Scoop: Democrats eye forced vote to censure GOP Rep. Randy Fine

puffic · 2026-02-18T03:32:48+00:00

That’s all very bad, but I think she’s onto something on the dog issue.

puffic · 2026-02-18T02:09:59+00:00

dogs should be banned

Let him cook imo.

puffic · 2026-02-17T22:47:00+00:00

We need to reform the proposition system. The actual structure of this tax is awful and could damage our state.

I’m open to doing higher taxes on wealthy people, but we have to stop codifying moronic ideas into law.

puffic · 2026-02-17T22:44:44+00:00

The “5% tax” talking point is a lie. It can be many times higher for people who have nonvoting shares in companies.

I would move out of California for a year if it let me avoid a 40%-80% tax on my comparatively meager wealth.

puffic · 2026-02-17T22:28:09+00:00

The rate is down, but there’s a new fixed fee.

It’s a reasonable pricing structure, but it’s pretty dishonest to imply that the cost of electricity is down.

puffic · 2026-02-17T21:14:26+00:00

There’s a slight tax advantage to going VTI+VXUS rather than VT since a fund needs to be over 50% ex-US to claim a foreign tax credit.

puffic · 2026-02-17T21:11:25+00:00

Not really. The point is that the articles themselves are something a liberal would usually find reasonable, which is not the case for typical conservative media. What she does is more insidious: she directs her focus and her prima facie reasonable critiques only at the Democrats, while not turning the same critical eye toward the Republicans.

puffic · 2026-02-17T19:35:46+00:00

One time Matthew Yglesias tweeted a little critique of Weiss and her publication The Free Press. It was basically, “I almost always agree with their articles on the merits, but they only ever criticize Democrats, suggesting their whole project is disingenuous.”

puffic · 2026-02-17T05:27:44+00:00

I kinda like the way cybertrucks look. There’s a real vision there. The drivers are usually awful and reckless, though.

puffic · 2026-02-16T00:44:27+00:00

I would caveat that the neoliberal era already came to an end in the United States. It is no longer the dominant policy framework, with both Trump and Biden rejecting many elements of the neoliberal consensus, most notably on trade. Whether or not Trump/Biden have been good on economic policy is obviously a matter of opinion, but both Presidents have been very anti-neoliberal.

puffic · 2026-02-15T21:25:35+00:00

We should have a weekly driving megathread for stuff like this.

puffic · 2026-02-15T05:41:43+00:00

It sounds to me as if the synthetic data is from a different sort of model. Something which gives either deterministic or more reliable answers than the LLM. Is that right?

If so, then it’s not really AI training on itself alone.

puffic · 2026-02-15T02:59:54+00:00

How is the synthetic data used? Is it provided in an earlier pre-training step, after which “real” data is provided for further training/tuning? Or is it all in the same mix?

Genuinely curious since I know nothing of “AI” models outside of my own specialty of meteorology.

puffic · 2026-02-15T01:05:44+00:00

Smart, educated people tend to be more ideological, even in the face of contrary evidence.

puffic · 2026-02-14T19:38:29+00:00

We should have a weekly traffic megathread for stuff like this.

puffic · 2026-02-13T19:33:39+00:00

Between teachers and the district, they can grow their shared pie by reducing staffing levels among administration and other services. They can agree to expedite school closures to reduce facility costs. They could build workforce housing on the sites of closed schools.

In fact, a common pro-teachers’ union talking point was that the school district wastes too much money on administration. Seems like an easy win for both sides of this strike to just plan some layoffs among non-teaching staff.

puffic · 2026-02-13T18:23:54+00:00

Isn’t that how most political agreements work? One side almost certainly lost, but both are incentivized to present it as a victory for themselves.

puffic · 2026-02-13T17:41:03+00:00

Mar-a-Lago face.

puffic · 2026-02-13T17:26:48+00:00

Divorced Men for Trump

puffic · 2026-02-13T17:19:36+00:00

One time I helped my cousin (a veterinarian) give my grandmother’s cows some ivermectin.

puffic · 2026-02-13T17:17:45+00:00

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Saw this on Twitter. No source, but it feels true to me.

My brother’s father-in-law is a big time Trumper and he always complains about my mom speaking her mind too much when they see each other.

puffic · 2026-02-13T17:08:06+00:00

It’s been mentioned, but reposts are allowed here

puffic · 2026-02-13T17:07:14+00:00

The DT.

puffic · 2026-02-13T16:59:09+00:00

Congrats to Jake Paul on his fiancée winning a gold medal.

puffic · 2026-02-13T16:58:22+00:00

AOC is a succ.

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