Off-and-on trying out an account over at @tal@oleo.cafe due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
Nah, they addressed that in the thread --- I only grabbed a subset. Said that they'd need a more-dignified dragon to address that.
Reddit's lawyer forum had some discussion:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Lawyertalk/comments/1ka9oc1/lets_all_start_filing_pleadings_with_a_giant/
The trial court ordered them to refile without the cartoon dragon, but did not order them to refile without a cartoon dragon.
This needs to be regulated. Like allowable D&D dragon type scales to years in practice
So, are chromatic dragons allowed at all, or just metallic? Or maybe just gold, for the lawful aspect.
Circuit split. Ninth Circuit allows chromatic obvi but Fifth has said only metallic
The judge missed the opportunity to put the order on paper with a sick dinosaur watermark
Go to his website. https://dragonlawyerspc.com/
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fursona
dubiously
Does it count as a fursona if it's got no fur, just scales?
I expect that Navarro will be needing to do a "high prices are good news" bit once stockpiled goods in warehouses in the US also run dry.
If Trump thought that this statement would be a political winner, I suspect that he'd be doing it himself, rather than having Navarro doing so. Right now, the only thing that Trump's currently seeing net positives in the polls I've most-recently seen is his immigration policy. Not on the economy.
Trump is a populist, and populism works by claiming that someone else that they are fighting is the enemy of the public and the source of any problems in society.
Since the Republicans currently have a trifecta, control both houses of Congress and the Presidency, unless he's going to attack the GOP, has to be someone outside of Congress and the Presidency. Can be a judge or a private company or something else.
According to Prosecuting Attorney Sonia Hagood, the incident lasted 30 minutes and included a teacher instructing a student to hit another “in the private area.”
“Engage” describes itself as a “unique learning center that teaches children with autism the executive functioning skills that will make them accomplished, goal-driven adults.”
I think that you've really hit the nail on the head here. A bit of distance and etiquette is clearly needed in situations like this.
Obtain a pair of Montblanc 149 fountain pens.
Fill one with something with a bit of executive class, like Diamine Oxblood.
Fill the other with something a bit fun-and-quirky, like Noodler's Southwest Sunset.
Obtain a nice, high-resolution C-mount camera of the sort frequently used for computer vision work.
Obain a Bantam Tools NextDraw 8511, a pen plotter capable of using arbitrary pens and making use of tilt.
Obtain a computer with a substantial amount of GPU capability.
In the secretary's office adjacent to yours, install the OCR-capable computer vision LLaVA model on the machine. Attach the camera, and aim it at the desk. Install motion, the motion-detecting software package. Have
motionrun a script that, on motion, feeds the most-recently-captured image into LLAVA to convert it to text, and from there into ChatGPT. Attach the NextDraw 8511. Place the Southwest Sunset-loaded Montblanc 149 in the NextDraw pen plotter. Obtain a monoline font appropriate for handwriting pen plotter use, and feed ChatGPT text responses intotext2svg, then feeding the resultant SVG file to yourlpd, which has the NextDraw pen plotter set as its output.Pen your first note with your Oxblood-loaded fountain pen. Have your executive assistant carry your note next door and place it on the table under the camera. Your virtual secretary will read it and write her response. Your executive assistant will wait for the note to be written, then carry it back to you.
This is the sort of decorum and professional class that one would expect in a proper office environment.
Could be, though if Florida is doing a lot more replacement work, I'd think that electricity prices would be significantly higher, since equipment replacement costs have to be paid by the power consumers. While Florida definitely doesn't have the cheapest electricity, it's about middle of the pack:
Solar is booming out here in the sticks.
I was gonna say that people in Florida hit hurricanes a lot and also need some kind of local power generation --- be it gasoline or whatever --- to help mitigate outages from those.
But according to this, in 2021 --- not a big hurricane year, admittedly:
https://generatordecision.com/states-with-the-most-least-reliable-power-grids/
Florida had the second-most-reliable power grid of any state in the US, with an average of 80 minutes of downtime per user per year, or 99.98% uptime.
EDIT: It's kind of amazing how California manages to have almost the most expensive-in-the-US and fairly unreliable electricity.
EDIT2: They even comment on Florida and hurricanes:
Florida scores well in all three power grid reliability categories.
These are impressive statistics considering this state has to deal with so many hurricanes.
So, IIRC that's basically what happened in California some years back --- California put a lot of restrictions on coal generation in California, and Nevada ramped up coal generation and sold it to California.
Texas, however, has a fairly-unique situation. The federal government doesn't generally have authority to regulate trade internal to states, but does --- via the Commerce Clause --- have authority to regulate commerce that crosses state lines. They've leveraged that into a lot of control over regulatory authority over state power grids --- if a state has a power grid that crosses state lines, then they're subject to federal regulation, which affects all sorts of things interior to the state. Texas decided that it wasn't going to be subject to that, so it refused to connect its power grid to those of other states (though there was one rogue operator that did so until it was discovered and the rest of the Texas power industry made it disconnect; Planet Money had a podcast on it a while back). So you can't just generate power across the border and then provide it to Texas consumers. If Texas changes the viability of a form of power generation in Texas, it changes what the Texas power consumer market has on offer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Interconnection
I'd guess that the same situation probably also applies to Hawaii and Alaska, though in their case, it'd be one imposed by geographic necessity rather than wanting to avoid federal regulation.
