Jen Zingsheim Phillips

I believe that's a line from Idiocracy...

To my knowledge/understanding, only five states have enhanced driver's licenses that include citizenship (VT, NY, WA, MN, and MI). Arizona checks documents that include citizenship, but it is not required to receive a driver's license.

"Fully paid for..." -- what about ongoing maintenance and upkeep? Heating? Cooling? Any addition this size will add ongoing costs, which will ultimately be paid for by taxpayers.

It's not clearly worded...the federal court has ordered ICE to allow Catholic clergy into the facility for Ash Wednesday mass. If the administration blocks access, they are defying that court order.

Vibes of Orla from Derry Girls wanting her tonsils back...

There are lots of foods you can ferment. Pickles, yogurt, and sauerkraut, even sourdough bread is technically a fermented product. That doesn't make his sentence construction any less weird.

Gerrymandering is absolutely a problem, but doesn't affect the US Senate seats the posts are discussing as those are statewide elections.

Dear Greenlanders: That $10K will barely make a dent in your new healthcare costs.

0/10, Do not recommend.

You're a good egg. Thank you for your work.

I thought this was Pitchbot. Good grief, read the room.

Ah, yes. Doctors I'm sure will be thrilled at the prospect of increasing numbers of uninsured people, bartering on the phones and in person for "better pricing" for their care. Is anyone really falling for this??

And the outerwear game on this show is 🔥🔥🔥. 10/10 on the show and its amazing coats, boots, and knitwear!

I liked the ending. Not a pat and incongruous happy ending, and not a depressing "everyone is wiped out" conclusion. Epilogue felt a little long, but honestly ending something this big was always going to be challenging, IMHO.

That's insane. And so unnecessary. As AI continues to train, and em dashes are eradicated, what false indicator will they glom onto next??

That request was overridden. All good. :-)

SAME!

"...material that was stolen to train these models" <---THIS. AI is trained using work that humans produced. Humans use em-dashes! It's maddening.

When I learned to type (on a typewriter), we used two hyphens. Em-dashes have been around longer than keyboards!

I'm a writer who has specifically been directed *not* to use em-dashes because "they mean it was written by AI." I can detect AI writing, but it is not simply a matter of the punctuation used.

OUCH. This sounds uncomfortable. Makes as much sense as marble bathrooms in an airplane.

I never seem to have sufficient counter space when I'm cooking. Clearly not something they struggle with.

I've wondered about how insurers would deal with this. It would be far more expensive for them to have to treat the preventable illnesses, wouldn't it?

*rein in.

Oooh, "innovation." That's a solid plan. 🙄

There's nothing new here, at all. Just the same warmed-over non-solutions (along with a childish "unaffordable care act" dig).

Okay, that earned you at least one follow! 😂

My guess is that the lack of a design was by design. Tearing down an existing building without permission sort of forces everyone's hand.

The NYT article literally includes this gem: "In a recent podcast interview, for instance, he said that women were not able to compartmentalize their thoughts, and that the member whom he would trust most to cook him Thanksgiving dinner was Representative Lisa McClain of Michigan."

So, the GAO set up 24 fake accounts and 22 got in. Are there more than just those 22 fake accounts? Find out, and report on THAT. If not, this is just more nonsense.

Adding, Federalist 74 is one of the shorter Federalist Papers, and worth a glance:

avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...