The article was from four days ago, if anyone is wondering why she’s speaking out against a bill that has already passed Congress.

During childhood development, we only get one chance to make sure their brains get proper nutrition.

If you create more hungry children now, it’s something that you cannot fix in the future. The children you harm with this will live diminished lives, assuming they survive.

Improving nutrition for children is one of the best selling points for social programs.

On the other hand, Trump plead ignorance, and I would never bet against his ignorance.

And, if he did know the slur, I’d be surprised that we haven’t heard it until now. As you know, he’s not shy about saying them.

It’s possible that one of his antisemitic speech writers wrote the line for him.

Just in case anybody has doubts, I gave an unserious answer to an unserious question. It was mostly just a turn of phrase.

I believe that violence should basically only be used to stop violence.

Those that voted for those that voted for it.

The founding fathers can’t really be spoken about as if they’re one person. They disagreed with each other just like you’d expect. Some were probably more naive than others.

At least some of the founding fathers did understand political parties and that they would form. Some of them were against political parties, yes, especially George Washington, but the first American political parties were established during Washington’s tenure as president. Everybody knew it would happen, but many of them tried their best to stop political party formation. That’s why Washington talked about it in his farewell address that I mentioned.

The idea that the founding fathers believed a new constitution would come within a lifetime is just a misconception as far as I can tell. One founding father, Thomas Jefferson wrote about how a constitution lasts 19 years, and would only last longer due to force. But I don’t think any of the founding fathers, even Jefferson, really believed we’d have a new constitution within that time. In fact, when that time limit expired, Jefferson himself was the sitting president. Did he really think he was only president due to his use of force at that time? I suspect not.

And it took over 5 years for all of the states to ratify the constitution that they came up with. I think a person experiencing this would feel in their bones that Constitutions were expected to last a long time.

There are different things we’re calling AI. One is engaging in endeavors that are traditionally seen as creative, like text or image generation.

The AI we are talking about for this story is a text to speech engine that creates a believable voice. The voice parameters may be created by a human or AI or whatever. But that creation of the parameters of a voice is not the type of AI that we are talking about in this story.

If you read Washington’s Farewell Address, the section where he warns about the dangers of party politics sounds to a modern ear like he is talking specifically about Trump.

Did he and his founding father co-authors have uncanny foresight? The truth is simpler than that. They lived their lives up to that point under oppressive authoritarian rulers.

They were describing the evils they knew from experience. The reason it sounds like Trump to us is that he’s the evil we know from experience.

This is stealing her voice. It’s just plain wrong.

What I really don’t understand is, even if you think AI voice is okay, why not just make an original voice? Why you got to steal somebody’s voice? Or if you don’t want to do that, why not just get consent for the specific thing you’re doing? Don’t take advantage of the fact that she previously recorded her voice as an aid for the blind and steal her voice because of some small text in a contract. That’s dishonest and pathetic.

You’re the railway. Do you know how many people love and obsess over trains and railways? There are probably tons of people who would pay to hear an AI version of their voice coming from the train speakers. How did it come to this? How incompetent can you be?

With a few exceptions, no MAGA knows what they’re doing, but they assume that the others know.

This is the sort of authoritarianism that George Orwell imagined.

I think that if you know a person who eats a hot dog every day, you will have many other reasons to suspect that they’re unhealthy.

Standley said he remembers Roley left high school in the middle of sophomore year. He said he believes Roley was expelled “after some trouble with a girl.”

I found this part interesting. Also the part where they said they were scared of him… although that might just be tinted by the fact that they’re trying to remember this guy they didn’t know very well.

If you looked at my Duolingo, you’d think I was pretty fluent in Japanese. But if you look at me talking to a Japanese person, you’d think I knew very little Japanese.

It’s meant to strip citizenship from those who may have lied about their criminal convictions or membership in illegal groups like the Nazi party, or communists during McCarthyism, on their citizenship applications.

While I disagree with denaturalization, I’d accept it if it meant that this reasoning became universal. If you lied while taking an oath that gives you special status, then your special status will be revoked.

Since virtually all Republican politicians lied in their oaths of office to defend the constitution, we could sue to have them removed.

At some point, somebody convinced people that unrealized gains were not actually income because you don’t know for sure that you’d make that money, and I think that was a bad idea. Maybe unrealized gains aren’t 1:1 the same thing as income, but the calculations of an income equivalent aren’t going to be complicated.

Sheafe said the attack was part of what he claimed was a divine mission to punish religious leaders who, in his view, were misleading followers.

Religious on religious violence.

One other thing you can do is to set a daily alarm on your phone. The downside of the phone solution is that you can simply turn the alarm off and it just goes away.

But if you rely on cats, then you’ll at least have to go to where the treats are.

It might be your sleep paralysis demon in the shape of a cat.

My biggest beef with Sweet Home Alabama is, if people are ever singing along with it, or if they’re singing it at karaoke. I should mention that I live in the South, so these people singing it are from the South, and even though the song itself isn’t racist, the way these people emphasize certain lyrics, it sure sounds like they want it to be racist.

The whole thing makes me uncomfortable.

God I hope so.