All I know is that targets[0] returns “FV107 Scimitar” for some reason, and anytime I try to purge that entry from the array it throws an error.

You can be smart and evil, but at this point it’s pretty hard to be a conscious human engaged in society and not have an opinion either way.

For what it’s worth, there’s been talk that they’re really having to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find true undecided voters willing to go on TV and be part of these panels. That’s unfortunate in the sense that it suggests there aren’t many actually-persuadable voters out there, but these clowns aren’t especially representative of the general electorate, either.

TLDR: the polio vaccine used to contain weakened versions of the three strains of poliovirus. When weakened live virus vaccines are used, the people inoculated with them shed copies of those viruses, which is usually no big deal… except that one of those weakened polio strains would, very rarely, mutate back into its full-strength form and sicken unvaccinated people living around those who were being vaccinated.

Eight years ago, the decision was made to remove the problematic strain of polio from the vaccine, because it was thought low wild infection rates meant that the risk of vaccination-derived infection had become higher than catching it from the environment. Regrettably, it seems that decision was made in error – type 2 polio outbreaks have soared since then.

Right now Intel and AMD have less to fear from Apple than they do from Qualcomm – the people who can do what they need to do with a Mac and want to are already doing that, it’s businesses that are locked into the Windows ecosystem that drive the bulk of their laptop sales right now, and ARM laptops running Windows are the main threat in the short term.

If going wider and integrating more coprocessors gets them closer to matching Apple Silicon in performance per watt, that’s great, but Apple snatching up their traditional PC market sector is a fairly distant threat in comparison.

Do you think he capitalized “LAW & ORDER” like that because it’s how it looks in the TV show title sequence?

Doubt it. “RuPaul” and "Lachluster"are too clever to have emerged from the dishwater-soaked, infected sponge sitting on top of his spinal column where a real human would have a brain.

Somewhere a philosophy undergrad just sat bolt upright and shouted, “A TROLLEY PROBLEM! I must go, the world needs me!”

It was a pretty milquetoast acknowledgement of Israeli war crimes, without even mentioning them by name as the perpetrators. I would have hoped for at least something along the lines of:

The children of Gaza deserve better than to be trapped between a terrorist regime and an Israeli military, that, by their actions, shows that they do not value Palestinian lives as worthy of protection.

But I guess even that would have been too spicy for the pro-Israel lobby within the Democratic party. That said, I’ll take any public acknowledgement and push for a ceasefire over the current status quo. Much as I wish it were possible, I don’t think we’re ever gonna get a major figure in any political party to come out and say, for example “Israel is an deeply unjust nation that must reckon with the status of Palestinians if it wishes to become a true, legitimate democratic state.”

Deepfake exploitable, if nothing else

Semi-credibly, I’m watching to see if the offensive pivots east to cut off attackers north of Kharkiv, but it seems like they went over the border along ways away from that area if that was their goal.

New Ukrainian strat just dropped: attack everything with a vague phonetic similarity to Will Griggs:

• Kerch Bridge
• Kursk (is)
• (Saint Peters)Burg (is)
• Il’pryskoye? Sure, why not open a front in Kamchatka