No, really, its a technology.
A more apt comparison would be more like internal combustion engines, wood burning stoves, or magnetic tape hard drives. That is to say, it probably has some niche place where its still a practical use or may be advantageous (backup/emergency generators for hospitals, in remote wooded locations without modern infrastructure, for cheap long term data back ups, for my examples, respectively), but that place is not the common place.
Well, North Carolina has some beautiful scenes. I wouldn’t mind moving in and taking the place over if they daisy chained this law into wiping themselves out completely.
Oh, I hadn’t considered trying to take out the docs (my initial read was focused on the mothers). That’s an especially bad feel.
Text of the bill:
Subject to approval by a majority of voters during the 2026 general election, adds new Section 39 to Article I of the North Carolina Constitution as follows. Specifies that human life begins at fertilization. Recognizes a new human life as an individual person, entitled to the protection of the laws of this State from the moment of fertilization until the moment of natural death. Holds persons willfully seeking to destroy the life of another, at any stage of life, or who succeeds in doing so, accountable for first-degree murder, or attempted murder. Specifies that any person has the right to defend the life of themselves or another, even by use of deadly force if necessary, from willful destruction by another person. Specifies that the State has an interest and a duty to defend innocent persons from willful destruction of their lives and to punish those who take the lives of persons, born or unborn, who have not committed any crime punishable by death. If approved, effective January 1, 2027.
This is where my brain went, and I’m like “Naw that can’t be it”.
Of course its just racism.
I’m unclear what Rohan is in reference to. Can I get an explainer on that element?
Mixed feelings on this.
I’m glad Linux is getting the exemption the community has so vocally shouted for. Maybe this will finally drive the “Year of the Linux Desktop”.
But I worry that this is just them slowly cranking up the temp to cook the frog. The boil is still coming, just slightly slower to prevent us from jumping out of the pot, ya know?
Suppose we’ll see.
Wow, the Pacific Ocean must be really wide, like, that’s gotta be longer than 2 football fields placed end to end.
Neat, I’d never heard of Framelack.
Appreciate the indirect pointer in that direction!
I don’t have the luxury of working from home, but def feel this as a tech guy in a no - tech family.
No one cares about how I found some crusty old code that was not at all optimized that I trimmed an order of magnitude off its run time, nor how I fixed some dumb debugging logic a coworker inserted that caused a race condition once in a while; hell basically no one would understand unless I explained ELI5 style.
The especially hard part is that the dynamic OP is meme-ing on is the reverse of me and my fiancé (I’m the male and I want to talk, she’s the female and wants to forget she even has a job the moment she’s out of the office).
Yeah, I keep meaning to dig out a video I saw on youtube that breaks down how China manages to keep it’s labor costs so low. I feel like it needs to be a significant part of the discussion on this, but its also difficult to quantify the costs of restricting movement within your own borders.
Does that include bailouts from the 2008 recession? I feel like those bailouts would be a significant chunk of what the US Gov has subsidized them.
Naw, South Park said the Mormons got it right. That’s all the gospel I need.
/s
China isn’t paying half the cost. It’s like 10%. I am not going to bother looking up the source I’ve used in the past to argue
Can I beggar you to post the source? A lot of my opinion on the matter assumes they’ve been subsidizing it a lot more than 10 ish percent and some proof that isn’t the case would go a long way to swaying me.
I def get what you mean with the ultra-violence. I think there’s points in the story that warrant it, but I do agree its over played. I would probably enjoy it more if they did it less / more sparingly / not at all.
That said, definitely the parts that hit the hardest are the emotional inter-character drama in the nonviolent scenes. When Debby sees Nolan again - man, I was in the edge of my seat. Cecil (who basically hasn’t been in any of those scenes) is by far the most interesting and compelling character to me.
I don’t think it’s a one trick pony of a show with ulta-violence as its one trick.
I think I missed a news cycle or two.
Can someone link me to what’s going on with this?