I mean, it’s right there a few paragraphs in:
“Kei trucks do not meet the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, or FMVSS — the highly specific rules cars US-market new cars must meet.”
They skirt this by not being new cars, you import 25 year old cars instead, but that doesn’t change the fact that they don’t meet standards.
Problem: The US Marshals work for the Executive branch. :(
Judiciary has no enforcement arm. Remove the DOJ from the executive branch and place it under the Judicial branch.
Now you no longer have reason to go “We don’t prosecute sitting Presidents.” ;)
This has always been a problem with the court system:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia
“In a popular quotation that is believed to be apocryphal, President Andrew Jackson reportedly responded: “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!”[7][8]”
As long as we’re talking pie in the sky and checks and balances and such… there needs to be an easier way to over-ride bad Supreme Court decisions than simply ignoring them.
As kids, we’re all taught that Executive/Legislative/Judicial are like Rock/Paper/Scissors.
Legislative passes laws, Executive signs or vetoes them, Judicial states if they’re constitutional.
But while the Legislative can over-ride a veto with a 2/3rds majority, if the Supreme Court makes a bad ruling, the only way of reversing them STARTS with a 2/3rds majority in the House AND Senate, and then requires a 3/4 majority of states.
That bar seems entirely too high. Perhaps add an over-ride by 2/3rds of Circuit courts. There are 13 circuit courts, so 9? You get 9 / 13 courts saying “No, that’s a shitty decision.” Should be good enough to vacate.
Dear Tobi Lütke - AI can do your job too. Care to comment?
I should have said “modern fantasy genre”. It didn’t really exist before Tolkien. Closest is probably Robert E. Howard (1925-1936) who is roughly contemporaneous with Tolkien (the Hobbit was published in 1937, though it had been completed in 1932).
Well, considering the alternative… but it was a hell of an experience and the post operative complications continue 6-7 years later.
I’m mixed.
Chronicles of Riddick was Macbeth.
Tolkien. Copied over and over again. Essentially invented the fantasy genre.
Easier to say which books I WOULDN’T read again.
The Art of War in the Middle Ages. Just interminable.
There was another book, I can’t recall the name of it unfortunately. It was about ethical non-monogamy but went into such blatantly STUPID territory that I classed it as “should not be set aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force.”
One of the more stupid statements was about how gangbang porn is prevalent (multiple men, one woman), but the inverse doesn’t exist. I was like “Fuck off, you aren’t looking very hard then…”
Edit My wife assures me it was “Sex at Dawn”.
10" chest scar from open heart surgery. Some days I wake up, forget its there, then see it in the bathroom mirror.
“Ooooh… riiiight… that was a whole thing.”
All of the above.
My main and my alt still exist on reddit and have enough karma that I was offered stock options on both accounts.
Not going back because of the API fuckery. Coming up on 2 years on lemmy. Haven’t looked back.
Some day, kids using social media will be child abuse…
I think maybe if
you start typing first
then continue after the spoiler?
Huh, I guess not…
Spoiler Test
ZOMG! It works!
Fortunately, my company seems mostly immune to the news… because we’re fully capable of tanking our own stock price, thank you very much!
There was a company reproducing artwork like this using an advanced printer that used paints. Not sure whatever happened to them.
Even with humans, there are good translations and bad translations.
Some of my favorite authors did not natively write in English and the translators did a stellar job of capturing the nuance of the original.
I can’t imagine AI giving anything other than a straight denotative translation. It would be readable, but with no soul.
Here’s a passage from Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s “The Shadow of the Wind” in Spanish (“La sombra del viento”):
“En una ocasión oí comentar a un cliente habitual en la librería de mi padre que pocas cosas marcan tanto a un lector como el primer libro que realmente se abre camino hasta su corazón. Aquellas primeras imágenes, el eco de esas palabras que creemos haber dejado atrás, nos acompañan toda la vida y esculpen un palacio en nuestra memoria al que, tarde o temprano —no importa cuántos libros leamos, cuántos mundos descubramos, cuánto aprendamos u olvidemos—, vamos a regresar. Para mí, esas páginas embrujadas siempre serán las que encontré entre los pasillos del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados.”
The English translation:
“Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget - we will return. For me those enchanted pages will always be the ones I found among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”
Google translate:
“I once heard a regular customer at my father’s bookstore comment that few things leave a lasting impression on a reader as much as the first book that truly makes its way into their heart. Those first images, the echo of those words we think we’ve left behind, stay with us for a lifetime and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, how much we learn or forget—we will return. For me, those haunted pages will always be the ones I found in the aisles of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”
I can’t really think of anything I need that will be problematic when the tariffs drop. I do have a hankering for French cookware, but at the same time, I don’t NEED more French cookware. ;)
https://www.lecreuset.com/
Plan is the same as before Trump’s stupidity… pay off debt. Plan to be out of debt (except for the mortgage) by end of year.