Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Wikipedia calls a square a “regular quadrilateral,” which seems like a decent enough definition.

Today I learned that when you make up your own inadequate definition, then it’s easy to match the definition with something inadequate.

The article was from four days ago, if anyone is wondering why she’s speaking out against a bill that has already passed Congress.

During childhood development, we only get one chance to make sure their brains get proper nutrition.

If you create more hungry children now, it’s something that you cannot fix in the future. The children you harm with this will live diminished lives, assuming they survive.

Improving nutrition for children is one of the best selling points for social programs.

This isn’t too different from a pebble-bed reactor.

This reminds me of a guy who lifted a boat off the bottom of a lake by filling it with ping pong balls. He had gotten the idea from a Donald Duck comic, and even though it seemed like an impossible comic book sort of idea, physics seemed to support that it should work, and it actually did lift the boat.

I can’t remember whether that is a true story or not, but the Mythbusters replicated the ping pong trick and demonstrated that ping pong balls could be used to lift a boat.

On the other hand, Trump plead ignorance, and I would never bet against his ignorance.

And, if he did know the slur, I’d be surprised that we haven’t heard it until now. As you know, he’s not shy about saying them.

for holding a sign stating her support of Palestine Action.

Saying “for backing Palestine Action” makes it sound like she was giving them money or something. But all she did was express an opinion.

Even though the Trump administration and the Republicans in our congress are actively trying to take away our freedom of speech, it’s still nice that we are explicitly guaranteed that right by our Constitution. But there is no law that matters if the government itself doesn’t follow the Constitution.

At any rate, I feel for our UK counterparts that they don’t have even an empty guarantee of free speech.

It’s possible that one of his antisemitic speech writers wrote the line for him.

There are plenty of body weight exercises like squats and lunges that can strengthen the back. I think more than weights, people simply don’t like to do targeted exercises.

Agreed. The salary increase, all else staying the same, is a good thing.

If anything, I’m disturbed by the previous government that actually reduced the salary. You can only do that if you can afford to do it. Meaning that they are almost certainly getting more money out of the government through other, corrupt, avenues.

This is not a defense or attack on any particular politician. But you need to pay politicians a competitive salary or corruption is completely inevitable.

Just in case anybody has doubts, I gave an unserious answer to an unserious question. It was mostly just a turn of phrase.

I believe that violence should basically only be used to stop violence.

Those that voted for those that voted for it.

Yes, even if you could legally drive in Pike’s Place, for all intents and purposes, you might as well say that you couldn’t drive there before. Those politicians who said nobody would shop there were either lying through their teeth or completely uninformed.

I tried to drive in Seattle one time about 15 years ago. As far as I can tell, the lane markers and other road paint in Seattle must be designed to become completely invisible as soon as the road gets wet. And it’s wet a lot.

The founding fathers can’t really be spoken about as if they’re one person. They disagreed with each other just like you’d expect. Some were probably more naive than others.

At least some of the founding fathers did understand political parties and that they would form. Some of them were against political parties, yes, especially George Washington, but the first American political parties were established during Washington’s tenure as president. Everybody knew it would happen, but many of them tried their best to stop political party formation. That’s why Washington talked about it in his farewell address that I mentioned.

The idea that the founding fathers believed a new constitution would come within a lifetime is just a misconception as far as I can tell. One founding father, Thomas Jefferson wrote about how a constitution lasts 19 years, and would only last longer due to force. But I don’t think any of the founding fathers, even Jefferson, really believed we’d have a new constitution within that time. In fact, when that time limit expired, Jefferson himself was the sitting president. Did he really think he was only president due to his use of force at that time? I suspect not.

And it took over 5 years for all of the states to ratify the constitution that they came up with. I think a person experiencing this would feel in their bones that Constitutions were expected to last a long time.

We’re also losing our freedom of speech in America, so we Americans can sympathize a bit.

There are different things we’re calling AI. One is engaging in endeavors that are traditionally seen as creative, like text or image generation.

The AI we are talking about for this story is a text to speech engine that creates a believable voice. The voice parameters may be created by a human or AI or whatever. But that creation of the parameters of a voice is not the type of AI that we are talking about in this story.

Even in my best dreams, I am not that optimistic.

It’s long been said that big advances in science require young people to adopt new ideas and wait for the older scientists with older ideas to die off.

That’s the standard for people who dedicate their lives to truth and reason. Comparatively, we’re talking about average people in this story here.

They will never change. Our only hope of salvation is trying to improve education so that the next generation to be more rational than the previous generation. Of course, we’re failing at that, as well.

If you read Washington’s Farewell Address, the section where he warns about the dangers of party politics sounds to a modern ear like he is talking specifically about Trump.

Did he and his founding father co-authors have uncanny foresight? The truth is simpler than that. They lived their lives up to that point under oppressive authoritarian rulers.

They were describing the evils they knew from experience. The reason it sounds like Trump to us is that he’s the evil we know from experience.

If it predicted the 2011 tsunami, then as long as a catastrophic event doesn’t happen tomorrow, people will do the rational thing and stop believing dreams can predict the future, right? Right?

This is stealing her voice. It’s just plain wrong.

What I really don’t understand is, even if you think AI voice is okay, why not just make an original voice? Why you got to steal somebody’s voice? Or if you don’t want to do that, why not just get consent for the specific thing you’re doing? Don’t take advantage of the fact that she previously recorded her voice as an aid for the blind and steal her voice because of some small text in a contract. That’s dishonest and pathetic.

You’re the railway. Do you know how many people love and obsess over trains and railways? There are probably tons of people who would pay to hear an AI version of their voice coming from the train speakers. How did it come to this? How incompetent can you be?