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Ohio court: It’s up to drivers, not prosecutors, to prove they weren’t illegally texting behind the wheel
  • The police still have to see you messing with your phone while driving before charging you. It's just up to you to prove you were doing one of the allowed types of interaction, such as swiping to change songs, because the police are not allowed to search your phone.

  • DebateAVegan : Is it moral to neglect animals internal organs for topological purpose?
  • I'm with the authors on this one. While the question may be more interesting if we leave the intestines in and consider the dog a torus, you'd then have to imagine intestinal hair, which is too unpleasant even for a math book.

  • The double standards of naming things discovered by Europeans vs non-Europeans
  • I think his point is great that naming by the original discoverer ties into a much more interesting history of global endeavor, though students may prefer to resolve the double standard in favor of the descriptive names. Who do we lobby for change?

  • Murderous Intent
  • Has it ever happened to you that you slip a little bit on the stairs and end up surfing along the edges to the bottom? I only did it once by accident, but my dad claims he was able to stair surf at will when younger. Anyway, thats probably the safest way to navigate these stairs.

  • CNN Fails To Grant Credentials To Black-Owned Media Ahead Of Biden-Trump Debate
  • I don't know how these things usually work as there was no indication in any of the articles how the successfully media handled it. It seems crazy there would be such a knowledge gap.

    Feels pretty obvious that seating would be limited and coveted, and there was contact information in the announcement for "more details". If I had no idea how to get an invite, I'd have written that email May 15th. But maybe there's more to the story than either side wants to tell.

  • CNN Fails To Grant Credentials To Black-Owned Media Ahead Of Biden-Trump Debate
  • This article explains it better. First of all there are plenty of black owned media companies, more than one in Atlanta who were denied credentials:

    The NNPA represents the 197-year-old Black Press of America, which counts among its more than 230 newspapers and media companies, The Atlanta Voice, Atlanta Daily World, and the Atlanta Inquirer. The popular Rolling Out magazine also counts among the Black Press’ members frozen out by CNN.

    However, they were apparently all denied based on the Jun 7 deadline.

    CNN implies the deadline was stated in their announcement of the debate on May 15th but the only deadline mentioned is for polls determining which candidates could participate.

    President Biden and CBC and Rep. Meeks lobbied CNN for Black media inclusion after the denial.

  • Contraception Is Free by Law. So Why Are a Quarter of Women Still Paying for It? Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has called on a government watchdog to investigate. Here’s what you need to know.
  • I did not know that, and I and my two daughters have been paying copays for years. Now we pay the whole cost out of pocket (pills, so it's pretty cheap) because our current insurance only covers one month at a time while we can get 4 months at a time if we pay cash.

    Being something you absolutely have to take every day to be effective, and also the apparently extreme software confusion resulting from the difference between lunar and calendar months that messes up pharmacy refill windows, not to mention travel, etc, and the fact that they are as safe as dirt, there is no reason there should be any restriction to 30 day (28 actual) supply. Now I wonder if that's just one more way they're getting around the law.

  • As California's climate grows ever more hostile, a Joshua tree rescue plan takes shape
  • This is a great article describing the multipronged, multiagency, do science, make laws, buy land, empower stewards approach necessary to save species in the face of increasingly fast-paced changes to natural spaces. A small sign of hope, but just think how many people are involved and fighting for love of life on this planet.

  • Supreme Court overturns ex-mayor’s bribery conviction, narrowing the scope of public corruption law
  • Omg, this is amazing. Ok hear me out, you think bribes are expensive, but at local or even state levels they can be very reasonable, so here's what we do is GoFundMe for legislators, where regular people bid money into escrow for a certain rep's vote and if they do it, they get the cash. Of course people of wrong opinion can also bid so it's not guaranteed to get you what you want, but you can collectively at least make it more expensive for them! Normal bribery requires all kinds of relationship development and professional lobbyists to make sure it's works right, so it's available only to the well funded few. Post-vote bribery is open to all and cuts the smarmy middlemen.

    I know you're appalled, but consider how out of touch most reps are from their constituents. They are told all day long by these lobbyists that you don't really hate genocide or that you really count on them to keep drilling for oil. Here you can tell your real values to their face with money, the same arbiter of truth those billionaires are using. Not for a campaign, but for a specific vote!

  • Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint
  • Typically, a school district would require book challengers to go through a formal challenge process in which each individual book would be assessed for merit. Instead, five minutes after receiving the demands, Perez agreed to them.

    It's easy if you don't give a shit.

  • Can I use a 1T thumb drive for Time Machine backups?

    My recent experience is no -- the first backup went just fine, but all subsequent attempts to add to it have failed, giving various errors in the logs, including mounting problems, timeout during the initial write test, bad database, etc. I did rename the drive between backups, maybe that was bad? The log shows Time Machine using the new name and finding the drive just fine.

    Googling this I see that people have these same problems with external hard drives, though, so I'm wondering if anyone has been successful using a thumb drive and if there's any trick to it.

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