This is the case of Half the States v. America, filed in the District Court of Massachusetts. As I've shared previously, USDA bent the knee and agreed to blow all the meager contingency funds on letting people have partial gibs for the month of November. (Recall that the contingency fund contained only about $6 billion, whereas it costs about $9 billion per month to administer full SNAP benefits.) Yesterday they submitted their plan to the court, such as it was. The judge then put out a docket text order telling the parties to keep her updated on how it's shaking out, essentially:
Today, though, the states are big mad, see attached. They confirm that USDA did indeed do what they said. But...
"This is going to be too hard! It'll take too long! We can't do math! We'll make mistakes, even though distributing the monies to the recipients is literally our job! WE WANT FULL BENNIES EVEN IF YOU TAKE IT FROM THE KIDS' SCHOOL LUNCH MONEY LIKE THE JUDGE SAID BEFORE!"
As of this morning, there is still no TRO or injunction in place. Yet. A hearing is scheduled for November 13.
Link to the CourtListener docket (be warned though that the docket consists mostly of lawyers requesting pro hac vice and submitting notices of appearance; literally half the states are suing after all, and they each have multiple lawyers).
GOOD NEWS, FOOD STAMP HAVERS!
Bro, why are you so thirsty for an authoritarian regime? Is this fetish shit?
This is not necessarily a win unless the total annual permanent resident visa cap of 675,000 is reduced. I think that under current rules, USCIS can increase other visa categories if H-1B is reduced by itself. For example, there's interest from the Trump admin in increasing non-skilled H-2B.
Because we are fucked otherwise.
I’ve never seen anyone get visibly frustrated by it, but it’s telling that the only people I’ve ever heard mispronounce or second-guess my common-white-guy name throughout my entire life are the jeets I’ve had to work with during the last few years specifically.
I could not agree more, I worked very closely with a team of Japanese people for a while professionally and right away they learned my name dident roll of their tounge well and so they took to calling me a shorted version they added a new ending to "Stud-san", to paraphrase it slightly. I had no problem with that, they told me adding an honorific like san and the end of someones name was a sign of respect. I dident care beacuse I just wanted to get the job done, Id respond to "hey asshole" with the right tone you know what I mean?
You might need to reduce your daily internet dosage for your own health. You're in full blown "Time to burn the constitution and start over" territory and things aren't actually all that bad.
Worse, he's Canadian, so can you really blame him?
honestly good for her for not going out like Diane or McConnel,
"voted" for biden like this btw
It sounds like the situation was fucked from the jump, which is hard to manage.
Im starting to think HOMO is right, I dont like it anymore than you raisin but the shit we see every time trump takes his foot even an inch off the gas is terrifiying. Its like we either hit 88mph or the train obliterates us, we dont really have the "slow down and retool the engine" option.
You're missing how it's intended to work, yes.
see? he's just a normal democrat after all
It would be cool if i was Russian.
I mean, they are accepting immigrants. Might be sent to the front though.
To be fair, we got a very infected judicial branch and the legislative branch doesn't even want to work a quarter of the time. I don't know about you, but I'm not interested in playing catch-up with Europe and waiting for things to get that bad.
Trump has prioritized lowering the price of oil as a means of addressing affordability, under the idea that if energy prices go down, the price of everything else follows suit. This has been countered this by shutting down oil refineries and adding additional state regulations on those which haven't shut down in order to make refining slower and more costly. They want your life to get worse, not better, in order to "defeat populism".
Obviously AI as a tool is doing much more legwork than the tools we've transitioned to when comparing oil on canvas to digital artwork. But I definitely agree its a tool. If anything, the artworks I've seen from enthusiasts of AI show a high level of Photoshop/airbrushing multiple gens of prompts and even original artwork together to get an end piece.
Can't quote the entire post because of the length, but I get the issue with copyright. I'm just a bit of a doomer when it comes to whether it even matters. The same copyright issue is on most sites you post on, where your data and everything you post, original art or otherwise, is able to be used and reproduced by the host site. Its there in the TOS and has been for a decade if not more.