Setting aside whether it's a good or bad idea on its own, if the Trump administration is going to have heavy tariffs on solar panels and batteries out of China, my guess is that deploying solar right now is probably not economically viable, or at least considerably less so than it has been.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-dominates-solar-trump-tariffs-133600511.html
China dominates solar. Trump tariffs target China. For US solar industry, that means higher costs
https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/qa-solar-tariffs-and-the-us-energy-transition/
The US has taken aggressive actions to diminish the role of Chinese producers in solar supply chains. The costs of solar modules are already two to three times higher[22] in the US than those in Europe. A recent study in Nature[23] estimates that cutting China out of supply chains increases solar module prices 20 to 30 percent compared to a scenario with globalized supply chains. US climate goals are premised on the strategy of making solar and other clean energy technologies cheap; all else equal, more expensive solar makes those targets more difficult to achieve.
Trump Tariffs Threaten Spread of Big Batteries on Power Grid
President Donald Trump’s trade war threatens to slow down a fast-growing technology that’s key to the clean-power transition and preventing blackouts — big batteries.
Energy storage devices large enough to feed the electric grid have been spreading across the US, with deployments surging 33% last year. Officials in California and Texas credit them with helping prevent blackouts during heat waves, when electricity demand soars, and integrating variable solar and wind power onto the grid. But despite efforts by former President Joe Biden to build a domestic supply chain, the US still relies heavily on imported lithium-ion batteries — with 69% of the imports made in China, according to the BloombergNEF research provider.
Whether-or-not Texas adds additional barriers on top of that may not matter all that much.
“If we were at war, these topics would no longer be relevant”, said Eurenco CEO.
I'll do you one better. A past European peacetime incident: a large explosion that occurred when someone was throwing sticks of dynamite into a silo full of explosive to help free it up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion
The Oppau explosion occurred on September 21, 1921, when approximately 4,500 tonnes of a mixture of ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate fertilizer stored in a tower silo exploded
Compared to ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate is strongly hygroscopic, thus the mixture of ammonium sulfate and nitrate compresses under its own weight, turning it into a plaster-like substance in the 20-metre-high (66 ft) silo. The workers needed to use pickaxes to get it out, a problematic situation because they could not enter the silo and risk being buried in collapsing fertilizer. To ease their work, small charges of dynamite were used to loosen the mixture.
The explosions were heard as two loud bangs in north-eastern France and in Munich, more than 300 km away, and are estimated to have contained an energy of 1–2 kilotonnes TNT equivalent.
About 80 percent of all buildings in Oppau were destroyed, leaving 6,500 homeless. The pressure wave caused great damage in Mannheim, located just across the Rhine, ripped roofs off up to 25 km away, and destroyed windows farther away, including all the medieval stained-glass windows of Worms cathedral, 15 km (9.3 mi) to the north. In Heidelberg (30 km (19 mi) from Oppau), traffic was stopped by the mass of broken glass on the streets, a tram was derailed, and some roofs were destroyed.
Risk tolerance used to be a lot higher.
Wikipedia has that this is not the common-use definition of "acronym", though some argue for it. In the common-use sense, an initialism is just one type of acronym.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym
For some, an initialism or alphabetism, connotes this general meaning, and an acronym is a subset with a narrower definition: an acronym is pronounced as a word rather than as a sequence of letters. In this sense, NASA /ˈnæsə/ is an acronym but USA /juːɛsˈeɪ/ is not.
The broader sense of acronym, ignoring pronunciation, is its original meaning and in common use. Dictionary and style-guide editors dispute whether the term acronym can be legitimately applied to abbreviations which are not pronounced as words, and they do not agree on acronym spacing, casing, and punctuation.
As Trump cabinet member activities go, sporadically mispronouncing some acronym is very low on my list of concerns.
If I ever need to unload 40 tons of illicitly-obtained meat, I'll be going to you, Mr. Semi.
hey could also contain various animals that could distrupt the ecosystem,
The only thing that an egg that someone is likely smuggling in is going to contain is a chicken, and we're also currently short of the egg-laying variants of chickens, so a black-market Canuck egg-laying chicken wouldn't go amiss either.
Technically, I don't think that being in the Commonwealth as it exists in 2025 would actually change much. It's a pretty loose organization these days. More than a third of the world's population is in it.
Being in the Commonwealth realms, which are the Commonwealth members that have King Charles as head of state, would, I suspect, be unconstitutional.
EDIT: All that being said, I think that it's reasonably safe to put this in the "distraction" category of Trump statements, rather than the "serious proposal" category.
The inscription was added by Americans, wasn't actually from the French. Though, yeah, Trump is probably pretty high on the list of Presidents that clash with it.
Some left-wing French legislator did. Had a post about on !news@lemmy.world or somewhere like that, saw it recently.
I'm skeptical that, whether-or-not the judge can take issue with it, a dragon in a suit reaches the bar for malpractice or breach of fiduciary duty. Though I suppose that it'd be interesting to see Dragon Lawyer and a backup, non-dragon lawyer fighting that one out in court.