Trying to avoid being rude, making them feel bad.

US. 20 vacation days, 6 personal days, 7 paid holidays.

Longest vacation I’ve taken has been about 10 days not counting weekends.

My in-laws used to do this.

I love them, but every time they bought something new, they’d give us the old one like it wasn’t something they were getting rid of. Easier to give it to us than throw it away.

The last time was a sofa and a love seat. We were stuck with the most uncomfortable furniture I’ve ever had in my life.

Yep.

I have an idea for a better type of pet nail clippers.

I need to work it out, patent it, and retire to a guinea pig shelter in the country.

TIL I have the same treadmill desk as Linus.

Edit: and he also appears to ignore the safety clip.

I dunno, we might have to get a ruling on that. Surely there’s someone in a powdered wig somewhere who can give us the official stance.

https://youtu.be/h0iAcQVIokg

Remember to moan with pleasure during the strip search. Ask if they’re single. Touch yourself. Smile seductively. Have fun with it.

You must be fun at Disney.

I wonder if you’re banned for violating the restroom or more because you didn’t respect the integrity of the queue.

Why would they waste the effort trying to cover it up?

Came here just to upvote you.

They should check in with Doc Hopper. Kermit isn’t the easiest frog to catch!

Accept the plane, say thanks, then sell it.

Now ICE is going to be going after Kermit!!!

Try to separate the AI hype from AI.

AI has been around for years and we all utilize the results of that research.

Remember that at one time a compiler was seen as AI.

It’s the curse of AI: once a problem is solved, it’s no longer AI. It just becomes a tool, and we adjust what “intelligence” means to exclude the new abilities of computers and code.

Even LLMs have value, just not how they’re being used. If you carefully curate the training materials, you could have a useful tool.

I’d love to see an LLM trained exclusively on medical records of patients who were successfully diagnosed and treated. I wouldn’t want to give it a medical license, but it could be a useful tool in the hands of a competent physician. It might turn out to be useless, but we need to try it.

Honestly, as much as I’d like to see the genocide stop, if Dems want to stand up to Trump, they should stand with the American people and stand against the oligarchs.

Decent wages. Healthcare. Housing. Education.

It’s like being on a plane when the oxygen masks drop. Don’t get out of your seat and try to help others. Put your own damn mask on.

Once the people who profit from our suffering are overthrown, it will be easier to try to overthrow the people who profit from the suffering of the world. In fact, many of them are the same people, so it’s almost a side-effect.

The state has no say in the matter. Neither does the Democratic caucus. The Constitution defines the circumstances under which a member of Congress could be removed. The only way to change that would be via an amendment to the Constitution.

Duh?

He’s a senator, so it would be the state of Pennsylvania.

From my googling, there’s no legal mechanism in Pennsylvania to recall an elected official. However, even if there was, recalling a member of the U.S. Congress would be unconstitutional.

The Senate would have to throw him out, and that’s not likely as long as the Republicans benefit from having him there.