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3d ago
But the motherboard wifi is not talking to the LTE tower. Presumably there is an LTE device that bridges your private network with the Internet. You should at least hardwire the connection from your PC to that device.
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3d ago
Sure. But he also gets no points for making statements against interest.
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4d ago
A majority can vote to remake or suspend the rules at their discretion.
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5d ago
Ah, you appear to have Acrobat Reader installed which is what adds that (as well as the Share option). Microsoft isn't really to blame here, I think. They've done nothing except make it possible for third parties to integrate into Word. They may even have been legally required to do it.
FWIW, you don't need Acrobat Reader for general PDF reading.
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5d ago
I don't recall having seen this. Are you sure this wasn't something bundled from the hardware OEM?
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5d ago
Being from Wisconsin, Brandy is my #1 liquor. Most frequently to fortify hot tea, nog, mulled wine, or even just hot water and bitters. But also brandy, bitters, ice and soda for a refreshing sort of an old fashioned. In the dog days of summer though I'm more likely to reach for a G&T as a cocktail.
But overall, good light lager is just the best. You can drink it at a reasonable pace almost indefinitely while maintaining a warm, good-feeling buzz. Just about my favorite way to spend a summer afternoon is at the park beer garden under the oaks, with a book and a block of cheese, drinking a couple of liters of Spaten or Hofbrau helles for several hours.
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5d ago
Again, we can do any of these things.
This is the part that is wrong. We actually can't do any of these things, at least not to any degree of scale and competence. There are too many veto points, too many interest groups, and too many fief-building bureaucrats for anything that requires coordination beyond an executive order. And, there is insufficient faith in competent government execution and trust in expertise even if these things were not true, such that it would probably fail from lack of good-faith cooperation anyways.
That doesn't mean that tariffs are better than nothing. I appreciate Althouse's dictum that better than nothing is a high bar. But for all the people who cry that we have to do something, well, this is something and it can be done.
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6d ago
I mean, that depends a lot on the attorney's fees.
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6d ago
The question is not whether the left has suspicion and dislike of the Chinese, it's whether that level of suspicion and dislike is lower than the levels of suspicion and dislike of the right in their own country.
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6d ago
Not really! Remember they did comply with the regulations, filed required paperwork, and received required approvals. What they failed to do is make actually safe aircraft regardless of compliance status.
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7d ago
Indeed, I try to keep "90% of everything is crap and always has been" in the front of my mind whenever talking about history and especially when I feel the creep of nostalgia.
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7d ago
That's just the normal state of democracy, I think.
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7d ago
How many processes depend on gravity at all? How many require specifically 9.8 m/s^2?
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7d ago
Food processor
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7d ago
They seem to be coming around though!
https://x.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1906727995307381025
Summary: TracingWoodgrains ran a poll for both left and right respondents, asking if they'd rather have their opposite running the world vs. China.
For left respondents, China won handily, opposite for right-responders. Obvious selection bias and all, but troubling. The days of substantial fifth-columnism may be returning.
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7d ago
Probably not to the rights as such but to the court-invented magic incantation that replaces any actual inquiry whether and to what degree the rights were actually violated.
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7d ago
Not OP, but perhaps United States v. Texas
In 2021, after President Biden took office, the Department of Homeland Security issued new Guidelines for immigration enforcement. The Guidelines prioritize the arrest and removal from the United States of noncitizens who are suspected terrorists or dangerous criminals, or who have unlawfully entered the country only recently, for example. Texas and Louisiana sued the Department of Homeland Security. According to those States, the Department’s new Guidelines violate federal statutes that purportedly require the Department to arrest more criminal noncitizens pending their removal. The States essentially want the Federal Judiciary to order the Executive Branch to alter its arrest policy so as to make more arrests. But this Court has long held “that a citizen lacks standing to contest the policies of the prosecuting authority when he himself is neither prosecuted nor threatened with prosecution.” Linda R. S. v. Richard D., 410 U.S. 614, 619 (1973). Consistent with that fundamental Article III principle, we conclude that the States lack Article III standing to bring this suit.
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8d ago
Having no redress to those abuses - e.g., nobody has standing has to challenge or slow-rolling proceedings until the case is moot - is using the court system.
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12d ago
I really don't think that's enough for them. If it was just about body modification, then appeals to autonomy would be fine and a sensible position. But they want more than that. They want the right to do want they want, and make everyone else approve of it. They seek self validation from external sources and are sad at not getting it. Hence the moral blackmail.
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12d ago
Looking for new books as I approach the end of the Harry Bosch series.
