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> No concern over [...] government employees themselves

Three paragraphs later someone else is paraphrased as including immigration enforcement agents among the problematic users, and in the current political environment, federal law enforcement being made more effective might be the real problem for state and local government.


State and Local LE are also worrying. It’s common enough that they use these systems to stalk exes and such.

There's been a fair amount of speculation that pushing back after discovering that that had happened was what instigated this week's fun.

That would certainly make me feel more positively disposed if that credibly came to light, though I would still wonder how dumb were they to think the military wouldn’t do stuff like that

EDIT: that may be the case actually

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/13/anthropic-claude-maduro-rai...


> on border with one's mortal enemy

I have no special stake or knowledge of this, but Israel hasn't treated Gaza or Palestinians as their "mortal enemy"... more of a problematic-but-largely-contained source of rockets and hateful rhetoric, at least until 2023.


They have treated Palestinians as a pest to be exterminated since before Israel existed. Israels entire existence is based on the erasure of the Palestinian people.

There are five times as many Palestinians in Palestine-the-region as there were in 1960.

U have it exactly backwards

The TSA wouldn't exist with bin Laden. The TSA still exists, but the effects of the shoe bomber are now done, in the sense that shoes aren't required to come off as of last year.

But only half as much per dollar, so the lower pollution per capita is just poverty, which is likely to decline over the next few decades as it has been (assuming we have decades left).

The article you linked claims "any type of omelette", but the vast majority of omelettes[*] are semicircles, not circular, right? You'd have to cook the top and bottom separately or mostly separately to get a circular one. Hm.

[*] of course, here I mean proper omelettes, which are an egg shell around ingredients, not scrambled eggs with ingredients mixed in.


In my experience if they're semicircular it's because they're folded over on themselves. Not sure what that has to do with cooking (or not) both sides.

Your ingredient mixing distinction doesn't reflect what I've encountered. That seems to have more to do with the nature of a given ingredient or alternatively with presentation or other concerns specific to a given recipe.

Yeah if you wanted "cooked separately and also circular" you'd need to make a two omelette sandwich. I've yet to encounter that at a restaurant.


This is a case where any law is strange, but so is a lack of a law, for some.

    * What do you mean it's allowed for people to record me while I'm telling them off?
    * What do you mean I'm not allowed to remember (with high fidelity) what someone said to me?
Either way, someone thinks it's weird.

...people with neuralink or similar, in a year or three.

Prices aren't random, after all.

Yes, but how random is the number of items purchased?

Not, even if you only consider between one and a hundred, it'll be strongly tilted toward low numbers, which means that prices, which are typically like X.49 or X.99 or more rarely X.00, will often float in the aggregate in the 40s or 90s before sales taxes in places that have them. So, if there is no sales tax, one would expect a strong band just under $1 or 50 cents, and if there are, it'll be more complicated, but still not evenly distributed across all possible cents.

> Do you want an always-on Alexa in your hotel room?

I encountered literally this for the first time a couple weeks ago. At one point we noticed it was doing the "listening for command" thing during an unrelated conversation, and my wife said, "Alexa, stop listening!", whereupon it told us to use the physical switch for the mic on the device if we didn't want it listening.


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