Uncropped version: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YktfAIGexyg/WyZpR_YDb_I/AAAAAAAAOyE/qFnDGF_zM-AVbE_5DUcIXCwAXHidbZDmwCLcBGAs/s1600/Bizarro%2B11-05-00%2BSnowmanRobberyWB.jpg

It's Bizarro from November 11th, 2000.

https://bizarro.com/

Please don't remove attribution from someone else's work -- it's a real jerk thing to do.

"... is now recovering at home ... is expected to make a full recovery ..."

To save you a click. (There's not much more in the article.)

Unfortunately, the article doesn't mention where he got it. Was he visiting some lab or did he get bit someplace some locals should be taking precautions?

(He's retired, but I don't know if he still has a presence in the industry or not, giving talks and doing visits.)

The 5th circuit is a treasured location to forum shop to get the outcome the plantiffs are looking for.

https://prospect.org/justice/2024-04-15-americas-fifth-circuit-problem/

If Apple cares about protecting privacy they'd use an open, interoperable, cross-platform standard instead of just making cracks like, "just buy your Mom an iPhone."

So is the US going to start seizing all the Russia ghost tankers doing the same?

Pic from their website in case anyone else was as confused about scale as I was:

Keep in mind that Judicial Review (deciding if laws are constitutional or not) isn't even a constitutional power. It's one the court gave itself in Marbury v. Madison.

LP: Along those lines, is it true you invented the machine that makes Pringles potato chips?

GW: I developed it. I did not invent it. That was done by a German gentlemen whose name I've forgotten for years. I developed the machine that cooks them.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090916170648/http://home.roadrunner.com/~lperson1/wolfe.html

So the German came up with the rough idea of how to make them, but GW engineered the details of the machine that did the cooking. He also makes reference to other engineers that did other parts of the process: rolling, salting, getting off the cooker, etc.

My guess would be that they needed to get a mid-point between existing photos of the guy whose identity they stole and the guy that would show up in the video interviews.

"all the major cities"

Ouch.

-- Germany, Spain, and a bunch more

Hey!! I worked on Supernova! (In the model shop at Digital Domain, running a LaserCam.)

"Fox" could be confused with "box", so it goes with "Foxtrot".

Also, keep in mind that everything is a product of its time.

Anybody else spend way too long trying to figure out why there were umlauts over the "n" in the second panel? 🤦🏻

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A negative income that is better than that. It says, if you're working, but only making $12k, the state will give you money so you now have $20k. (Not real numbers.)

The idea is that it incentivizes participation in the work force, with hopes that the extra money helps you get stable and move up the payscale where you may stop needing the external support.

No, negative income tax usually requires that you make some money and file taxes. UBI doesn't.

One has the intention of encouraging workforce participation. The other tries to help everyone.

I'll just leave this here: https://www.thunderbird.net/

My armchair take: Don't tie the visa to the employer.

You come in, you get a visa for N years, you can immediately quit and it doesn't affect the visa.

If you had some amazing skill that we needed to import, someone else will want to employ you at the market rate. (If the skill is so amazing/rare, the original employer will be treating the employee like a princess anyway, so why would they leave?)

If you really want, require the original employer to subsidize any unemployment benefits until new employment as a risk to carry and a way to discourage unnecessary use of the visa. ie, make it more expensive than local talent.

Heck that last part might even be a separate solution: tax the crap out of having an H1-B employee to "nominally" cover the govt cost/risk so they cost more than local talent. Suddenly, the only reason to use the visa is for skills you actually can't find locally.

This Experian FAQ article indicates "thin file" is about number of credit accounts, not amount of interest.

https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/what-is-a-thin-credit-file-and-how-will-it-impact-your-life/

Yes.

Mastercard Maestro is a brand of debit cards and prepaid cards owned by Mastercard that was introduced in 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_(debit_card)