A genre I really enjoy is "competence porn," in which a character or characters overcome challenges and trials via being really good at what they do, either against the uncaring Universe or against an opponent who is also really good at what they do. This was always the appeal of Star Trek, and in books I've enjoyed Andy Weir's novels, the earlier Took Clancy books, Bosch and Reacher, Starship Troopers, Sherlock Homes, and nonfiction like The Right Stuff and Failure is Not An Option. Looking for suggestions of a similar nature.
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12d ago
Second this. Expanse does a great job of crew as family in a fascinating evolving world.
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17d ago
It's simplistic but there's https://slowroads.io/
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17d ago
If battery life is a top priority, you're probably going to want something based on an M-series chip (Mac) or Snapdragon (Windows). The Snapdragon devices are still pretty new. Microsoft has them in a version of the Surface Book: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-laptop-for-business-copilot-pc/8tkcbz02bdvk
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17d ago
Well now they have the option of becoming women.
I've been thinking about whether there are some plausible underlying causes to the sort of political and social chaos that has blessed our recent times and whether there are some things that can be done to improve the health of the civic body. It seems to me that perhaps the biggest problem we face is demoralization.
What is the source of this demoralization? I'd guess there are several. The first is the fruition of a generational demoralization campaign run by the left against America. This started mainly as comintern agitprop and Soviet psyops, and has been gradually adopted across left-progressive institutions, including, critically, higher education. This is the source of a wide variety of anti-American memes, from America being a dystopian late-stage-capitalism hellscape, to America being the most racist and bigoted nation which owes its existence to slavery and can never be free of its guilt, to American bullying and anticommunism being the root cause of suffering and oppression the world over. Centrists who wonder how public perception of their economic well-being is so divergent from what the statistics show, need only watch and internalize that damned Newsroom speech.
There's also the role of the media to consider, which, aside from being heavily leftist to begin with, also has a completely separate set of incentives to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt. They owe much of their existence to people obsessively following the news out of anxiety and panic. Beyond even pandering to prurient "if it bleeds, it leads" elevation of the worst kind of daily grotesqueries, there are multiple cataclysmic "end times" narratives that almost every event can be linked to, from climate collapse to the rise of fascism to race war.
Then there are the entirely self-inflicted wounds. In multiple ways and in multiple places, incompetence is tolerated, failure is rewarded, and sloth is celebrated. While institutions may see their own self-preservation as an accomplishment entirely worthy to justify their own existence, outsiders do not. The conduct of the GWOT was bad, the handling of Covid was bad, the administration of local urban governments is egregiously terrible. That these things go not just unpunished but unfixed is corrosive to public confidence. When even public art is instituted not to enliven the spirit but to deaden it, loss of hope should not be surprising!
The symptoms of demoralization manifest in ways that will seem familiar to us, I think. As people lose faith in institutions, they will become angry, fearful, and paranoid. They will choose the defect option across more and more choices. Demoralization increases time-sensitivity, when the future is discounted as likely to be worse than the present. Socially, people become alienated and transfer that dissatisfaction to their own lives. Fertility decrease is, in my opinion, downstream of this as well. Internationally, isolationism and collapse in confidence is the inevitable result. Why would any decent person who has internalized that their nation and their society is fundamentally believe in actions taken by that government on their behalf?
So what can be done to reverse this demoralization? To a certain extent I am afraid there is no putting this genie back in the bottle, save for a sufficiently grave external threat. Certainly academics would never agree to not criticize America, no should they. Freedom of speech grants everyone the right to air their grievances. But would it not be a worthy effort, on the eve of our semiquincentennial, to counter this with praise? This would perhaps have to come from the government itself, and patriotic propaganda risks a slide into jingoism, but is it not, after all, a valid function of the government to advocate on its own behalf? We once did this as a necessity against the creep of communism, but since the fall of the Berlin Wall, efforts perhaps seemed unnecessary.
Some great works would also be helpful. Literal moonshots, Manhattan programs, monumental bridges and dams, mind-bending radio telescopes and supercolliders - these all seem like relics of a previous time. Even now when we decide we want to do something spectacular and potentially society-altering, like a HSR line or a solar megaproject, it fizzles out in a mire of bureaucratic planning, lawsuits, and safetyism. Wouldn't it be inspiring to set out to something amazing and complete it on-time and on-budget? Once people realize that such a thing is possible, might they not start supporting many more such works?
Sorry if this all seems melodramatic. I freely admit that it's not something I've researched and am confident has a factual basis. It just seems to me that what's missing in most of the discussion of our problems is hopefulness and confidence that the future will be better than the present and much better than the past. In the same way that many economic indicators are, at bottom, about confidence in the future, I think many social indicators are as well.
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