Pam Blondie

It was right there this whole time! How did we miss it?

Trying to keep things factual and not inject my opinion, snark, or other whatabouts into things: The president has the power to remove people from the Federal Reserve Board, but only for cause. Basically, you have to have really effed up, a simple disagreement probably isn’t enough or he would have done it a long time ago.

Somehow (not sure) word got out that she purchased two homes within a short amount of time from each other, and had both as a “primary residence” in the paperwork. This can have more favorable terms when financing, but AFAIK you can’t have multiple “primary” homes. That could constitute fraud if true and pursued. Trump used that as his cause for firing her.

Of course, this was never adjudicated in court. And now there are new things coming out where she actually listed one home as a vacation home. Which should be a pretty damn good defense against that allegations if that’s the case.

Does the law go into more detail than that? Because thickeners can come from things that are really no big deal. Most jams and jellies have pectin, which is derived from fruit. Without it, I’m pretty sure we’d just have chunky fruit juice.

Gravy is almost certainly thickened with flour or corn starch or similar. So do many stews and stuff.

Mustard powder is a common emulsifier in things like mac and cheese. For those not aware, an emulsifier just keeps a sauce or whatever together

Flavoring agents? Like… If I add literally any ingredient for flavor would that be a flavoring agent? And flavor enhancers, would a little bit of salt qualify?

If you’re being facetious: this is a good thing. It doesn’t solve all problems but it’s a damn good start. No need to get critical about a pretty damn big step in the right direction, especially considering those starting this initiative in a local setting can’t change the healthcare system nationwide.

If you’re serious: admittedly (and thankfully) I haven’t had to take an ambulance, but when my daughter was born the deductible on our high-deductible plan (after which point all care is covered for the calendar year) was a fair amount under that. The system sucks, but that’s not how it works either.

$7500. $1500 at pregnancy + $500/month for first year = $1500 + $500 x 12 = $1500 + $6000 = $7500

Flint, MI

And it opens the door to even more data collection

What’s the best use of such a wide assortment of beans in one package?

No arguments here. My point was, even in a pretty blue state that should be safe, we still got (briefly) caught in a technicality because of this stupid timeline. Pretty crazy that Wyoming of all places had better laws, but I guess Wyoming is a different kind of red than, say, Florida.

I’m very much against AI slop and hate how it’s the most prominent use in day to day life.

With that said, I work for a small government contracting company. We are careful about what we bid on, and of course it’s not a sure bet that we’ll get it. There is a lot of boilerplate stuff in these proposals. When I was on the bench, my boss asked me to help find some AI tools to help with proposal writing.

Honestly? I can see it being used in cases like this. I wish there weren’t so much fluff needed in these things, but that’s the hand we’re dealt. It’s not necessarily worth hiring another proposal writer for what we do, and I certainly wouldn’t use its output as-is without knowing what you’re proposing, but to get some decent starting verbiage, section by section, to be adjusted after? Yeah, I can see that being useful.

There was even a brief time where we needed a prescription. I was running an errand in Cheyenne a week ago and was almost going to get it done there while I was across state lines.

The title has since been edited. It originally included the quoted phrase “I couldn’t care less” which was implied/actually used in the way I described above.

Ok, but quoting out of context is an awful way to express it. I’m not saying Trump actually really wants unity and gave a great answer. I’m saying he didn’t outright say he doesn’t care the way the headline implies, and it just sets us up to step on a rake if we try to bring it up with others.

Happened this afternoon with a friend of mine posting the same thing elsewhere, unfortunately

[Edit: OP has since edited the title. Originally it included a phrase that was said, but not at all in the implied way]

I skimmed through the comments left so far, and haven’t seen one calling out that this is taking the actual quote way out of context.

He didn’t say he couldn’t care less about unity. I saw the video this afternoon. He was asked a question, said he was going to get in trouble for his answer, but he didn’t care [about getting in trouble] - then gave his usual drivel

Seriously, we have plenty of real stuff to say about this guy. Repeating crap like this to others, trying to make a point, but to people who are aware of the full quote will only make people repeating it look dumb. Don’t fall for that. Stick to things like how he was also talking about “second amendment people” taking care of Hillary Clinton. How he pardoned people who beat up cops (despite Vance saying that “obviously” wouldn’t happen) trying to execute a coup to keep him in office. Stuff like that. Not this.

Perhaps, but as there is no law against it currently, it should absolutely not be used as cause for a president to leverage against the Federal Reserve board he’s been fighting

I mean, it does look nice, but to be honest I think you could’ve gotten Ikea’s lights with the ZigBee-enabled controller (plus a dongle for your Home Assistant hardware if you don’t already have one) and used that. I did that, used a Home Assistant automation to match the brightness with another dimmable wall-controlled accent light in the kitchen (both of which I usually prefer full brightness on anyway) and it’s worked great so far.

If it counts, I encountered a Java file that, unbeknownst to me at the time, was duplicated across two different places. The project was essentially abandoned for years, and the file was one that didn’t change much so I left it alone for a year or so.

Eventually I had to add a method to it. Compiled just fine, runtime threw a no such method error. Turned out Eclipse was using one, but when Maven did its build it used the old duplicate I didn’t know existed.

Took me a while to find that one!

Especially when you consider that big rewards are not offered when detectives can figure things out pretty easily. The ante goes up with severity and difficulty. I’m sure there was a reward for Osama bin Laden, but I wasn’t not turning him in because the reward was too small or I didn’t believe I’d get paid. I just didn’t know where the dude was, let alone how I could get him turned in

Sorry, am I missing something or are you saying these buildings within the vicinity of the falls are in Toronto? Toronto is over 50km/30 miles away

Also, as I learned from having a wife who needs to watch her sodium intake, less sodium doesn’t necessarily mean low sodium, which I believe has a legal definition. You may need to shop the higher end brands that come in cartons, not the store brand cans. But I think a little splash should help pretty well and last a while