Paved over Jackie Kennedy's rose garden. Put in a garish boxing ring, then a helipad.

They're just not comfortable with people so, rather than adjust themselves, their behaviors and their expectations, they just want everyone else to go away.

He's rebuilding the city-owned portion of the BQE, which is about a mile and a half of the BQE's entire 35.5 mile long length.

Give him points for doing what he can with what he has, but he's not replacing the entire thing.

You don't negotiate with terrorists, Nazis, or billionaires.

While I sometimes play the NY Times daily sudokus, I really like Shichi variant over at DKM Games.

Also, shout-out to the original version of Indigo Puzzles, before they lost part of their codebase. They had a fantastic puzzle-helper: not only did it tell you where to look if you got irredeemably stuck, but (if you wanted it to) it showed you why you were looking at that cell, how to solve it, and how to recognize and solve similar cases in the future. Which massively improved my game!

They also had a cool tool where you could enter your own Sudoku numbers and then play the game on their site and use their checker and solver tools if you got stuck. So not only could you use it to test your own homegrown sudokus, but it was a massive help solving stuck puzzles that were on paper or another site without hint/help tools. He also had hashi, kakuro and several other puzzles online to play with.

Regretfully, Alastair lost part of his code base and the arrival of children disrupted his attempts to recreate it (good for him!). He can still generate puzzles and solutions, though, so now he sells them in books and for syndication. I miss you Alastair!

Carnivalmight only win because each ship has so many employees, but they'd take serious casualties on the way.

If it was an equal number of employees from each, Waffle House, hands down.

You can read about The Thermocline of Trust, which I found interesting.

If "due process" only applies to US citizens, then no one has due process. Because all they have to do is claim you're not a US citizen and then there's no due process by which you can refute their claim.

Fucking everyone wants Trump because he's so fucking easy to manipulate.

The people who created imgur sold it to MediaLab. ML had been struggling with bills in general, and they lost a couple lawsuits regarding content. In a completely unrelated move, they banned NSFW content, fired the community moderators and local development teams and replaced them with AI and overseas workers, resulting in unequal rules enforcement and broken infrastructure. Videos wouldn't upload, wouldn't play, or freeze partway through. Uploads would disappear without notice. A barely-nsfw post would be deleted and the user warned, while other more NSFW posts made it to the front page. Etc, etc. In short, there's been a lot of simmering discontent with the platform for a while now.

So, you remember that video/gif of Nazi Richard Spencer that's been circulating for a few years now? Back when that first came out, naturally some people posted it to imgur - and the content teams deleted the posts and warned the users, who promptly posted screenshots of the warnings, causing even more users to upload Richard Spencer getting punched in the face. They got deleted/warned, pretty much just causing a cascade of Nazi-punching content, until literally the entire popular feed was just Nazis getting punched.

Well, later last week, notifications failed on imgur for some reason - no notifications when you got a reply, or your post reached the front page or got an award, or the people you were following posted something - just dead silence. We were patient, but it started to annoy people. A couple people uploaded images complaining about the lack of notifications, only to have their posts deleted or hidden and in a couple cases they got warned. And it's pretty much spiralled exactly like the punching Nazis meme: notifications remained down, posts complaining about it got taken down, posts complaining about MediaLab's censorship got taken down, and then the entire front page became .

Notifications are back on now, though they seem less frequent than normal, and new content is starting to reach the front page but users are still pissed. There have been repeated discussions about moving elsewhere, but no consensus has emerged yet. PixelFed doesn't scratch the same itch, a bunch of people moved to discord but others don't want to, some people just disappeared or stopped posting. And that's where we are, as of this morning.

Great point. In the United States, there are between 17,000 and 32,000 rape-related pregnancies every year.

I'll also point out that, in most states, rapists get parental rights to their children, which ties the victim to her abuser for almost 19 years. Yes, yes, technically the victim can sever the parental-rights requirement but - like so many of these laws that put the "rights" of others over a woman's - it isn't easy:

One state doesn't allow severance at all; 25 others only allow it if the father is actually convicted of the rape, which only happens in 28 out of every 1,000 cases. Actually, out of those 25 states, a number of them only allow severance if the rapist is actually convicted of certain sexual offenses or degrees of assault that led to the conception of the particular child - so if the jury decides to convict of first-degree sexual assault and not rape, the rapist may still get to argue for custody or visitation.

Of the other 24 states, 18 require “clear and convincing evidence” that shows the rape led to the child in question; the other 6 require either clear and convincing evidence or a criminal conviction.

Fuck the Republicans and everyone else who's set up this entire "women are just brood mares" situation.

We've already seen the creep: first it was violent illegal immigrants, then it was any illegal immigrants, then it was immigrants waiting for due process on their case, then it was green card holders - not necessarily a lot of them, but enough to establish precedents and see how far they can get.

Now they're saying "violent US citizen-criminals" - but they run the state that determines whether you're a criminal and how violent your crimes was. Remember all those videos of non-resisting people being screened at by the cops "Stop resisting!"; remember bills in Florida and other states to label trans people sex offenders - that's what we're up against. Any resistance or non-conformity can and likely will be punished.

"First they came for ... "

This should end up with them on the sex offender registry. It won't, but it should.

Jenner noted that the policy could affect her ability to vote, adding that she did not believe the policy was "really thought out, what this means."

Oh, no, it was thought out: demonize and literally cast out trans people, removing their ability to work, move away, or be vocal in support of themselves. Then you move them into camps, either for "their protection" or to "protect society from them".

Funny how when a liberal politician is shot, they've been "killed", but when a conservative influencer is shot, it's "assassination".

The crime he is accused of has been broadly condemned

Uhh, no, it's not.

The bag they eventually located [looked] just like Peak Design’s crowdfunded “Everyday” V1 model [and] was likely bought between 2016 and 2019. Dering [...] called the NYPD tip line to share what he knew and vowed to do “whatever is possible” to identify the shooter, including consulting Peak Design’s legal team to see what he could share with police.

Headline correction: He denies specifically snitching on Luigi, but would eagerly have done so if they were able but found that he didn't have the data.

I mean, I'm souring on the Democrats because they haven't fucking done anything to divert us from this disaster.

There was someone who said something like "The purpose of AI is to allow the wealthy to access the benefits of the skilled, without allowing the skilled to access the benefits of wealth".

"You will see mass flight delays. You'll see mass cancelations, and you may see us close certain parts of the airspace, because we just cannot manage it because we don't have the air traffic controllers."

Maybe y'all shouldn't have let DOGE chainsaw the FAA, then.