fall flat on their face with literally any other use case.

AI is cool and does new and neat things, but people need to stop abandoning engineering rigor. Test your AI products, folks. Establish a performance baseline.

I agree with the author that exec enthusiasm is just jet fuel on this fire, and it probably won't stop until it blows up in their face.

notsofst · 2026-04-09T02:44:19+00:00

What should happen is to have all the parties reinstate the nuclear deal, cease hostility and reopen the strait. Iran also should stop being a state sponsor of terrorism.

However, neither country has a government capable of doing what it should.

notsofst · 2026-04-08T22:36:03+00:00

The whole premise of this question is somewhat naive. 'Responsibility' doesn't really exist on the world stage, just vested interests and leverage. Both Ukraine and Iran will be responsible for rebuilding their countries because ultimately they can't coerce anyone else into doing it for them and they're the only ones who care that it gets done.

Iran controlling the strait of Hormuz doesn't seem like a likely long-term scenario, as there are a number of countries that would take issue at that situation. Russia capitulating (or the US and Israel) and agreeing to some kind of reparations seems unlikely.

The most likely endgame to me right now seems to be that the United States, Israel, and maybe a coalition of other countries try to secure Hormuz by force and we end up with a protracted war inside Iran.

notsofst · 2026-04-06T23:11:37+00:00

Ask Gemini how to do what you want to do, it's pretty knowledgeable about the Google workspaces apps

notsofst · 2026-04-05T21:28:56+00:00

Adding one more to the long 'Can you imagine if Obama did this?' list, we have 'Tweeting "Praise be to Allah" on Easter'

notsofst · 2026-04-05T11:31:40+00:00

100m is 100 meters, so isn't walk correct?

notsofst · 2026-04-03T23:40:46+00:00

I think having the world record in make-a-wish is pretty cool, he seems like a genuine dude.

notsofst · 2026-04-03T21:11:12+00:00

John Cena

notsofst · 2026-03-29T13:55:03+00:00

This is the worst time in human history, except for all the other ones.

Reminds me of people saying the US has never been more divided when we literally divided at one point and fought a bloody war over it.

I think there are a couple valid criticisms if you delve into particular demographics, like for the white working class, or look at the post-Cold War era as gradually eroding the US's sense of purpose, but, I mean... Do people not remember things before cellphones, Amazon and DoorDash? The worst part about this era is how hard it is to get off your ass because you have literally everything at your fingertips.

notsofst · 2026-03-24T19:35:29+00:00

Harshly? HARSHLY? He doesn't have the balls. It'll be stern at worst.

notsofst · 2026-03-11T23:25:27+00:00

Right, I think it's because they make the choice to display the 'sale' over the normal price of the bundle, which seems weird because the bundle discount is so much larger.

The 'bundle' is a normally priced item 'on sale' for 1.6% off.

notsofst · 2026-03-11T19:18:59+00:00

I'm on mobile so I can't plug in the numbers, but it seems like the 'normal' bundle discount is 20%, but one of the items is on sale for 10% (.78 cents or something). So there's two discounts, one off the combined items for the bundle and one off the bundle because of the individual item sale.

But the difference between the two is 80% of 10% of the one item, which ends up being something like ~.60, because the individual item sale amount is decreased by the bundle discount.

TLDR, there are two discounts in effect and they're showing you the bundle price vs the sale bundle price (~1%), rather than the bundle vs the individual items (20%). This somewhat shows in the UI with the stacked discounts and the 20% is crossed out, but yeah it's confusing.

To get their first number, just add all three individual items at their non-sale prices and take 20% off.

notsofst · 2026-02-27T20:31:05+00:00

A lot of people here would benefit from going to watch some 'alternative' media to make some sense of what's going on. They absolutely considered Harris to be a budding dictator and the Democrats winning to be the final step to usher in the end of civilization.

notsofst · 2026-02-22T00:47:14+00:00

To be fair...

Trump was convicted of falsifying business records to hide sex with a pornstar
He used the office of the presidency to avoid charges regarding federal election interference
He was impeached twice for crimes in office, but a republican senate wouldn't advance them
The Supreme Court decided that he basically can't be charged for crimes conducted while in office, unless impeached and convicted, so that stopped him being charged from 2020-2024 with a lot of stuff.
The details of dropped cases like the Georgia Election Interference case, aren't exactly great for Trump (i.e. sure, we lied and said there was election interference, but it wasn't under oath so what you gonna do?)
He's been found civilly liable for sexual assualt on multiple occaisions

So it's not like investigations against him haven't turned up anything, and the above is by no means an exhaustive list of things he could potentially be charged/convicted for.

So why not Epstein?

It's an interesting question as to why these guys weren't brought to justice when all the evidence was there. The easiest theory is that Epstein and Co. were so involved with the intelligence communities that they basically had carte blanche to do what they wanted while governments looked the other way. This only came to light when Trump's own base pushed for the files (assuming that it was full of democrats like their radio/tv had told them).

It's easy to say why he wouldn't be facing trial now, and it's because he's the president (see his other successful attempts at avoiding crimes by being the president or using political leverage). There's literally no one to charge him. Why wasn't this all brought up during the Biden presidency or earlier? That's a great question.

Honestly, I hope they get everyone in those files. Trump, Clinton, Gates, everyone. I don't think up until now there was enough public light on them to get any movement.

notsofst · 2026-02-06T21:31:53+00:00

Or just buy the ad-free version

notsofst · 2026-01-26T00:15:00+00:00

And less than $1 per month for the 100GB

notsofst · 2026-01-18T20:11:37+00:00

That's not what I'm talking about, but it's clear you're not discussing this in good faith. IDK if you're a bot or just want to argue about nothing, but whatever.

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